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Growing Old With HIV: Beyond Just Surviving – Medscape
The aging of the population with HIV is a medical achievement to celebrate, but with this success comes a new conundrum.
We have a remarkable success story in HIV: The population of people with HIV is aging, largely because of effective antiretroviral therapy.
The most recent HIV Surveillance Report estimated that about a third of the population with HIV in the United States is older than 55. Globally, in 2017, approximately 5.7 million people with HIV were older than 50.
Nonetheless, this success presents new challenges in the medical management of chronic health conditions. Older people with HIV may have advan…
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