Aging with HIV: Understanding the Journey

Join Gilead Sciences and the American Society on Aging for a series of podcast conversations about caring for older adults living with HIV.

June 11, 2024

Integrating Frailty and Functional Outcomes into Clinical Trials

Considerations of frailty and functional outcomes for better integration and representation of aging patients in clinical trials.

February 5, 2024

HIV Clinical, Comorbid, and Social Determinants of Health are Linked with Brain Aging

Findings indicate that comorbid and social determinants of health are associated with brain aging in people with HIV, alongside traditional HIV metrics such as viral load and CD4 cell count, suggesting the need for a broadened clinical perspective on healthy aging with HIV, with additional focus on comorbidities, lifestyle changes, and social factors.

The Science of Aging: Lessons for HIV at the Interface of Commonality and Heterogeneity

CROI Presentation: “20 years Difference between HIV + vs HIV- in this chart’ – “These things are Happening A lot Earlier for PWH than they should be, by 20 years. I would expect 80 year olds to have this level of syndromes, but these PWH are still 60 yrs old or younger.”

HIV and Aging: Double Stigma

Older people living with HIV may experience intersectional stigma resulting from HIV and ageism. The current review summarizes the scientific literature and focuses on social isolation and lack of social support as key factors in experiencing HIV-related and aging-related stigma.

National HIV Curriculum: HIV in Older Adults

The shift of the HIV epidemic to increasingly involve older persons highlights several health care needs: (1) medical care systems with the capacity to provide clinical services for a large cohort of older persons with HIV, (2) active screening programs to detect HIV in older persons, and (3) implementation of strategies to prevent forward transmission of HIV from older persons.

Optimizing HIV Care for People Aging with HIV

This reference guide identifies commonly occurring health care and social needs of people aging with HIV and highlights the screenings and assessments for these needs.

Aging with HIV: Best Practices

A conversation with with Dr Katherine Promer, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California San Diego Medical Center, where she provides primary care to people with HIV about what clinicians need to know when working with and aging population of people living with HIV.

Older Adults with HIV/AIDS: A Growing Population

With its extensive experience providing services to meet the need of a growing, and increasingly diverse, population, ACL’s aging network plays an important role in the lives of older adults across the country.

ADAP Directory

This one stop online center for ADAP resources provides information on better decision making for HIV related care, timely updates on HIV related medication, and assistance for advocates and medical staff.

The Affordable Care Act and HIV/AIDS

This page from HIV.gov outlines just some of the ways the ACA has improved access to coverage for people with or at risk for HIV.

Medicare and People with HIV

Medicare, the second largest source of federal spending on care and treatment for people with HIV, will likely play an increasingly important role for these individuals as they age, due to treatment effectiveness and as new infections continue to occur.

How Evidence-Based Health Promotion Programs Can Support Adults with HIV/AIDS

As HIV treatment has advanced and more people are managing HIV as a chronic condition, evidence-based health promotion programs can provide support.

Administration for Community Living: HIV/AIDS

A collection of health, wellness, and nutrition resources compiled by the Administration for Community Living.

Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study​

This landmark study is the first federally-funded longitudinal national project designed to better understand the aging, health, and well-being of sexual and gender diverse midlife and older adults.

Use of Antiretroviral Therapy in Nursing Home Residents with HIV

Antiretroviral therapies are essential in HIV care. As people living with HIV age and their presence in nursing homes increases, it is critical to evaluate the quality of HIV care.

Brain Aging in HIV Affected by Adverse Social Determinants of Health, Comorbidities

Social determinants of health were found to be associated with brain aging among patients with HIV infection, according to results of a retrospective case-control study published in The Lancet HIV.

Alzheimer’s Disease and Healthy Aging Data Portal

The Alzheimer’s Disease and Healthy Aging Data Portal provides easy access to national and state level CDC data on a range of key indicators of health and well-being for older adults.

Putting the Brakes on Accelerated Aging of Bone, Muscle from HIV Infection, Treatment

Antiretroviral cocktails can make human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, undetectable and untransmittable, but both the virus and its treatment can also accelerate aging of bone and muscle.

HIV: A personal story

University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine spoke to one of Associate Professor Lucy Dorrell’s patients about her experiences discovering that she was HIV+.

April 8, 2023

National HIV/AIDS Aging Awareness Day 2022 Twitter Chat

Read the transcript of our Twitter Chat on Aging with HIV at the hashtag #NHAADchat.

October 21, 2022

Infection with HIV can accelerate aging within the first two to three years of infection, study says

Researchers with University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) looked at blood samples from more than 200 men to compare those infected with HIV to a control group who did not have HIV, and scored them on five different measures of aging.

July 18, 2022

Fatigue is associated with worse cognitive and everyday functioning in older persons with HIV

This study goes into detail about framing the relationship between fatigue, cognition, and everyday functioning in PLWH.

May 1, 2022

Monocytes in HIV and SIV Infection and Aging: Implications for Inflamm-Aging and Accelerated Aging

With ART and the extended lifespan of PLWH, HIV comorbidities also include aging—most likely due to accelerated aging—as well as cardiovascular, neurocognitive disorders, lung and kidney disease, and malignancies. The broad evidence suggests that HIV with ART is associated with accentuated aging and that the age-related comorbidities occur earlier, due in part to chronic immune activation, co-infections, and possibly the effects of ART alone.

February 17, 2022