Healthy Life

The COVID-19 pandemic made healthcare all over the world transfer significant resources to fight the novel infection. However, it also intensified the prominence of infectious epidemics as a whole: today, HIV still takes millions of human lives. The medical community all over the world is working on finding innovative solutions that aside from stopping life-threatening infections, could also bring the patients back to a meaningful and comfortable life. Scientific research for preventing the spread of HIV has been marked by a number of breakthrough discoveries. Scientists have learned a lot about the genetic structure of the immune deficit virus and there is now a high probability of learning how to stop its spread. However, despite significant progress in treating HIV, development of an effective vaccine still remains a priority for the global scientific and medical community. Today, scientists in Russia and worldwide have made an important step forward in developing the vaccine; it may be that in the future these discoveries will be able to make humans resistant to the immune deficit virus.
● Will the experience of struggle against the SARS-CoV-2 virus become a spring board for explosive growth of scientific research in the fight against infectious epidemics, in particular, the HIV infection?
● What are the most advanced and ground-breaking scientific discoveries and innovative solutions in preventive immunization and HIV infection treatment these days in Russia and worldwide?
● Will the COVID-19 pandemic change the government strategy for fighting the spread of HIV infection and other socially significant diseases?
● What government policies will help stimulate development and manufacture of innovative drugs in Russia?
● What regulatory decisions can promote timely access of HIV patients to the therapy they need and to innovative therapeutic technologies?
● How can the effectiveness of measures to reduce the number of new HIV diagnoses and AIDS mortality be improved?
● Can one say that victory over socially significant infections is only a matter of time?

Moderator
Elena Voytsekhovskaya, Anchor, Doctor Channel

Elena Voytsekhovskaya

Anchor, Doctor Channel

Panellists
Denis Godlevsky, Director, Regional Public Organization "AIDS, Statistics, Health" (online)
Oleg Gridnev, Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation
Alexey Mazus, Chief External Expert in HIV of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and Moscow Healthcare Department
Ruslan Malyuta, HIV/AIDS Specialist, UNICEF Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (online)
Vladimir Nazarov, Director, Financial Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation
Craig Williams, Vice-President, Head of ViiV International, ViiV Healthcare (online)
Sergey Tsivilev, Governor of Kemerovo Region- Kuzbass

Denis Godlevsky

Director, Regional Public Organization "AIDS, Statistics, Health"

Oleg Gridnev

Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation

Alexey Mazus

Chief External Expert in HIV of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and Moscow Healthcare Department

Vladimir Nazarov

Director, Financial Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation

Vladimir Nazarov CSc (Econ.) is Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Scientific-Research Institute of Finance”, member of the Russian Ministry of Finance College and member of the Expert Board under the Russian Government.
2004–2005: Junior Fellow at the Macroeconomics and Finance Division, Institute for the Economy in Transition.
2005–2007: headed the laboratory of fiscal federalism and subnational finance, Institute for the Economy in Transition.
2007–2012: headed the Academy of National Economy under the Russian Government.
Since 2013: Deputy Director, Science, Institute of Social Analysis and Forecast at RANEPA under the Russian President. Since 2013: Director, Financial Research Institute.
His academic interests include inter-budgetary relations (including development of methods for transfer distribution between regional and local budgets), reform of the public sector, developing methods for assessing the efficiency of regional and local authorities, direct taxes, pension reform and healthcare economics. He is included among the Top-100 reserve of public administration staff under the patronage of the Russian President.

Craig Williams

Vice-President, Head of ViiV International, ViiV Healthcare

Sergey Tsivilev

Governor of Kemerovo Region- Kuzbass