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Participants were recruited from dating apps, gay-related events, community-based organizations and word of mouth.

To understand the association between HIV-related resilience and mental health, Krause and colleagues at the Rutgers Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) surveyed 250 HIV-positive gay men ages 50 to 69 living in the New York City area between April 2017 and October 2018. Krause said resilience, namely the ability to thrive amid challenge situations, may play an important role in ART adherence. To succeed, however, antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence – taking medication as directed and avoiding so-called “pill fatigue” – would need to be maintained. In 2016, the United Nations set a global target to end HIV as a public health threat by 2030.

Krause, an instructor of urban health at the Rutgers School of Public Health and lead author of the study, which was published in the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health. “Our findings support the need to target post-traumatic stress disorder and substance dependence and use among older HIV/AIDS-positive people and suggest that resilience might help increase adherence to antiretroviral therapy regimes,” said Kristen D. But as this population ages, they are facing mental and psychosocial health challenges that could have a profound impact on their well-being – and on the trajectory of the virus. Once considered a death sentence, HIV/AIDS has evolved into a manageable illness – with the availability of antiretroviral treatments – and people with the disease are living longer. Rutgers researcher finds that older people living with HIV/AIDS have unmet mental health needsįailing to address the psychological trauma experienced by many older people living with HIV/AIDS will make it difficult, if not impossible, to end the epidemic, according to a Rutgers study.