HIV Care Across the Life Course: Challenges While Aging with HIV
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 6
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pediatric and adolescent HIV; perinatal HIV and mother-to-child transmission; transition of HIV care (pediatric to adult services); HIV and mental health in youth; HIV co-infections and long-term outcomes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The success of antiretroviral therapy has transformed HIV into a manageable chronic condition, leading to a rapidly growing population of people aging with HIV worldwide. As life expectancy increases, new and complex challenges have emerged across the life course, including multimorbidity, polypharmacy, cognitive and mental health conditions, functional decline and persistent stigma and social isolation. These challenges often intersect with long-term treatment exposure, socioeconomic inequities and health system fragmentation, placing individuals living with HIV, including growing-up adolescents and young adults with perinatal HIV and older adults who survived with HIV, at increased risk for adverse health outcomes. Addressing HIV care while aging, therefore, requires a life-course perspective that integrates clinical, behavioral and social dimensions of health and that adapts care models to the evolving needs of individuals over time.
This Special Issue of IJERPH, ‘HIV Care Across the Life Course: Challenges While Aging with HIV,’ seeks to advance interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the biological, psychosocial and structural determinants of healthy aging among people living with HIV. We invite researchers, clinicians and public health practitioners to contribute original research, reviews and implementation studies from diverse global settings that illuminate innovative care models, identify gaps in services and inform policies to support healthy aging. By contributing to this Special Issue, authors will help shape evidence-based, person-centered approaches that ensure longevity is accompanied by well-being, dignity and equitable access to high-quality HIV care across the life course.
Dr. Linda Aurpibul
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- aging with HIV
- comorbidities
- psychosocial aspects of HIV
- mental health and neurocognitive
- integrated and person-centered HIV care
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