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).
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