Oral presentations

Update on ECEE activities in 2020.

HIV and COVID-19 epidemiological data from ECEE.


 

Posters

 



Exposure to dolutegravir in pregnant HIV positive women in Central and Eastern Europe, and neighboring countries – data from ECEE Network Group.
Justyna D. Kowalska


Access to DAAs among HCV, HCV/HIV co-infected patients in Central/Eastern Europe and the epidemiological characteristics of ESLD in this region - data from the ECEE Network Group
Agata Skrzat-Klapaczyńska


Current State of Viral Hepatitis Healthcare in Central and Eastern Europe: Data from the Euroguidelines in Central and Eastern Europe (ECEE) Network Group
Nikoloz Chkhartishvili


Comorbidities are the most important risk factor for poor outcome of COVID 19 among HIV positive patients data from Euroguidelines in Central and Eastern Europe Network Group



Access to DAAs among HCV, HCV/HIV co-infected patients in Central/Eastern Europe and the epidemiological characteristics of ESLD in this region - data from the
ECEE Network Group
Agata Skrzat-Klapaczyńska


Viral hepatitis in HIV-positive patients – testing, prophylaxis and treatment in
Central and Eastern Europe
Kerstin Kase


Rates of pregnancy and preterm birth in Central/Eastern Europe and neighboring countries – data from ECEE Networg Group
Justyna D. Kowalska


Both typical and atypical radiological changes predict poor COVID-19 outcome in HIV-positive patients from a multinational observational study – data from Euroguidelines in Central and Eastern Europe Network Group
 



Where are we with PrEP use in Central and Eastern Europe? – data from the ECEE Network Group
Josip Begovac


HIV healthcare providers are ready to introduce PreP in Central and Eastern Europe – data from ECEE Network Group
Justyna Kowalska



Cascade of care for HIV and hard to reach populations in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe – data from ECEE Network
T. Balayan



 

Publications

Irina Ianache, Agata Skrzat-Klapaczyńska, David Jilich, Lukas Fleischhans, Ivana Gmizic, Jovan Ranin, Antonios Papadopoulos, Konstantinos Protopapas, Velida Mulabdic, Botond Lakatos, Eva Livia Nagy, Josip Begovac, Tiberiu Holban, Dilek Yildiz Sevgi , Alma Cicic , Nina Yancheva , Lubomir Sojak , Nino Rukhadze , Justyna Kowalska , Cristiana Oprea; ECEE Network Group. Mpox across countries from Central and Eastern Europe - 2022 outbreak. HIV Med. 2024 May;18(5):370-375
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Cristiana Oprea  Siobhan Quirke , Irina Ianache , Dominik Bursa , Sergii Antoniak , Nikolina Bogdanic , Anne I Vassilenko , Kersti Aimla , Raimonda Matulionyte , Nino Rukhadze , Arjan Harxhi , Lukáš Fleischhans , Botond Lakatos , Dalibor Sedlacek , Gordana Dragovic , Antonija Verhaz , Nina Yancheva , Oguzhan Acet , Konstantinos Protopapas , Justyna Dominika Kowalska ;Euroguidelines in Central and Eastern Europe Network Group. HIV disease metrics and COVID-19 infection severity and outcomes in people living with HIV in central and eastern Europe. HIV Med . 2024 Mar;25(3):343-352. doi: 10.1111/hiv.13578. Epub 2023 Nov 28.
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Aimla K, Kowalska JD, Matulionyte R, Mulabdic V, Vassilenko A, Bolokadze N, Jilich D, Antoniak S, Oprea C, Balayan T, Harxhi A, Papadopoulos A, Lakatos B, Vasylyev M, Begovac J, Yancheva N, Streinu-Cercel A, Verhaz A, Gokengin D, Dragovic G, Sojak L, Skrzat-Klapaczyńska A; Euroguidelines in Central and Eastern Europe Network Group. Vaccination against HBV and HAV as Mode of Hepatitis Prevention among People Living with HIV-Data from ECEE Network Group. Vaccines (Basel). 2023 May 14;11(5):980. doi: 10.3390/vaccines11050980.
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Deniz Gokengin, Dominik Bursa, Agata Skrzat-Klapaczyńska, Ivailo Alexiev, Elena Arsikj, Tatevik Balayan, Josip Begovac, Alma Cicic, Gordana Dragovic, Arjan Harxhi , Kerstin Aimla, Botond Lakatos, Raimonda Matulionyte, Velida Mulabdic, Cristiana Oprea,  Antonios Papadopoulos, Nino Rukhadze, Dalibor Sedlacek, Lubomir Sojak, Janez Tomazic, Anna Vassilenko, Marta Vasylyev, Antonija Verhaz, Nina Yancheva, Oleg Yurin, Justyna Kowalska; Scale-Up and PEP in Central and Eastern Europe: Changes in Time and the Challenges We Face with No Expected HIV Vaccine in the near Future
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Kowalska Justyna; Rukhadze Ninoc; Sojak Lubomir; Bociąga-Jasik Monika; Sedlacek Dalibor; Matulionyte Raimondag; Jilich David; Yancheva Nina; Papadopoulos Antonios; Rozplochowski Błażej; Patrascu Raluca; Aimla Kersti; Begovac Josip; Parczewski Miłosz; Golovco Elena; Bielec Dariusz; Bartovská Zofia; Shembri Aaron; Zvirbulis Viesturs; Hlebowicz Maria; Kocbach  Piotr; Lakatos  Botond Preliminary report on the provision of HIV care to war refugees with HIV who are migrating from Ukraine: data from the ECEE Network Group. Aids. 2022;36(13):1887-90.
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Antonios Papadopoulos, Konstantinos Thomas, Konstantinos Protopapas, Sergii Antonyak, Josip Begovac, Gordana Dragovic, Deniz Gökengin, Kersti Aimla, Valbon Krasniqi, Botond Lakatos, Mariana Mardarescu, Raimonda Matulionyte, Velida Mulabdic, Cristiana Oprea, Aleksandr Panteleev, Dalibor Sedláček, Lubomir Sojak, Agata Skrzat-Klapaczyńska, Anna Vassilenko, Nina Yancheva, Oleg Yurin, Andrzej Horban, Justyna D KowalskaHIV treatment strategies across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe: New times, old problems. HIV Med. 2022.
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Bartłomiej Matłosz, Agata Skrzat-Klapaczyńska, Sergii Antoniak, Tatevik Balayan, Josip Begovac, Gordana Dragovic, Denis Gusev, Djordje Jevtovic, David Jilich, Kerstin Aimla, Botond Lakatos, Raimonda Matulionyte, Aleksandr Panteleev, Antonios Papadopoulos, Nino Rukhadze, Dalibor Sedláček, Milena Stevanovic, Anna Vassilenko, Antonija Verhaz, Nina Yancheva, Oleg Yurin, Andrzej Horban, Justyna D Kowalska Chronic Kidney Disease and Nephrology Care in People Living with HIV in Central/Eastern Europe and Neighbouring Countries-Cross-Sectional Analysis from the ECEE Network. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022;19(19)
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Skrzat-Klapaczyńska A, Kase K, Kowalska JD. HIV-positive patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in Central and Eastern European Countries. J Clin Lab Anal. 2022;36(10):e24675.
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Botond Lakatos, Justyna Kowalska, Sergii Antoniak, Deniz Gokengin, Josip Begovac, Anna Vassilenko, Piotr Wasilewski, Lukas Fleischhans, David Jilich, Raimonda Matulionyte, Kerstin Kase, Antonios Papadopoulus, Nino Rukhadze, Arjan Harxhi, Sam Hofman, Gordana Dragovic, Marta Vasyliev, Antonija Verhaz, Nina Yancheva, Cristiana Oprea Retrospective evaluation of an observational cohort by the Central and Eastern Europe Network Group shows a high frequency of potential drug-drug interactions among HIV-positive patients receiving treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) HIV Med. 2021 Dec 3. doi: 10.1111/hiv.13214.
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David Jilich, Agata Skrzat-Klapaczyńska,Lukas Fleischhans, Dominik Bursa, Sergii Antoniak, Tatevik Balayan, Josip Begovac, Alma Cicic, Gordana Dragovic, Deniz Goekengin, Arjan Harxhi, Kerstin Kase, Botond Lakatos, Raimonda Matulionyte, Velida Mulabdic, Cristiana Oprea, Antonios Papadopoulos, Nino Rukhadze, Janez Tomazic, Lida Tovba, Ľubomír Soják, Anne Vassilenko, Nina Yancheva, Oleg Yurin, Justyna Kowalska, National strategies for vaccination against COVID-19 in people living with HIV in Central and Eastern European region HIV Med. 2021 Oct 26;10.1111/hiv.13194. doi: 10.1111/hiv.13194.
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Justyna D Kowalska, Carlo Bieńkowski, Lukáš Fleischhans, Sergii Antoniak, Agata Skrzat-Klapaczyńska, Magdalena Suchacz, Nikolina Bogdanic, Deniz Gokengin, Cristiana Oprea, Igor Karpov, Kerstin Kase, Raimonda Matulionyte, Antonios Papadopoulos, Nino Rukhadze, Arjan Harxhi, David Jilich, Botond Lakatos, Dalibor Sedlacek, Gordana Dragovic, Marta Vasylyev, Antonia Verhaz, Nina Yancheva, Josip Begovac, Andrzej Horban The Presence of Either Typical or Atypical Radiological Changes Predicts Poor COVID-19 Outcomes in HIV-Positive Patients from a Multinational Observational Study: Data from Euroguidelines in Central and Eastern Europe Network Group Viruses. 2022 May 5;14(5):972. doi: 10.3390/v14050972.
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Agata Skrzat-Klapaczyńska, Justyna D Kowalska, Larisa Afonina, Svitlana Antonyak, Tatevik Balayan, Josip Begovac, Dominik Bursa, Gordana Dragovic, Deniz Gokengin, Arjan Harxhi, David Jilich, Kerstin Kase, Botond Lakatos, Mariana Mardarescu, Raimonda Matulionyte, Cristiana Oprea, Aleksandr Panteleev, Antonios Papadopoulos, Lubomir Sojak, Janez Tomazic, Anna Vassilenko, Marta Vasylyev, Antonija Verhaz, Nina Yancheva, Oleg Yurin, Andrzej HorbanThe Management of HIV Care Services in Central and Eastern Europe: Data from the Euroguidelines in Central and Eastern Europe Network Group. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022;19(13).
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Kowalska JD, Kase K, Vassilenko A, Harxhi A, Lakatos B, Lukić GD, Verhaz A, Yancheva N, Dumitrescu F, Jilich D, Machala L, Skrzat-Klapaczyńska A, Matulionyte R. The characteristics of HIV-positive patients with mild/asymptomatic and moderate/severe course of COVID-19 disease-A report from Central and Eastern Europe. Int J Infect Dis. 2021 Mar;104:293-296. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.12.026. Epub 2020 Dec 14.
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Balayan T, Begovac J, Skrzat-Klapaczyńska A, Aho I, Alexiev I, Bukovinova P, Salemovic D, Gokengin D, Harxhi A, Holban T, Jevtovic D, Kase K, Lakatos B, Latysheva I, Matulionyte R, Oprea C, Papadopoulos A, Rukhadze N, Sedlacek D, Tomazic J, Vassilenko A, Vasylyev M, Verhaz A, Yancheva N, Yurin O, Horban A, Kowalska JD; ECEE Network Group. Where are we with pre-exposure prophylaxis use in Central and Eastern Europe? Data from the Euroguidelines in Central and Eastern Europe (ECEE) Network Group. HIV Med. 2020 Oct 5. doi: 10.1111/hiv.12960.
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Kowalska JD, Skrzat-Klapaczyńska A, Bursa D, Balayan T, Begovac J, Chkhartishvili N, Gokengin D, Harxhi A, Jilich D, Jevtovic D, Kase K, Lakatos B, Matulionyte R, Mulabdic V, Nagit A, Papadopoulos A, Stefanovic M, Vassilenko A, Vasylyev M, Yancheva N, Yurin O, Horban A; ECEE Network Group. HIV care in times of the COVID-19 crisis - Where are we now in Central and Eastern Europe? Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Jul;96:311-314.
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Chkhartishvili N, Holban T, Simonović Babić J, Alexiev I, Matičič M, Kowalska J, Horban A; ECEE Network Group. State of viral hepatitis care in 16 countries of Central and Eastern European Region. Cent Eur J Public Health. 2019 Sep;27(3):212-216
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Balayan T, Oprea C, Yurin O, Jevtovic D, Begovac J, Lakatos B, Sedlacek D, Karpov I, Horban A, Kowalska JD; Euro-guidelines in Central and Eastern Europe Network Group. People who inject drugs remain hard-to-reach population across all HIV continuum stages in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe - data from Euro-guidelines in Central and Eastern Europe Network. Infect Dis (Lond). 2019 Apr;51(4):277-286.
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Gokengin D, Aho I, Sarigul Yildirim F, Bukovinova P, Siwak E, Papadopoulos A, Sedlacek D, Kowalska J. Exposure to dolutegravir in pregnant women living with HIV in Central and Eastern Europe and neighboring countries data from the ECEE Network Group. Ginekol Pol.2019;90(7):411-5.
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Skrzat-Klapaczyńska A, Matłosz B, Otelea D, Harxhi A, Vassilenko A, Bolokadze N, Rüütel K, Papadopoulos A, Mardarescu M, Youle M, Kowalska JD, Horban A. Epidemiological characteristics and access to end-stage liver disease care for HIV-positive patients with HCV and/or HBV coinfections in Central/Eastern European and neighboring countries - data from the ECEE network. Przegl Epidemiol. 2019;73(1):61-68.
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Kowalska JD, Bursa D, Gökengin D, Jilich D, Tomazic J, Vasylyev M, Bukovinowa P, Mulabdic V, Antonyak S, Horban A; ECEE Network Group. HIV health care providers are ready to introduce pre-exposure prophylaxis in Central and Eastern Europe and neighbouring countries: data from the Euroguidelines in Central and Eastern Europe (ECEE) Network Group. HIV Med. 2018 Oct;19(9):629-633
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Kowalska JD, Oprea C, de Witt S, Pozniak A, Gökengin D, Youle M, Lundgren JD, Horban A; ECEE Network Group. Euroguidelines in Central and Eastern Europe (ECEE) conference and the Warsaw Declaration - a comprehensive meeting report. HIV Med. 2017 May;18(5):370-375
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Conference presentations
 

 

  • 2nd EACS meeting on Standards of Care, Brussels2016
  • 16th EACS Conference, Milano 2017
  • HIV Drug Therapy Glasgow 2018
  • VI Eastern Europe and Central Asia AIDS Conference, Moscow, Russia 2018
  • 4th CEE Meeting on Viral Hepatitis and HIV, Prague2018
  • 17th EACS Conference Basel 2019
  • HIV Drug Therapy Glasgow 2022
  • 17th EACS Conference London 2019
  • 6th Macedonian Congress of Infectious Diseases 2022
  • 2nd Novi Sad HIV International Meeting 2022
  • International AIDS Conference 2022