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Because of effective HIV treatment, people with HIV are living longer than ever. This means that people with HIV are now living in residential care, like nursing or care homes.

When you're taking different drugs together, it could change how well they work or the side effects they have. It's important to tell your doctor or pharmacist about all the medications you are taking.

Chronic kidney disease is common in people living with HIV. The two most important causes are diabetes and high blood pressure. In our video, Memory Sachikonye and Susan Cole talk about chronic kidney disease and HIV.

There are a lot of myths about getting older with HIV. In our video, Jo Josh, Jonathan Blake and Memory Sachikonye talk about what ageing with HIV is really like.

People living with HIV have a higher risk of lung cancer and several other cancers compared to people without HIV. Smoking is the biggest risk factor for lung cancer.

Rates of some, but not all, cancers are higher in people living with HIV than HIV-negative people. This is often because of the effects of HIV on the immune system.

With HIV activist and older LGBT people's group chair Maurice Greenham; Head of HIV services at Africa Advocacy Foundation and GROWS Co-ordinator at Sophia Forum, Juddy Otti; Communications officer at the British HIV Association, Jo Josh; Dr Giovanni Guaraldi from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; and Marc Thompson from The Love Tank.

With sexual health and HIV consultant at Barts Health NHS Trust, Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan; and consultant haematologist and lecturer at Imperial College London, Dr Steven Okoli.

At EACS 2023, Kevin Moody from the University of Amsterdam spoke to NAM aidsmap's Roger Pebody about post-traumatic stress disorder and HIV.

At EACS 2023, Dr Raquel Martin Iguacel talks to NAM aidsmap's Roger Pebody about COVID-19 and the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with HIV.

With the Director of Red Ribbon Living Well CIC, Husseina Hamza, and podcast host and disability advocate, Roxy Murray.

With author, publisher and specialist speaker on sickle cell, Jenica Leah; and global health policy expert, Ade Adeyemi.

At IAS 2023, Professor Steven Grinspoon from Harvard Medical School spoke to NAM aidsmap's Roger Pebody about the use of statins in people living with HIV.

At IAS 2023, Professor Francois Venter from Ezintsha, Johannesburg, spoke to NAM aidsmap's Roger Pebody about antiretrovirals and high blood pressure.

At CROI 2023, Dr Bernard Surial from the University of Bern spoke to NAM's Roger Pebody about integrase inhibitors and cardiovascular disease.

Dr Nneka Nwokolo talks to Susan Cole about the menopause and HIV in our video we've produced with the Sophia Forum, Positively UK and UCL Institute for Global Health.

Being diagnosed and living with HIV might have a big emotional impact on you. It's important to know that it's completely normal to have feelings that you might find difficult.

Julie Reynolds talks to Susan Cole about what growing older with HIV means to her in our video we've produced with the Sophia Forum, Positively UK and UCL Institute for Global Health.

With Dr Shema Tariq, researcher and HIV consultant at University College London and Mortimer Market Centre; Joshua Wharton from George House Trust; Angelina Namiba from the 4M Network; long-term HIV survivor and campaigner George Hodson; and Dr Charles Mazhude, consultant HIV/genitourinary physician at University Hospital Lewisham.

Fungai Murau talks to Susan Cole about weight gain in women with HIV in this video we've produced with the Sophia Forum, Positively UK and UCL Institute for Global Health.

NAM aidsmap's Susan Cole speaks to Angelina Namiba, Dr Naomi Sutton and Dr Shema Tariq about sex and relationship issues in women living with HIV.

With Dr Tristan Barber, HIV doctor at The Royal Free Hospital with expertise in ageing issues; Jo Josh, communications adviser at the British HIV Association; Rebecca Mbewe, co-director of the 4M Mentor Mothers Network; and campaigner Richard Desmond, who has been living with HIV since 1985.

At CROI 2022, Professor Joel Palefsky from the University of California San Francisco talks about the ANCHOR trial, which has showed that screening and early treatment reduces anal cancer in people with HIV.

Rebecca Mbewe shares her experiences of ageing with HIV in this video we've produced with the Sophia Forum, Positively UK and UCL Institute for Global Health.

Dr Vanessa Apea, consultant in sexual health and HIV medicine, talks about the importance of COVID-19 vaccinations.

Dr Shema Tariq, HIV doctor and researcher at University College London (UCL), shares information about the menopause and HIV in our video we've produced with the Sophia Forum, Positively UK and UCL Institute for Global Health.

Jo Josh shares her experiences of ageing with HIV in this video we've produced with the Sophia Forum, Positively UK and UCL Institute for Global Health.

People living with HIV are living increasingly long lives. NAM aidsmap's Susan Cole talks about life expectancy for people living with HIV in our video.

Elena Vovc from the World Health Organization talks about the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has impacted HIV diagnoses, treatment and prevention. Elena presented these findings at a session at the EACS 2021 conference.

A new study shows that people with HIV with CD4 counts below 200 produce weaker responses to COVID-19 vaccines than people with better immune function. Dr Andrea Antinori of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Italy, talks about the research presented to the EACS 2021 conference.

With the Executive Director of UNAIDS, Winnie Byanyima.

With the Director of CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Dr Demetre Daskalakis; HIV doctor and researcher, Dr Shema Tariq; and trans activist Rebecca de Havilland.

With Director of Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes at the World Health Organization, Dr Meg Doherty; Chair of the British HIV Association, Dr Laura Waters; National Co-ordinator of the Kenya Sex Workers Alliance, Phelister Abdalla; and IAS 2021 rapporteur and Chief Medical Information Officer at the University Hospital Rechts der Isar, Germany, Dr Christoph Spinner.

Dr Silvia Bertagnolio of the World Health Organization talks about COVID-19 in people living with HIV at IAS 2021.

With Gina Brown from the Southern AIDS Coalition, activist Arda Karapinar and HIV doctor Tristan Barber.

Yvonne Richards shares her experiences of ageing with HIV in this video we've produced with the Sophia Forum, Positively UK and UCL Institute for Global Health.

With activist and writer, Mark S. King; consultant HIV physician and researcher, Professor Jane Anderson; and programme manager at the Global Network of People Living with HIV, Florence Riako Anam.

With epidemiologist at Public Health England, Meaghan Kall; adviser at UNAIDS, Vinay Saldanha; and CEO of The Food Chain, Siobhan Lanigan.

With consultant physician in sexual health and HIV at Barts Health NHS Trust, Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan; human rights activist from Prevention Access Campaign, Deondre B. Moore; and co-founder of Access to Medicines Ireland, Robbie Lawlor.

With actor and writer from comedy series ‘Merce’, and TheBody, Charles Sanchez; HIV activist from Positive Young Women Voices, Lucy Wanjiku Njenga; and Chair of the British Association for Sexual Health & HIV (BASHH), Dr John McSorley.

Emma Cole shares her experiences of ageing with HIV in this video we've produced with the Sophia Forum, Positively UK and UCL Institute for Global Health.

Sophie Strachan shares her experiences of the menopause as a woman living with HIV in this video we've produced with Sophia Forum, Positively UK and UCL Institute for Global Health.

NAM's Susan Cole talks to four women about the resilience of women living with HIV: Angelina Namiba from 4M Network of Mentor Mothers living with HIV; Memory Sachikonye from UK-CAB;  Silvia Petretti, CEO of Positively UK; and Dr Vanessa Apea, an HIV and sexual health consultant at Barts Hospital in London.

With HIV doctor and health activist, Dr Oni Blackstock; HIV and LGBT activist, Josh Robbins; and HIV doctor and Chair of the British HIV Association, Dr Laura Waters.

With writer at TheBody, Juan Michael Porter II; researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and EATG member, Maryan Said; and former BHIVA Chair and President Elect of the Medical Women's Federation, Professor Chloe Orkin.

Winnie Ssanyu Sseruma talks about ageing with HIV in this video we've produced with Sophia Forum, Positively UK and UCL Institute for Global Health.

With Professor Linda-Gail Bekker, Director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre; Edwin Sesange, LGBT rights campaigner; and Todd Cooper, a medical student who's working on the COVID frontline.

With sexual health and HIV consultants, Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan and Dr Vanessa Apea; House Of Rainbow founding Pastor, Rev Jide Macaulay; and activist Mercy Shibemba.

With Dr Tristan Barber from the Royal Free Hospital, doctor and radio host Sindi van Zyl and 'London patient' Adam Castillejo, who has been cured of HIV.

With HIV doctor and Chair of the British HIV Association, Dr Laura Waters; Director, Regional Support Team for Eastern Europe and Central Asia at UNAIDS, Vinay Saldanha; Adviser, Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes at the World Health Organization, Andy Seale; and Head of Programmes at GNP+, Georgina Caswell.

With Karl Schmid, HIV-positive producer and reporter for ABC in Los Angeles; Denis Onyango from the Africa Advocacy Foundation; and Dr Mina Hosseinipour, infectious diseases doctor who talks about the recent trial results for injectable PrEP in women.

With Dr Sanjay Bhagani, Consultant Physician/Associate Professor of HIV and President-elect of the European AIDS Clinical Society; Nathaniel Hall, HIV-positive actor and activist; and Professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes, internationally recognised expert on HIV, race, class and gender.

NAM's Susan Cole talks to four women about the health issues women with HIV are experiencing during COVID-19: Mercy Shibemba, an award-winning youth HIV activist; Rebecca Mbewe, a speaker, trainer and mentor living with HIV for the past 23 years; Janine McGregor-Read, a peer navigator based at Homerton Hospital living with HIV for the past 30 years; and Dr Vanessa Apea, an HIV and sexual health consultant at Barts Hospital in London.

With writer and activist, Bob Leahy; trans writer and campaigner, Juno Roche; HIV advocate and treatment rights campaigner, Winnie Ssanyu Sseruma; HIV doctor at The Royal Free Hospital with expertise in ageing issues, Dr Tristan Barber; and NAM's Executive Director, Matthew Hodson.

With Dr Peter Ghys from UNAIDS; writer and long-term HIV survivor, Hank Trout; and writer and activist, Bakita Kasadha.

With international speaker and HIV activist from the Prevention Access Campaign, Davina Conner; sex worker, activist and PrEP advocate, Jason Domino; and sexual health and HIV doctor, Vanessa Apea.

With Sean Strub, writer and activist and founder of POZ magazine; and Professor Jürgen Rockstroh, HIV clinician and President of the European AIDS Clinical Society.

With Chair of the British HIV Association, Dr Laura Waters; Deputy Director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Professor Linda-Gail Bekker; AIDS 2020 plenary speaker and Positive Young Women Voices team leader, Lucy Wanjiku Njenga; and NAM aidsmap Editor, Gus Cairns.

With Dr Demetre Daskalakis of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Cecilia Chung, trans HIV activist, based in San Francisco, featured in the drama series When We Rise; and Jason Jones, who successfully challenged homophobic legislation in Trinidad and Tobago.

NAM's Susan Cole talks to four women about emotional wellbeing and COVID-19: Fungai Murau, a consultant, researcher and advocate for women and young people with HIV; Jo Josh, Communications Officer for the British HIV Association; Charity Nyirenda, an HIV activist, advocate and peer mentor for women living with HIV; and Dr Vanessa Apea, an HIV and sexual health consultant at a London teaching hospital.

With Shannon Hader, Deputy Executive Director of Programme at UNAIDS; Winifred lkilai, who works with the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC); and Julia Marcus, infectious disease epidemiologist and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

With Professor Kevin Fenton, Public Health Regional Director for London; MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle, who's openly living with HIV; and Kenyan activist Doreen Moraa Moracha.

With Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan, Consultant Physician in Sexual Health and HIV at the Royal London Hospital; Bruce Richman, Founding Executive Director of the Prevention Access Campaign and U=U campaign; and Ian Green, Chief Executive of the Terrence Higgins Trust.

With Dr Oni Blackstock, from the NYC Health Department; young activists Becky Kroger and Eli Fitzgerald in the UK; and Midnight Poonkasetwattana from the Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM) in Bangkok.

With Anton Pozniak, President of the International AIDS Society; Georgina Caswell, Head of Programmes at the Global Network of People Living with HIV; and Bisi Alimi, Executive Director of the Bisi Alimi Foundation, which advocates for the rights of LGBT people in Nigeria.

With Dazon Dixon Diallo, Founder and President of SisterLove Inc; Idris Mwendwa Wambua from HAPA Kenya; and Dr Tristan Barber, an HIV doctor who has been redeployed to work on COVID-19 wards.

With Dr Meg Doherty, Director of Global HIV, Hepatitis, STI Programmes at the World Health Organization; writer and activist Mark S King; and Leasuwanna Griffith, HIV activist and nurse associate apprentice.

With Chair of the British HIV Association (BHIVA), Dr Laura Waters; doctor and radio host in South Africa, Dr Sindi van Zyl; Co Chair of the Sophia Forum and BHIVA Communications Officer, Jo Josh; and NAM aidsmap Editor, Gus Cairns.

Dr Tristan Barber and Jo Josh talk about HIV and ageing, including the health prospects for people living with HIV, and give advice for people to stay healthy as they get older.

NAM's Susan Cole talks about HIV and the menopause. A number of studies have found that women living with HIV may experience the menopause earlier than women who don't have HIV and may get worse symptoms.

With HIV and sexual health consultants, Dr Tristan Barber and Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan; researcher, writer and poet, Bakita Kasadha; HIV and LGBTQ activist and campaigner, Alex Causton-Ronaldson; and researcher and Make a Difference Trust trustee, Dr John Forni.