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What growing old looks like when you're living with HIV

Ron Rosenes has been living with HIV for nearly 40 years. The long-time advocate, who turns 71 this summer, said he's confronted health problems that come with age — perhaps even earlier — an increasingly common reality as more Canadians with the virus live longer.

Published
23 May 2018
From
CBC.ca
Ageing and HIV
High prevalence of menopausal symptoms in women living with HIV, but very few receive treatments for them

Nine in ten women living with HIV aged 45 to 60 have hot flushes and other somatic symptoms of the menopause, but often have difficulties getting advice

Published
17 May 2018
By
Roger Pebody
Ageing and HIV
Taking large numbers of non-ART drugs associated with increased risk of hospitalisation and death for HIV-positive people

Taking large numbers of medications in addition to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with an increased risk of hospitalisation and death for HIV-positive individuals, investigators

Published
15 May 2018
By
Michael Carter
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Living with HIV more than doubles the risk of erectile dysfunction in middle-aged MSM

Living with HIV is an independent risk factor for erectile problems among middle-aged men who have sex with men (MSM), Dutch investigators report in the

Published
14 May 2018
By
Michael Carter
Ageing and HIV
Sex a key part of life for people over 65, study says

US survey finds two-fifths of people between 65 and 80 report being sexually active, but topic is rarely discussed

Published
08 May 2018
From
The Guardian
Ageing and HIV
Seniors with HIV face more stigma than those with other illnesses

The evolution of the HIV epidemic in B.C. has brought us into uncharted territory. One in two people living with HIV in B.C. are age 50 or over, compared with the one in 10 two decades earlier. This means that people with HIV are living to ages where seniors’ facilities become part of their health-care trajectory.

Published
04 May 2018
From
Vancouver Sun
HIV testing programmes
Why aren’t older people tested for HIV? Views from doctors and patients

Limited knowledge of HIV and stereotypes about who may have HIV are barriers to HIV testing in people over the age of 50, with similar issues affecting

Published
01 May 2018
By
Roger Pebody
Cancer
HIV-Associated Cancers: A Paradigm Shift?

An increasing number of patients with HIV now live long enough to get the “incidental” cancers seen in the general population. Yet these patients are also less likely to get the 3 cancers that once defined AIDS — Kaposi sarcoma, aggressive B-cell lymphoma, and invasive cervical cancer — which were frequently seen when the disease was first observed.

Published
23 April 2018
From
Cancer Therapy Advisor
Sexual health
Dutch study ties HIV to erection problems in middle-aged men

The researchers concluded that HIV infection itself was linked to a significantly increased risk for problems getting and maintaining an erection.

Published
27 March 2018
From
CATIE
Ageing and HIV
Menopause worsens fatigue, muscle aches in women with HIV

Researchers at Columbia University found evidence that fatigue and muscle aches — two of the most common symptoms among patients with HIV — are exacerbated by menopause. Their study underscores the need for health care providers to consider menopause when treating the often-overlooked aging HIV population, according to Rebecca Schnall, PhD, RN, Mary Dickey Lindsay Associate Professor of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at Columbia University School of Nursing, and colleagues.

Published
26 March 2018
From
Healio
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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