Meeting Agenda - Challenges and opportunities for community testing centres Satellite session at HepHIV2014 conference in Barcelona on 05/10/2014

1. Challenges and opportunities for community testing centres:
TOWARDS A NETWORK OF CENTRES
Agenda
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10:00 – 10:30, Introductions
• how this event came about
• who is here
• overview of agenda and aims/expected outcomes for the day
NOTE: The following two panels will each feature three community testing sites as a
way to get discussion started. Panellists will focus on their successes and their
challenges in general and as well as on a specific topic. The subsequent discussion
will allow for participants from other community testing sites to share their
experience and also to explore specific issues in more depth, e.g., home/self-testing,
and testing frequency; prevention and PreP; community research and how this affects
service development; regulatory barriers and how they are circumvented/addressed;
outcome evaluation; comprehensive sexual health services; and reaching key
affected populations.
10:30 – 11:30, Panel 1: Narratives from newer testing centres
• Italy: Sandro Mattioli will introduce the Bologna centre, and then explore barriers
community testing, mainly health authority bureaucracy, stigma, and lack of reliable
data. He will also share how they are trying to deal with these barriers.
• Zagreb: Zoran Dominkovic will report from Zagreb with specific reference to
understanding why Croatian gay men don't test for HIV, or more scientifically,
barriers for HIV testing among MSM in Croatia and what is being done to overcome
the barriers
• Greece: Sophocles Chanos will introduce ATH Checkpoint and explore the issue of
how community testing sites deal with government and medical regulations relative to
offering testing, e.g., who, where, etc.
11:30 – 11:50, BREAK
11:50 – 13:00, Panel 2: Narratives from older testing centres
• Portugal: Maria José Campos will discuss CheckpointLX, especially about the need
for implementing anonymous contact tracing
• Barcelona: Michael Meulbroek from BCN Checkpoint will discuss their experience
and what might be their next steps.
• London: David Stuart and Jake Jenkins from Dean Street, with special focus on
ChemSex, and (beyond ChemSex trends), community engagement/outreach and low
threshold access to testing/treatment

2. 13:00 – 14:00, LUNCH
14:00 – 14:15, QUICK brainstorm: Reflections on the morning sessions
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• key learnings
• key challenges and threats
14:15 – 15:30, THREE Small groups – Principles of good practice in community
testing
The afternoon process aims at consensus building. Participants first work in small
groups to pull together their experience as well as what they have learned by developing
together a set of principles/recommendations about what is likely to promote good practice in
community testing.
15:30 – 15:50, BREAK
15:50 – 16:30, Towards consensus on good practice in community testing
The previous small group discussions will then be shared in plenary where key
common themes will be identified. The aim is to produce an outcome document of these
principles for circulation soon after the workshop
16:30 – 17:00, Conclusions
• next steps
• participant comments on day
Supported by generous grants from Gilead Sciences, Janssen Pharmaceuticals and
ViiV Healthcare and administered by International HIV Partnerships (IHP).
Special thanks to the steering committee members from 56 Dean Street, ATH
Checkpoint, BCN Checkpoint, Checkpoint LX, and IHP; Bryan Teixeira, chair, and
Sylvie Beaumont, rapporteur; the administration team; and HIV in Europe.