2023-10-05 15:00:00
The Saint-Pierre University Hospital in Brussels inaugurated its new multidisciplinary consultation center for Infectious Diseases this Thursday. The MIA (Infectious Diseases) Aandoeningen center will welcome patients from October 16.
It is the new space dedicated to the care of patients for general infectious disease consultations, screening and management of STIs, Immunostart consultations (preparation for immunodepression), management and monitoring of AIDS virus, monitoring of complex tuberculosis, PrEP, preventive treatment once morest HIV, offered to HIV-negative people highly exposed to the risk of HIV infection.
It brings together in the same space the resources and expertise of the various existing clinics: Cetim – the country’s reference center for HIV/AIDS; S Clinic, which offers specialized consultations in sexually transmitted infections; Elisa Center, specialized in screening for HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases/infections. Before their merger, these three centers represented 21,500 consultations per year.
The MIA occupies a renovated building in the inner courtyard of the hospital, on the site of the former Cetim.
According to the general director of CHU Saint-Pierre, Philippe Leroy, the realization of the project mobilized 2.5 million euros financed half by own funds and half by donations and patronage. The GBL group thus dedicated 600,000 euros to it, the rest of the donations coming from the Saint-Pierre Foundation (private).
This new center should accommodate between 20,000 and 25,000 people each year.
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