HIV/AIDS interventions for midlife and older adults: Current status and challenges

Judith A. Levy, Marcia G. Ory, Stephen Crystal

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Abstract

Drawing on both domestic and global international perspectives, this special issue is devoted to articles that confront the challenges of understanding, preventing, and intervening, with HIV/AIDS as an epidemic that carries increasingly serious consequences for a growing number of adults who are 50 years of age or older. This issue builds on papers first presented at an HIV/AIDS and aging conference sponsored in the fall of 2000 by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. The editors have selected articles that focus dually on what is currently known and what needs to be known to successfully address the needs of persons 50 years of age or older who are vulnerable to the virus's effects. This special issue is organized around a series of subsections representing key issues and research findings related to HIV/AIDS and aging issues, including the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and aging, HIV/AIDS risk and risk behavior, settings and situations as social contexts of risk, clinical challenges with older populations, living with and managing HIV/AIDS, interventions and research methods, new frontiers and challenges, and strategies for action. Some articles are data driven, whereas others are reflective pieces that recount personal experiences in living with the virus or point to new directions for research and practice. In this introduction, the editors highlight findings and approaches from each article and further add to our knowledge by setting these articles within the context of major themes relevant to the study of HIV/AIDS in an aging population.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)S59-S67
JournalJournal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
Volume33
Issue numberSUPPL. 2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2003

Keywords

  • AIDS and older adults
  • AIDS prevention in older population
  • HIV/AIDS and aging

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Pharmacology (medical)

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