La première conférence européenne sur l’hépatite C et l’usage de drogues se déroulera à Berlin les 24 et 25 octobre prochain. Bloquez la date!
Save the date for the first European Conference on Hepatitis C and Drug Use!
Need for action: End the silence on Hepatitis C
The considerable and increasing burden of HCV across Europe is rarely reflected in awareness or attention to the issue. However, this is about to change. Highly effective new treatments are being introduced and there is a growing recognition that truly inclusive testing and treatment policies need to be established now.
The 1st European conference will bring together key actors on HCV, including drug user community representatives, harm reduction experts, health care professionals, pharmaceutical companies, researchers and policy makers to develop pathways for effective health responses and to open treatment for those who need it.
One of the highlights during the conference will be the presentation of the ‘Berlin Declaration’, a pressing call to national and European policy makers, to ensure better access and quality of HCV treatment for the most marginalised groups and individuals.
Thematic topics
Moderated discussion session about policies and best praxis examples from all over Europe, practical skill building sessions on testing and peer based work and abstract driven sessions on innovative approaches will ensure an interactive, vibrant conference.
Priority topics are
- clinical treatment and the impact of new medicines
- pricing, new medicines and advocacy
- research on (cost) effectiveness of treating drug user
- preventing HCV: The role of harm reduction and HCV treatment
- reaching different target groups with HCV prevention and treatment (migrants, prisoners, msm)
- drug user perspective, peer based work
Registration
- Early bird registration 100 Euro until 1 July 2014
- Regular registration until 1 October 150 Euro
- Late registration after 1 October 200 Euro
Venue
The conference takes place at
GLS Campus
Kastanienallee 82
10435 Berlin
GLS Campus is an international language school and is located in the historic center of Berlin, in trendy ‘Prenzlauer Berg’: Around 1900 this district used to be a poor peoples´ habitat. After WW II Prenzlauer Berg ended up in the communist part of Berlin – with many intellectuals and artists living here.
Registration and abstract submission at
http://www.hepatitis-c-initiative.eu/ or http://conference.hepatitis-c-initiative.eu/index.html
The conference is organised in collaboration with the Aktionsbündnis Leberhilfe. A German speaking conference part takes place at 22 and 23 October in the same venue.
