Events

Dear all,

For participants online, if you have not signed the presence list, please send an e-mail to breach.foundation@stpierre-bru.be

Please find below the presentations (click on the title of the presentations).

Day 1 – Friday 24 May 2024

18:30                  Arrival, registration and reception

19:00 – 19:10     Welcome – Introduction
Stéphane De Wit – BREACH Chairman

1: The hurdles to HIV cure
Moderator: Gilles Darcis – CHU Liège

19:10 – 19:35     What does cure mean and why is a cure difficult ?
Linos Vandekerckhove- UZ Gent

19:35 – 20:00     An HIV cure : why, how and for whom ?
Nicolas Dauby – Saint-Pierre University Hospital

2: Patient perspectives and the encouraging stories of cured HIV individuals
Moderator: Peter Messiaen – Jessa Ziekenhuis

 20:00 – 20:20     How to communicate on HIV cure with patients (hope, expectation vs reality)?
Stéphane De Wit – Saint-Pierre University Hospital

20:20 – 20:35     Psychological follow-up of HIV persons participating in a cure trial
Charlotte Vanden Bulcke – UZ Gent

20:35 – 20:50     Patient experience on participating in a cure trial
20:50 – 21:05     Patient testimonial
Adam Castillejo, the London patient

21:05 – 21:10     What’s wrong with women?
Sherihane Bensemmane – Aide Info SIDA

21:10 – 21:25     Debate : Q&A
Linos Vandekerckhove – UZ Gent and Axel Vanderperre – Positive Council

21:15                 Closure
Stéphane De Wit, BREACH Chairman

21:30                 Dinner

Day 2 – Saturday 25 May 2024

3: How can the HIV cure research  serve clinicians?
Moderators: Charlotte Martin – Saint-Pierre University Hospital and Marie-Angélique De Scheerder – UZ Gent

09:00 – 09:30     Immune modulatory therapies towards HIV remission/cure
Sarah Fidler – Imperial College London, UK

09:30 – 09:55     How does HIV cure research contribute to the understanding of resistance to ART
Gilles Darcis – CHU Liège

09:55 – 10:15     Coffee break

10:15 – 10:40     Early treatment and post-treatment HIV control: lessons learned from Visconti
Jozefien De Clercq – UZ Gent

10:40 – 11:05     The interplay between the immune system and the HIV reservoir
Joeri Aerts – VUB

11:05 – 11:30     Should we activate the reservoir or make it more dormant?
Zeger Debyser – KU Leuven

11:30 – 12:05     How to go forward – panel discussion
Eric Florence – UZA and Sabine Allard – UZ Brussel

12:10 – 12:20     Closing remarks (including PLHIV perspective)
Linos Vandekerckhove – UZ Gent and Axel Vanderperre – Positive Council

12:30                  Lunch

Please find also here all the pictures.

With the support of

Dear all,

The 11th BREACH Symposium hold on November 30th, 2023 at the Dolce, La Hulpe.

Click here to see the program, and below for the presentations and for the pictures

Symposium supports by

Dear all,

The Spring Meeting on Aging hold on Friday 21 to Saturday 22, 2023 at the Dolce, La Hulpe.

Click here to see the full Program

Presentations are available by clicking on the title :

Aging with HIV: an epidemiological insight in Belgium – Dominique Van Beckhoven, Sciensano
The mechanisms of aging with HIV – Marie-Angélique De Scheerder, UZ Gent
Frailty: Screening and Beyond – Kevin Peterson
Psychosocial aspects of aging in persons living with HIV – Charlotte Vanden Bulcke, UZ Gent
Vaccination against Streptococcus pneumoniae, Influenza, SARS-CoV2 and RSV in aging HIV patients-  Rémy Demeester, CHU Charleroi
Management of the older patient with HIV – From concept to clinical practice –  Giovanni Guaraldi, UH Modena Italy
Optimizing HIV Care in Older People with HIV A Community perspective and Personal experience –  Mario Cascio, EATG
How to go forward? Rémy Demeester, CHU Charleroi and Axel Vanderperre, Positive Council

You can watch the pictures here

Supported by

Dear all,

The 10th BREACH Symposium hold on November 23rd, 2022 at the Dolce, La Hulpe.

Click here to see the full Program, with topics on Clinical Care (Difficult to reach population, Value Based Healthcare, Chemsex), Monkeypox and HIV, HIV Cure, Quality of Life, HPV etc…

Presentations are available bu clicking on the title :

• Update on the HIV and STI epidemiology in Belgium– Dominique VAN BECKHOVEN – Sciensano
• Thresholds for testing and treatment: a practical approach to reach a high-risk population – Alexandre FELIX / Fabian COLLE – Alias
• Value Based Healthcare and HIV – Sebastian VERMEERSCH – HICT
• Sex & Drugs & Self-Control – Tom PLATTEAU – ITM
• Monkeypox in Belgium: surveillance data of the outbreak – Amaryl LECOMPTE – Sciensano
• Monkeypox and Stigma : Back to the future?  – Valentin BLAISON – ExAequo
• BREACH AWARDS – Basic – Clinical – Public Health
• State of Affairs in the National HIV Plan –  Sandra VAN DEN EYNDE – Monitoring Committee HIV Plan
• BREACH Biktarvy study –  Rakan NASREDDINE – Saint-Pierre University Hospital
• The HIV reservoir: nothing is as it seems to be – Linos VANDEKERCKHOVE – UZGent
• Understanding the 4th 90: quality of life as patient-reported outcome to improve comprehensive HIV care – Christiana NÖSTLINGER / Gert SCHEERDER  – ITM
• HPV: results from the Anchor study and implications for clinical practice – Deborah KONOPNICKI – Saint-Pierre University Hospital
•  3 best Belgian posters – Basic – Clinical 1 – Clinical 2 – Public Health
•  BREACH Working Group on Women : an update on pregnancy & HIV –Deborah KONOPNICKI – Saint-Pierre University Hospital
•  BREACH activities: current and future insights – Stéphane DE WIT – BREACH Chair

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Symposium supports by

Best regards,
Prof. Stéphane De Wit
Chair

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Please find below the slides and pictures of the 5th BREACH Spring Meeting on  ‘PrEP‘ on May 06 & 07, 2022 at the Dolce, La Hulpe.

1- 0 May 06 Slide Welcome and sponsoring

1-2 Challenges in PrEP implemenation in Europe_Mameletzis draft

1-3 May 06 PrEP roll out in Belgium_Deblonde

2- 2 May 07 BREACH Spring Meeting PrEP_J Vanhamel_v3.0

2- 3 May 07 GPs and PrEP – Dr. Thomas ANDRE

2- 4 May 07 PrEP Awareness -BREACH Spring Meeting -Final Otti

2- 5 May 07 FemiPrEP-PPT Breach 20522 Demart Gerard

2- 6 May 07 Breach spring meeting presentatie Heleen

2- 7 May 06 the Final The role of nurses in PrEP care Anne DV

2-8 ThijsReyniers_BREACH_Spring_07052022def

2-9 May 07 Presentation BREACH Jens Van Praet

2-10 May 07 BREACH Spring Meeting – presentation Gert Scheerder PrEP Network

The 9th BREACH Symposium will be held at the Dolce, La Hulpe on November 30, 2021

The 8th BREACH Symposium organized by BREACH at the Blue Point in Liège on November 22, 2019

The 7th Symposium organized by BREACH, the Belgian Research on AIDS and HIV Consortium at the Concertgebouw in Bruges on Friday November 30h, 2018.

The 6th Symposium organized by BREACH at the RSCA / Congress Center – Saint- Guidon in Anderlecht on Friday November 24h, 2017.