By 2020 there is estimated to be some 30 000 Australians living with HIV and more than half of them will be over 50 years of age.Globally there is a real push to do further research to understand the affects of HIV and aging on the immune system.  In August of 2016, 4000 of the worlds leading immunologists assembled in Melbourne for the International Congress of Immunology.At the invitation of Professor Sharon Lewin from the Doherty Institute, inside HIV went along to capture some of the latest findings delivered during a special panel of experts.