HIV, Sex and Sexuality in Later Life

This book explores the experiences of sex and sexuality in individuals and groups living with HIV in later life, drawing on perspectives from leading scholars and research from India and Kenya. It offers essential future directions, practical applications, and implications for policy and research.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 21 May 2024
Publisher: Bristol University Press

The development of anti-retroviral therapies (ARVs) in the 1980s and 1990s has significantly improved the lives of individuals living with HIV. However, the condition continues to pose challenges, including stigma, barriers to intimacy, physiological sequelae, long-term care, undetectability, pleasure, and biomedical prevention (TasP and PrEP). This book draws on perspectives from leading scholars in Bangladesh, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Switzerland, Ukraine, the UK, and the US, as well as research from India and Kenya, to explore the experiences of sex and sexuality in individuals and groups living with HIV in later life. Contributions consider the impacts of stigma, barriers to intimacy, physiological sequelae, long-term care, undetectability, pleasure, and biomedical prevention (TasP and PrEP). With the increasing global availability of ARVs and ageing populations, this book offers essential future directions, practical applications, and implications for both policy and research.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781447361961