The aim of Chiva’s specialist support staff is to provide a service which supports medical teams to ensure positive health outcomes for young people, which can only be achieved when basic needs and psychosocial wellbeing are being addressed.

Qualitative research initiative focusing on people living with HIV aged 50 and over, and addressing key challenges including managing ageing with HIV-related multimorbidity, persistent stigma, mental health, fragmented healthcare, social isolation, and financial insecurity.

NHS-led initiative aiming to improve access to CVD prevention for people living with HIV aged over 40 attending six specialist clinics in Sussex, England.

MIMO is an innovative, community-based and digital psychosocial support platform led by the Spanish NGO Apoyo Positivo.

2025: InfCareHIV is the national quality registry actively monitoring HIV in Sweden. It offers a decision-support tool, quality assurance, educational resources, opportunities for consultation and a research database.

To improve its care quality and make its patient work more efficient, Venhälsan, Sweden’s second-largest HIV clinic, now has a psychiatrist, a venerologist, a general practitioner and a conversational therapist integrated as part of the clinic’s expertise.

HIV-Sweden recently launched a national project to enhance understanding of the reality of growing older with HIV and improve the quality of life of those people over 50 living with HIV.

COALITION HIV is a national network made up of clinicians, academics, associations and pharmaceutical companies that intends to bring HIV, understood as a social and health issue, to the core of the scientific, social, cultural and political debate.

GEPPO is a prospective observational multi centric cohort of geriatric patients being treated for HIV in 11 centres across northern and central Italy. It aims to describe health status and transition over time in HIV-infected patients above 65 years.

In Italy, working group on ageing has been established with the aim of identifying and understanding which is the correct care model and the reference figures for proper ageing management, keeping the patient at the centre.

Because of their immunodeficiency, there are specific warnings for people living with HIV regarding vaccination. In Italy, vaccination programmes targeted at people living with HIV are regulated by two plans: the National Vaccine Prevention Plan and the National HIV/AIDS Plan.

In Italy, as in other European countries, Ageing Clinics have been established in a number of healthcare facilities to target the specific needs of older adults with HIV (OALWH).

In 1990, Italy passed legislation to prevent and combat AIDS, establishing a National Committee within the Ministry of Health that includes HIV associations, allowing. This enabled national and regional policymakers to adopt a multi-stakeholder approach.

EmERGE is a five-year Horizon 2020-funded project that is co-designing and evaluating a mHealth-supported pathway of care for those living with stable HIV.

In 2016, 10,350 women living with HIV aged between 45 and 56 (potentially menopausal age) attended for HIV care in the UK; a five-fold increase over ten years, underlining the importance of addressing the needs of women living with HIV in their midlife and beyond.

Recognising that women have distinctly different needs, which often require them to attend multiple healthcare settings, the Sunflower clinic was set up in 2016.

These new Standards aim to ensure that care for people living with HIV is ‘person-centred’ by looking at Stigma (equitable and non-discriminatory care), Self-management and peer support, Participation of people living with HIV in their care, and Well-being.

The peer-led campaign focuses on a ‘Test, Manage, Prevent’ message, and encourages people to take regular HIV tests and manage the possible risks of HIV transmission during sex.

RESPOND, the International Cohort Consortium of Infectious Disease and Outcomes of Antiretroviral Treatment, builds upon the collaborative work in HIV cohort studies that has taken place in Europe and beyond over the last 20 years.

UK-based organisation Chiva and the Chiva Youth Committee (CYC) created a resource for a campaign aimed at equipping teachers and schools with accurate information about HIV and ensuring that children living with or affected by HIV are treated as equals if they choose to share their status.