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EACS 2021: Highlights from the European AIDS Conference

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Published Date: 02/14/2022

Expiration Date: 11/09/2024

CE Credit: CME:1

Presenter(s)

Jürgen Rockstroh,MD, PhD

Jürgen Rockstroh, MD, PhD is Professor of Medicine and Head of the HIV Outpatient Clinic at the University of Bonn in Germany. He earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn, and completed his residency in the Department of Medicine also at the University of Bonn. His department treats the world’s largest cohort of HIV-infected hemophiliacs. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Rockstroh is involved in HIV research on: antiretroviral therapy, including new drug classes; the course of HIV disease in hemophiliacs; and HIV and hepatitis co-infection. More recently, he has also started working on the impact of COVID-19 on HIV-coinfection. He has been an investigator in multiple clinical trials of antiretroviral agents and treatments for HIV, hepatitis co-infection and COVID-19. Since 2009 he has been a member of the executive committee of the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS).

Learning Objectives

  • Become familiar with the current HIV epidemiology in Europe.
  • Understand the impact of COVID-19 on PLWH.
  • Be aware of new data on antiretroviral therapy in HIV.
  • Learn about new cohort research on aging in HIV and impact of HIV frequency and severity of underlying comorbidities.

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