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  • Health monitoring in older age

    As we age, the risks of developing certain health problems increase. Some common conditions associated with being older (generally being over 50) include type 2 diabetes, heart disease...

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  • Stroke

    A stroke happens when a blood clot blocks an artery or blood vessel in the brain, or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts....

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  • Diabetes

    Diabetes is a condition where the amount of glucose in the body is too high because the body cannot use it properly. Diabetes exists in two...

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  • Older adults

    The existence of effective treatments for HIV means people are able to live with HIV to an increasingly older age. The proportion of people seen for HIV...

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  • Study highlights needs of growing older population living with HIV

    A University of Salford study with charity the George House Trust has highlighted the North West’s growing population of older people with HIV and the lack of services for older HIV-positive gay men.

    13 May 2013 | University of Salford

  • Michelangelo Signorile: The First AIDS Generation: Grappling With Why We're Alive and What It Means

    I was escaping the epidemic by immersing myself in the politics and urgency of it, which seems paradoxical but really does make a lot of sense .I gave myself a special dispensation on grief and heartbreak. There was no time for grief, especially when anger and indignation was so much more empowering. Of course, what I'm painfully learning 25 years later is that you can put grief off, but you can't ever escape it.

    10 May 2013 | Huffington Post

  • Protein Structure Discovery Could Lead to Better Treatments for HIV, Early Aging

    Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined the molecular structure of a protein whose mutations have been linked to several early aging diseases, and to side effects of common HIV and AIDS medications.

    11 April 2013 | University of Virginia press release

  • Over 10% in Older HIV Group Fit Alzheimer's Biomarker Risk Profile

    Slightly more than 10% of older Australian patients with well-controlled HIV infection had cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) marker profiles consistent with Alzheimer's disease--a risk prevalence more than 10 times higher than in the general population at the same age.

    13 March 2013 | NATAP

  • HIV and women over 50: 'I've had to make this journey almost entirely alone'

    Anna's story – that of an older, heterosexual British woman who has contracted HIV – is unusual, but she is certainly not alone.

    12 March 2013 | The Guardian

  • Young Males With HIV Face Greater Risk of Hearing Loss

    HIV infection is significantly associated with an increased risk of developing sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL), according to research published online Feb. 21 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.

    02 March 2013 | Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants

  • HIV Linked to Sudden Loss of Hearing

    Having HIV appears to increase the risk of sudden sensorineural hearing loss, at least among younger patients, researchers reported.

    22 February 2013 | MedPage Today HIV/AIDS

  • Multiple factors affect HIV prognosis, study shows

    In a major advancement for the field of HIV treatment, a new study has identified a more accurate method of suggesting prognosis for HIV patients. The new method, called the Veterans Aging Cohort Study index, takes into account factors such as hemoglobin level, platelet count and comorbidity.

    05 February 2013 | Yale Daily News

  • Activist discusses challenge of growing old with HIV

    Old age comes faster and hits harder for those infected with HIV, a fact aging health activist Ron Swanda knows all too well.

    30 November 2012 | AFP

  • Africa faces spike in older people living with HIV

    Sub-Saharan Africa is likely to see a more than 200 percent increase in the number of older people living with HIV in the next 30 years, thanks to improvements in lifesaving treatment, experts said Thursday.

    19 October 2012 | AFP
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