Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Report: More Seniors Living With HIV :: EDGE New England

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by Steve Weinstein
 
On July 15, the New York City Department of Health released a report that confirmed in the most astonishing way earlier findings that the population of people living with HIV and AIDS was aging: three-quarters of those people in the city are now in their 40s or older, and more than one-third are over age 50.

Just as they do in the HIV population in general, women constitute the largest-growing numbers in HIV-positive older people. The report confirms one released last month by Gay Men’s Health Crisis, the city’s (and the world’s) largest private AIDS service organization.

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