Day 1 - Friday, 1 October 2021
Workshop on Healthy Living with HIV 2021
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Day 2 - Saturday, 2 October 2021
Welcome
To help the community of future clinical leaders, who embrace an updated and relevant paradigm for the optimal care of people living with HIV. Focused not only on viral suppression but also on guaranteeing them optimal health throughout their lifetime. Striving to develop a clinical setting where treatment decisions consider all their implications for long term health.
Over the last two decades, HIV has transformed from a fatal disease into a chronic condition where the great majority of individuals living with HIV can look forward to a full and active life. This is due to an increased understanding of the disease and its management, but above all, to the unprecedented improvement in antiretroviral drugs.
Not surprisingly, the current management of individuals living with HIV continues to be overwhelmingly influenced by the fear of AIDS, suffering, and death, with treatment success measured by the long-term avoidance of these conditions. However, in the context of the armamentarium now available to clinicians and individuals living with HIV, much higher goals are attainable. Clinicians should now be focused not only on avoiding AIDS but also on guaranteeing individuals living with HIV a full long life with minimum adverse events or co-morbidities. Planning should not be limited to care over the next 5 – 10 years, but for many decades to come, with the expectation of a healthy and productive older age. This requires clinicians to adapt a proactive approach to preventing long-term morbidities and incorporate this into their decision-making process when making treatment choices.
General Information
- Researchers;
- Community representatives; and
- Nurses who are involved in the treatment and care of People Living with HIV
- Educate HIV clinicians on new treatment options and their long-term implications;
- Increase the HIV clinician’s level of understanding of options for the prevention of comorbidities and adverse events;
- Help shift the clinician’s focus to the management of long-term health;
- Encourage a proactive and protective treatment attitude; and
- Broaden the scope of HIV clinicians and enrich their knowledge of and collaboration with other medical disciplines.
• Describe the impact of mental health on the Quality of Life for PLWH;
• Outline tools and approaches to monitoring the mental health conditions;
• Reflect on the natural aging process and on accelerated aging in elderly HIV patients;
• State the impact of weight gain on the daily life of PLWH;
• Reflect on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected HIV Care.
Practical Information
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Gilead Sciences Europe Ltd. has provided funding for this independent Medical Education program. Gilead has had no input into selection of speakers or the content of the materials and presentations.
The Workshop on Healthy Living with HIV 2021 is organized in partnership between Virology Education and the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG)
Support Our Initiative
In order to deliver this program and allow healthcare professionals to attend, we depend on financial support.
We would like to encourage you to show your commitment to knowledge sharing and education on this important topic, by supporting this program with an Independent Medical Education grant.
Your support will be greatly appreciated!
Please contact Mr. Kun-Chieh Wu at kun-chieh.wu@amededu.com or call +31 30 230 7140.