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We at the European AIDS clinical Society are sad to learn that President Yoweri Museveni has signed Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill into law.

This is among one of the harshest anti-LGBTIQA+ laws in the world, further marginalising a key population that is in need of care and support and driving them away from vital healthcare needs.

Uganda has a high burden of people living with HIV and has made great progress towards achieving the UNAIDS target for eliminating HIV as a global threat by 2030. Unfortunately, marginalising a key population will have a huge negative impact on this response. Indeed, this law will have a detrimental impact on testing, may act as a barrier to some people with HIV to receive appropriate care and treatment and this may increase rates of HIV transmission in Uganda. 

We stand together with   our colleagues at the IAS and the   Global Fund/UNAIDS/PEPFAR and call on President Museveni and the Uganda Government to repeal this law.  A punitive law that drives away sections of the community from receiving care is detrimental to Public Health and will jeopardise the positive progress made in Uganda in reducing the personal and societal burden of disease caused by HIV.

Click here to read the full statement.

Participate in the 8th online WAVE in Ukraine Workshop: on track to improve the health of women living with HIV on 25-26 May at 16:00 CEST. 

This time our experts will focus on: 

• Aging and menopause in women living with HIV
• Opportunistic infections in women living with HIV

The aim of the workshop is to increase the quality of care for women living with HIV based on scientific evidence and best practices by:

• highlighting the key issues of aging and menopause in women living with HIV;
• discussing approaches and recommendations for treatment of opportunistic infections in women living with HIV;
• сase-driven discussion;
• exchanging experience and ideas.

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Join the event “Bringing networks together to increase testing for HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs” in honour of the first day of European Testing Week 2023 on Monday, 15 May.

The event will be live-streamed from Athens at 9.10-11.15 CEST.

Click here for more information and to access the link.

On 2 and 3 June 2023, the 16th Symposium on Neuropsychiatry will take place in Barcelona, Spain. 

This Symposium has a practical focus on the diagnosis and treatment of the psychiatric and neuropsychological aspects of HIV-infected patients.

This year includes an intensive course on HIV and CNS, aimed at the new generation of health professionals who have had limited and fragmented knowledge on the subject.

Also includes several updated lectures by keynote speakers in the field of HIV and mental health.

We encourage you to participate.

Visit the website to register and see the programme.

27-28 April 2023

WAVE is organising its 7th workshop for Ukrainian medical doctors on Thursday, 27 and Friday, 28 April. All sessions will be streamed in English and Ukrainian and the workshop will focus on HPV in women living with HIV and Breastfeeding: guidelines for women living with HIV.

For more information and to register

Under the umbrella of the EACS Medical Exchange Programme, SCEP aims at promoting clinical, research and educational links between centres across Europe and facilitating exchange of models of clinical care in HIV medicine and allied specialities.

Fellows will have the opportunity to visit an EACS Clinical/Research Excellence Center (CREC) specialised in HIV medicine for a period of 2 to 4 weeks. There will also be an opportunity for the CREC to nominate a member of its team for a reciprocal visit for the same period of time and with the same financial rules.

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Network members are invited to a stakeholder webinar on Thursday, 23 March, 2023 10.00 – 12.00 CET. The webinar is part of a series of consultations to support the preparation of a Commission proposal for a Council Recommendation on vaccine-preventable cancers.

It is part of a Prevention Package which is included in the Commission Work Programme 2023 and is expected to be adopted at Commission level in the third quarter of 2023. The Commission proposal for a Council Recommendation on vaccine-preventable cancers aims to help Member States address vaccine-preventable cancers with a focus on increasing the uptake of vaccination against Human papillomaviruses (HPV) and Hepatitis B virus (HBV). “

See the full invitation. 

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Join the webinar on "Improving testing for HIV and related co-infections in general practice" on Tuesday, 21 March, 15:00-16:00 CET. 

The aim of this webinar organised by ECDC, European Clinical AIDS Society (EACS) and the Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections (CHIP) is to increase general practitioner and nurse knowledge and awareness of integrated testing, including indicator guided testing, why this is important, and what can be done to increase testing for HIV and related co-infections in practice.

Objectives

At the end of the webinar, participants should have:

• Increased understanding of common HIV indicator conditions and co-infections such a viral hepatitis, STIs and tuberculosis;
• Increased knowledge existing integrated testing guidance, including indicator guided testing, and why this is important;
• Understand how to implement indicator guided testing in practice.

Click here to register.