HIV and Ageing Conference

posted: 06/04/2010

A late April conference on HIV and older people will be held 50 miles south of Manchester, at a Staffordshire University campus.

HIV among older people is one of the new issues in the UK. There are now rapidly rising numbers of people of 50 and older living with HIV. The number of positive over 50s will  triple within the next ten years in NW England.

Triple in 10 years

In NW England there are close to 1000 people diagnosed with HIV who are 50 or older (17% of the total diagnosed), and almost another 2000 people who are in their 40s, who will soon join them.

The conference - Ageing with HIV - is on Wednesday 28 April, at TV Centre, Staffordshire University, Beaconside, Stafford, ST18 0AG,  between 09.00 and 16.15. The cost is £40 (£25 concessions, ask Elaine at bookings).

There are CrossCountry express trains from Manchester (to Birmingham) through Stafford every 30 minutes; it takes about 50 minutes and the Beaconside campus is a taxi ride from Stafford station. 

Conference programme

• The Emerging Population of Older Adults with HIV - AIDS Initiative of America (ACRIA)
• Medical aspects of Ageing with HIV
• 50+ : the needs of people living with HIV over 50 in the UK
• Ageing with HIV
• Compare and contrast : HIV care for the mature versus the less mature

Conference Programme pdf

Booking form word

Bookings please email Elaine Stanway or call her on 01785 353742
 

Older People and HIV

posted: 04/01/2010

HIV among older people is coming to attention more and more. More people are living longer with HIV, especially because of effective HIV treatments, and more older people are being diagnosed with HIV - often at a late stage of infection - and other older people are at more risk of HIV.

We've now added some useful 'Older' links to the website to pull together some of the available information, to help interested individuals, service providers and policy makers to act. Most of these materials are from North America, mostly the USA. We will add UK and other European links as useful information becomes available.

If you search our website for key words like 'older' you will find relevant news from the UK as well as other information.

UK organisations - HIV and older people's - are now working on HIV service development for older people. For example in NW England, George House Trust is meeting with Manchester Public Health Development Services to help develop the sexual health strategy for older people.

HIV and older people in NW England

By the middle of 2009, NW England had 950 people diagnosed with HIV over 50. 950 people is 17% of all people diagnosed with HIV in the region. In ten years time this number and the proportion will have very rapidly grown, probably by well over 2000, because there are almost that many people in their 40s already diagnosed with HIV in the region. 

Most of the 950 people diagnosed with HIV in the region are gay and bisexual men - 60%. Most of the rest of diagnosed people over 50 are heterosexual men and women (34% - with around 2:1 of them being men).