First regional symposium on HIV … What are the latest treatments?

The Medical Center of the American University of Beirut, in collaboration with the International AIDS Society, organized the first regional meeting of the Middle East and North Africa Education Society Fund. . The meeting, which was held from June 28 to 30 at the Medical Center of the American University of Beirut, was dedicated to HIV in order to reach a consensus on how to translate the latest scientific developments into results. concrete.

Comprehensive health care modelParticipants included experts, health care providers, activists, international organizations (including the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria), a group of people living with HIV throughout the Middle East and North Africa. The meeting provided the HIV community and local partners with an opportunity to collaborate, make recommendations and reach consensus on recommendations that would translate into scientific evidence the latest scientific developments in this area.

"This regional seminar contributes to building a comprehensive model of HIV treatment, focused on high quality clinical care, education and HIV prevention awareness," said Nisreen Rizk, specialist infectious diseases at the American University of Beirut. And highlight the results of scientific research in this area. "

"For a long time, the American University of Beirut, the Faculty of Medicine and the Medical Center of the American University of Beirut have been recognized for their pioneering position in the region," said Dr. Mohammed Sayegh, Executive Vice President of Medicine and International Strategies and Dean of the Raja Khoury College of Medicine at the American University of Beirut. "The conference is a first step and the process is long, we need to take a lot of action and we have to work in this area, especially in our region."

Initiatives and therapeutic suggestionsThe seminar was also an opportunity to discuss initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa to change health care policies in areas such as HIV treatment, new prevention technologies, joint treatments. Participants explored a range of new initiatives and proposals to improve health care services and their delivery to the community, particularly to marginalized and affected groups.

In this context, Dr. Rizk explained that HIV was discovered in 1984, the cause of AIDS. Today, thanks to effective antiretroviral therapy, people infected with HIV will not suffer the adverse effects of immunodeficiency and should have a life expectancy similar to that of a natural person. The treatment also ensures undetectable viral levels in the blood – that is, an HIV-positive person with undetectable levels of HIV will not pbad the virus to his or her partners. In this case, the treatment is a prevention. "

Participants agreed on the importance of providing every HIV-infected patient with the best possible medical care and support. The meeting was an opportunity for researchers from the Middle East and North Africa and beyond to establish links and initiate collaboration in the scientific field, as well as treatments and research. HIV prevention.