The 5th Eastern Europe and Central Asia AIDS Conference will take place in Moscow, World Trade Center, March 23-25, 2016
Organizers: Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor), UNAIDS
Date: March 23-25, 2016
Venue: World Trade Center, Moscow, Russia
12 Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment
Number of attendees: 2500
The Conference will concentrate on knowledge exchange among scientists, experts, healthcare providers, healthcare professionals and community workers in terms of the best practices and strategies to fight HIV/AIDS epidemic. This will help augment the potential of Eastern Europe and Central Asia region to achieve the target set by UNAIDS: ending AIDS epidemic by 2030.
Key Conference Topics
- Prevention: ensuring efficiency under current rates of the epidemiologic development
- Treatment as prevention: treat more, treat better, treat cheaper
- Successes of the region in PMTCT: lessons of the past and future objectives
- Agenda for 2015-2030: the role of new global partnerships in overcoming HIV, tuberculosis and other dangerous infectious diseases
- EECA and BRICS partnership to fight the epidemic
- Latest scientific achievements and research trends
- Human rights: overcoming stigma and discrimination
- Cultural, social and gender aspects impacting the development of epidemics
- The role of migration flows in spreading the epidemic
- Vulnerable groups
- New testing technologies: HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis
- HIV and tuberculosis
- HIV and hepatitis: living with hepatitis in the era when a complete cure is available
- Intersectoral cooperation
- Mobilization of the societies to fight the epidemic
For more information about the conference and hands-on news, please visit the event’s website.
