Increase in seniors with HIV

 The Centers for Disease Control says more than 1 million people in the U.S. are living with HIV, and almost 1 in 6 don’t know they are infected. This could affect Suncoast seniors who may be unaware of the dangers.  There are certain things we are hesitant to discuss with children, and frequently those same topics are avoided with seniors. But whether we address it or not, older people are not only sexually active; according to the American Academy of HIV Medicine, by 2015, half the U.S. HIV population will be age fifty or older.  “But they think they’re not at risk. In their day, condoms were only for birth control. And so today, they don’t have to worry about birth control and they don’t know about HIV and all the other STD’s that they could have to worry about.”  Seniors with HIV that don’t realize it are in a very dangerous position. “HIV accelerates and predisposes you to a number of diseases which causes death.