TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 453 LP - 453 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2017-053429 VL - 93 IS - 7 AU - Jackie A Cassell Y1 - 2017/11/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/93/7/453.abstract N2 - Over three decades after the first recognition of HIV related disease, we are in a completely different place. HIV is no longer the harbinger of almost inevitable decline and death, and our patients are getting older. This success story brings with it new challenges for genitourinary medicine and beyond in the UK. Many patients who had a close brush with death at the tipping point, as highly active antiretroviral therapy was rolled out in 1996–1997 are now close to or after retirement, looking forward to years they never expected to have. Frailty is a term that few of today’s senior physicians learnt in their early medical posts. It denotes people at risk of declining health and function, a useful category for … ER -