Standard of Care for HIV and Co-infections in Europe - Virtual, Tbilisi 2020

The 4th Standard of Care for Co-infections in Europe meeting was scheduled to be organised in Tbilisi, Georgia. However, because of the current pandemic situation the organising committee decided to organise it as an online meeting.

 

The 2020 meeting gathered HIV experts from all over Europe with a particular emphasis on the Eastern and Central European region.

 

The aim of this meeting was the elaboration of a common platform for European standard of care that will provide institutional stakeholders with the instrument to elaborate a strategy at improving care in order to fill the gaps that currently exist among the different European regions.

 

The main topics were:

  • Data from Standards of Care initiatives – Analysis and debate
  • HIV and COVID-19 coinfection
  • Barriers to PrEP delivery
  • HIV and comorbidities – Implementing services for the ageing HIV-infected individual 

 

The meeting was composed of three parts:

  1. 22 October – online meeting
  2. 23 October – 29 January – Three online workshops
  3. 10 February 15.00-16.30 CET – Wrap up online session

 

Steering Committee

 

Dr Nikoloz Chkhartishvili

Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Clinical Immunology Research Center

Tbilisi, Georgia

Dr Andriy Klepikov

Executive Director of the Alliance for Public Health

Ukraine

Prof. Jens D. Lundgren

Righospitalet & University of Copenhagen

Copenhagen, Denmark

Prof. Cristina Mussini

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Modena, Italy

Dr Cristiana Oprea

Victor Babes Clinical Hospital for Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy

Bucharest, Romania

Prof. Jürgen Rockstroh (Co-chair)

University Hospital Bonn

Bonn, Germany

Dr Ann Sullivan

Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust

London, United Kingdom

Prof. Tengiz Tsertsvadze (Co-chair)

Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Clinical Immunology Research Center

Tbilisi, Georgia

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