Policy-makers and stakeholders from across Europe assembled in Brussels for the inaugural meeting of HIV Outcomes: Beyond Viral Suppression. We discussed our mission to ensure that health systems respond better to the many challenges faced by people living with HIV so that they can live long, active and healthy lives.

Speakers highlighted for EU policymakers that improving outcomes can lead to health system efficiencies and economic benefits such as reducing future demand for health services and contributing to social cohesion.

• Agenda

  9.00-9.30am | Registration and coffee

  9.30-9.45am | Welcome and introduction

  • Chair, John Bowis, OBE

  • Nikos Dedes, “Beyond viral suppression” Steering Group Co-Chair (Board Member, European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG))

  9.45-11.00am | The need for a new paradigm – “Beyond viral suppression”

  Towards patient-centred health and social care systems for PLHIV

  Jackie Morton, Chair of European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG)

  What kind of health services delivery reconfiguration is needed to improve outcomes for PLHIV?

  • Prof. Jane Anderson, “Beyond viral suppression” Steering Group Co-Chair (Homerton University Hospital)

  • Prof. Stéphane De Wit, Saint-Pierre Hospital Clinic Brussels

  HIV, ageing, and co-morbidities: the challenges ahead

  Leen Meulenbergs, WHO Representative to the EU

  Call to action: “Beyond viral suppression: Improving outcomes for people living with HIV”

  • Nikos Dedes, “Beyond viral suppression” Steering Group Co-Chair (Board Member, EATG)

  • Moderated by Chair, John Bowis

  11.00-11.15am | Coffee

  11.15-11.30am | Taking action to deliver on policy goals: connecting national, regional and local

  Ricardo Baptista Leite MP, Portugal

  11.30am-12.40pm | Health system performance and HIV: improving outcomes, access and efficiency

  The EU agenda on health system performance

  Sylvain Giraud, Head of Unit, DG SANTE B1 – Health Systems, European Commission

  Interim report: “Beyond viral suppression: Improving outcomes and health system innovation for PLHIV”

  Prof. Jeffrey Lazarus, “Beyond viral suppression” Steering Group Co-Chair (IS Global)

  Discussants

  • Anna-Liisa Pääsukene, Adviser, Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs

  • Bertrand Audoin, Vice-President, International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC)

  • Moderated by Chair, John Bowis

  12.40-1.00pm | Conclusions and next steps

  • MEP Eva Kaili (Greece, Socialists & Democrats)

  • Steering Group Co-Chairs: Nikos Dedes, Jane Anderson, Jeffrey Lazarus

  1.00-2.00pm | Lunch