Deal all,
The Spring will be held on site and by Visio.
If you want the link to connect, please send a mail to breach.foundation@stpierre-bru.be as the registration form is closed.
For participants online, please click here to sign the presence list Presence List Online 1.xlsx (1st sheet for Friday and 2nd sheet for Saturday)
Please find below the program of the 8th Spring Meeting on “HIV Care in 2025 and beyond”
Day 1 – Friday 16 May 2025
18:30 Arrival, registration and reception
18:45 – 19:00 Welcome – Introduction – Stéphane De Wit – BREACH Chairman
Session 1: HIV Care Today: Gaps, Challenges, and Opportunities for Improvement
Moderators: Sabine Allard – UZ Brussel & Fabian Colle – Alias
19:00 – 19:20 Current and upcoming challenges using long-acting agents – Julien De Greef – Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc (UCLouvain)
19:20 – 19:40 HIV and Primary Care: Another Chronic Condition – Pierre-Louis Deudon – GP – SSMG
19:40 – 20:00 Role of the community in the multidisciplinary HIV care – Patrick Reyntiens & Wim Vandebeek – Sensoa
20:00 – 20:45 Debate on fast-track actions within the current HIV plan to accelerate efforts to curb the HIV epidemic
Sandra Van den Eynde & Jessika Deblonde – HIV Plan Monitoring Committee
20:45 – 21:00 Q&A and closure
21:00 Dinner
Day 2 – Saturday May 2025
Session 2: How to implement new guidelines?: example from vaccination
Moderator: Leila Belkhir – UCLouvain
09:00 – 09:20 Vaccine Recommendations for People Living With HIV – Jelle Visser – ITM
09:20 – 09:35 Vaccination in real life : how to improve the benefits of vaccination among PLWHIV – Nicolas Dauby – CHU Saint-Pierre
09:35 – 09:45 Q&A
Session 3: How to improve the diagnosis of the undiagnosed?
Moderator: Charlotte Martin – CHU Saint-Pierre
09:45 – 10:05 HIV diagnostics, what can we do better? Carlijn Jordans – Erasmus MC Rotterdam, NL
10:05 – 10:25 Loss to follow-up and HIV care interruption – Dominique Van Beckhoven – Sciensano
10:25 – 10:35 Q&A
10:35 – 10:55 Coffee break
Session 4: Care of specific populations and in specific settings
Moderator: Eric Florence – UZA & Axel Vanderperre – UTOPIA_BXL
10:55 – 11:10 Frailty & HIV Marie-Angélique De Scheerder – UZ Gent
11:10 – 11:30 HIV-care in detention – Brecht Verbrugghe
11:30 – 12:00 Challenges for access to ARV-care :
Non-access to ARV : Fabian Colle – Alias
Access to care for TB in Belgium : Wouter Arrazola de Onate – BELTA-VRGT
12:00 – 12:20 Q&A and closure
12:20 Lunch
With the support of
BREACH, the Belgium Research on AIDS and HIV Consortium, is the result of a collaborative effort of the Belgian HIV Reference Centres (HRC) and