Ageing with HIV: The Glasgow Manifesto | Empowering ageing and older people living with HIV: enduring gaps and emerging opportunities –Webinar #1

Webinar Series

About the webinars

The advances in antiretroviral therapy have contributed to the prolonged lifespan of people living with HIV. However, living and ageing with HIV differs from ageing while HIV-negative. It is associated with numerous challenges that arise from the biological intersection of ageing and HIV. Older people living with HIV are frequently experiencing multiple chronic health conditions, coping with frailty, disability and/or cognitive changes, living in social isolation, in addition to facing HIV-related stigma and discrimination. Ageing and older people living with HIV should be supported in their HIV and ageing journey, with HIV remaining an important determinant in both general medicine and geriatric care and treatment.

This series of webinars aims to call attention to the key considerations of the Glasgow Manifesto developed by the International Coalition of Older People Living with HIV (iCOPe HIV). The webinars will inter alia focus on the issues of healthy ageing and self-management, quality of care for ageing and older people with HIV, and ageing in women living with HIV.

Please save the dates of our webinars:

Webinar No.1 – 07 July 2025                        16:00-17:30 CET	Empowering ageing and older people living with HIV: enduring gaps and emerging opportunities
Webinar No.2 – 08 September 2025                        11:00-12:30 CET	Women ageing with HIV
Webinar No.3 – 02 October 2025                        11:00-12:30 CET	Psychosocial Challenges of Ageing with HIV

Organised by

European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG)

 

#AgeingHIV

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Empowering ageing and older people living with HIV: enduring gaps and emerging opportunities

07 July 2025 | 16:00-17:30 CET

online at Zoom by registration

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The first webinar in this series will focus on getting to know the challenges and successes of empowering ageing and older people living with HIV to become decision-makers in their own HIV care and ageing journey and to feel equal in society.

The speakers will discuss whether ageing and older people living with HIV are empowered and meaningfully involved in all decision-making regarding their health and well-being, and if they truly have a voice in planning their future.

The ageing with HIV has not sneaked unnoticed. But do the community organisations have enough knowledge and resources to provide support to the growing population of people ageing with HIV? And how particularly do they support ageing and older people living with HIV? Let us find this out together at the webinar.

The visibility of the ageing and older people living with HIV matters!

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EMPOWERMENT
Targeted research. We expect that ageing and older adults are represented in all HIV research and that people living with HIV are included in ageing research, so we are clear on what the findings mean for our well-being. We insist on more research focused on HIV, ageing and older adults that responds to our community-identified priorities. We demand access to the most up-to-date information on ageing with HIV to inform our decision-making, self care activities to prevent illness and maintain health, and planning for the future.

Meaningful involvement. We demand that ageing and older people be included in decision-making about the HIV response, including priority- and target-setting, funding allocation, and messaging about the impact of HIV on ageing and older adults.

[from the The Glasgow Manifesto by the International Coalition of Older People with HIV (iCOPe HIV)]

 

Agenda

Time	Session	Speakers/Moderators
16:00-16:10	Welcome and Introduction	Nicoletta Policek, Executive Director of EATG
16:10-17:10	Empowering ageing and older adults living with HIV: enduring gaps and emerging opportunities (roundtable discussion)	Giovanni Guaraldi, Professor at the Department of Surgical, Medical, Dental and Morphological Sciences at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jeff Berry, Executive Director of The Reunion Project Mario Cascio, founding member of iCOPe HIV Inês Terêncio Marques, HIV Outcomes Secretariat
17:10-17:30	Q&A and Conclusion	Nicoletta Policek, Executive Director of EATG

 

 

The Ageing with HIV – The Glasgow Manifesto: A Platform for Change project has been developed by the EATG, and was supported through a grant from Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC. EATG acknowledges that the sponsors had no control or input into the structure or the content of the project.