A landmark study presented at the International AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro marks a turning point in the long arc of the HIV epidemic: the people antiretroviral medicine saved are now growing old, and the systems built to save them were never designed to see them through. By 2040, more than half of all people living with HIV globally will be over fifty — a demographic shift that transforms a crisis of survival into a crisis of aging, falling most heavily on the low- and middle-income countries least equipped to meet it.
HIV's aging crisis: Older patients to outnumber younger by 2040
Millions of older adults living with HIV face inadequate healthcare systems unprepared to address their complex age-related medical needs, potentially compromising quality of life and health outcomes.