European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS)
The European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) is a not-for-profit scientific society of European clinicians and researchers, active in the field of HIV/AIDS. Established in 1991, the society has about 600 members. It is currently chaired by Prof. Peter Reiss from the Netherlands as President and Prof. Manuel Battegay from Switzerland as Vice-President.
The current members of the Executive Committee are:
José Ramon Arribas (Spain)
Manuel Battegay (Switzerland) Vice-President
Nathan Clumeck (Belgium) Treasurer
Antonella D’Arminio Monforte (Italy)
José Gatell (Spain) Past President
Anna Maria Geretti (United Kingdom)
Christine Katlama (France)
Jens Lundgren (Denmark)
Fiona Mulcahy (Ireland) Secretary
Anton Pozniak (United Kingdom)
Peter Reiss (The Netherlands) President
Jürgen Rockstroh (Germany)
Mike Youle (United Kingdom)
The main activities of the society are:
Organisation of the European AIDS Conference/EACS
This is the most comprehensive European HIV/AIDS meeting, which is held every two years in a different European city.
Issuing Treatment Guidelines
The European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) established a panel of European HIV treating physicians who produced the EACS Guidelines on the Clinical Management of HIV Infection which were designed to assist in the care of HIV patients and to establish a standard of clinical practice across Europe.
- Guidelines for the Clinical Management and Treatment of HIV-Infected Adults
- Guidelines on the Prevention and Management of Metabolic Diseases in HIV
- Guidelines for the Clinical Management and Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B and C co-infection in HIV-Infected Adults
The full text of the guidelines have been published in HIV Medicine 2008; 9: 65 - 88. EACS aims to present and distribute an update and extension of these guidelines during the upcoming conference in Cologne.
Regularly updated versions are available at www.europeanaidsclinicalsociety.org.
Education and Training of HIV-Physicians
The EACS provides scholarships to young physicians through three educational programmes:
1) The “Medical Exchange Programme for HIV Physicians” and the “One Year Fellowship Programme” offer up to one year of training in one of the 16 clinical centres affiliated with the EACS across Europe.
2) The “European Advanced HIV Course” which is held every year in September in Montpellier, France and is intended for physicians managing HIV-infection and having a basic knowledge of it. The course is divided between plenary sessions and a series of related workshops. The 2008 course was attended by 53 students from 37 different countries.
3) The “Eastern Europe Programme”: A training programme directed towards Russian speaking physicians. It aims to provide instruction on how to best set up and organise appropriate care for HIV-Infected persons. This programme is run out of the Hospital of Infectious Diseases AIDS Diagnosis and Therapy Center in Warsaw, Poland.
For further information, please contact the EACS:
European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS)
Hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière
Pavillon Laveran
EACS Office
47, boulevard de l’Hôpital
75651 Paris Cédex 13 • France
Phone: +33-1-44241796
Email: sylvie.chatelin@europeanaidsclinicalsociety.org
www.europeanaidsclinicalsociety.org