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

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.

A Malawian Perspective on Aging and HIV/AIDS

Although we live in an aging population, attention is far from focused on those 50 or older when it comes to HIV/AIDS in Malawi. HealthHIV Fellow Delroy White recently found himself asking, “What happens to older people when most medical interventions are directed towards younger populations?”