Health Disparities – The Graying of AIDS

Seniors Not Accessing Critical Preventative Health Services

March 16th, 2011
A new report out of the US Department of Health and Human Services Office highlights how few seniors are currently accessing critical preventative health services, with minority seniors even less likely to receive these services. Findings indicate that if seniors received the 20 recommended prevention services (including potentially life-saving screenings and vaccinations), over two million people would have been alive during 2006, …

GMHC’s Sean Cahill on Aging with HIV

February 19th, 2011
GMHC’s Sean Cahill brought the aging of the HIV/AIDS epidemic to the attention of a much wider audience with his recent piece in the Huffington Post. In the piece, entitled “The Long and Winding Road: Growing Older with HIV,” Cahill — the organization’s Managing Director for Public Policy, Research, and Community Health — introduces the reader to three older Americans living with the virus and explores some of the larger issues …

Ronald Johnson, 63 | Washington, DC

Certainly, since the advent of protease inhibitors and the real progress in antiretroviral medication, the ability to treat HIV infection and slow down the progression to serious illness …

Recurring Themes – How It Feels

Many diseases and infections affect a specific part of the body, but HIV lives in the immune system and therefore ultimately impacts the whole body. While health care providers are …