Episode 44 - Anastasia Pharris - World AIDS Day 2023

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Science

5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Every year ⁠World AIDS Day⁠ is marked on the 1st of December. Beginning in 1988 as the first-ever international day for global health, it is now in its 35th year.

We sat down with Anastasia Pharris, Principal expert in Communicable Diseases, to discuss the latest joint ECDC-WHO Europe HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe report to take stock of where Europe stands with the latest developments, challenges, and achievements.

As a part of World AIDS Day, ECDC will host a digital event on ⁠HIV: Towards zero stigma⁠ on the 6th of December 2023. The event is open to the public and will focus on the recent insights on HIV stigma in Europe, how it is perceived in different contexts, and examples of good practices to ensure that the goal of zero stigma is achieved.

You can find more information on the surveillance report ⁠here⁠.

For more information in general please visit ⁠ecdc.europa.eu⁠ or follow us on ⁠social media⁠.

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0:00.0	ECDC on air.
0:05.2	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:08.8	Keeping up to date with European Epidemiology.
0:12.0	Hello, welcome and thanks for tuning in to ECDC on air, the podcast of the European Center
0:19.1	for Disease Prevention and Control. I'm your host
0:21.5	Lee, recording from my headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. Today, if you're listening on Friday 1st of
0:26.4	December, is World AIDS Day. Now in its 35th year, World AIDS Day started off as the very first
0:32.1	International Day of Global Health all the way back in 1988. Each year, ECDC, together with the World Health Organization
0:39.4	Regional Office for Europe, put together a surveillance report to see how the numbers of HIV
0:44.2	and AIDS diagnoses have changed and highlight the latest developments, challenges and achievements
0:48.8	in the European region. Today, we are joined by Anastasia Farris, principal expert in incommunicable diseases, to discuss the report,
0:56.7	and to get a better understanding of the overall picture of HIV in Europe,
1:00.3	and whether Europe is on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals to end AIDS by 2030. So today we're joined by Anastasia Farrish, principal expert in communicable diseases.
1:24.4	Anastasia, welcome.
1:25.1	Thanks for joining us.
1:26.1	Hi, thank you.
1:27.3	So before we begin,
1:28.6	could you tell us a little bit about yourself how you came to ECDC and what your principal work here is?
1:33.5	Sure. I've been at ECDC since 2011, so it's been about 12 years now. And I've worked the entire time
1:41.1	at ECDC, mostly on the topic of bloodborne infections, so HIV and a bit of
1:45.8	hepatitis. And over time, was able to work a bit on COVID during the pandemic. And I'm now
1:51.5	working with the group that focuses on HIV and hepatitis, but also STIs and tuberculosis.
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