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.