Chris O'Connor

[Dr. Stine Nielsen @StineNielsenEPI]

Great slide on HIV continium of care in Europe from #HepHIV2017 @SaldanhaVP @EATGx @MasoudDara @wolfenyc @UNODC_HIV @PHE_uk @HIVandHepatitis https://t.co/eJScEgpY3N

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#HepHIV2017 Gazzard 'alot of testing - but often the wrong groups, 'if we just tested everyone with infectious mono we would pick up 1-2%'

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Brian Gazzard @ HepHIV2017 some HIV cure proposals are absurd due to cost and 37m to treat, 'we need collaboration and sometimes contrition'

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Chelsea & Westminster have been testing for HIV, HCV and HBV in their A&E dept, Nov 2015 to Dec 2016, new results at #HepHIV2017

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#HepHIV2017 HIV testing in Estonia - a challenging environment - government has announced there is a new budget for rapid HIV testing

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Indicator condition testing low in Estonia - in STI's only 10% of women tested for HIV #HepHIV2017 HCV gets a HIV test, only 30% of the time

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#HepHIV2017 19,338 people started treatement for HCV in Georgia - April 2015 till Sept 2016 - over 30,000 treated with DDAs in two years

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#HepHIV2017 HCV testing among the general population asking for a test in Georgia - 84,000 tests, 17% positive. - migrants not included

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#HepHIV2017 Tracy Swan looks at Project Hope study, which looked at PLWHIV - active drug users, falling out of care and how to reengage them

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#HepHIV2017 producing a HepC treatment cascade is problematic when less than 10% of HCV patients have been successfully treated, J Rockstroh

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Late presentation of PLWHIV caused 2,500 excess deaths between 2010 and 2014 - in ECDC region Amanda Mocroft presenting at #HepHIV2017

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#HepHIV2017 @ECDC_EU shows the UK tops the latest European table of people diagnosed HIV and on treatment - over 90%

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UK guidelines say HIV test after Hep B/C diagnosis - study of 58,000 patients - only 40% from each cohort were actually tested #HepHIV2017

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#HepHIV2017 Aussie Margaret Hellard HCV who to treat? 'Europe has to get better drug price negotiators. Right now u have crap negotiators.'

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Portugal managed to treat 13,000 HCV patients over two years, leveraging political will and turning words into action, D Simoes #HepHIV2017

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#HepHIV2017 each day 400 people in the European WHO region die of HCV we need to keep this in mind during our talk, Daniel Simoes, activist

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#HepHIV2017 AMPrEP demo project in N'Land, 73% chose daily PrEP - but higher than expected HepC prevalence, guidelines need to look at this

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#HepHIV2017 more on PrEP - Neat Study, Germany, 2017, looks at risk of HepC reinfection - showed a 2 year cumulative rate of 25-33%

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#HepHIV2017 Dean Street Prime, started in May 2016 a programme for those at v high risk of HIV - online service, access to Express Clinic

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#HepHIV2017 once PrEP is available on NHS there will be big demand we have to manage this - Skype clinics, home testing, outreach - S Patel