About Us
The Moving Fourth Steering Committee
We are the Moving Fourth Steering Committee – a group of healthcare professionals and a patient advocate with world-leading expertise in HIV. United by a vision of healthy living with HIV, our focus is to provide practical tools and recommendations for HIV care.
Dr Joop Arends
Internist, Infectious Diseases Physician, Founder HappiApp, Board Member HappiApp Foundation and Director PatientApp, The Netherlands
Dr Thomas Buhk
Internist, Infectious Diseases Physician, Centers for Infectious Diseases in Hamburg (ICH-Hamburg), Germany
Mario Cascio
Programme Chair for Quality of Life, European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG), Italy
Dr Adrian Curran
Internist, Infectious Diseases Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
Dr Giovanni Guaraldi (Chair)
Associate Professor of Infectious Disease and Head of the Modena HIV Metabolic Clinic (MHMC), Italy
Dr Eugenio Teofilo
Department of Internal Medicine at Hospital dos Capuchos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dr Guido van den Berk
Internist, Infectious Diseases Physician, Department of Internal Medicine, OLVG, City Hospital of Greater Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Christian Verger contributed to the First Chapter of Moving Fourth (2019), however discontinued his efforts with the Steering Committee thereafter and in the subsequent Chapters (2020, 2021).
Resources
Published summaries of the Moving Fourth White Papers can be found in the journal AIDS Reviews.
Chapter 1 Publication | “Moving Fourth”: A Vision Toward Achieving Healthy Living with HIV Beyond Viral Suppression
A summary of the first chapter of the Moving Fourth initiative was published in AIDS Reviews in 2019.
Chapter 2 Publication | “Moving Fourth”: Introduction of a practical toolkit for shared decision-making to facilitate healthy living beyond HIV viral suppression
A summary of the second chapter of the Moving Fourth was published in AIDS Reviews in 2021.
Supporting Sources
Recommended 'Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)' their alternatives, and where to find them
The Moving Fourth Steering Committee recognises that determining 'Quality of life (QoL)' is not easy, and this is especially true for people living with HIV (PLHIV). Patient reported outcome measures (or PROMs) are effective tools to gather information on the health status of people living with HIV (PLHIV).
Our committee conducted a systematic PROM audit for the QoL factors outlined within the Ask & Measure step of the Health Goals for Me. The following recommended PROMs and their alternatives are the result of this in-depth review.