Конференции

Первая очная ежегодная встреча COBATEST после COVID-19 состоялась 15 и 16 ноября 2022 года в Барселоне, Испания. Эта встреча была самым большим собранием COBATEST, в котором приняли участие 70 членов сети. Помимо запуска отчёта COBATEST за 2021 год, участники обсудили миграцию, услуги на уровне сообщества и роль сети COBATEST в оказании помощи ДКТБС. Посмотреть протокол собрания можно здесь. Посмотреть протокол собрания можно здесь. Презентации встречи загружены здесь.

Презентации встречи COBATEST:

• COBATEST Network Report 2021 and presenting future plans for the data
• European Testing Week. Ben Collins, working group chair
• Fast-Track Cities Institute and IAPAC. Tanja Dittfeld, regional director for Europe
• European Harm Reduction Net-work – BOOST project. Roberto Pérez Gayo, Policy Officer at Correlation
• CORE project. Oksana Panochenko, AIDS Action Europe
• Preliminary findings of the assessment of the legal and policy barriers to the provision of CBVCT and HIV self-testing

Конференция EUSTI в Грузии проходила с 29 сентября по 1 октября 2022 года в гибридном формате. Доктор Меги Гогишвили представила реферат на основе описательных данных, собранных сетью COBATEST в 2019 и 2020 годах.

A presentation was conducted on Comparison of HIV testing performed pre and during COVID-19 at Community-Based Testing Centers in Europe based on data collected by COBATEST Network during 2019 and 2020. From 2019 to 2020, forty centers from 15 European countries reported data on HIV testing in both years using the COBATEST standardized data reporting tools. In total 111,117 persons were tested for HIV by forty centers in 2019, and in 2020 the same 40 centers reported 70084 (36.9% less) persons tested. Most of the centers demonstrated substantial decrease in persons tested ranging from 30% to 60% compared to 2019. Three centers had reported more than 60% decrease in HIV testing in 2020 compared to 2019. Minor increase was found in 4 centers and one center reported substantial increase. Overall, drastic change in proportion of persons tested for HIV in 2019 compared to 2020 has been found. The difference could be attributed to availability of these services during lockdowns and also to restrictions imposed by governments on free movement across the cities/towns/countries due to COVID-19 pandemic. However, this data should be interpreted cautiously as no specific data has been collected on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in these 40 centers. Please find full presentation онлайн.