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Living to a Ripe Old Age With HIV
Life Expectancy for Young People With HIV Is Nearly Normal
HIV and Aging

Inflammatory Diseases Are Major Concern for Those on HIV Treatment

Treatments to reduce inflammation could help make HIV even less of a threat to health than antiretrovirals can alone.
“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” composer Michael Friedman

More Details on the Broadway Composer Lost to AIDS at 41

Michael Friedman, best known for “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” reportedly found out he had HIV only nine weeks before his death.

Life Expectancy Is Looking Up

Continued improvements in ARVs have likely further raised life expectancy for the average 20-year-old who starts treatment today.

Frailty Is Tied to Reduced Bone Density in Middle-Aged People With HIV

A study of 175 HIV-positive French individuals finds.

Cause of Decline in Everyday Function Among People With HIV Is Hard to Pinpoint

A new study advises looking at factors such as depression, anxiety and unemployment before pointing the finger at cognitive impairment.

Early vs. Delayed HIV Treatment Is Linked to Accelerated Bone Loss

Although more research on antiretroviral linked bone loss is needed, the overall health benefits of early treatment outweigh such a risk.

Quit Smoking, Cut Risk of Cancers

If people living with HIV who smoke quit their cigarette habit, they soon slash their risk of numerous cancers.

HIV Is Linked With Impaired Respiratory Health

This remains the case even when HIV is well treated with antiretrovirals.

Modern Progress in HIV Treatment and Care Has Likely Added a Decade to Life

Compared with those starting HIV meds in the late 1990s, those who go on treatment today can likely expect to live 10 years longer.
Glenna McCarthy

To the Woman Who Asked Me Why I Lived and Her Father Died

Join me as I launch my POZ Blog with a “Voice of Reason.”
Vancouver, British Columbia

HIV Is Linked With Considerable Proportion of Life Spent With Illnesses

People with HIV in British Columbia have a shorter life expectancy and spend longer living with illnesses compared with those without HIV.

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#Long-Term Survivors

Now Open: Golden Compass, a Geriatric HIV Clinic

It’s part of San Francisco General Hospital’s Ward 86, where 1,600 of its 2,500 patients are 50 or older.
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“Still Standing” Spotlights Older Men of Color With HIV [VIDEO]

The campaign stars members of Brooklyn’s GRIOT Circle.
From left: Robert Waldron, Howard White and Frank Ambriz of Griot Circle at AIDS Healthcare Foundation in Brooklyn to launch “Still Standing”

HIV-Positive Older Men of Color Tell It Like It Is, Sex and All

Three minority men share their life stories in GRIOT Circle’s “Still Standing” project, but you can read them right here!

How the GOP’s Medicaid Reform Could Limit Access to Newer, Pricier Drugs

“When you’re under per-capita caps, you’re not able to be innovative.”

Hopeful Message as a Cancer Doc Discloses His HIV and Hepatitis C

Eric Winer also notes that “the stigma...based on medical illness can be devastating.”
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