Resource Library
Our library of resources offers a wide variety of information on HIV prevention and care, capacity building and management, healthcare equity, and much more.
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The Importance of Synchronicity for Remedying Health Inequities
At SYNC 2021, our nation’s public health leaders, service providers, and community organizers spoke on the various ways in which different sectors of society can come together to end the epidemics that impact underserved communities.
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A Malawian Perspective on Aging and HIV/AIDS
Although we live in an aging population, attention is far from focused on those 50 or older when it comes to HIV/AIDS in Malawi. HealthHIV Fellow Delroy White recently found himself asking, “What happens to older people when most medical interventions are directed towards younger populations?”
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A Walk-In Incentivized HIV Care Model: The Max Clinic
Evidence-based intervention: A high-intensity support, low-threshold care access clinic specifically for persons with HIV who have extensive barriers to HIV care.
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Many Folks Who Finally Disclose Their HIV Status Discover New Freedom
“I feel my heart releasing,” the actor Billy Porter said when he ended his 14-year silence earlier this year. Every day, folks who are newly living openly with HIV experience what he’s talking about.
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HealthHIV State of Aging with HIV™ Second Annual National Survey
This comprehensive national survey further underscores the ongoing needs and experiences of people aging, thriving, and sometimes struggling with the HIV; many of whom are among the first generation of people diagnosed with HIV.
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HIV in the United States by Age
While HIV affects all people in the United States and dependent areas, some age groups are especially affected. Get the latest data on HIV by age from the CDC.
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Current Challenges and Solutions in Research and Clinical Care of Older Persons Living with HIV
This conference summary from AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses looks at the current state of research around inflamm-aging and other age-related comorbidities in PWH.
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Positive Psychological Factors are Linked to Successful Cognitive Aging Among Older Persons Living with HIV/AIDS
This paper examines relationships between psychological factors and successful cognitive aging in PWH.
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Links Between Inflammation, Mood, and Physical Function Among Older Adults With HIV
This paper examines relationships between psychosocial factors, inflammatory markers, and age-related health outcomes among older PLWH.
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HIV complex care and care coordination: the nurse’s role
Articles suggest that nurses specializing in HIV care are an effective approach to a new era of life-long HIV care. Community nurses whose role is to create and conduct CCPs in a small clinic would enable nurses to work directly with patients to increase the effectiveness of the CCP.
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Patient-Centered HIV Care Model (PCHCM)
The Patient-Centered HIV Care Model integrates community-based HIV specialized pharmacists and HIV clinic medical providers to provide patient-centered care for persons with HIV.
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Senotherapeutics for HIV and aging
Senescence is a hallmark of aging-related diseases that is characterized by stable cell cycle arrest and chronic inflammation. Chronic HIV-1 infection predisposes patients to aging-related illnesses and is similarly marked by a senescence-like phenotype. A better understanding of the role of HIV-1 in aging will inform the development of therapeutics aimed at eliminating senescent cells that drive accelerated physiologic aging.
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Long-Term Suppressive cART Is Not Sufficient to Restore Intestinal Permeability and Gut Microbiota Compositional Changes
The study explores the long-term effects of cART on markers of gut damage, microbial translocation, and paired gut/blood microbiota composition, with a focus on the role exerted by different drug classes. The results conclude that 24 months of cART only affects the gastrointestinal tract minorly.
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Altered gut microbiota correlates with different immune responses to HAART in HIV-infected individuals
Gut microbiota and immune activation were studied in 36 non-HIV-infected subjects and 58 HIV-infected individuals, including 28 immunological responders and 30 immunological non-responders without comorbidities.
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Ageism and People With Early-Onset Disability
This study focuses more generally on those who are aging with a disability and have been living with their disability from a young age. In the study, this classifies those who are born with HIV and the discrimination and long-term problems that they face over time as someone with a disability.
