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The EACS Live! Journal Club is a monthly online meeting/discussion on a recent topical paper together with YINGers and interested participants. The aim of the Journal Club is to have an open discussion with experts on the chosen papers/topics, and act as an educational opportunity for the YING network.

Next Journal Club:

Non-suppressible viraemia

Monday, 16 December

14:00-15:00 CET

Low level viraemia is one of the most challenging situations in the clinical care of people with HIV. Non-suppressible viraemia is a special situation where low level viraemia is not attributed to drug resistance or low drug levels to drug-drug interactions or suboptimal adherence. In this new Journal Club we will discuss the pathophysiological mechanisms, clinical implications and management of non-suppressive viraemia with Romain Palich, Jesper Damsgaard Gunst, Maria Mazzitelli and more YINGers joining the conversation.

Previous Journal Clubs

PrEP for marginalised and vulnerable populations. Different approaches from Eastern and western Europe.

Friday, 18 October

13:00 - 14:15 CEST

We discussed different aspects such as WHO recommendations on Key population, PrEP provision in a humanitarian crisis, PrEP in people injecting drugs and sex workers, and implementation of PrEP in harm reduction services.

Presenters:

Jorge Valencia (Spain)

Ioannis Mameletzis (WHO)

Moderators:

Evangelia Kostaki (Greece)

Jose Bernardino (Spain)

Methodological tips for study interpretation

Wednesday, 17 July

15:00 CEST

In July sessions focused on methodological tips for study interpretation together with:

Presenters:

Marta Rava (Spain)

Georgia Vourli (Greece)

Moderators:

Evangelia Kostaki (Greece)

Uwe Koppe (Germany)

DoxyPEP

Tuesday, 30 April

14:00 CEST

The April Journal Club focused on DoxyPEP with a presentation from Thibaut Vanbaelen (Belgium) and Giovanni Villa (Ireland) the discussion was joined by Hideta Nakamura (Japan) with other YINGer joining the panel.

Presenters:

Thibaut Vanbaelen (Belgium)

Giovanni Villa (Ireland)

Panelist:

Hideta Nakamura (Japan)

HIV cascade of care for vulnerable and marginalised populations

Monday, 25 March

15:00 CEST

The March Journal Club focused on Opportunistic Infections with a presentation from Andrii Dudnyk (Ukraine) and Lorena de la Mora (Spain) the discussion was led by Maria Mazzitelli (Italy) with other YINGer joining the panel.

Presenters:

Andrii Dudnyk (Ukraine)

Lorena de la Mora (Spain)

Chair:

Maria Mazzitelli (Italy)

HIV cascade of care for vulnerable and marginalised populations

Monday, 26 February

15:00 CET

The February Journal Club focused on HIV cascade of care for vulnerable and marginalised populations in Eastern Europe with a presentation from Bogusz Aksak-Wąs (Poland) and Oana Sandulescu (Romania) with Uwe Koppe (Germany) as the Chair. The discussion was led by Evangelia Kostaki (Greece).

Presenters:

Bogusz Aksak-Wąs (Poland)

Oana Sandulescu (Romania)

Chair:

Uwe Koppe (Germany)

Panelist:

Evangelia Kostaki (Greece)

New HIV drugs

Wednesday, 27 September

16:00 CEST

The September Journal Club focused on new HIV drugs with a presentation from Clemente Tommaso (Italy) and Laura Levi (France) with Jose Bernardino (Spain) joining the panel. The discussion will be led by Casper Rokx (Netherlands)

Presenters:

Clemente Tommaso (Italy)

Laura Levi (France)

Chair:

Casper Rokx (Netherlands)

Panelist:

Jose Bernardino (Spain)

HIV Testing

Monday, 17 July

15:00 CEST

The July Journal Club focused on HIV testing. The session will start with a discussion on late diagnosis and will be followed by a presentation testing strategies in the context of reaching the 95-95-95 goals.

Presenters:

Carlijn Jordans (The Netherlands)

Raquel Martin Iguace (Spain)

Chair:

Uwe Koppe (Germany)

Panelist:

Jose Bernardino (Spain)

HIV cure

Thursday, 30 March

15:30 CEST

The March Journal Club looked at HIV cure with a presentation from Federico Perdomo Celis (Colombia) and Lucía Bailón (Spain) with Jose Bernardino (Spain) joining the panel. The discussion will be led by Jesper Damsgaard Gunst (Denmark).

Presenters:

Federico Perdomo Celis (Colombia)

Lucía Bailón (Spain)

Chair:

Jesper Damsgaard Gunst (Denmark)

Panelist:

Jose Bernardino (Spain)

HIV-2

16 February, 2023

15:00 CET

The February Journal Club discussed HIV-2 with a presentation from Ana Cláudia Miranda (Portugal) and Clare van Halsema (United Kingdom) with Jose Bernardino (Spain) joining the panel. The discussion will be led by Dr Antoine Bachelard (France)

Mental health and HIV

The October session will focus on mental health and HIV with a presentation from Daniel Simões (Portugal) and Alfonso Cabello (Spain). The session will be chaired by Jose Bernardino (Spain) who will be joined by Silvia Nozza (Italy) as a panelist.

Chair:

Jose Bernardino

Presenters:

Daniel Simões

Alfonso Cabello

Panelist:

Silvia Nozza

Hepatitis

Monday, 26 September, 13:00 CEST

The September session will focus on Hepatitis, with presentations from Anders Boyd and Natalia Laufer. The session will be chaired by Christoph Boesecke and they will be joined by Karine Lacombe as a panelist.

In the session we will discuss the following articles:

Chair:

Christoph Boesecke

Presenters:

Anders Boyd

Natalia Laufer

Panelist:

Karine Lacombe

Monkeypox

Thursday, 23 June, 15:00 CEST

The June session will focus on the recent Monkeypox outbreak. We will look at a general update of the current situation and zoom in on outbreak investigations in Portugal We will then see some examples from Italy with virologic data on Monkeypox in people living with HIV.

Chair:

Laura Waters

Presenters:

Roberto Croci

Angelo Raccagni

Panelist:

Juliana Reyes

STIs and PrEP

Wednesday, 25 May, 15:00 CEST

The May session will focus on the risk factors of STI among PrEP users. Based on two recent articles, we will discuss the possibility of different screening strategies and the need to develop other interventions.

The following papers will be discussed:

"Incidence and risk factors for recurrent sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis"

"Low use of condom and high STI incidence among men who have sex with men in PrEP programs"

Chair:

Agnes Libois

Presenters:

Marie Angelique De Scheerder

Oskar Ayerdi

Panelist:

Dominic Rowley

Monday, 25 April, 13:00 CEST

This month’s session focuses on care for refugees from Ukraine. We will look at HIV treatment and prevention with a presentation on the AwareHIVUkraine project set up by YING. Additionally, we will discuss Covid-19 care and prevention with representatives from ECDC, who will also cover guidance on childhood vaccinations and the continuum of HIV care. With:

Chair:

Tristan Barber

Presenters:

Marta Vasylyev

Carlijn Jordans,

Nataliia Tsekhmestruk

Panelists:

Teymur Noori

Friday, 18 March, 11:00 CET

The March session focused on the most relevant presentations at CROI 2022. The YINGers took a look at the most recent advances in treatment and HIV prevention, co-morbidities, and basic science.

Chairs/presenters:

Tristan Barber

Jose Bernardino

Panelists:

Christina Psomas

Alvaro Mena

Casper Rokx

Inequalities and issues in women living with HIV

Monday, 6 December, 17:00 CET

This month’s session focused on women living with HIV, on psychosocial issues that peri-menopausal women faces and in differences among the different ethnicities. The panelists also took a look at the WAVE (Women Against Viruses in Europe) group last updates and activities.

Chair

Laura Waters

Presenters

Dagny Krankowska

Giota Lourida

Panel

Maria Mazzitelli

Management of TB in people living with HIV

Thursday, 30 September, 13:00 CEST

The September session focused on Tuberculous Meningitis, regarding management in people living with HIV. We will take a look at the WHO's recent modifications of its recommendations for ART initiation and the latest research.

The following papers were discussed:

https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00140-21

https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30649-8

Chair

Clare van Halsema

Presenter

Juan Ambrosioni

Panel

Hazal Erdem

Alper Gündüz

Ageing and antiretroviral therapy in people living with HIV.

13 July, 16:00-17:00 CEST

There is still an important research question not fully understood, whether people living with HIV suffer from an accelerated or an accentuated aging. This could be a consequence of a greater biological age than a chronological age. Novel biomarkers of aging such as the epigenetic clocks could help us elucidate this important question. Do PLWV have an accelerated biological aging? Does ART partially restores this difference?

The July Journal Club discussed these outstanding issues reviewing a recent paper published in lancet HIV. Lancet HIV 2021; 8:E197-E205. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(21)00006-0

Chair

Jose Bernardino

Presenter

Andres Esteban-Cantos

Panelists

Agata Skrzat Klapaczyńska

Laura Waters

The impact of Covid-19 on people living with HIV.

16 June, 16:00-17:00 CEST

There are unclear data about the association of HIV infection with the risk of death due to COVID-19. People living with HIV (PLWHIV) at any stage of infection are considered a risk group for COVID-19 vaccination in many countries.

This Journal Club aims to investigate the association between HIV infection and COVID-19 death and to discuss the prevention of infection in people living with HIV.

Chair

Silvia Nozza

Presenter

Maria Mazzitelli

Panelists

Marta Vasylyev

Casper Rokx

The impact of COVID-19 on STI rates and sexual behaviour.

4 May, 16:00-17:30 CET

This journal club will show the potential and demonstrated impacts of SARS-CoV-2 on sexually transmitted infections(STI)/HIV transmission. The importance of maintaining accessible HIV/STI-related testing and care in the COVID era will be discussed.

Chair:

Maximilian Aichelburg

Presenter:

David Chromy

Scientific panel:

Tristan Barber

Agnes Libois

Preprints in the COVID era: lifesaving or hazardous?

14 April, 16:00-17:00 CET

This pro-con debate will include illustrative examples on how preprints can either shape or distort our understanding of COVID-19, and will discuss the role of peer-review for evidence-based medical practice.

Chair:

Oana Sandulescu

Presenters:

Victor Daniel Miron

Rocio Montejano

Scientific panelist:

Jose Bernardino

EACS Live! WAVE in Ukraine: Ukraine has the second-largest HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Almost half of the people living with HIV in Ukraine are women, the majority of them are “late presenters” and at the point of diagnosis have developed several AIDS-defining illnesses.

WAVE has been invited by the clinic of the Gromashevsky Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, Academy of Medical Science of Ukraine to organise a workshop on topics related to women living with HIV.

After the first-ever WAVE workshop in Kyiv in 2019, which was well attended and received excellent feedback, the WAVE workshop has been adapted to an interactive online workshop organised multiple times per year.

WAVE can significantly contribute to improving the quality of care for women living with HIV in Ukraine by being an informal and educational exchange platform for clinicians.

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