Taller práctico sobre CHEMSEX – Role-playing y discusión de casos 2023

From 2008 he has been working at IrsiCaixa as a Clinical Cohorts Coordinator of the HIVACAT Programme (Project for the development of an HIV vaccine). He collaborate on the recruitment and follow-up of several cohorts (HIV acute infections, controllers, rapid progressors, HESN), and other studies (microbiota, pre-exposure prophylaxis). Another of his fields is Human Papillomavirus in HIV-infected. They have set up a program for the prevention of anal cancer in our Clinical Unit. He conducts a cohort study of HIV-uninfected men who have sex with men (MSM), in collaboration with a community-based organization (BCN Checkpoint). The objectives are to detect early infections and other STI among MSM, and to ensure a linkage to care. He collaborates with the therapeutic HIV vaccine study “Safety and Immunogenicity of ChAdV63.HIVconsv and MVA.HIVconsv Candidate HIV-1 Vaccines in Recently HIV-1 Infected Individuals With Early Viral Suppression After Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART)”.

He also collaborates with the Microbial Genomics Group at the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute. This group has been the first one worldwide to demonstrate in two independent cohorts of HIV-1-infected subjects and HIV-1-negative controls in Europe that MSM often has a distinct composition of the human fecal microbiota, with increased microbial richness and diversity and enrichment in the Prevotella enterotype. Another field in which he is currently working is the Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). Regarding this, he participates in a working group set up by the Health Department of Catalonia for the implementation of PrEP in our setting. Their group has developed an explant model which has been used to assess the potential of Maraviroc as a drug for PrEP using a single oral dose. Their results showed no ex-vivo protection, suggesting that ‘on demand’ preexposure prophylaxis with Maraviroc would not prevent rectal HIV-1 transmission. Apart from his research agenda, he works as an attending medical doctor at the HIV Unit of the Hospital, where he takes care of 3000 patients.

Specialist in Internal Medicine. Master’s Degree in AIDS from the University of Barcelona and Doctor of Medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is currently Senior Specialist in the HIV Unit of the Infection Service of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and Medical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Barcelona.

Since 2007 she is dedicated to the comprehensive care of people living with HIV, with special interest in pharmacokinetic interactions, hepatitis C, prevention and in recent years she is responsible for the various care, teaching and research projects that are carried out in people who practice chemsex attended in the unit.

Medical specialist in internal medicine. He is currently performing his assistance in the area of infectious diseases, specifically in HIV and STIs in the Drassanes Unit – Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, in Barcelona. His areas of expertise are combined HIV prevention, the approach to recreational drug use in sexualized contexts (Chemsex) and anal dysplasia screening.

General Health Psychologist, Responsible for the psychological care service at BCN Checkpoint and BCN PrEP-point. He is part of the Chemsex Working Group of the Public Health Agency of Catalonia and of the LGBTQ+ Psychology Working Group of the Official College of Psychology of Catalonia (COPC). Lecturer at the Institut Superior d’Estudis Psicològics (ISEP) and at the Postgraduate of LGBTI Policies in Public Administration of the Universitat de Lleida (UdL). Collaborator of the Service of Integral Attention to LGBTQ+ People (SAI) of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Sebastián Vargas is a psychiatrist in an Adult Mental Health Center. Since 2020, he is part of the Projecte d’Atenció al Chemsex de BCN Checkpoint, with training in Motivational Interviewing. Given his interest in the area of sexuality, he did his external research rotation at the Sexuality Laboratory (SexLab) of the University of Porto. He have participated as a teacher in the 1st edition of the Practical Workshop on Chemsex of FLS-Science, as well as in the last training course on Chemsex of the Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya. He is currently taking the Master in Psychotherapy Integrative Perspective at the University of Alcalá.