{"id":543354,"date":"2026-07-10T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543354\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:10:09","slug":"aidsmap-from-life-span-to-health-span-new-guidelines-for-ageing-with-hiv-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543354\/","title":{"rendered":"aidsmap: From \u2018life span\u2019 to \u2018health span\u2019 \u2013 new guidelines for ageing with HIV in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>aidsmap news story<\/p>\n<p>New clinical guidelines for the care of older people with HIV shift the focus from viral suppression to overall health. As the world\u2019s population of people over 50 years old living with HIV grows, it becomes increasingly important to understand how HIV and geriatric medicine interact.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern African HIV Clinicians Society recently released its<a href=\"https:\/\/sajhivmed.org.za\/index.php\/hivmed\/article\/view\/1809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> first clinical guidelines<\/a> for the management of older people with HIV in the Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine. Although the care of older patients is included in some other guideline documents, this is the first advice of its kind in an African context.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full news story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aidsmap.com\/news\/jul-2026\/life-span-health-span-new-guidelines-ageing-hiv-south-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"aidsmap news story New clinical guidelines for the care of older people with HIV shift the focus from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-543354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}