Thursday 06 June
Welcome address (14:30-14:45)
— Adrian Streinu-Cercel
University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila", National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Bucharest (RO)
Special populations (14:45-15:15)
— Mariana Mardarescu: Pediatric HIV
National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Bucharest (RO)
— Cristiana Oprea: On the way to micro-elimination in HIV/HCV coinfected patients belonging to key populations
University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila", Bucharest (RO)
An update from ECDC (15:15-15:45)
— Teymur Noori
ECDC Stockholm (SE)
Keynote lecture: (15:45-16:15)
— Maja Stanojevic: HIV-1 subtypes in the Balkans: a synopsis
University of Belgrade (RS)
Coffee break (16:15-16:30)
Oral abstracts 1: Epidemiology, public health (16:30-17:30)
— Danica Valkovičová Staneková (SK): Changes of HIV epidemic in Slovakia – a challenge to reach UNAIDS goals "95-95-95"
— Robert Hohan (RO): Newly diagnosed HIV infections in Romania during 2019-2022: a molecular approach to enhance the epidemiological data
— Justyna Kowalska (PL): Self-reported testing and linkage to care among people living with HIV in Central and Eastern Europe - data from Go Holistic Go Beyond project
— Botond Lakatos (HU) Cristiana Oprea (RO): Availability of diagnostics for AIDS Defining Illnesses in EU and non-EU countries of the Central Eastern Europe– data from the Euroguidelines in Central and Easter Europe (ECEE) Network Group
— Adrian Paun (RO): Chemsex and other sexual risk behaviors among men who have sex with men living with HIV in Bucharest
Industry sponsored presentations (17:30-18:00)
Keynote lectures: (17:30-18:00)
— Jean-Michel Molina: Update on PrEP
Saint-Louis and Lariboisière Hospitals, Paris (FR)
Friday 07 June
Oral abstracts 2: Coinfections, comorbidities, viral infections other than HIV (9:00-10:30)
— Georgiana Neagu (RO): Non-Hodgkin lymphomas in people living with HIV
— Cristian-Mihail Niculae (RO): Overlapping cardio-pulmonary syndromes in severe COVID-19: the central role of CT-imaging data
— Antonia Roman (RO): Comorbidities in patients aging with HIV
— Ruxandra Moroti (RO): Half-brain progressive shrinking – what’s the cause
— Ana Maria Tudor (RO): Four Year Follow Up in Heavily Treated HIV Patients on Single Tablet Regimen
— Catalin Lazar (RO): Manipulation of host cell ER stress by viral envelope glycoproteins stimulates viral infection at early stages
— Mihaela Uta (RO): Investigation of Molecular Pathways in HBV-Associated B-Cell Lymphoproliferative Diseases
Industry sponsored presentations (10:30-11:15)
Coffee break (11:15-11:30)
Oral abstracts 3: HIV Resistance (11:30-12:45)
— Ivailo Alexiev (BG): Challenges in Implementing Whole-Genome Next-Generation Sequencing of HIV-1 for Therapy Monitoring
— Leontina Banica (RO): New insights in HIV-1 transmitted drug resistance in Romania in different transmission risk groups
— Maja M. Lunar (SL): HIV-1 Pretreatment drug resistance in the prep era in Slovenia
— Monika Hábeková (SK): Resistance testing to capsid inhibitor Lenacapavir in HIV-1 strains resistant to integrase inhibitors
— Thibault Mesplède (NL): Characterization of 3’PPT mutations found in patients failing dolutegravir
— Ianache Irina (RO): Salvage regimens containing a combination of integrase inhibitors with doravirine in heavily antiretroviral-experienced people living with HIV
Industry sponsored presentations (12:45-13:30)
Lunch Break (13:30-14:30)
Keynote lecture: (14:30-15:00)
— Josip Begovac: Challenges in contemporary antiretroviral therapy
Fran Mihaljević University Hospital, Zagreb (HR)
Minisession and panel discussion (15:00-15:45)
— Gordana Dragovic Lukic: PK and ageing
University of Belgrade (RS)
— Isabela Tarcomnicu: PK and low level viremias
National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Bucharest (RO)
Coffee break (15:45-16:00)
Industry sponsored presentations (16:00-16:45)
Keynote lectures: (16:45-17:45)
— Sanjay Bhagani: Towards a HBV cure
Royal Free Hospital, London (UK)
— Graeme Moyle: HIV and the Cardiovascular Risk
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London (UK)
Saturday 08 June
Oral abstracts 4: Molecular epidemiology, Bioinformatics (9:00-10:15)
— Alexandru Marian Milea (RO): Factors associated with in-hospital mortality in HIV-infected patients with tuberculous meningitis
— Costin-Ioan Popescu (RO): Dynamics of SARS CoV-2 cross-neutralizing antibody response in convalescent Covid-19 patients – molecular mechanisms involved in SARS CoV-2 seroneutralization
— Marius Surleac (RO): Advancing viral genomics through comprehensive bioinformatic approaches: challenges and solutions
— Marina Siljic (RS): Using advanced phylogenetic approaches to understand the HIV-1 transmission and evolutionary dynamics in Serbia
— Ovidiu Vlaicu (RO): Phylogenetic analysis of partial genome sequences of Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus type 1 (HTLV-1) from Romanian patients
— Luka Jovanovic (RS): Enhancing COVID-19 Surveillance: Insights from Partial Genome Sequencing and Phylogenetic Analysis in Resource-Limited Settings
Keynote lectures: (10:15-11:15)
— Dimitrios Paraskevis: The evolution of primary HIV resistance in the Balkans
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)
— Annemarie Wensing: Long Covid
University Medical Center, Utrecht (NL)
Coffee break (11:15-11:30)
Industry sponsored presentation (11:30-11:45)
Toolkit training update (11:45-12:45)
— Colette Smith: What to look at in an article: a reader’s view
University College London (UK)
— Oana Sandulescu What to look at in an article: an editor’s view
National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Bucharest (RO)
— Mike Youle: How to make sure our patients don’t have missed diagnoses under other medical specialties – case reports
Royal Free Hospital, London (UK)
Closing remarks (12:45-13:00)
E-posters
Bianca Bălaș-Maftei
Iasi (RO)
Liver’s virals pathology in HIV-positive patient
Anca-Ruxandra Negru
Bucuresti (RO)
Unusual clinical evolution of Mpox infection in a severely immunosuppressed patient
Gheorghe Cosma-Codrin
Bucuresti (RO)
Ulcerative nasal HSV infection in late presenter HIV patient - case report
Ianache Irina
Bucuresti (RO)
Cutaneous diphtheria, a new threat of an old disease
Isabela Ioana Loghin
Iasi (RO)
Characteristics and associated comorbidities of patients with HIV infection admitted to the Iasi HIV/AIDS Regional Center
Raluca Mihai
Constanta (RO)
HIV-TB Coinfection
Alexandru Marian Milea
Bucuresti (RO)
Factors associated with in-hospital mortality in HIV-infected patients with tuberculous meningitis
Carmen Pălimariu
Bucuresti (RO)
Analysis of clinical, epidemiological, and immunological characteristics of HIV-infected patients registered at a general hospital in Bucharest: a statistical overview
Andreea-Ioana Tudor
Bucuresti (RO)
The dynamics and interactions of respiratory viruses during two consecutive flu seasons in a tertiary hospital
Arbune Manuela
Galati (RO)
Human Papillomavirus-Associated Cancers in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: 2 cases reports
Monica-Daniela Pădurariu-Coviț
Galati (RO)
Two neoplasia co-morbidities and human immunodeficiency virus during COVID-19 pandemic – a case report