Among people diagnosed with HIV over the age of 50, the proportion diagnosed at a late stage is higher than among younger people, in almost all global regions examined by Professor Amy Justice of Yale University in The Lancet HIV. While rates of late diagnosis have fallen among younger people in many regions in recent years, there has been less progress for older people.
Data come from the International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) consortium, which groups together seven large cohorts of people living with HIV. Data from the year 2000 onwards were analysed, with a particular focus on the most recent available data (2017 to 2019, depending on the region). People with a CD4 cell count below 350 (when treatment needs to be started without delay) were considered to be diagnosed late.
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