Background Improved access to effective antiretroviral therapy has meant that people living
with HIV (PLHIV) are surviving to older ages. However, PLHIV may be ageing differently to …

Cardiac abnormalities were identified early in the epidemic of AIDS, predating the isolation
and characterization of the etiologic agent, HIV. Several decades later, the causation and …

Background Virtually all low-and middle-income countries are undergoing an
epidemiological transition whose progression is more varied than experienced in high …

There is an alarming tide of cardiovascular and metabolic disease (CMD) sweeping across
Africa. This may be a result of an increasingly urbanized lifestyle characterized by the …

Background: The prevalence of diabetes and hypertension has increased in HIV-positive
populations, but there is limited understanding of the role that antiretroviral therapy (ART) …

Background A consequence of the widespread uptake of anti-retroviral therapy (ART) is that
the older South African population will experience an increase in life expectancy, increasing …

Objective To examine how multimorbidity might affect progression along the continuum of
care among older adults with hypertension, diabetes and human immunodeficiency virus …

A syndemic has been theorized as a cluster of epidemics driven by harmful social and
structural conditions wherein the interactions between the constitutive epidemics drive …

Background HIV and non-communicable disease (NCD) are syndemic within sub-Saharan
Africa especially among older persons. The two epidemics interact with one another within a …

The global HIV/AIDS scientific community has begun to hail the dawn of 'the End of
AIDS'with widespread anti-retroviral therapy (ART) and dramatic declines in AIDS-related …