HIV and Aging: Double Stigma
February 5, 2024Older 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.
Differentiated Service Delivery Models Have Comparable Effectiveness to Standard of Care in HIV
September 7, 2023Differentiated service delivery (DSD) models were able to provide comparable effectiveness in treating people with HIV as the standard of care (SoC) when it came to maintaining care and viral suppression, according to a review published in Reviews in Medical Virology.
HIV: A personal story
April 8, 2023University 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+.
Predictive Analytics for Retention in Care in an Urban HIV Clinic
April 7, 2023This machine learning model was developed to identify patients at risk for dropping out of care in an urban HIV care clinic using electronic medical records and geospatial data.
After ARVs
July 26, 2022Has the dawn of HIV therapeutic vaccines arrived at AIDS 2022?
Fear and Hunger at AIDS 2022
July 22, 2022At the first gathering of policymakers, activists, and clinicians since COVID-19, a precarious horizon of challenges, food insecurity, and famine, takes center stage.
Another Horseman
The intersection of COVID-19, HIV, TB, and malaria; international conflicts fueled by proxy fights leveling cities; as well as domestic political chasms continue to over-burden the world’s emergency response resources.
Infection with HIV can accelerate aging within the first two to three years of infection, study says
July 18, 2022Researchers 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.
Strengthening systems of care for people with or at risk for HIV, HCV and opioid use disorder: a call for enhanced data collection
July 1, 2022In this implementation project, an assessment was made of the data capacity of the health system to measure a cascade of care (COC) across HIV, HCV and OUD services in five states to help guide public health planning.
Fatigue is associated with worse cognitive and everyday functioning in older persons with HIV
May 1, 2022This study goes into detail about framing the relationship between fatigue, cognition, and everyday functioning in PLWH.
Monocytes in HIV and SIV Infection and Aging: Implications for Inflamm-Aging and Accelerated Aging
February 17, 2022With 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.
HIV and Aging in the Era of ART and COVID-19
February 1, 2022Our understanding of HIV/AIDS has been reframed in the recent past because the use of novel antiretroviral therapy has enabled clinicians and patients to control the progression of the disease.
