EACS News

‘PentaTr@ining’ is an interactive course that continues to develop and evolve in response to the changing needs of children living with HIV and other congenital infections. This year’s online course, beginning on 2 November, will be highly interactive and clinical case-based, designed to kindle engagement and encourage intercommunication among the students and faculty team. It will consist of 6 weekly modules (about 90-120 minutes long), with associated pictures, infographics, tables and figures, references, and links to major PID websites of interest. EACS members can access the course at a discounted Early Bird rate before 25 September 2020.

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"The WHO has issued targets for HBV and HCV testing, prevention, and treatment that we should all strive to achieve to eliminate chronic viral hepatitis as a threat to global health by 2030. A lot of countries are on target to achieve these goals; however, the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic will harm many of these programmes. As we come through global control of COVID-19, we mustn’t take our eye off the many gains that we have made in combating HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and viral hepatitis."

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Prof. Jürgen Rockstroh and Dr Laura Waters have just issued an article in HIV Medicine to highlight some of the proposed antiretroviral-based treatment and prevention strategies for COVID-19. 

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This October, the EACS European regional elections will take place. All European members who have paid their membership fee before 14 September 2020 will be able to vote.

Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in these elections. Your voice counts!
Renew your membership here

On 14 May 2020, EACS held an extraordinary General Assembly during which the Articles of Association were amended. These new Articles of Association are finally implemented after in-depth consideration and following the principle of good governance.
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18 & 22 July 2020

Recently, the United Conference of Hepatogastroenterology and Infectious Diseases (UCHID) and Kasr Al-Aini HIV and Viral Hepatitis Fighting Group have decided to go virtual for their medical education plans in 2020. The first topic "Women Living with HIV" was initially planned as one face-to-face scientific day earlier in March but based on the current situation it will be held as two separate virtual meetings on Saturday 18 & Wednesday 22 July 2020. The meetings will discuss recent medical recommendations for women living with HIV in limited-resources settings, social & economic challenges that women face, highlights from CROI & AIDS 2020, and also recent guidance for supporting women in the time of COVID-19 pandemic. On 22 July at 8 pm CEST, EACS-WAVE vice-chair, Dr Yvonne Gilleece, will join the event as a speaker, so be sure to not miss that session!

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"In my opinion, there is still an urgent need to implement on a larger scale efficient and appropriate programmes to lower HIV and HCV spread among PWIDs. Integrated, collaborative, multidisciplinary approaches to healthcare for PWIDs combined with intensive outreach initiatives would be essential".

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“HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health”, supervised by Prof. Christine Katlama (France), Dr Jade Ghosn (France), and Prof. Gilles Wandeler (Switzerland), is a collective work by AFRAVIH’s network of over 190 experts spanning 17 countries. This comprehensive work geared at all French-speaking healthcare professionals and community actors offers updated insights on treatment and prevention strategies for HIV and hepatitis, and also covers sexual health as a fundamental aspect of human health.

You can find a short video presentation of the book here. Moreover, it is available in paper format from publisher EDP Sciences (livres@edpsciences.org) and is also downloadable free of charge as an ebook from here