CIRA Talk: “Aging with HIV across the Life Course: Opportunities and Challenges to Improve Health Outcomes”

This is a hybrid event, in-person in CIRA Conference Room (135 College St, Suite 200) and virtually via Zoom.

Join the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) at Yale University for a CIRA Talk event with speaker Reena Rajasuriar, PhD, an Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia; an Honorary Fellow at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Melbourne University, Australia; and a former CIRA international visiting fellow (2019-2021). This session will be moderated by Luke Davis, MD, MS, Yale School of Public Health.

Approximately 1 in 4 of the 40 million people with HIV (PWH) worldwide are over the 50 years and this proportion is expected to double in the coming decade. Over 80% of older PWH reside in low- and middle-income settings where access to geriatric and other basic age-related services are limited. With this increasing burden of care on HIV programs, we need to rethink our approach to HIV and aging. In this talk, Dr. Reena Rajasuriar will use a life course perspective to reframe this concept of aging with HIV, drawing from the WHO’s model for Healthy Aging. She will also highlight the biological and socio-behavioral challenges to growing older with HIV and some opportunities to improve long-term outcomes in this population.

For more information to attend via Zoom, please see the attached “full event flyer” or contact dini.harsono@yale.edu.