Advances in HIV treatment mean that people with HIV are living longer with improved quality of life. Treatment guidelines now recommend earlier initiation of treatment while targets to reduce late diagnosis have recently been set by NHS London. With a changing epidemic, HIV treatment and care services across the country will need to respond with new service models to accommodate increased and varied needs of people living with HIV.

This NAM Expert Seminar, held in conjunction with the National AIDS Trust at the Royal College of Physicians on 11 June 2009, provided an opportunity for HIV commissioners to update their knowledge on the national HIV epidemic, learn of advances in treatment and prevention as well as emerging priorities for commissioning services. The seminar also explored new service models designed to meet the changing clinical and non-clinical needs of people living with HIV and assess the implications of a growing epidemic and ageing positive population.

The target audience for the event was Primary Care Trust and local authority officers responsible for commissioning HIV prevention, treatment and care services in the UK; and policy officials engaged with health service and local authority commissioning, national treatment guidelines and provision of HIV support services.  The full programme can be viewed here. 

The event was supported by unrestricted educational grants from Abbott Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Pfizer, Schering-Plough and Tibotec, a division of Janssen Cilag.

You can listen to the presentations, view the slidesets and see images of the day using the media player below.  The order of speakers and presentations is as follows:

• Trends in HIV treatment, testing and prevention - where are we now?:  Dr Valerie Delpech
• Advances in HIV treatment: Dr Martin Fisher
• Discussion
• The evolving clinical needs of people with HIV :  Dr Ian Williams
• The evolving non-clinical needs of people with HIV:  Professor Jonathan Elford
• Discussion
• The National Strategy for Sexual Health and HIV - progress and priorities: Ruth Lowbury
• Trends in commissioning HIV services:  Sean Overett
• How commissioning social and health care services can best meet needs:  Dame Denise Platt
• Discussion
• Building HIV services for the future - New perspectives and service models:  Professor Margaret Johnson
• Locally-enhanced GP services:  Dr Jonathan Wastie and Dr Martin Fisher
• The South London HIV Partnership:  Sima Chaudhury
• The HIV Health Support Service:  Verity Moorhead and Caspar Thomson
• Panel round up discussion

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