On September 17, the THOP-GHTM members Ana Abecasis, Marta Pingarilho and Victor Pimentel participated in the first meeting of the APECS working groups, which took place in Leiria.
At this meeting, GHTM researchers created a new working group called “Resistance to Antiretrovirals of HIV-positive Individuals”, whose objective is “to study, analyse and monitor drug resistance used for the treatment of HIV-infected patients in Portugal. Priority objectives to be developed in the coming months have been defined, including research topics that are in line with the GHTM strategy”, they mentioned.
APECS (Portuguese Association for the Clinical Study of AIDS), founded in 1991 is a non-profit scientific association that has contributed greatly to the clinical and microbiological research of HIV in Portugal. Since its inception, this association has developed activities in the context of the study of HIV in Portugal and also creating several working groups composed of clinicians, health professionals, researchers and laboratories from various hospital centers throughout the country. This group also includes other clinicians and health professionals from several Portuguese hospitals.
