Lessons learned from the first European project on the integration of infectious diseases in testing services, data collection and country responses

Dorthe Raben; Jordi Casabona; Lella Cosmaro; Nadia Gasbarrini; John S Lambert; Shannon Glapsy; Christine Kakalou; Manuel Maffeo; Michele Mommi; Gianmarco Corradini; Irena Klavs; Aljona Kurbatova; Iwona Wawer; Piotr Wysocki; Anne Raahauge; Stine Finne Jakobsen; Jeffrey V Lazarus; Ann Sullivan; Meaghan Kall; Dagmar Hedrich; Cheryl Case Johnson; Nicole Simone Seguy; Daniel Simões; Valerie Delpech

doi:10.1186/s12879-021-06362-7

Lessons learned from the first European project on the integration of infectious diseases in testing services, data collection and country responses

BMC Infect Dis. 2021 Sep 13;21(Suppl 2):690. doi: 10.1186/s12879-021-06362-7.

Authors

Dorthe Raben¹, Jordi Casabona^{2

3}, Lella Cosmaro⁴, Nadia Gasbarrini⁵, John S Lambert⁶, Shannon Glapsy⁶, Christine Kakalou⁷, Manuel Maffeo⁸, Michele Mommi⁸, Gianmarco Corradini⁸, Irena Klavs⁹, Aljona Kurbatova¹⁰, Iwona Wawer¹¹, Piotr Wysocki¹¹, Anne Raahauge¹², Stine Finne Jakobsen¹², Jeffrey V Lazarus¹³, Ann Sullivan¹⁴, Meaghan Kall¹⁵, Dagmar Hedrich¹⁶, Cheryl Case Johnson¹⁷, Nicole Simone Seguy¹⁸, Daniel Simões¹⁹, Valerie Delpech¹⁵

Affiliations

¹ CHIP, Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections (CHIP), Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark. Dorthe.raben@regionh.dk.
² Centre for Epidemiological Studies on STI/HIV/AIDS in Catalonia (CEEISCAT), Institut Josep Carreras, Campus de Can Ruti, Ctra de Can Ruti, Camí de les Escoles, s/n, 08916, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain.
³ CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.
⁴ Fondazione LILA Milano - Italian League for Fighting AIDS, Via Carlo Maderno 4, 20136, Milan, MI, Italy.
⁵ Fondazione Villa Maraini, Via Bernardino Ramazzini, 31 -, 00151, Rome, RM, Italy.
⁶ Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and UCD School of Medicine, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
⁷ Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Institute of Applied Biosciences, 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Rd, P.O. Box 60361, 57001, Thessaloniki, GR, Greece.
⁸ Arcigay Associazione LGBTI Italiana, Via Don Minzoni 18, 40121, Bologna, Italy.
⁹ National Institute of Public Health, Trubarjeva 2, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
¹⁰ National Institute for Health Development, Hiiu 42, 11619, Tallinn, Estonia.
¹¹ National AIDS Centre, Agency of the Ministry of Health, Samsonowska 1, 02-829, Warszawa, Poland.
¹² CHIP, Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections (CHIP), Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹³ Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Calle del Rossellon 132, ES-08036, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁴ Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, 369 Fulham Road, London, London, SW10, UK.
¹⁵ Public Health England, Wellington House 133-155 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8UG, UK.
¹⁶ European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), Praça Europa 1, Cais do Sodré, 1249-289, Lisbon, Portugal.
¹⁷ World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, FN Byen, Marmorvej 51, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁸ World Health Organisation (WHO) HQ, Avenue Appia 20, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁹ Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos (GAT), Avenida Paris, 4 - 1 Direito, 1000-228, Lisbon, Portugal.

No abstract available

Keywords: Europe; HIV; Integrated services; Sexually transmitted infections; Tuberculosis; Viral hepatitis.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Communicable Diseases* / diagnosis
Communicable Diseases* / epidemiology
Data Collection
HIV Infections*
Humans
Sexually Transmitted Diseases*

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International