Dear Friends
Welcome to the 16th Cohorts Workshop website!
Workshop's mission
The objective of this conference is to bring together junior and senior researchers from both developed and developing countries working on cohorts of patients with HIV, to present in an informal, closed-meeting format their latest findings and work in progress and allow open discussions on common issues of cohort methodology, techniques and statistics. This conference aims at pursuing new findings or analyses and facilitating scientific debates of methods, results, and clinical and epidemiological implications of the HIV epidemic in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are once again aiming to include attendees representing cohort studies from all regions. As in the past, this is a closed meeting and all data presented will not be publicized outside of the workshop; thus we encourage discussion of work in progress.
Workshop at a glance
• 2 day meeting, beginning midday on Thursday 29th March 2012 and ending on Saturday 31st March 2012
• The program is based on abstract selection by the Scientific Committee
Timelines
• Call for abstract invitation: September 2011
• Abstract submission opens: Wednesday 2 November 2011
• Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday 7 December 2011
• Abstract selection and final program by Scientific Committee: January 2012
• Abstract status will be notified starting the first week of February 2012
Visa Information
For information regarding visa requirement in Greece, please follow this link: http://www.greekembassy.org.uk/ConsularAffairs/ListofCountriesforVisa.aspx
Ongoing and New Collaborations
If you and your collaborators are interested in holding a side meeting at the workshop, please communicate with your colleagues directly, and contact Dolores O'Sullivan (dosullivan@visualresponse.com) from Visual Response to arrange for a time slot and a meeting room at the hotel as soon as possible and no later than 15 October 2011.
Financial Assistance
We continue to strongly encourage abstract submissions from resource-constrained settings. Recognizing that the additional expenses may deter some from attending the meeting, we will try to offer financial assistance for delegates from resource-constrained settings, particularly those with student status, whose abstracts have been accepted. Please contact the Secretariat for details (IWHOD-ScSecretary@isped.u-bordeaux2.fr).
IWHOD - Best Poster Award
We are delighted to announce that the 15th IWHOD, Prague 2011 Best Poster Award has been granted to Alexandra Scherrer for her poster presented on behalf of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS).
Past awards:
14th IWHOD, Sitges 2010 Best Poster Award: Jannie Van der Helm for her poster presented on behalf of CASCADE collaboration
For further information email: IWHOD-ScSecretary@isped.u-bordeaux2.fr