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Study Sees Surge of HIV Cases Among Older Adults
Currently, about 19 percent of all people with HIV/AIDS in the United States are age 50 and older. This number reflects a combination of people over 50 who have been recently diagnosed with HIV, as well as people who have been living with the virus for decades since improved treatments are helping people with HIV live longer.
According to a 2005 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, individuals over 50 remain a relatively small segment of those at-risk group for sexually transmitted diseases, with four times as many HIV diagnoses occuring in people ages 25 to 44. However, by the end of 2007, approximately 131,742 Americans aged 50 and older were diagnosed with AIDS.
But a confluence of conditions has created an environment for HIV to flourish in a traditionally low-risk, and therefore overlooked, population.
Historically when you looked at AIDS diagnoses people 50 and older accounted for 10 percent of all diagnoses, Zablotsky said. Midlife and older adults have always been present in the epidemic. By 2007, they made up 12.5 percent of all Americans diagnosed with AIDS.
There are approximately 72 million Baby Boomers (individuals born between 1946 and 1964) in the United States today. Americans who make it to age 65 will live longer on average than their counterparts in the industrialized world, and many will remain sexually active well into their golden years thanks to pharmaceuticals (think Viagra) and other health technologies.
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11/14/2010
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Stephen E Karpiak PhD
AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA)
Center on HIV and Aging
and NYU College of Nursing and the NYU Medical CFAR