Series editors’ introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on contributors vii
4. Series editors’ introduction xi
5. Foreword: Dare we hope for the erotic? HIV/AIDS, sexuality and ageing xxi
6. Introduction 1
7. Women
8. The ‘disease of love’: trajectories of women ageing with HIV in Switzerland 11
9. Beyond the biomedical: HIV as a barrier to intimacy for older women living with HIV in the United Kingdom 28
10. ‘Everyone is on their own and nobody needs us’: women ageing with HIV in Ukraine 46
11. Gay and bisexual men
12. Chemsex among gay men living with HIV aged over 45 in England and Italy: sociality and pleasure in times of undetectability 67
13. Freed from fear: reconstructing older gay male sexuality through PrEP – an account of a generational experience 84
14. In the company of men: gay culture and HIV in Aotearoa New Zealand 102
15. Growing old with stigma: a case study of four older Chinese gay/bisexual men living with HIV in Hong Kong 114
16. Intersectional lives, multiple stigmas
17. Out in Africa: facing the HIV other in Nairobi 139
18. Survival of an older Bangladeshi lesbian experiencing intersectional vulnerability 159
19. Sanjeevani: early ageing and HIV survival in queer Mumbai 174
20. Afterword 191
21. Index 194