Prevention and control of infectious diseases among people who inject drugs: New evidence within the updated guidance from the ECDC and the EMCDDA

Networking zone 3 (N3)
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Wednesday, 23 November, 2022 - 13:20 to 14:50
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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) are updating their joint 2011 guidance on the prevention and control of infectious diseases among people who inject drugs. The guidance focuses on the prevention and control of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) and is intended for use by policy makers and public health/social programme planners. The aim of this session is to present the scope of the updated guidance, as well as the new evidence from systematic reviews behind some of the forthcoming updated recommendations.

Chair

Sandberg
Janelle
  • Scientific officer,
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC),
  • Solna,
  • Sweden
Seyler
Thomas
  • Analyst,
  • EMCDDA,
  • Lisbon,
  • Portugal

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Wednesday, 23 November

13:20
Oral presentation

1. Overview of the updated ECDC/EMCDDA guidance on the prevention and control of infectious diseases among people who inject drugs

13:20 to 14:50
Networking zone 3 (N3)
Anne Bergenstrom, Janelle Sandberg
Oral presentation

2. Effectiveness of drug treatment, needle and syringe programmes and drug consumption rooms in the prevention of blood-borne viruses among people who inject drugs – updated evidence from reviews of empirical and mathematical modelling studies

13:20 to 14:50
Networking zone 3 (N3)
Matthew Hickman
Oral presentation

3. Enhancing the HCV care cascade among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and considerations from an expert panel

13:20 to 14:50
Networking zone 3 (N3)
Ilonka Horváth
Discussion

Perspectives from government and civil society member(s) of the ECDC and EMCDDA expert panel on the key areas of intervention

13:20 to 14:50
Networking zone 3 (N3)
Janelle Sandberg, Anne Bergenstrom, Anna Tarján, Mat Southwell, Viktor Mravcik, Annette Verster, Slava Kushakov
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