Policy Working Group

In 2013, the EACS constituted a Policy working group whose aims were to collect and disseminate information on standard of care, including progress and pitfalls in different European regions, and to provide a platform to share this information among different stakeholders.

The EACS Policy Working Group organized the first standard of care meeting in 2014 following the EACS Governing Board’s decision to organize a biennial meeting on Standard of Care for HIV and Co-infections in Europe. The Policy Working Group came to the conclusion that it was essential for EACS to focus on standard of care as a specific topic, related to its main activity and to also take into consideration stakeholders active in the field, such as WHO, HIV in Europe, ECDC and EATG.

Objectives and strategies

To elaborate a standard of care document which defines benchmarks for different areas of care and treatment according to Guidelines.
To organize a meeting aimed at identifying indicators to allow a periodic monitoring of their progress in access to testing, access to care, cascade of care and prevention, diagnosis and management of co-morbidities, with a particular attention to the infectious ones.
To identify beforehand key parameters which could be brought forward before the Standard of Care for HIV and Co-infections meeting 2016.
To discuss with institutional stakeholders: EU commission, ECDC, WHO, UNAIDS, and HIV in Europe.
To involve actively individuals living with HIV and Community representatives, such as EATG.

Steering Committee

Prof Antonella d'Arminio Monforte

Azienda Ospedaliera-Polo Universitario San Paolo
Milan, Italy

Prof Nathan Clumeck

Saint-Pierre University Hospital
Brussels, Belgium

Prof Stéphane De Wit

Saint-Pierre University Hospital

Brussels, Belgium

Prof Jens D. Lundgren

Rigshospitalet & University of Copenhagen

Copenhagen, Denmark

Prof Cristina Mussini, Chair