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

The 4^th Standard of Care for Coinfections 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