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The war in Ukraine has impacted HIV care in one of Europe's most HIV-affected countries.

Through the EACS Young Investigators (YING), we as HIV medical specialists from across Europe stand united. These extremely challenging circumstances endanger the care of people living with HIV affected by the war and their HIV care providers, including some of our EACS and YING colleagues.

YING saw a clear need to help and produced, together with colleagues from Ukraine and neighboring countries, a unified framework, that defines and sets out strategies to handle challenges for emergency support for people living with HIV who are staying in Ukraine and those becoming displaced.

We established four phases of emergency HIV support in Ukraine: immediate, urgent, consolidation, and post-war phases. Through the framework we aim to reduce the inevitable effect on Ukraine’s HIV care cascade now, and when rebuilding it after the war.  

As European HIV medical specialists, YING and EACS feel that we can and should ensure that no person with HIV or HIV care provider is left alone, especially under these extremely challenging circumstances.

Click here to read the full viewpoint "Unified European support framework to sustain the HIV cascade of care for people living with HIV including in displaced populations of war-struck Ukraine" 

The Erasmus MC Foundation together with Virology Education are organising the HIV Care in Ukraine Webinar to bring awareness and support to Ukraine in this time of great need.

In this webinar, renowned Ukrainian speakers will share their experiences and engage in a lively discussion on the key elements of HIV care in light of the current situation. By joining this program, you will have the opportunity to contribute ideas, hear from experiences, donate to aware.HIV, and gain invaluable insight into how you as a healthcare provider can take action today by developing your own support initiatives.

Join the session on 24 May at 16.00 CEST.

Learn more

Join the EACS Live! Journal Club on 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. With: 

Chair:

Agnes Libois

Presenters:

Marie Angelique Screerder

Oskar Ayerdi

Panelist:

Dominic Rowley

Register today! 

On 13 April, EACS released a multi-partner statement urging nations across Europe to provide easily accessible, high-quality HIV care for displaced people from Ukraine living with HIV.

This was in conjunction with a protocol for standardized management and data sharing for people displaced from Ukraine living with HIV also released today. This was developed by the World Health Organisations European Office, in partnership with the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS), the WHO Collaborating Centre at the Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections (CHIP), the Euroguidelines in Central and Eastern Europe (ECEE) network group and the Public Health Centre, MOH, Ukraine.

The statement is now available in Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian and Slovak.  

Read the full statement

Under the umbrella of the EACS Medical Exchange Programme, SCEP aims at promoting clinical, research and educational links between centres across Europe and facilitating exchange of models of clinical care in HIV medicine and allied specialities.

Fellows will have the opportunity to visit an EACS Clinical/Research Excellence Center (CREC) specialised in HIV medicine for a period of 2 to 4 weeks. There will also be an opportunity for the CREC to nominate a member of its team for a reciprocal visit for the same period of time and with the same financial rules.

Learn more and apply today. 

We would like to congratulate our Governing Board member, Professor Jens Lundgren on his appointment to Knight of the Order of Dannebrog by Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark, on her Birthday Honours list on 16 April. 

This is an amazing and a richly-deserved achievement.

MOOC will review different aspects of HIV infection: from its biological origin and its identification as the causative agent of AIDS, to the current epidemiology, advances in knowledge about viral persistence and host immune responses, vaccine candidates, strategies of eradication, and community perspectives by international experts in the respective fields. 

People can enroll until 4 May 2022 and the course is available until 10 May 2022. 

Learn more. 

For World Health Day on 7 April, we spoke with Dr Juan Ambrosioni, the new EACS Guidelines Coordinator:

"The ultimate aim of EACS and EACS Guidelines is to reduce the HIV burden across Europe and improve the quality of life of people living with HIV. The EACS Guidelines should not be seen as a replacement of other sources of information. Instead, the Guidelines consist of a single document that highlights essential knowledge required for managing all HIV-related topics."

Read the full article.