Welcome

BREACH, the Belgium Research on AIDS and HIV Consortium, is the result of a collaborative effort of the Belgian HIV Reference Centres (HRC) and
Laboratories (HRL), scientific research groups and interest organisations in the field of HIV infection and AIDS, aiming to maximise, in all transparency, synergies between its members.

BREACH aims to stimulate and facilitate Belgian research of all kinds (clinical trials, epidemiology, public health, basic and translational research, health economics) both at a national and at an international level and to increase its overall visibility.

More in particular, BREACH wants to upgrade the quality of the Belgian HIV cohort which should result in an extensive yearly publication of an in depth analysis of the collected data. Furthermore, BREACH wants to collaborate in and to stimulate the development of a coherent approach of the prevention and treatment of HIV infection and AIDS in Belgium, to act as a representative of its members and to provide the outer world with correct information about this pathology.

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  • Management of pregnancy in WLWH: Belgian guidelines

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  • SAVE THE DATES

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    - Spring 2024 on HIV Cure - 24&25/05/2024

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  • Next SC meetings 2023

    Future BREACH SC meetings by visioconference 17:00-19:00

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    • Wednesday 12/06 + AG

Next events:

Spring Meeting on HIV Cure

The Dolce, La Hulpe - 24/05/2024 - 25/05/2024

Dear all,

We have no more rooms so if you want to register to participate online or without accomodation, please click on this link to register :
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Please find below the draft program:

Day 1 – Friday 24 May 2024

18:30                  Arrival, registration and reception

19:00 – 19:10     Welcome – Introduction
Stéphane De Wit – BREACH Chairman

1: The hurdles to HIV cure (overview)
Moderator: Gilles Darcis – CHU Liège

19:10 – 19:35     What does cure mean and why is a cure difficult ?
Linos Vandekerckhove- UZGent

19:35 – 20:00     An HIV cure : why, how and for whom ?
Nicolas Dauby – Saint-Pierre University Hospital

2: Patient perspectives and the encouraging stories of cured HIV individuals
Moderator: Peter Messiaen – Jessa Ziekenhuis

 20:00 – 20:20     How to communicate on HIV cure with patients (hope, expectation vs reality)?
Stéphane De Wit – Saint-Pierre University Hospital

20:20 – 20:35     Psychological follow-up of HIV persons participating in a cure trial
Charlotte Vanden Bulcke – UZ Gent

20:35 – 20:50     Patient experience on participating in a cure trial
20:50 – 21:05     Patient testimonial
Adam Castillejo, the London patient

21:05 – 21:10     What’s wrong with women?
Sherihane Bensemmane – Aide Info SIDA

21:10 – 21:25     Debate : Q&A
Linos Vandekerckhove – UZ Gent and Axel Vanderperre – Positive Council

21:15                 Closure
Stéphane De Wit, BREACH Chairman

21:20                 Dinner

 

Day 2 – Saturday 25 May 2024

3: How does the HIV cure research can serve clinicians?
Moderators: Charlotte Martin – Saint-Pierre University Hospital and Marie-Angélique De Scheerder – UZ Gent

09:00 – 09:30     Immune modulatory therapies towards HIV remission/cure
Sarah Fidler – Imperial College London, UK

09:30 – 09:55     How does HIV cure research contribute to the understanding of resistance to ART
Gilles Darcis – CHU Liège

09:55 – 10:15     Coffee break

10:15 – 10:40     Early treatment and post-treatment HIV control  (lessons learned from Visconti)
Jozefien De Clercq – UZ Gent

10:40 – 11:05     The interplay between the immune system and the HIV reservoir
Joeri Aerts – VUB

11:05 – 11:30     Should we activate the reservoir or make it more dormant?
Zeger Debyser – KU Leuven

11:30 – 12:05     How to go forward – panel discussion
Eric Florence – UZA and (Sabine Allard – UZ Brussel)

12:10 – 12:20     Closing remarks (including PLHIV perspective)
Linos Vandekerckhove – UZ Gent and Axel Vanderperre – Positive Council

12:20                  Lunch

 

 

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