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guidance on HIV, hepatitis B and C tes~~ting ~~in the EU/EEA  \nAn integr~~a~~ted approach  \n[www.ecdc.europa.eu](www.ecdc.europa.eu)  \nECDC SCIENTIFIC ADVICE  \nPublic health guidance on HIV, hepatitis Band C testing in the EU/EEA  \nAn integrated approach  \nThis guidance was commissioned by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), coordinated by Andrew J Amato-Gauci and Lara Tavoschi with the support of Helena de Carvalho Gomes from ECDC and the ECDC Library, and produced by a consortium led by CHIP/Region H, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen (CHIP/Region H) with Public Health England (PHE), St Stephen’s AIDS Trust (SSAT) and the European Aids Treatment Group (EATG), framework contract ECDC/2016/035 .  \nAuthors  \nAnn Sullivan, SSAT, Ayla van Ahee, Pallas Health Research and Consultancy (Pallas (HRC), Caroline Rae, SSAT, Dorthe Raben, CHIP/Region H, Rigshospitalet, Lauren Combs, CHIP/Region H, Lauren Mason, Pallas HRC, Misha Hoekstra, independent consultant, Sara Croxford, Public Health England (PHE), Sarika Desai, PHE, Stine Finne Jakobsen, CHIP/Region H, Valerie Delpech, PHE, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)  \nAcknowledgements  \nAgathe Leon, Infectious Disease Department, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain  \nAndrew Winter, International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI), National Health Service (NHS) Greater Glasgow and Clyde, United Kingdom  \nBartosz Szetela, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland  \nDagmar Hedrich, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), Portugal Daniel Simões, EATG/Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal  \nDeniz Gokengin, IUSTI, Turkey Eve Robinson, Ireland  \nIrena Klavs, National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ), Slovenia  \nIrene Veldhuijzen, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Netherlands Jan van Bergen, Soa Aids Nederland, Netherlands  \nJason Farrell, Correlation Network, Choices Support Center, Netherlands Jens Lundgren, CHIP/Region H, Denmark  \nJessika Deblonde, Sciensano, Belgium  \nJordi Casabona, Center of Epidemiological Studies on HIV and STI in Catalonia (CEEISCAT), Spain Justyna Kowalska, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland  \nKristi Rüütel, National Institute for Health Development, Estonia Maria Axelsson, Public Health Agency of Sweden, Sweden Maria Elena Tosti, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy  \nMatthew Hickman, University of Bristol, United Kingdom  \nMasoud Dara, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, Denmark Michael Ninburg, World Hepatitis Alliance, United Kingdom  \nMika Salminen, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland Mojca Maticic, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia Nikos Dedes, EATG/Positive Voice, Greece  \nPeter Vickerman, University of Bristol, United Kingdom  \nPhilippa Easterbrook, WHO, Switzerland Raj Patel, IUSTI/NHS England, United Kingdom Ruta Kaupe, DIA+LOGS, Latvia  \nSlim Fourati, European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), France Tatiana Reic, European Liver Patients’ Association (ELPA), Croatia  \nThe authors would also like to acknowledge the contributions to the project from Erika Duffell, Teymur Noori, Anastasia Pharris and Lina Nerlander at ECDC, their colleagues at CHIP/Region H and Public Health England and everyone who submitted case studies describing best-practice interventions.  \nSuggested citation: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Public health guidance on HIV, hepatitis Band C testing in the EU/EEA – An integrated approach. 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