HIV Infection in the Elderly: Arising Challenges

Globally there is an increase in the number of people living with HIV at an advanced age (50 years and above). This is mainly due to prolonged survival following the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Living with HIV at an advanced age has been shown to be associated with a number of chall...

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Autor principal: Mpondo, Bonaventura C. T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4993911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27595022
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2404857
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description Globally there is an increase in the number of people living with HIV at an advanced age (50 years and above). This is mainly due to prolonged survival following the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Living with HIV at an advanced age has been shown to be associated with a number of challenges, both clinical and immunological. This minireview aims at discussing the challenges encountered by elderly HIV-infected patients.
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spelling pubmed-49939112016-09-04 HIV Infection in the Elderly: Arising Challenges Mpondo, Bonaventura C. T. J Aging Res Review Article Globally there is an increase in the number of people living with HIV at an advanced age (50 years and above). This is mainly due to prolonged survival following the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Living with HIV at an advanced age has been shown to be associated with a number of challenges, both clinical and immunological. This minireview aims at discussing the challenges encountered by elderly HIV-infected patients. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4993911/ /pubmed/27595022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2404857 Text en Copyright © 2016 Bonaventura C. T. Mpondo. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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