13th BREACH Symposium – 27/11/2025 – Palais des Académies

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Date/Time
Date(s) - 27/11/2025
9:00 am - 6:30 pm

Dear all,

Please find below the presentations (click on the links below) / Broadcasts are available here (will be updated asap)

Please participate to the Survey on healthcare organisation for Older people living with HIV before 21/12 251128_Survey aging with HIV

08:30 – 09:00 Registration and Welcome coffee

09:00 – 09:05 Welcome
Stéphane DE WIT – BREACH Chair

09:05 – 09:15 Impact of US financial restrictions on the HIV Epidemics
Stéphane DE WIT – CHU Saint-Pierre

09:15 – 09:35 Update on HIV, STI and hepatitis B&C epidemiology in Belgium
HIV-STI-HepatitisBC surveillance team – Sciensano

09:30 – 10:30 Session 1: Prevention
Chairs : Anne-Sophie SAUVAGE – CHU Liège, Lucie SEYLER – UZ Brussel

09:35 – 10:00: Diagnosing the undiagnosed : time for a boost
Agnès LIBOIS, Dominique VAN BECKHOVEN – HIV Plan Monitoring Committee

10:00 – 10:30: Anal cancer screening – PRO / CON session
(CON) Chris KENYON – ITG & (PRO) Deborah KONOPNICKI – CHU Saint-Pierre

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:55 Session 2: HOT topics
Chairs: Leila BELKHIR – Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Peter MESSIAEN – Jessaziekenhuis

11:00 – 11:25: Update on projects about HIV cure
Linos VANDEKERCKHOVE – UZ Gent

11:25- 11:40: DoxyPep – What’s new ?
Thibaut VANBAELEN – ITG

11:40 – 11:55: Quality of Life in HIV Care: PROM data and implementation stories from three HRC
Gert SCHEERDER – ITG, Charlotte VANDEN BULCKE – UZ Gent, Peter MESSIAEN – Jessa Ziekenhuis, Wim VANDEN BERGHE – ITG

11:55 – 12:15 Update on BREACH activities and LA-ART study results (Slides won’t be available online)
Rakan NASREDDINE – CHU Saint-Pierre

12:15 – 12:25 National HIV & STI Plan
Sandra VAN DEN EYNDE / Jessika DEBLONDE – HIV Plan Monitoring Committee

12:25 – 12:35 Q&A

12:35 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 BREACH AWARDS – 3 best Belgian publications
Chair : Jean-Christophe GOFFARD – HUB Erasme

Best-paper-basic-science.pdf

Best_Paper-Clinical.pdf

Best_Paper_ Public Health

14:30 – 15:30 Session 3: Living Longer, Living Smarter: Optimising Comorbidity Screening in HIV Care
Chairs : Marie-Angélique DE SCHEERDER – UZ Gent, Axel VANDERPERRE – Utopia_BXL

14:30 – 15:00: Clinical Update: Screening Comorbidities in PLHIV (EACS v13.0, ECDC-EACS)
Jürgen ROCKSTROH – EACS

15:00 – 15:30: Challenges from the Field – Community, equity, and access
Panel discussion

15:30 – 15:50 BREACH AWARDS – 4 best Belgian posters
Chair: Paul DE MUNTER – UZ Leuven

Best-poster-basic-science.pdf

Best_Poster_Clinical_Masquelier.pdf

Best _ Poster_Clinical_VANBAELEN.pdf

Best-poster-public-health.pdf

15:50 – 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 – 17:05 Session 4: ACCESS TO PrEP for migrants
Chairs: Grâce NTUNZWENIMANA – Plateforme Prévention Sida, Sherihane BENSEMMANE – Aide Info Sida

16:20 – 16:35: The paradigm of ‘post-migration’ infection and the feasibility of PrEP prior to migration
Sarah DEMART – Observatoire du Sida et des Sexualités

16:35 – 17:05 Panel Discussion

17:05- 17:10 Closing remarks
Stéphane DE WIT – BREACH Chair