From:Chang Kun
Date: 2009/11/4
AIDS 2010 Update
(Edition 1 – November 2009)
This electronic update provides information about the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010), which will be held in Vienna, Austria from 18 to 23 July 2010.
In this edition:
1. AIDS 2010 Conference Organizers
2. Call for Abstracts
3. Abstract Mentor Programme
4. Website and Expanded Online Access
5. AIDS 2010 Theme: Rights Here, Right Now
6. Registration
7. Local Secretariat
8. Key Dates
9. Join the AIDS 2010 Mailing List
1. AIDS 2010 CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
AIDS 2010 is convened by the International AIDS Society (IAS), the world’s leading independent membership association of HIV professionals around the world. IAS houses the international conference secretariat in Geneva and a local conference secretariat in Vienna.
Local and regional partners include:
* City of Vienna
* Government of Austria
* Community Forum Austria, including AIDS Hilfe Wien
* Austrian AIDS Society
* East European & Central Asian Union of PLWH (ECUO)
* European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS)
* European Commission
* Local Scientific Leadership
International partners for AIDS 2010 include:
* Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), including its co-sponsors,
* the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
* International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO)
* Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+)
* International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW)
* World YWCA
* Caribbean Vulnerable Communities (CVC)
Overall planning for the conference rests with the Conference Coordinating Committee (CCC). The CCC is Chaired by Dr. Julio Montaner, IAS President and Director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, BC, Canada and Local Conference Co-Chair Dr. Brigitte Schmied, President of the Austrian AIDS Society in Vienna.
Three international planning committees — the Scientific Programme Committee, Community Programme Committee and Leadership and Accountability Programme Committee — are responsible for developing the programme. The planning committees and CCC include representatives of scientific and civil society leaders from all over the world, including focal points from Austria and EECA. The committees began meeting in May 2009 and will complete the process of building the programme by May 2010.
Lists of the CCC and planning committee members are available on the conference website.
2. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The XVIII International AIDS Conference welcomes the submission of abstracts for original contribution to the field in the following six programme tracks:
Track A:
Basic Science
Track B:
Clinical Sciences
Track C:
Epidemiology and Prevention Sciences
Track D:
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Track E:
Economics, Operations Research, Care and Health Systems
Track F:
Policy, Law, Human Rights and Political Science
Abstract submissions will be scored by an international panel of reviewers through a blind peer-review process and ultimately selected by members of the AIDS 2010 Scientific Programme and Track Committees.
Online submissions will be accepted until 10 February 2010.
Full information on the scope and objectives for each of the tracks is available here.
3. ABSTRACT MENTOR PROGRAMME
The goal of the AIDS 2010 Abstract Mentor Programme is to provide an opportunity for young and/or less experienced abstract submitters to ask questions of more experienced abstract submitters. At AIDS 2008, online mentoring was shown to increase motivation and submission of abstracts by early-career researchers and those from low- and middle-income countries. The conference secretariat will facilitate the programme and match mentors with submitters.
The mentor programme is completely independent of the abstract review and selection process of the conference. It is an opportunity that will strengthen the quality of abstracts submitted, thereby increasing the chances of submitters having an abstract accepted for presentation.
Full information regarding the Abstract Mentor Programme is available here.
4. BILINGUAL WEBSITE AND EXPANDED ONLINE ACCESS
The AIDS 2010 website provides information useful to conference attendees and media covering the event and serves as a resource for a much broader group of people interested in HIV issues both during and after the conference. AIDS 2010’s commitment to reaching out to stakeholders in the neighbouring region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia is reflected in the Conference Coordinating Committee’s decision to offer both English- and Russian-language websites.
Organizers are again partnering with several organizations to make a significant portion of the AIDS 2010 programme available online. The Kaiser Family Foundation will produce webcasts of major sessions for viewing via the conference website and copies of speeches, slide presentations, abstracts, digital posters, session-specific and daily rapporteur reports, as well as workshop handouts and audio recordings will be accessible through the online Programme-at-a-Glance. The conference is also partnering with Clinical Care Options, Inc. and NAM for online scientific analysis and reporting from Vienna.
Visit www.aids2010.org for more information.
5. AIDS 2010 THEME: RIGHTS HERE, RIGHT NOW
Selected by the Conference Coordinating Committee as the AIDS 2010 conference theme, Rights Here, Right Now emphasizes the central importance of protecting and promoting human rights as a prerequisite to a successful response to HIV. The right to dignity and self-determination for key affected populations, to equal access to health care and life-saving prevention and treatment programmes, and the right to interventions based on evidence rather than ideology, are all incorporated in this urgent demand for action.
Rights Here, Right Now emphasizes that concrete human rights measures need to be in place to protect those most vulnerable to and affected by HIV, especially women and girls, people who use drugs, migrants, prisoners, sex workers, men who have sex with men, and transgender persons.
Rights Here, Right Now also emphasizes the location of the conference in Vienna, chosen in part for its proximity to Eastern Europe and Central Asia, a region experiencing one of the fastest growing epidemics that is fuelled primarily by injecting drug use. It also underscores this critical moment in time for the global epidemic – with the 2010 deadline that world leaders set for providing universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support on the immediate horizon. Rights Here, Right Now is a call for leadership, accountability and action.
6. REGISTRATION
All registrations (regular delegate, student/post-doc, youth delegate, accompanying adult and child, media representative) for the XVIII International AIDS Conference must be submitted using the online registration form. As part of the registration process, you will be asked to create a personal profile, which will become your online gateway to all conference-related submissions. Once you enter your contact information in the profile, you will not need to do so again. Delegates of previous IAS or International AIDS Conferences can use previous profile log in information to access their profile.
Registration will open on 1 December 2009. Delegates are encouraged to register by 24 February 2010 to avoid a late surcharge.
7. LOCAL SECRETARIAT
The AIDS 2010 local secretariat is now open and operating in Vienna, Austria. The local secretariat is responsible for organizing and coordinating several key tasks, including the Global Village and Youth Programme, and for supporting local stakeholders and the local community in their participation in AIDS 2010. The Senior Coordinator of the local secretariat is Marijana Grandits. The AIDS 2010 Local Co-Chair is Dr. Brigitte Schmied from the Austrian AIDS Society.
Contact Details:
AIDS 2010 Local Secretariat
Zelinkagasse 4/1st floor
1010 Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43 1 4000 76781
Senior Coordinator: Marijana Grandits
Email: marijana.grandits@aids2010.org
Assistant to Senior Coordinator: Tina Hofstaetter
Email: tina.hofstaetter@aids2010.org
Global Village Coordinator: Irina Baumgartner
Email: irina.baumgartner@aids2010.org
Youth Programme Coordinator: Elisabeth Rohrmoser
Email: elisabeth.rohrmoser@aids2010.org
Logistics Assistant: Sabine Mann
Email: sabine.mann@aids2010.org
8. KEY DATES
We remind you of the following important deadlines:
1 November 2009
– Abstract submissions open
1 December 2009
– Registrations open
– Global Village and Youth Programme submissions open
– Workshops submissions open
– Satellite applications open
– Exhibition space application open
– Accommodation bookings open
8 December 2009
– Scholarship applications open
10 February 2010
– Abstract submissions close
– Global Village and Youth Programme submissions close
– Workshops submissions close
– Scholarship applications close
25 February 2010
– Registrations late surcharge added
31 March 2010
– Satellite applications close
1 April 2010
– Volunteer applications open
20 April 2010
– Late breaker abstract submissions open
6 May 2010
– Registrations last minute surcharge added
20 May 2010
– Late breaker abstract submission close
31 May 2010
– Exhibition space applications close
18-23 July 2010
– Conference
9. JOIN THE AIDS 2010 MAILING LIST
To continue receiving updates from the conference secretariat, visit the www.aids2010.org homepage and sign up for the mailing list. Your email address will only be used for conference-related updates.
Sincerely,
AIDS 2010 Conference Secretariat
XVIII International AIDS Conference Vienna, Austria, 18 – 23 July 2010, convened by the International AIDS Society (IAS) and international, regional and local partners.
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