Mental Health within HIV Guidelines

Over the past few years, the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) has been working in a focused way on various aspects of HIV & Mental Health. During a couple of webinars on this topic earlier this year, the need was identified for updated HIV care guidelines across Europe and Central Asia that included more detail about mental health. For example, previous webinar participants noted services and professionals using outdated mental health diagnostic criteria or guidelines, e.g. being a trans person seen as a mental health disorder; lacking awareness of the complexities of living with HIV; and using outdated stigmatising approaches in the mental health care of people living with HIV.

Mental Health within HIV care guidelines is a follow-up webinar to explore some of the issues involved in updating existing standards of mental health care for people living with HIV in Europe and Central Asia. Updated standards relative to the…