Growing older with HIV in the Treat-All Era

Heidi Crane is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Associate Director of the University of Washington in Seattle Centers for AIDS Research, Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research Core, which promotes research comparing the effectiveness of management strategies for HIV-infected patients in routine clinical practice. Her research interests include chronic complications of HIV, including metabolic issues and cardiovascular disease; adherence; substance use, and other patient-reported outcomes. She is also co-chair of the Centers for AIDS Research Network of Integrated Clinical Systems sociobehavioral working group and lead the Patient Reported Outcomes Committee.

Realize is the leading national, charitable, organization in Canada working to improve the health and well-being of people living with HIV and other episodic disabilities, across the lifespan, through research, education, policy, and practice. We envision a future in which people living with HIV enjoy a life of optimal health and well-being; our strategic directions – one of which is Healthy Aging across the Lifespan – propel us toward this goal. For 25 years Realize has championed innovations in addressing the social determinants of health – including ageism - that influence the effectiveness of the HIV response. We also lead PANACHE, a community-based participatory research study assessing the care and support needs of people age 60+ living with HIV in Canada. Realize is a catalyst, convening diverse collaborators (e.g., people with living expertise, community organizations, policy makers, researchers, health professionals, etc.) from the HIV community and the aging sector through mechanisms like the National Coordinating Committee on HIV and Aging, and the International Coalition of Older People with HIV (iCOPe HIV). In 2022 at AIDS2022, we led the planning and implementation of the first Global Village Networking Zone for aging people living with HIV – The Silver Zone.

I am a pediatrician working as a clinical researcher at the Research Institute for Health Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. My area of interest includes treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS in pregnant women, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

Zahra Reynolds is a research manager with scientific interests in behavioural determinants of health-seeking among people living with HIV.

Katy Godfrey is an infectious disease physician with extensive experience in HIV, TB, and STIs. She is the senior technical advisor for adult care and treatment at the Office of the Global HIV AIDS Coordinator. She has published extensively on treatment issues for people living with HIV.

Reena Rajasuriar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine, University of Malaya, a Principal Investigator at the Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS, University of Malaya and an adjunct Research Fellow at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne University, Australia.  With a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) and Masters in Clinical Pharmacy from University Science Malaysia, she was awarded her Ph.D in Immunology by Monash University Australia. Dr. Rajasuriar coordinates the translational research program in HIV immunology and Aging at the Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA) and heads the Immunotherapeutics Laboratory at University of Malaya.  Her research focuses on the immunopathogenesis of aging in people living with HIV and its interaction with functional aging outcomes. 

Aggrey S. Semeere is a Ugandan trained Physician and Researcher. He obtained his qualification in Internal Medicine from Makerere University, and Epidemiology with Implementation science training from the University of California, San Francisco. He is involved in various research projects that revolve around the epidemiology of chronic co-morbidities (especially cancer and cardiovascular disease) among HIV-infected individuals on antiretroviral therapy. His research focuses on prevention and early detection of co-morbidities (e.g. Kaposi’s sarcoma and Hypertension) using advanced epidemiological methods and implementation science based approaches.

Kenneth Mayer is Medical Research Director at Fenway Health, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.C. Chan School of Public Health. He an Infectious Disease Attending at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston