HIV and AIDS prevention strategies for older people

This short publication asks "Why do we need HIV and AIDS prevention strategies for older people?"

It then outlines 14 points why we need them including reasons such as older people facing discrimination in HIV services because of wrongly held assumptions about their sexuality including the belief that HIV only affects younger people.

The collation of HIV prevalence data only for the 15-49 age range reinforces such assumptions.

The publication goes on to outline six strategies including disaggregating data from Voluntary Counselling Treatment services and other health facilities by age and sex to determine the scale of the epidemic.

Such data will allow for effective and evidence-based planning and programming.

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