Older People & HIV/AIDS: Personal Accounts

The life of 55-year-old, African-American artist Joyce McDonald is a triumph of will over circumstance.

A Closer Look: Living Longer With HIV, but Aging Faster (November 1, 2009)
A review of what we know so far about aging and HIV, including personal stories and video interviews featuring people with HIV in their 40s and beyond.
In New York Magazine
Beyond Ripe (May/June 2009)
"All my kvetching aside, I am happy I made it to 43," says HIV advocate Jim Pickett. "Fourteen years ago, when I found out I was HIV positive, the drama queen in me had me burned up in a vase before 40."
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Nelson Vergel: Going Beyond Survival (May/June 2009)
A leading advocate's thoughts on getting the most out of life.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
The Graying Epidemic (May/June 2009)
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
You're Not Getting Any Younger (May/June 2009)
Embrace it!
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Alba: "I Think I'm the Oldest Woman Living With HIV!" (June 2008)
In WORLD Newsletter, from Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases
Taking It Step by Step: An Interview With Dorothy and Lizabeth (June 2008)
In WORLD Newsletter, from Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases
Half Century: Turning Fifty Hasn't Detracted From Surviving AIDS (September/October 2006)
Matt Sharp explores his feelings about reaching the half-century mark.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
The Graying of AIDS: Older HIVers Tell Their Stories (2006)
In this multimedia exclusive from TIME magazine, six men and women with HIV between the ages of 51 and 73 discuss stigma, HIV prevention for seniors and keeping hope alive.
In Time
Profiles in Courage: Anonymous (February 2006)
A 50-year-old, African-American man talks about his personal struggle accepting his HIV-positive status as a Muslim in Chicago.
From The Body
Profiles in Courage: Bishop Kwabena Rainey Cheeks (February 2006)
53-year-old Bishop Kwabena Rainey Cheeks uses his position in the church to address the growing HIV epidemic among African Americans.
From The Body
Profiles in Courage: Joyce McDonald (February 2006)
The life of 55-year-old, African-American artist Joyce McDonald is a triumph of will over circumstance.
From The Body
Beatriz Diaz: From Silence to Success (January 2005)
Beatriz Diaz, 49, learned the hard way that loving yourself is critical to committing to HIV treatment.
In A Guide to Fuzeon: The First Fusion Inhibitor, from The Body
Awakening a Giant (Summer 2004)
J. Edward Shaw, 63, talks about the challenges he's had to overcome as he grows older with HIV.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
I'm Too Old For This (Summer 2004)
For this gay, 65-year-old man, his love life has been his main concern, not HIV.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
Love, Sex, Friends, Medications, Spirituality, Health (Summer 2004)
Marilyn McBride, a 50-year-old mother who has been HIV positive for 10 years, is in great health and spirits.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
Moving Forward (Summer 2004)
Harlem native Yolanda Birthwright, 54, wonders: If I'd never been diagnosed with HIV, would I be enjoying my life as much as I do now?.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
Smell the Coffee! (Summer 2004)
For Joan Warner, who was diagnosed in 1990 at the age of 51, life goes on -- both the good and the bad.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
There's Always Room for Hope (Summer 2004)
As a widow and an HIV-positive woman approaching 60, Sharon's life has taken on new meaning.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
Why Am I Still Here? (Summer 2004)
Paul Miller, 52 and HIV positive for more than a decade, has lately had a whole new set of changes to cope with.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
A Personal Journey (July 2002)
An interview with Hulda, a woman infected with HIV 11 years ago when she was 47.
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In WISE Words, from Project Inform
Carolyn's Story: From LA to London to HIV-Positive (October 1998)
A former model and a wild kid of the 1960s, Carolyn was diagnosed with HIV at the age of 47.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Powers of Example: Pearl Johnson -- a Grandmother With AIDS (July 1997)
A blind, HIV-positive woman has changed her life and welcomes her third grandchild to the world.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive

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