The way the virus works in younger people makes matters worse. An adult who goes off medication, says Bernheimer, will “kind of get sick, kind of get sick, get sick, get sick, and then die. Children are fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine and adolescents fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, and then they fall off a cliff and they get really sick really quickly.” There is very little time to pull them back. The mortality rate for all other age groups with HIV has decreased by about 30 percent over the last ten, fifteen years, he says. “But in the same time period, the mortality rate
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