Challenges for Neurological Healthcare With an Aging HIV+ Population

Prof. Gretchen Birbeck

Rykenboer Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester, New York, USA. Consultant at Zambia’s University Teaching Hospitals Children’s Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. Director for the Chikankata Epilepsy Care Team in Mazabuka, Zambia

With three decades of advances in HIV treatment, healthcare has moved from battling severe immune and neurological complications to managing a new set of challenges for an aging population of people living with HIV.

In this video, Professor Gretchen Birbeck discuss the impact of long-term antiretroviral therapy on the aging nervous system and the chronic neuroinflammatory states associated with HIV, raising critical questions about how these factors may alter the aging process.