Main description:

Following the development of anti-retroviral therapies (ARVs), many people affected by HIV in the 1980s and 1990s have now been living with the condition for decades.
Drawing 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, this book explores 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.

Contents:

Foreword: Dare we hope for the erotic? HIV/AIDS, sexuality and ageing - OmiSoore H. Dryden
Introduction - Mark Henrickson, Casey Charles, Shiv Ganesh, Sulaimon Giwa, Kan Diana Kwok and Tetyana Semigina
Part 1: Women
1. The 'disease of love': trajectories of women living with HIV in Switzerland - Vanessa Fargnoli
2. Beyond the biomedical: HIV as a barrier to intimacy for older women living with HIV in the United Kingdom - Jacqui Stevenson
3. 'Everyone is on their own and nobody needs us': women ageing with HIV in Ukraine - Tetyana Semigina, Tetiana Yurochko and Yulia Stopolyanska
Part 2: Gay and bisexual men
4. Chemsex among gay men living with HIV aged over 45 in England and Italy: sociality and pleasure in times of undetectability - Cesare Di Feliciantonio
5. Freed from fear: reconstructing older gay male sexuality through PrEP - an account of a generational experience - Jacek Kolodziej
6. In the company of men: gay culture and HIV in Aotearoa New Zealand - Michael Stevens
7. Growing old with stigma: a case study of four older Chinese gay/bisexual men living with HIV in Hong Kong - Barry Man Wai Lee
Part 3: Intersectional lives, multiple stigmas
8. Out in Africa: facing the HIV other in Nairobi - Casey Charles
9. Survival of an older Bangladeshi lesbian experiencing intersectional vulnerability - Kanamik Kani Khan
10. Sanjeevani: early ageing and HIV survival in queer Mumbai - Casey Charles
Afterword - Mark Henrickson