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Date/Time
Date(s) - 16/05/2025 - 17/05/2025
6:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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