A Web-Based Tool for a Complete Evaluation of Fragility in Senior Hiv+ Patients.

Background: after the discovery of the antiretroviral therapy, life expectancy of HIV+ patient has become longer and this meant that he would start ageing. International literature demonstrated that the HIV+ patient is more fragile than any other person of the same age and that doesn't present the viral infection.

Objective: design, development and test of a new web-based instrument to allow the self-administration of the new questionnaire SELFY MPI created during the European project Effichronic.

IANUA: a regional project for the determination of costs in HIV-infected patients.

HIV treatment is based on combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) which has substantially improved survival, thus resulting in an increase in patient life expectancy as well as in the cost of HIV-related medical care. Therefore, several cost effectiveness studies were implemented worldwide, with one specifically in the Liguria region (Italy), to compare the annual economic expense in this area for HIV services, and the related improvement in patients' health. The IANUA project is intended to implement both cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis, therefore data related to clinical indicators and perceived health status were collected, the latter using a questionnaire based on the EQ-5D-3L.

Quality of life of people living with HIV, preliminary results from IANUA (Investigation on Antiretroviral Therapy) study.

Introduction: The introduction of combined antiretroviral treatment (cART) has reduced HIV-associated morbidity and mortality, and changed the patients' perspective of life. As a result, Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) has become a crucial clinical issue.

Objective: Assessment of HRQOL in a sample of Italian patients from IANUA study.