Networking

The EATG has lobbied at the European level since 1998 in the interests of people living with HIV and AIDS for better, more equal and quicker access to vital medications. These activities have involved monitoring the political health agenda of the EU Institutions (European Commission and Parliament) as well as the European Medicinal Evaluation Agency (EMEA) and its Committee for Human Medicinal Products (CHMP) on specific issues which it believes have an impact on the EATG and the European HIV/AIDS community.

In 2006, EATG became the first HIV/AIDS NGO to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the WHO Regional Office for Europe.

Since 2005, the EATG has been granted by the United Nations its special consultative status within the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

EATG participates in projects funded by DG SANCO of the European Commission:

• AIDS Action and Integration
• AIDS & Mobility
• European Partners in Action on AIDS

EATG is also a partner of two important Networks of Excellence (FP6) funded by DG Research, European Commission:

• NEAT - European AIDS Treatment Network (Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health) (2007-02-01 - 2012-01-31)
• EUROPRISE - European Vaccine and Microbicides Enterprise (Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health) (2007-01-01 - 2011-12-31)

EATG sits in working parties and committees of various international institutions

EATG also participates in shaping programmes of international conferences

• The Civil Society Forum (DG SANCO, European Commission)
• The Pharmaceutical Forum (DG SANCO & DG Enterprise, European Commission)
• European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA)
  • Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP)
    • Working Group with Patients’ Organisations
• Forum for Collaborative HIV Research (FCHR)
• Paediatric European Network for Treatment of AIDS (PENTA)
• The European Platform for Patients' Organisations, Science and Industry (EPPOSI)
• European Forum for Good Clinical Practice (EFGCP)
• European Network of Centres Providing Reproductive Assistance to Couples with Sexually Transmitted Infections (CREAThE)

• Steering Committee on the Metabolic Complications of HAART
• Collaboration of Observational HIV Epidemiological Research in Europe (COHERE)
• Europe HIV Resistance Network
• International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection – Scientific Committee
• Eastern European and Central Asian AIDS Conference – Organizing Committee
• International HIV Transmission Workshop
• South-Eastern Network of PLWHA
• European HIV Drug Resistance Workshop (2008)
• HIV Glasgow Conference
• European Forum for Good Clinical Practice, Science & Ethics Council

EATG is regularly consulted by:

• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
• World Health Organisation (WHO)
• Global Fund to Fight Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and Malaria (GFTAM)
• European Commission DG's

EATG maintains strong connexions with International Peer Networks

The EATG maintains strong links with harm reduction and drug user group from Western and Eastern Europe as well as advocacy organisations and networks of people living with HIV/AIDS, such as:

• International Harm Reduction Development Program (IHRD)
• Central and Eastern European Harm Reduction Network (CEEHRN)
• AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition (ATAC)
• International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC)
• Health Global Access Project (Health GAP)
• Health Action International (HAI)
• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
• Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+)
• International Community of Women with HIV/AIDS (ICW)
• Eastern European & Central Asian Union of PLWH Organizations (ECUO)
• South-Eastern European Network of PLWHA (SEEN)
• Global Campaign for Microbicides (GCM)