EMCDDA Director Alexis Goosdeel is in Malta today where he will speak at the opening session of a two-day conference on HIV, co-organised by the Maltese EU Presidency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
HIV experts from across the EU will gather at the event to prepare Europe to fast track the end of AIDS by 2030. Mr Goosdeel will focus on ‘HIV drugs and risk behaviours — what have we learnt and what are the challenges for the future'.
On the occasion of the meeting, ECDC will publish an overview of achievements and gaps in the European HIV response, illustrating how countries addressed the HIV epidemic in 2016, based on their commitment outlined in the Dublin Declaration on Partnership to Fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia. The EMCDDA contributed to this overview with data on the HIV situation and prevention coverage among people who inject drugs.
Read more:
- Statistical bulletin 2016 (Infectious diseases)
- Drug-related infectious diseases in Europe: update from the EMCDDA expert network (see Appendix 2: HIV risk assessment 2016: Indicators of HIV situation, transmission risk and prevention coverage in 30 European countries)
- ECDC and EMCDDA guidance. Prevention and control of infectious diseases among people who inject drugs
- ECDC–WHO/Europe report HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2015
- European Test Finder
- World AIDS Day 2016
