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MADRID 16 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The company ViiV Healthcare has presented in Spain ‘Hii Future’, its new strategic framework for collaborative innovation in HIV, designed to promote a real transformation of the care model beyond treatment, improve quality of life and contribute to the end of the HIV epidemic.
“‘Hii Future’ is a platform whose purpose is to promote collaborative and multidisciplinary innovation. It is an integrative umbrella of knowledge, alliances and assistance. Its fundamental objective is to improve the lives of people living with HIV. This will entail a transformation of the care models and the tools available,” explained Jesús Troya, an expert doctor in HIV, and one of the experts who have participated in the development of ‘Hii Future’.
According to the company, ‘Hii Future’ gives a central role to nursing, hospital pharmacy, clinical management, NGOs and the active participation of people with HIV. This approach responds to the current reality of HIV as a complex chronic condition.
“It will help us transform the way we provide care to people with HIV. Both from the point of view of process care, the transfer of knowledge and, above all, the incorporation of the community in decision-making. This is totally innovative and ‘Hii Future’ is an ecosystem in which we can carry it out,” indicated Gabriel Mercadal, pharmacist at the Mateu Orfila Hospital.
ViiV Healthcare points out that, unlike other programs, ‘Hii Future’ is not a one-off project, but rather a structural framework that organizes and provides continuity to existing initiatives, such as ‘National Policy’, and that opens the door to new collaborative projects with a focus on scalability and scientific evidence. Its central objective is to promote a more humane, personalized and sustainable HIV care model, capable of responding to chronicity from a multidisciplinary and person-centered approach.
“What differentiates it from other innovation programs is that it is based on a multidisciplinary strategy. Different disciplines appear that work with the same objective. In addition, these disciplines are always based on an optimal patient care model, with which they already have a knowledge base that is what has been improving and evolving towards a future that we do not know and I hope it will be the most innovative possible, highlights Jordi Puig, a nurse member of the GEEVIH group of SEISIDA.
THREE MAJOR STRATEGIC AXES
‘Hii Future’ is structured around three major strategic axes. The first of them is Hii Assistance and Care, focused on transforming care models to improve the quality of life of people with HIV, their first-person participation in decisions about their care and health outcomes.
The second axis is Hii Alliances and Participation, aimed at weaving a stable network of collaboration between all the agents involved in the response to HIV. Finally, Hii Knowledge Transfer is intended to convert innovation into useful knowledge for daily practice, with training programs, tool repositories, digital exchange spaces.
“This program allows innovation to enter into necessary aspects such as maintaining good adherence, quality of life, working on stigma. We are used to always seeing innovation or thinking about it from the laboratory and consultation of a scientist. Real innovation is in people and the most innovative thing is to bet on their life experience to precisely transform the health system,” said Jorge Garrido, executive director of Apoyo Positivo.
‘Hii Future’ is aligned with UNAIDS commitments for 2030 that aim to achieve control of the epidemic and move towards its end as a public health problem. “All of this from a modern public health vision, based on collaboration, evidence and applied innovation. Innovation only makes sense if it improves people’s lives. And the future of HIV is built today, together,” ViiV Healthcare concludes.