The CORE project is pleased to invite you to the webinar “The HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STIs Testing and Diagnostics Landscape: An Update”, on 2 May 2024 at 12:30 – 13:30 CET (13:30 – 14:30 EET).
About the webinar: WHO will share recommendations to modernise testing algorithms to expand screening and for prompt linkage to care. The webinar will address Western Blot testing in the context of other effective and cheaper options to confirm an HIV diagnosis. WHO will provide an overview on the diagnostics landscape for cost-effective testing in community settings. Participants will discuss ways in which to increase testing capacity of service providers.
Background: The needs assessment, conducted among CORE’s 14 community-based organisations across 12 European countries, revealed that testing kits used could be more cost-effective to save resources and scale up testing.
Speakers:
Cheryl Johnson – WHO Headquarters, Geneva
Viatcheslav Grankov – WHO European Region Office, Copenhagen.
To attend the webinar, please register here.
*The webinar agenda will be available in the coming week*
About the CORE project
The CORE Project (“Community Response to End Inequalities”) aims to reduce inequalities by promoting, strengthening and integrating the community responses that have proven key in bringing services closer to persons who would benefit most but face inadequate access, in particular countries where these responses are still lacking. This will happen through capacity building, networking, and the exchange of good practice and innovative approaches, as well as through a proactive outreach and engagement of relevant stakeholders, while addressing legal, policy, and structural issues to promote integration of these approaches into disease prevention and health promotion strategies and systems.
The CORE project will build on and intensify collaboration of regional networks and national and local organisations of people living with HIV, key populations, and service provider organisations. It will use, adapt, and disseminate existing national, regional, and global good practice approaches and tools from across key populations and disease areas, and provide platforms for exchange.
CORE Knowledge Hub – Community Skill Boosting Sessions
The Knowledge Hub is introducing a series of meetings aimed at sharing best practices in community health services for communities most affected by HIV, TB, viral hepatitis and STIs. The Hub will also be a place where community organisations and partners can share experience and discuss solutions to issues encountered. The meetings will be recorded for post-event sharing on the CORE website.
The Knowledge Hub is co-organised by the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) in close collaboration with Africa Advocacy Foundation (AAF), European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance (ESWA), and Correlation – European Harm Reduction Network (C-EHRN).
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The CORE project has received funding from the Health Programme of the European Union under grant agreement No 101080079.
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Practical Information
- CORE Knowledge Hub Webinar # 1 | The HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STIs Testing and Diagnostics Landscape: An Update : Date: Wednesday, 2 May 2024 – 12:30-13:30 CET (13:30-14:30 EET)
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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