Psychosocial resiliencies research conducted among men living with HIV and without HIV is innovative. The dominant approach over many years has been to study the effects of psychosocial and behavioral deficits. While an emphasis on deficits is useful to explaining health problems that result in poor health outcomes, this focus is less helpful in explaining the larger proportion of these men who remain healthy well into later life. A 5-year grant (R01MD010680; PIs Plankey/Friedman) entitled, Understanding Pattern of Healthy Aging Among Men who have sex with Men, was funded by the National Institute on Minority Health Disparities. Commencing in 2016, the study aims were to identify individual, interpersonal, community and structural resiliencies to promote health among men with and without HIV in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study.
The study investigators are indebted to the participants of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) Healthy Aging Study. The investigators also thank the staff at the four sites for study administration; John Welty and Montserrat Tarrago for implementation support; and Katherine McGowan for data support.
For more information about the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (now called the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study, or MWCSS), please visit the MWCSS website.
A list of current titles of projects published or in progress related to this grant study can be found on the Current Concepts page.
To obtain more information about submitting a proposal to use these data, please visit the MWCSS Investigators page.
For more information about the Healthy Aging Substudy, please contact Dr. Michael Plankey.