March 11, 2016
ECDC/WHO Joint Meeting on HIV/AIDS Surveillance
10-11 March 2016
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) held a joint meeting on HIV/AIDS Surveillance from March 10-11, 2016 in Bratislava, Slovakia.
EACS President, Prof Manuel Battegay, and EACS Governing Board member, Prof Jens Lundgren, were keynote speakers at the meeting. Prof Battegay's lecture was on increasing collaboration of health authorities with clinicians and how to reach better public health data for HIV and how to support clinicians in their work. Prof Lundgren gave a lecture on how HIV testing has changed during the last decade and how surveillance should adapt to measure testing trends.