The EACS Live! Journal Club is a monthly online meeting/discussion on a recent topical paper together with YINGers and interested participants. The aim of the Journal Club is to have an open discussion with experts on the chosen papers/topics, and act as an educational opportunity for the YING network.

Upcoming Journal Clubs 

 

HIV cascade of care for vulnerable and marginalised populations

Monday, 25 March

15:00 CEST

 

The March Journal Club will focus on Opportunistic Infections with a presentation from Andrii Dudnyk (Ukraine) and Lorena de la Mora (Spain) the discussion will be led by Maria Mazzitelli (Italy) with other YINGer joining the panel. 

 

Presenters:

Andrii Dudnyk (Ukraine)

Lorena de la Mora (Spain)

 

Chair:

Maria Mazzitelli (Italy)

 

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Prevous Journal Clubs

 

HIV cascade of care for vulnerable and marginalised populations

Monday, 26 February

15:00 CET

 

The February Journal Club focused on HIV cascade of care for vulnerable and marginalised populations in Eastern Europe with a presentation from Bogusz Aksak-Wąs (Poland) and Oana Sandulescu (Romania) with Uwe Koppe (Germany) as the Chair. The discussion was led by Evangelia Kostaki (Greece). 

 

Presenters:

Bogusz Aksak-Wąs (Poland) 

Oana Sandulescu (Romania)

 

Chair:

Uwe Koppe (Germany)

 

Panelist:

Evangelia Kostaki (Greece)

 

 

 

 

New HIV drugs

Wednesday, 27 September

16:00 CEST

 

The September Journal Club focused on new HIV drugs with a presentation from Clemente Tommaso (Italy) and Laura Levi (France) with Jose Bernardino (Spain) joining the panel. The discussion will be led by Casper Rokx (Netherlands)

 

Presenters:

Clemente Tommaso (Italy)

Laura Levi (France)

 

Chair:

Casper Rokx (Netherlands)

 

Panelist:

Jose Bernardino (Spain)

HIV Testing

Monday, 17 July

15:00 CEST

The July Journal Club focused on HIV testing. The session will start with a discussion on late diagnosis and will be followed by a presentation testing strategies in the context of reaching the 95-95-95 goals. 

 

Presenters:

Carlijn Jordans (The Netherlands)

Raquel Martin Iguace (Spain)

 

Chair:

Uwe Koppe (Germany)

 

Panelist:

Jose Bernardino (Spain)

 

 

HIV cure

Thursday, 30 March

15:30 CEST

The March Journal Club looked at HIV cure with a presentation from Federico Perdomo Celis (Colombia) and Lucía Bailón (Spain) with Jose Bernardino (Spain) joining the panel. The discussion will be led by Jesper Damsgaard Gunst (Denmark).

 

Presenters:

Federico Perdomo Celis (Colombia)

Lucía Bailón (Spain)

 

Chair:

Jesper Damsgaard Gunst (Denmark)

 

Panelist:

Jose Bernardino (Spain)

 

HIV-2

16 February, 2023

15:00 CET

 

The February Journal Club discussed HIV-2 with a presentation from Ana Cláudia Miranda (Portugal) and Clare van Halsema (United Kingdom) with Jose Bernardino (Spain) joining the panel. The discussion will be led by Dr Antoine Bachelard (France)

 

Mental health and HIV

 

The October session will focus on mental health and HIV with a presentation from Daniel Simões (Portugal) and Alfonso Cabello (Spain). The session will be chaired by Jose Bernardino (Spain) who will be joined by Silvia Nozza (Italy) as a panelist.

 

Chair:

Jose Bernardino

 

Presenters:

Daniel Simões

Alfonso Cabello

 

Panelist:

Silvia Nozza

Hepatitis

Monday, 26 September, 13:00 CEST

 

The September session will focus on Hepatitis, with presentations from Anders Boyd and Natalia Laufer. The session will be chaired by Christoph Boesecke and they will be joined by Karine Lacombe as a panelist.

 

In the session we will discuss the following articles: 

 

• Liver cirrhosis in HIV/HCV-coinfected individuals is related to NK cell dysfunction and exhaustion, but not to an impaired NK cell modulation by CD4 + T-cells.
• Risk of HCC With Hepatitis B Viremia Among HIV/HBV-Coinfected Persons in North America

 

Chair:

Christoph Boesecke

 

Presenters:

Anders Boyd

Natalia Laufer

 

Panelist:

Karine Lacombe

 

Monkeypox

Thursday, 23 June, 15:00 CEST

 

The June session will focus on the recent Monkeypox outbreak. We will look at a general update of the current situation and zoom in on outbreak investigations in Portugal We will then see some examples from Italy with virologic data on Monkeypox in people living with HIV.

 

Chair:

Laura Waters

 

Presenters:

Roberto Croci

Angelo Raccagni

 

Panelist:

Juliana Reyes

 

 

 

STIs and PrEP

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.

 

The following papers will be discussed: 

"Incidence and risk factors for recurrent sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis"

"Low use of condom and high STI incidence among men who have sex with men in PrEP programs"

Chair:

Agnes Libois

 

Presenters:

Marie Angelique De Scheerder

Oskar Ayerdi

 

Panelist:

Dominic Rowley

 

 

 

Monday, 25 April, 13:00 CEST

 

This month’s session focuses on care for refugees from Ukraine. We will look at HIV treatment and prevention with a presentation on the AwareHIVUkraine project set up by YING. Additionally, we will discuss Covid-19 care and prevention with representatives from ECDC, who will also cover guidance on childhood vaccinations and the continuum of HIV care. With: 

Chair:

Tristan Barber

 

Presenters:

Marta Vasylyev

Carlijn Jordans,

Nataliia Tsekhmestruk

 

Panelists:

Teymur Noori

 

Friday, 18 March, 11:00 CET

 

The March session focused on the most relevant presentations at CROI 2022. The YINGers took a look at the most recent advances in treatment and HIV prevention, co-morbidities, and basic science. 

 

Chairs/presenters: 

Tristan Barber

Jose Bernardino

 

Panelists: 

Christina Psomas

Alvaro Mena

Casper Rokx

 

Inequalities and issues in women living with HIV

Monday, 6 December, 17:00 CET

 

This month’s session focused on women living with HIV, on psychosocial issues that peri-menopausal women faces and in differences among the different ethnicities. The panelists also took a look at the WAVE (Women Against Viruses in Europe) group last updates and activities.

 

Chair 

Laura Waters 

 

Presenters

Dagny Krankowska

Giota Lourida 

 

Panel

Maria Mazzitelli

 

 

Management of TB in people living with HIV

Thursday, 30 September, 13:00 CEST

 

The September session focused on Tuberculous Meningitis, regarding management in people living with HIV. We will take a look at the WHO's recent modifications of its recommendations for ART initiation and the latest research. 

 

The following papers were discussed: 

https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00140-21

https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30649-8

 

Chair 

Clare van Halsema  

 

Presenter

Juan Ambrosioni

 

Panel

Hazal Erdem

Alper Gündüz

 

Ageing and antiretroviral therapy in people living with HIV.

13 July, 16:00-17:00 CEST

 

There is still an important research question not fully understood, whether people living with HIV suffer from an accelerated or an accentuated aging. This could be a consequence of a greater biological age than a chronological age. Novel biomarkers of aging such as the epigenetic clocks could help us elucidate this important question. Do PLWV have an accelerated biological aging? Does ART partially restores this difference?

 

The July Journal Club discussed these outstanding issues reviewing a recent paper published in lancet HIV. Lancet HIV 2021; 8:E197-E205. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(21)00006-0 

 

Chair

Jose Bernardino

 

Presenter

Andres Esteban-Cantos

 

Panelists

Agata Skrzat Klapaczyńska

Laura Waters

 

The impact of Covid-19 on people living with HIV.

16 June, 16:00-17:00 CEST

 

There are unclear data about the association of HIV infection with the risk of death due to COVID-19. People living with HIV (PLWHIV) at any stage of infection are considered a risk group for COVID-19 vaccination in many countries.

 

This Journal Club aims to investigate the association between HIV infection and COVID-19 death and to discuss the prevention of infection in people living with HIV.

 

Chair

Silvia Nozza

 

Presenter

Maria Mazzitelli

 

Panelists

Marta Vasylyev

Casper Rokx

 

 

 

The impact of COVID-19 on STI rates and sexual behaviour.

4 May, 16:00-17:30 CET

 

This journal club will show the potential and demonstrated impacts of SARS-CoV-2 on sexually transmitted infections(STI)/HIV transmission. The importance of maintaining accessible HIV/STI-related testing and care in the COVID era will be discussed.

 

Chair:

Maximilian Aichelburg

 

Presenter:

David Chromy

 

Scientific panel:

Tristan Barber

Agnes Libois

 

 

 

 

Preprints in the COVID era: lifesaving or hazardous?

14 April, 16:00-17:00 CET

 

This pro-con debate will include illustrative examples on how preprints can either shape or distort our understanding of COVID-19, and will discuss the role of peer-review for evidence-based medical practice.

 

 

Chair:

Oana Sandulescu

 

Presenters:

Victor Daniel Miron

Rocio Montejano

 

Scientific panelist:

Jose Bernardino

 

Ukraine has the second-largest HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Almost half of the people living with HIV in Ukraine are women, the majority of them are “late presenters” and at the point of diagnosis have developed several AIDS-defining illnesses.

 

WAVE has been invited by the clinic of the Gromashevsky Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, Academy of Medical Science of Ukraine to organise a workshop on topics related to women living with HIV.

 

After the first-ever WAVE workshop in Kyiv in 2019, which was well attended and received excellent feedback, the WAVE workshop has been adapted to an interactive online workshop organised multiple times per year.

 

WAVE can significantly contribute to improving the quality of care for women living with HIV in Ukraine by being an informal and educational exchange platform for clinicians.   

 

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