HIV Sibiu Dialogues VI
06-08 June 2024

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

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