Yes, maybe. **Life expectancy for those young people now receiving the latest HIV drugs is approaching the average seen in healthy people, according to the British medical journal Lancet.** According to his data, 20-year-olds who started treatment in 2010 are expected to live 10 years longer than those who first started treatment in 1996. Medics point out that it is important to start treatment as early as possible, but according to charities, there are still many people who do not know they are infected with the virus.