EACS News

The Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) is the leading organization of HIV/AIDS researchers in Canada. As an integral element of its mandate, CAHR works to promote education and the development of researchers. As part of this effort, and with the generous support of ViiV Healthcare, CAHR will be offering travel awards for Canadian health care professionals (HCPs) – working in the realm of HIV – to attend the 17th European AIDS Conference.

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7-8 November 2019

We invite you to join the 17th European AIDS Conference plenary lectures! (Basel, Switzerland - 7-8 November 2019 - 8:30-9:30)

The latent HIV-1 reservoir, Matthieu Perreau, Switzerland

New drugs - Who would need them?,Chloe Orkin, United Kingdom

Precision medicine in HIV, Amalio Telenti, United States

Whole genome sequencing for tuberculosis treatment and control: A game changer?, Iñaki Comas, Spain

Read the lecture synopses: https://bit.ly/2IAEMri

www.clinicalcasesDDIs.com will be launched mid-May.

Use of multiple drugs in addition to antiretroviral treatment (polypharmacy) is getting increasingly common in people living with HIV (PLWH). This is partly due to aging and co-morbidities, but also to the use of other substances that may be included in alternative treatments, supplements, steroids, recreational drugs, etc. 

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6 November 2019

The 17th European AIDS Conference will be launched at the opening ceremony taking place at the Congress Center Basel on Wednesday, November 6, 2019 from 17:15-18:45. We are delighted to announce the keynote speakers and the topics which will set the tone of the Conference. Read more

The EACS Standard of Care meeting final report has been published.

Eastern Europe continues to have one of the few HIV epidemics in the world where HIV incidence is still not decreasing, with significant challenges to achieving linkage to care, a meeting by the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) in Bucharest, Romania heard.

Despite the huge disparities in care that were highlighted, the Standard of Care for HIV and Coinfections in Europe 2019 meeting featured discussions that will form the basis of a European-wide exercise to audit HIV centres to a common standard.

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Online registration, abstract and clinical cases submission and scholarship applications for the 17th European AIDS Conference are now open. 

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17-24 May 2019

The second Spring European Testing Week will take place on 17-24 May 2019. European Testing Week is a European campaign that encourages partner organisations - in community, health care and policy institutions - throughout Europe to unite for one week (during Spring and Autumn) to increase testing efforts and promote awareness on the benefits of earlier hepatitis and HIV testing. This initiative has progressed since its start in 2013 and has grown to be a widely recognised European event with hundreds of organisations participating every year.
To read more about European Testing Week and to register to participate, visit https://bit.ly/2U2C2oQ
To find your nearest testing centre, use the European Test Finder here: www.aidsmap.com/european-test-finder

A London man has no remaining detectable HIV a year and a half after undergoing a bone marrow stem cell transplant to treat lymphoma, according to a presentation at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2019), taking place this week in Seattle.

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