Administration for Community Living: HIV/AIDS
February 5, 2024A collection of health, wellness, and nutrition resources compiled by the Administration for Community Living.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
