Today the XVI European AIDS Conference hosts a separate session on PrEP in Europe. Right now you can join the session online on Facebook or view its record here:
“This year, the XVI European AIDS Conference puts special emphasis on the group “women living with HIV”, a range of sessions and discussions on the contemporary PrEP methodologies, new test methods and drugs interaction. A lot of information presented about the co-infection: how to treat it correctly, comparison of impact of various drugs on human organism and their influence on PLHIV life expectancy, the latest information about changes in life quality of PLHIV, how it can be improved, by using what drugs or methods, and what are the respective world best practices. There is an enormous quantity of interesting abstracts in the form of posters about modern approaches to HIV treatment, with examples of best world practices”
– notes Armen Agadzhanov, ECUO specialist on strategic information.
As noted by the EACS (European AIDS Clinical Society) Conference organizers, in the past years, there is a “normalization” and increase in duration of PLHIV life that approximates the average life duration of the general population, in the countries of West Europe the morbidity level is reducing and an active implementation of strategy of universal access to ART just after the diagnosis is happening. Still, there are challenges, a series of which will be considered during the conference discussions. Among them: a long-term forecast of the effectiveness of ARVs, the challenges associated with co-infection (TB and viral hepatitis) and other concomitant diseases, and another most critical issue of unequal access to HIV services in different countries of Europe.
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