(2024-2025) – Principal Investigator for IVN Camelia Sultana MD, PhD

Grant agreement Ref. OPM/2018/01274

Aim: The main objective is to analyze the epidemiological links of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and HIV-HCV coinfections to less studied types of transmission in various risk populations, because World Health Organization’s sustainable development goals for 2030 aim to end the epidemic of AIDS, and combat hepatitis and other sexually transmitted diseases by 2030.  Still, a more realistic objective may be the micro-elimination of these diseases from different population segments with targeted strategies of prevention and treatment, because micro-elimination will eventually lead to macro-elimination.

Partners: Coordinator: Associazione Nazionale Lotta AIDS Sez. Lombarda (ANLAIDS), Italy

Partner 1: IVN: Stefan S. Nicolau Institute of Virology, Bucharest – Principal Investigator Dr Camelia Sultana

Partner 2: CEPRO, Centrul Profilaxia, Timisoara – Principal Investigator Dr Gratiana Chicin

Working team: Camelia Sultana, Camelia Grancea, Daniela Chiriac

Project financed by Otto per Mille della Chiesa Valdese, Italy

Implementation period: 2024-2025

Summary: Four main activities wererelated with the Open Test Project implementation:

1. Organisation of a testing campaign in appropriate venues for the selected risk population
2. Testing for HIV/HCV/Syphilis not compulsory the 3 tests in the same individual
3. Organisation of a promotional campaign in Bucharest/Timisoara (social networks, newspapers, etc).

Results:

Sultana Camelia, Carmine Falanga, Grațiana Chicin, Laurențiu Ion, Camelia Grancea, Daniela Chiriac, Adriana Iliescu, and Andrea Gori. 2024. HIV, HCV and HIV-HCV Coinfections in the General Population versus Inmates from Romania. Viruses 16, no. 8: 1279. https://doi.org/10.3390/v16081279 IF (2024)=3.8