HIV-Related Mental Health
For 'Silver Tsunami' With HIV, New Hope For Healthy Aging
The New York Times, Sept. 10, 2023
People with H.I.V. are achieving the once unthinkable: a steady march into older age. But beginning around age 50, many people HIV face a host of health problems, from heart disease and diabetes to social isolation and cognitive decline. And so the medical research community, which some three decades ago developed lifesaving drugs to keep the virus at bay, is now hunting for new ways to keep older people with HIV healthier.
The New York Times, Sept. 10, 2023
People with H.I.V. are achieving the once unthinkable: a steady march into older age. But beginning around age 50, many people HIV face a host of health problems, from heart disease and diabetes to social isolation and cognitive decline. And so the medical research community, which some three decades ago developed lifesaving drugs to keep the virus at bay, is now hunting for new ways to keep older people with HIV healthier.
“Braving Cognitive Decline: Can People With HIV Fight Back?” (POZ, May 2013) The science behind the dispropor-tionate rates of cognitive decline among people with HIV.
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“The HIV Mental Health Generation Gap.” (POZ, Feb. 2014)
Are younger people living with the virus worse off than the older ones, contrary to popular belief? |
- HIV Plus, March 2009: “More Than Just Blue.” HIV-positive individuals’ struggles with depression.