Graying of AIDS: Older Americans at risk for HIV infection.
Anna Fowlkes, 64, didn’t date for years after her husband, Sonny, died of a brain tumor. And after she finally did, she learned she’d become infected with HIV. She taught her son about safe sex, she says, but, like many other seniors, it didn’t occur to her that she needed to practice it too. “We are of a generation where that was not something we have to think about,” she says. “Now I know better.”

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Aging with AIDS: Living longer, living with loss
Long-term survivors of AIDS, like 78-year-old Bill Rydwels, live with the gift of bonus years of life they never expected – but often, also with the loss of myriad friends. Thirty years after HIV was discovered, many are facing not only the ravages of old age, but also the cumulative effects of living for years with AIDS. By Linda Dahlstrom, MSNBC Health editor.

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