“Undetectable, Now What?” HIV Provider Opinions on Barriers to Healthy Aging for Older People Living with HIV in North America

Review Data

Purpose and Significance of Study: The manuscript depicts research on the aging-related problems encountered by people living with HIV in North America and suggests approaches to counter them. Although the results are not novel, it does offer some new insights. 

 

Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of very high interest for the journal Gerontology & Geriatric Research. 

 

There are a few errors (already corrected in the galley proof) in the manuscript. The common ones are – 

·       Omission of “the” a few times, e.g., before “delivery” in the 3^rd sentence of the 2^nd paragraph in the Background section, before “basic” in the 2^nd sentence of the Study Population and Study Design in the Methods section, and so on. 

·       Omission of “,” a few times, e.g., after “aging” in Conclusion in the Abstract section, after “46.5%)” in the 5^th sentence of the 2^nd paragraph in the Background section, and so on. 

o   The other errors are listed below – 

In the Abstract section – 

  Under Objective – 

·       “better” must be shifted to the end of the sentence. 

  Under Key Results – 

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “,” after “PLWH” must be removed. 

·       In the last sentence, “and” must be inserted before “yet”. 

In the Background section – 

  In the 1^st paragraph – 

·       In the 4^th sentence, “age associated” must be hyphenated. 

In the Methods section – 

  Under Provider Survey – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence (considering the questions of the questionnaire as part of a single sentence), “a” before “HIV care provider” must be replaced with “an”. 

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “diseases” must be replaced with “disease”. 

  Under Statistical Analysis – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “was” must be replaced with “were”. 

In the Results section – 

  Under Characteristics of Respondents Compared to Non-Responders – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “is” must be replaced with “are”. 

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “American” must be replaced with “America”. 

  Under Perceived Barriers to Healthy Aging in PLWH – 

·       In the 1^st and 3^rd sentences, “high risk” must be hyphenated. 

In the Discussion section – 

  In the 2^nd paragraph – 

·       In the 6^th sentence, “that” after “different” must be replaced with “than”. 

  In the 3^rd paragraph – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “suggests” must be replaced with “suggest”. 

Author Info

Alison A Moore Charles B Hicks Constance A Benson David J Moore James R Templeman Maile Young Karris Philip M Polgreen Susan E Beekmann

Corresponding Author

Maile Young Karris
Department of Internal Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

Article Info

Article Type

Research Article

Publication history

Received: Mon 27, Jan 2020
Accepted: Tue 25, Feb 2020
Published: Fri 28, Feb 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Maile Young Karris. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.GGR.2020.01.01