HealthHIV Pozitively Aging

The national resource center for care coordination and pozitively aging with HIV

The National Resource Center from HealthHIV builds the capacity of HIV and primary care providers to coordinate care for people living and aging with HIV across a lifetime. This program enhances provider and patient knowledge related to the experiences of PWH over 50 and the comanagement of conditions associated with aging with HIV through data collection and medical education.

HealthHIV’s State of Aging with HIV™ Third Annual National Survey


This comprehensive national survey underscores the ongoing needs and experiences of people aging with HIV; many of whom are among the first generation of people diagnosed with HIV.

Latest Aging with HIV Resources

HIV: A personal story

University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine spoke to one of Associate Professor Lucy Dorrell’s patients about her experiences discovering that she was HIV+.

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Fatigue is associated with worse cognitive and everyday functioning in older persons with HIV

Fatigue is prevalent in people living with HIV and in older adults. Research has been associated with a wide range of psychosocial factors, including depression, anxiety, and poor quality of sleep, leading to overall poorer quality of life. Fatigue is also associated with comorbidities such as hypothyroidism, Hepatitis C, disease severity, and treatment status among PLWH. This study goes into detail about framing the relationship between fatigue, cognition, and everyday functioning in PLWH.

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Monocytes in HIV and SIV Infection and Aging: Implications for Inflamm-Aging and Accelerated Aging

With ART and the extended lifespan of PLWH, HIV comorbidities also include aging—most likely due to accelerated aging—as well as cardiovascular, neurocognitive disorders, lung and kidney disease, and malignancies. The broad evidence suggests that HIV with ART is associated with accentuated aging and that the age-related comorbidities occur earlier, due in part to chronic immune activation, co-infections, and possibly the effects of ART alone.

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HealthHIV Pozitively Aging

About the Pozitively Aging program

HealthHIV’s Pozitively Aging program improves access to services and care coordination for people with HIV (PWH) over 50 and health outcomes through enhancing care coordination/access, health literacy, and patient-provider communications. Pozitively Aging offers consumer facing education materials to strengthen self-management of care and health literacy for people aging with HIV.

HealthHIV’s National Resource Center for Care Coordination and Pozitively Aging with HIV

The National Resource Center from HealthHIV builds the capacity of HIV and primary care providers to coordinate care for people living and aging with HIV across a lifetime. This program enhances provider and patient knowledge related to the experiences of PWH over 50 and the comanagement of conditions associated with aging with HIV through data collection and medical education. Access the National Resource Center at AgingWithHIV.org.