Ageing with HIV

Wednesday 16 December 2026, 2.00PM AEDT

Speaker: Robert Grant

Ageing with HIV

This session explores HIV and ageing from the lived experience of an HIV-positive person, including the early years of the pandemic. It provides an overview of how transmission of the virus occurs, its pathology and treatment. It also addresses topics such as stigma, discrimination and trauma, and posits questions about how care for an ageing cohort of HIV-positive people can best be tailored to meet their needs.

Objectives:

· Understand how the HIV virus is transmitted, its pathology and treatment, including the impact of different treatment regimes, and the importance of early diagnosis.

· Learn how decisions around testing, diagnosis, treatment and welfare made by HIV-positive people are inflected by a range of internal and external factors.

· Understand how stigma and discrimination still affect older HIV-positive people, and the impacts of trauma on their lives.

· Think about how aged care can best meet the needs and expectations of older HIV-positive people, particularly in relation to mental health and personal welfare.

About the speaker:

Robert was living in the United Kingdom during the onset of the HIV epidemic in the 1980s. He was diagnosed HIV positive in 2003, and has lived positive ever since. In 2021, he became a volunteer at Living Positive Victoria, working in peer support settings and telling his story, through the Speaker’s Bureau, of living as an HIV Positive person, including his experience of a severe case of HIV Associated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND), an AIDS defining condition.

To register for this webinar, please click the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mlYyMWEPSj-6H2gx27ckwA