Links and Partners

The Infectious Diseases Division works in close collaboration with partner divisions that share the majority of resources and senior physicians in the division:

• The Surgery Department, in particular the Transplant Surgery Division and the Orthopedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Trauma Care Division
• The Genetic, Laboratory and Pathology Medicine Department, in particular the Laboratory Medicine Division where there is an integration of the Bacteriology Laboratories and the Virology Clinic. With the presence of senior physicians specialized in infectiology and having a specialization in microbiology, there is a coordinated interface with clinicians
• The Infection Prevention and Control Division where shared activities have been established on a clinical and academic level
• The Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine Division, where the Infectious Diseases Team provides coordination and interactions allowing for complementary activities
• The Intensive Care Division where the Infectious Diseases Team participates in patient monitoring and a weekly seminar.

Partnership Websites

• www.influenza.ch
• www.genomic.ch
• www.meningo.ch

Infectious Diseases

• Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases
• International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID)
• Swiss Society for Microbiology
• Infectious Diseases Society of America
• SWISS-NOSO / Infections nosocomiales et hygiène hospitalière (Nosocomial Infections and Hospital Hygiene)
• European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
• American Society of Microbiology

HIV/AIDS

• Aide suisse contre le sida, ASS (Swiss Aid against AIDS) is an umbrella organization with 21 cantonal and regional branches as well as 36 other organizations that are active or engaged in the field of HIV/AIDS. ASS was founded in 1985.
• Dialogai Works to integrate gays and lesbians, bi and trans people into society as fully participating citizens. It’s work tends more towards recognizing gays, than towards defending homosexuals who are victims of discrimination or physical or verbal aggression as much in the professional as in the social, family, environmental, legal realms and in all aspects of an individual's life.
• The Geneva AIDS Group is a private organization whose main objective since 1987 is the struggle against AIDS in Geneva. Its mandate includes the prevention of new infections, supporting persons affected, the struggle against discrimination and disseminating information about HIV/AIDS. The bulk of services and benefits provided by the Geneva AIDS Group are confidential and free.
• House34: website with advice and “chats” for people living with HIV/AIDS and families.
• Aspasie is a charitable organization that, with a nonjudgmental attitude, defends the rights of sex workers.
• PVA Genève : People Living with HIV/AIDS and their Families
• Actions traitements (Treatment Actions) is a patient association disseminating information about HIV/AIDS treatments and co-infections.

For Health Professionals

• AIDS images(library of images, illustrations related to HIV and opportunistic diseases)
• The Federal Office of Public Health
• European Aids Clinical Society (EACS)
• International Aids Society (IAS)
• HIV Drug Interactions
• ONUSIDA