Treating Your HIV Can Literally Keep You Young #shorts #science #stem #scishow

There's a lot of reasons to get frequent HIV screenings, but research now suggests one more- if you're HIV positive, treating your HIV can help keep you young by slowing down the mutations that come with age.

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Sources:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-020-05593-4
https://journals.lww.com/co-hivandaids/abstract/2020/03000/multimorbidity_patterns_in_people_with_hiv.6.aspx
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(23)00037-5/fulltext

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