HIV/AIDS Think Tank forum

Luxembourg

Luxembourg, 10-11 December 2013

Meeting of national representatives

• Agenda

Presentation

• ECDC and Spanish Ministry of Health workshop
  Teymur Noori

Open Think Tank meeting

• Agenda

Contributions

• Update from ECDC: Monitoring report
  Andrew Amato
  Head of HIV, STI and V. Hepatitis programme, ECDC
• Update from EMCDDA
  Klaudia Palczak
  EMCDDA

Recent developments around testing

• Community Based HIV testing practices in Europe (HIV-COBATEST)
  Jordi Casabona
• Key findings HIV in Europe projects
  Dorthe Raben
  HIV in Europe Secretariat, Manager, CHIP, Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen

Funding mechanisms to fight HIV/AIDS

• Funding mechanisms to fight HIV/AIDS
  Cinthia Menel Lemos
  Executive Agency for Health and Consumers
• HIV/AIDS Health Programme projects
• HIV/AIDS research in Horizon 2020 and the work programme 2014-2015
  Alessandra Martini
  Research & Innovation DG, Unit RTD.E.3 Fighting infectious diseases and emerging epidemics

Update from Member States

• Last developments in the National Programme - Portugal
  A. Diniz
• Update from Member States - France
  Bernard Faliu
• Controversies and challenges tackling HIV
  Saulius Čaplinskas
  Director, Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS; Professor, Mykolas Romeris University; Vilnius, Lithuania
• Monitoring the Dublin Declaration 2014
  Teymur Noori