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. It was established in 1991 by Pr. Nathan Clumeck and Pr. Christine Katlama and has around 600 members. It is currently chaired by Pr. Peter Reiss from the Netherlands as President and Prof. Manuel Battegay from Switzerland as Vice-President. The Executive Committee consists of ten voting members, elected every four years, and three ex-officio, non-voting, members.
The main activities of the society are:
Organization 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 Guidelines for the Clinical Management and Treatment of HIV-Infected Adults in Europe" were designed to assist in the care of HIV-infected patients and to establish a standard of clinical practice across Europe. The first of these guidelines were issued in 2003 and published in "AIDS" (Vol. 17, Supp. 2, June 2003). They have been updated in 2007.
The "EACS Guidelines on the Prevention and Management of Metabolic Diseases in HIV" and the "EACS Guidelines for the Clinical Management and Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B & co-Infection in HIV-Infected Adults" have been developed in 2007.
All three guidelines have been presented and distributed during the 11th European AIDS Conference/EACS in Madrid in October 2007. They were published in the February 2008 issue of the HIV Medicine Journal.
Regularly updated versions are available at www.eacs.eu.
Education and Training of HIV-Physicians
The EACS provides scholarships to young physicians through three educational programs:
1) The "Medical Exchange Program for HIV-Physicians" offers up to one year of training in one of the 16 clinical centers affiliated with this EACS program 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 followed by a series of related workshops and clinical discussion. The last course took place from September 3-5, 2008.
3) The "Eastern Europe Program": A training program directed towards Russian speaking physicians. It aims to provide instruction on how to best set up and organize appropriate care for HIV-infected persons. This program is run out of the Hospital of Infectious Diseases AIDS Diagnosis and Therapy Center in Warsaw, Poland.
For further information about the EACS, 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
E-mail: sylvie-chatelin@eacs.eu
www.eacs.eu
EACS Executive Committee Members
Elected Members
Peter Reiss, The Netherlands, President
Manuel Battegay, Switzerland, Vice President
Nathan Clumeck, Belgium, Treasurer and Past President
Fiona Mulcahy, Ireland, Secretary
Antonella d'Arminio-Monforte, Italy
José M. Gatel, Spain
Jens Lundgren, Denmark
Anton Pozniak, UK
Francois Raffi, France
Schlomo Staszewski, Germany
Ex-Officio Members
Christine Katlama, France, Past President
Andrzej Horban, Poland, Past Administrator
Mike Youle, UK, Immediate Past Secretary