Frailty, Geriatric Syndromes and Care Pathways of Older Adults Living With HIV in West Africa

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With currently available antiretroviral therapy, people living with HIV (PLWHIV) are living longer. This exposure to HIV and combination antiretroviral therapy may accelerate the aging of this population, thus increasing the prevalence of premature frailty. There are few data on the prevalence of frailty and geriatric syndromes among older people living with HIV (OpHIV) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the screening and diagnostic tools to identify them. The initiation contract financed by the ANRS-MIE in 2021 whose objective was to 1) carry out an inventory and evaluate the feasibility of a project for monitoring OpHIV in Burkina-Faso in Côte d'Ivoire and Togo and 2) to select the collection tools adapted to the description of geriatric syndromes in these elderly people has allowed to highlight the following (i) The collection of data on geriatric conditions and syndromes is almost non-existent in the daily care and management practice (ii) there is a significant proportion (10,6%) of PLWHIV aged 60 years and over in the active files of the PLWHIV care centers that participated in…