European Testing Week Newsletter

• March 2023 •

Sign up for Spring European Testing Week (15-22 May)

The Spring European Testing week will take place on 15-22 May 2023. If you plan to participate, please make sure to sign up on the website to show that you support the campaign and to see who else participates. This will also enable you to find potential partners for collaboration and coordination on ETW activities. If you need inspiration for ideas for European Testing Week activities, you can download our toolkit #2 “Implementation handbook”.

Sign-up here to join

Spring ETW campaign materials

The logo for Spring European Testing Week is available for download on the ETW website in most European languages. If you don’t see the logo in your language, please contact us at eurotest.rigshospitalet@regionh.dk.

You can also add a Spring ETW web banner to your website or produce printed materials using the ETW document templates.

NEW: You can now download printing files from the ETW website for producing your own ETW t-shirts or tote bags. Printing files can be downloaded here.

Promote your ETW activities on social media

• Take over the ETW Instagram account •

If you want to showcase your organisation and its activities for Spring ETW, you have the opportunity to take over the ETW Instagram account for a day. If you are interested, please contact us at eurotest.rigshospitalet@regionh.dk

Please remember to follow ETW on social media and to tag us (@EuroTestWeek) and use the ETW hashtags #EuroTestWeek and #TestTreatPrevent in your posts about ETW.

Show your support! We encourage everyone who participates in ETW to produce and send us a short 30-60 seconds ETW support video (recorded vertically on your mobile phone), where you talk about why you take part in European Testing Week and what you think is the significance of ETW. We will then post your video as a reel on our Instagram account.

Evaluation of November ETW 2022

The evaluation report for November ETW 2022 is out!

Read about ETW activities across Europe, media coverage of ETW, ETW on social media, and increased testing in relation to ETW.

HepHIV 2023 conference – preliminary programme available

The preliminary conference programme for the 2023 HepHIV conference taking place in Madrid, Spain on 13-15 November 2023 is now available (here).

Abstract submissions will be open 26 May – 26 July 2023 (late breaker submissions 28 August – 15 September 2023).

Please visit the conference website for updates and additional information.For updates and news regarding the HepHIV conferences and the EuroTEST Initiative, please sign up for the EuroTEST/HepHIV newsletter via this link.

WHO survey about HIV recency testing

On behalf of WHO, we are sharing a request for those of you involved in HIV recency testing. In preparation for the WHO guidance, a new survey aims to understand how programmes and implementers are using HIV recency testing within HIV testing programmes.

If this is relevant to you, kindly complete the brief questionnaire and/or share with colleagues: https://redcap.link/hiv_recency.

Deadline: 15 April 2023.

All questions and materials can be shared via email to Chery Case Johnson (johnsonc@who.int), Céline Lastrucci (lastruccic@who.int), Eric Remera (ericremera@gmail.com) and Leon Mutesa (lmutesa@gmail.com)