Dr. Silvia Guillemi

HIV/AIDS survivors face new health challenges in senior years

Posted on Fri, Mar 14, 2014 - 12:00am

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Many gay men diagnosed HIV-positive in the 1980s and 1990s outlived their prognosis, but are now facing a new set of health challenges in old age.

Dr. Silvia Guillemi is the director of the Clinical Education and Training program at the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. She is also the assistant medical director in the John Ruedy Immunodeficiency Clinic.

Today, people diagnosed HIV-positive can expect to live in to their seventies. But in the early days of the disease, when Guillemi first came to Vancouver, the prognosis was often death.