Annals of Internal Medicine found Americans who live with HIV have similar life spans to those living without the virus."In the early days of the AIDS pandemic, getting a diagnosis with AIDS was incredibly bad news and the prognosis for survival was really poor, and that's not true today," Jessie Edwards, lead author of the study and a research assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told HealthDay News."Someone diagnosed with HIV in this day and age can be linked to care and receive highly effective treatment and feel confident that their survival outlook is actually very good," Edwards said.The team of researchers examined the death rates of almost 83,000 adults living with HIV between 1999-2017.