Conversations on Healthy Aging With HIV

Learn about medical and nonmedical challenges encountered by aging PWH—including subgroups of older patients such as women and people in resource-limited settings—and hear potential solutions in this lively panel discussion by expert healthcare professionals and patient advocates.

Jonathan Appelbaum, MD, FACP, AAHIVS
Program Director Lydia Mungherera, MBChB Cristina Mussini, MD Dorothy Onyango Melanie Reese Marc Thompson Released: September 23, 2022

Conversations on Healthy Aging With HIV

Living as an Older Person With HIV

Medical Considerations for Older Patients

Spotlight on Older Women With HIV

Spotlight on Older Persons in Resource-Constrained Settings

Learn about medical and nonmedical challenges encountered by aging patients with HIV, including additional challenges faced by older women and in older persons living in resource-constrained settings.

Jonathan Appelbaum, MD, FACP, AAHIVS
Program Director Melanie Reese
Program Director Lydia Mungherera, MBChB Cristina Mussini, MD Dorothy Onyango Marc Thompson Released: August 9, 2022

As someone who is part of the first cohort of people living with HIV, activist Marc Thompson shares his thoughts on persistent and added issues experienced by the aging HIV population, including actions needed to better prepare the next generation.

Listen to Jonathan Appelbaum, MD, FACP, AAHIVS, discuss the many pieces to the puzzle impacting the aging HIV population, including consequences of early experiences in the epidemic related to late HIV diagnosis, incomplete or short-lived virologic suppression with early regimens, and toxicity associated with early antiretroviral agents, as well as several other medical and psychosocial challenges.

Jonathan Appelbaum, MD, FACP, AAHIVS
Program Director Released: August 25, 2022

This podcast features perspectives from Melanie Reese, an older woman with HIV, about challenges faced by this special population and potential solutions to ensure aging people have the tools needed to navigate life.

Melanie Reese
Program Director Released: September 29, 2022

Listen to Dorothy Onyango, an older woman with HIV in Kenya, speak to the many barriers encountered by aging patients with HIV, especially women, in resource-limited settings and potential solutions to encourage good health and wellness for this key population.

Dorothy Onyango Released: September 20, 2022

At a certain point, we must ask our patients with HIV, “How do you want to age?” The best thing we can do is make sure they know we truly care for them and, of more importance, to make sure our patients learn how to love themselves.

Cristina Mussini, MD Released: October 12, 2022

After almost 4 decades of living with HIV, activist Marc Thompson shares his thoughts on the ongoing and added challenges faced by people aging with HIV and addresses the actions needed to improve present and future HIV care.

Marc Thompson Released: July 11, 2022

How can we best provide medical care for older people with HIV? As the population ages, are we prepared to care for them?

Jonathan Appelbaum, MD, FACP, AAHIVS
Program Director Released: August 17, 2022

Hear my perspective on the struggles of older women with HIV trying to thrive despite inadequate resources and the many nonmedical challenges faced by this special population.

Melanie Reese Released: September 7, 2022

Those of us who contracted HIV early in the epidemic didn’t think we’d live to an older age. Here are my thoughts on aging with HIV in my home country of Kenya.

Dorothy Onyango Released: September 7, 2022

How do we make sure our patients with HIV stay healthy as they age? Here’s my approach.

Cristina Mussini, MD Released: October 25, 2022