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Immune system conditions
What can go wrong with your immune system? AIDS for example, is a disorder that destroys important white blood cells and weakens your immune system. Lupus on the other hand, is a disease that attacks normal healthy tissues by turning your immune system against you. Find out more about living with immune system conditions below.
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Aging and HIV: A challenge for geriatricians
HIV-geriatric medicine is intended to be collaborative work between HIV specialists and geriatricians. It is a fairly young discipline which aims to ensure a global and specific approach to elderly patients with HIV, focused on function and the continuum of care. How geriatricians envisage care older people living with HIV? -
Aging and HIV: Meeting the unique care needs of older adults and fighting discrimination
A greater number of older adults are now living with HIV. Yet, knowledge of HIV and uptake of testing among Canadians over 50 is is still low.
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