Brain impairments are the unexpected

Brain impairments are the unexpected new minefield among HIV-positive people who have been on protease inhibitors. According to research presented this summer at the international AIDS conference in Cape Town, South Africa, 52 percent of all Americans infected with HIV (the mean age of which is just 43) suffer from some type of cognitive impairment—mostly mild or moderate dementias, but which nonetheless can impede one’s ability to function on a day-to-day basis. This is a staggering finding. Among people without HIV, around 10 percent of individuals under 60 experience such problems.