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Aging with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa : health and psychosocial perspectives by Mark Brennan-Ing (editor), Kristen E. Porter (editor), Jennifer E. Kaufman (editor), Catherine MacPhail (editor), Janet Seeley (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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With the development of effective antiretroviral therapies (ART) in the mid-1990s, HIV became a treatable although serious condition, and people who are adherent to HIV medications can attain normal or near-normal life expectancies. Because of the success of ART, people 50 and older now make up a majority of people with HIV in high-income countries and other places where ART is accessible. The aging of the HIV epidemic is a global trend that is also being observed in low- and middle-income countries, including countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where the greatest number of older people with HIV reside (3.7 million). While globally over half of older adults with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa, we have little information about the circumstances, needs, and resiliencies of this population, which limits our ability to craft effective policy and programmatic responses to aging with HIV in this region. At present, our understanding of HIV and aging is dominated by information from the U.S. and Western Europe, where the epidemiology of HIV and the infrastructure to provide social care are markedly different than in sub-Saharan Africa. Aging with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa addresses this g

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Author

Mark Brennan-Ing (editor), Kristen E. Porter (editor), Jennifer E. Kaufman (editor), Catherine MacPhail (editor), Janet Seeley (editor)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing AG

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030963675

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Medicine