Chiva Conference 2025

Please find below the slides from the 19th Annual Chiva conference which took place in London on Friday 4 April 2025.

Evidence-based psychosocial interventions for youth with HIV in Zimbabwe

Nicola Willis, Executive Director, Zvandiri – International speaker

The Lifelong Clinic

Dr Sally Hawkins, HIV Specialist Paediatrician/Young Person’s Doctor (Lifespan model)
King’s College Hospital

Young adult clinic

Dr Amy Evans, GUM Consultant, Leeds Teaching Hospitals (Youth model)

Bridging the gap: Exploring models for transitioning youth from paediatric
to adult HIV care

Jennifer Kendrick, Lead HIV Specialist Nurse, Hathersage Centre, Manchester Foundation Trust
(Sexual Health model)

Key updates from the 2025 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)

Best of CROI Anna Turkova

Dr Alasdair Bamford, PID Consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Dr Caroline Foster,
AID Consultant, Imperial College Healthcare & Dr Anna Turkova, Consultant Paediatrician, Great
Ormond Street Hospital

Chiva research plenary: launch of updated Chiva Standards of Care and research updates

Research Updates: UK (CHIPS) and European Paediatric Infections Cohort Collaboration (EPPICC)

Amanda Ely, CEO, Chiva, Dr Katja Doerholt, PID Consultant, St George’s Hospital &
Dr Jeannie Collins, Professor of Epidemiology, UCL

Chiva Youth Committee Symposium – From Nairobi to Northampton: Growing up with HIV- what are the main concerns for young people?

Chiva Youth Committee

The Future of HIV Care

Prof Yvonne Gilleece, BHIVA Chair & Honorary Clinical Professor and Consultant in HIV Medicine
& Sexual Health at Brighton & Sussex Medical School and University Hospitals Sussex NHS
Foundation Trust

Preventing Vertical HIV Transmission: Pregnancy & Breastfeeding: Global perspectives

Georgina Fernandes, UCL Great Ormond Street Insttute of Child Health

Preventing Vertical HIV Transmission: Pregnancy & Breastfeeding: UK experiences

Prof Hermione Lyall, PID Consultant, Imperial College Healthcare

Oral Abstracts

Oral abstract presentation: Psychotic Disorders in Young Adults with Perinatally-Acquired HIV: a Multicentre UK Study

Dr Indira Mallik, Imperial College Healthcare

Oral abstract presentation: Children and young people newly presenting for paediatric HIV care in England in 2024

Emily Dema, Children’s HIV and AIDS Reporting System, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute
of Child Health

Oral abstract presentation: Late diagnosis of HIV in childhood: the experience of the Perinatal Virtual Clinic

Dr Caroline Foster on behalf of C Curto, Imperial College Healthcare

Workshops

HIV and the law

Daniel Fluskey and Lindsey Ponsonby, National AIDS Trust