Introduction
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Mark Henrickson
Abstract
The idea of writing about the lives of older people living with HIV for much or most of their lives would have been unthinkable in the earliest years of the pandemic. Yet we are here now because new technologies allow people living with HIV to live longer and because, as people are sexually active throughout their entire lives, they are being diagnosed in later life. As people live longer, practical and policy support for older persons and their sexual lives will be increasingly important. Authors in this volume also point out that in parts of the world, later life does not refer to being older in years. Experiences of intersectional stigma and oppression are common throughout the world. The introduction concludes by introducing the chapters that make up the volume.
Abstract
The idea of writing about the lives of older people living with HIV for much or most of their lives would have been unthinkable in the earliest years of the pandemic. Yet we are here now because new technologies allow people living with HIV to live longer and because, as people are sexually active throughout their entire lives, they are being diagnosed in later life. As people live longer, practical and policy support for older persons and their sexual lives will be increasingly important. Authors in this volume also point out that in parts of the world, later life does not refer to being older in years. Experiences of intersectional stigma and oppression are common throughout the world. The introduction concludes by introducing the chapters that make up the volume.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Notes on contributors vii
- Series editors’ introduction xi
- Foreword: Dare we hope for the erotic? HIV/AIDS, sexuality and ageing xxi
- Introduction 1
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Women
- The ‘disease of love’: trajectories of women ageing with HIV in Switzerland 11
- Beyond the biomedical: HIV as a barrier to intimacy for older women living with HIV in the United Kingdom 28
- ‘Everyone is on their own and nobody needs us’: women ageing with HIV in Ukraine 46
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Gay and bisexual men
- Chemsex among gay men living with HIV aged over 45 in England and Italy: sociality and pleasure in times of undetectability 67
- Freed from fear: reconstructing older gay male sexuality through PrEP – an account of a generational experience 84
- In the company of men: gay culture and HIV in Aotearoa New Zealand 102
- Growing old with stigma: a case study of four older Chinese gay/bisexual men living with HIV in Hong Kong 114
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Intersectional lives, multiple stigmas
- Out in Africa: facing the HIV other in Nairobi 139
- Survival of an older Bangladeshi lesbian experiencing intersectional vulnerability 159
- Sanjeevani: early ageing and HIV survival in queer Mumbai 174
- Afterword 191
- Index 194
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Notes on contributors vii
- Series editors’ introduction xi
- Foreword: Dare we hope for the erotic? HIV/AIDS, sexuality and ageing xxi
- Introduction 1
-
Women
- The ‘disease of love’: trajectories of women ageing with HIV in Switzerland 11
- Beyond the biomedical: HIV as a barrier to intimacy for older women living with HIV in the United Kingdom 28
- ‘Everyone is on their own and nobody needs us’: women ageing with HIV in Ukraine 46
-
Gay and bisexual men
- Chemsex among gay men living with HIV aged over 45 in England and Italy: sociality and pleasure in times of undetectability 67
- Freed from fear: reconstructing older gay male sexuality through PrEP – an account of a generational experience 84
- In the company of men: gay culture and HIV in Aotearoa New Zealand 102
- Growing old with stigma: a case study of four older Chinese gay/bisexual men living with HIV in Hong Kong 114
-
Intersectional lives, multiple stigmas
- Out in Africa: facing the HIV other in Nairobi 139
- Survival of an older Bangladeshi lesbian experiencing intersectional vulnerability 159
- Sanjeevani: early ageing and HIV survival in queer Mumbai 174
- Afterword 191
- Index 194
