The Graying of AIDS

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Rick, age 60 / Pretoria, South Africa

June 8, 2017 by admin

Originally I was from Scotland. I’ve been in South Africa now for 36 years. I think I befriended my little virus in South Africa – that’s 30 years ago. AIDS in South Africa in that time was very different to what it is now. It was bad. I worked with an organization who […]

Categories: Africa, Age 60-64, Europe, Male • Tags: ACTIVISM, advocacy, cancer, caregiving, coping, dating, death/dying, disclosure, employment/retirement, family, grief/loss, married/life partner, opportunistic infections, PCP, positive outlook, Scotland, South Africa, support groups, thrombosis/blood clot, weight, working in HIV/AIDS community

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Hope, age 62/Francistown, Botswana

June 6, 2017 by admin

I was working with a family, and somebody had some kind of blisters that week. I was in Australia then. I was away from home, I was away from a lot of people. I was alone. Even though I was in denial, I knew what this was, because I had been unwell. I don’t remember […]

Categories: Africa, Age 60-64, Female • Tags: ageism, Art/creativity, Australia, body image, Botswana, caregiving, Caring for Older Adults, class, dating, death/dying, disclosure, doctor/patient relationship, employment/retirement, family, grief/loss, healthcare professional, helping others, HIV & the law, HIV/AIDS education, Immigration, isolation, married/life partner, Neuropathy, pain, polypharmacy, sex/sexuality, shingles, side effects, stigma, stress, support, treatment access, United States, weight

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Neale, age 54, and Max, age 60 / Melbourne, Australia

November 30, 2015 by admin

Neale: I met this man while we were conversing online. It was really a meeting of minds on a whole lot of levels. I could sense that he was very open about his status. He worked for an organization where he was identifiable as a positive man, and I was intrigued with how he […]

Categories: Age 50-54, Age 60-64, Couple, Male • Tags: Australia, dating, disclosure, fear, fear of transmission, libido, life experience/age as an asset, love, positive partners, sex/sexuality

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Michael, age 62 / Auckland, New Zealand

December 2, 2014 by admin

I was diagnosed in September 2010. I’ve only had it 4 years. It couldn’t have been much earlier than that. Because I was in a relationship, and then after that relationship finished I got promiscuous and thought to see if I still had it at my age. And yeah, then started experimenting again. I’m a […]

Categories: Age 60-64, Asia-Pacific, Male • Tags: children/parenthood, disclosure, family, grandchildren, HIV, HIV/AIDS education, New Zealand, Recent diagnosis, sex/sexuality, stigma, support

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David, age 61 / Melbourne, Australia

December 1, 2014 by admin

I’ve really had a lot of AIDS-defining illnesses in the ‘90s, some of which I’ve lived with since. I’ve developed diabetes, and, as a consequence, probably accelerated by my use of the drug Tenofovir, I’ve developed some renal disease. It’s okay, but it needs to be watched. I had excessive HIV wasting in the ‘80s, […]

Categories: Age 60-64, Asia-Pacific, Male • Tags: Australia, AZT/early medications, co-morbidities, diabetes, exercise/fitness, frailty, Illness/Wellness, inflammation, mobility issues, pain, renal disease, support, wasting, weight

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Art, age 62 / Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation, Anishnawbe / Toronto, Canada

December 1, 2014 by admin

I’m 62 now, but I came out when I was 26. So it was quite late. And back then, being out was not– it was sometimes, in the aboriginal communities, you might bring shame to the family, to the community, by announcing. But when I came out, then it was no going back. And I […]

Categories: Age 60-64, North America, Trans / Non-Binary / Two-Spirit • Tags: Aboriginal/Indigenous/First Nations, advocacy, Canada, discrimination, family, support

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Bev, age 63 / Gunditjmara Nation, Wangaratta, Australia

December 1, 2014 by admin

I don’t feel OLD old, ‘cause I’m still feeling young, because I’m still here, you know. I feel really grateful that I don’t ponder on, oh, you know, I’m turning into this old woman or anything. I used to be offended when, say 10 years ago, when people would stand up for me in the […]

Categories: Age 60-64, Asia-Pacific, Female • Tags: Aboriginal/Indigenous/First Nations, Australia, children/parenthood, grandchildren, gratitude, life experience/age as an asset, positive outlook

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Bill, age 64 / Cairns, Australia

December 1, 2014 by admin

It’s very difficult to meet positive people, because mostly, they’re still too afraid to come out and disclose their status to almost anyone. And I really would like to have a positive partner. I don’t ever want to infect anyone with this thing – because although it’s not a death sentence anymore, it still is […]

Categories: Age 60-64, Asia-Pacific, Male • Tags: Australia, children/parenthood, companionship, dating/relationships, disclosure, family, fear of transmission, libido, love, married/life partner(s), positive partners, stigma, support

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Susan, age 62 / Melbourne, Australia

November 30, 2014 by admin

By the end of ’99, I’d really been living with HIV for over a decade – my health was going downhill rapidly. I was doing a PhD thesis. I was telling people, check the hard drive in case I die, check the hard drive. Everyone was saying, go on the medication, Susan. I saw all […]

Categories: Age 60-64, Asia-Pacific, Female • Tags: Australia, CD4 count, early antiretroviral medications, medication, Viral load/”undetectable”

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Ethel, age 60 / Paramaribo, Suriname

November 6, 2014 by admin

I’m one of the long-term survivors. I’m not use medicines because my viral load is undetectable and my CD4 cell is still high. I have a healthy lifestyle. I’m thinking positive. And also, I love myself. I’m one of the public speakers in my country, in Suriname. I was living in Holland, and I got […]

Categories: Age 60-64, Female, South America • Tags: Suriname

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Robert, age 62 / Medicine Hat, Canada

November 6, 2014 by admin

I was born in Louisville, Kentucky. I moved to Montreal, Canada, and lived for some 15 years in Germany, and now I’m living in the west of Canada. A small town called Medicine Hat, Alberta. I went there as an artist in residence for the college. It’s a very small town, mostly driven by oil, […]

Categories: Age 60-64, Male, North America • Tags: Canada

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Jan, age 64 / Mataura, New Zealand

November 6, 2014 by admin

It was the 15th of January, 2002. I had a needlestick injury from one of my HIV patients. I’m a nurse, a retired nurse. Once I’d finished with my patient, I got in touch with my superiors. I was taken to hospital. I had blood tests. I was put on prophylaxis straight away, within two […]

Categories: Age 60-64, Asia-Pacific, Female • Tags: New Zealand

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