Dear Friends.,

Welcome to the 17th 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, we encourage discussion of work in progress, this thus is a closed meeting and all data presented will not be publicized outside of the workshop, this includes the programme not being distributed prior to or after the meeting.

Workshop at a glance

  • 2 day meeting, beginning midday on Thursday 11th April 2013 and ending on midday on Saturday 13th April 2013
  • The program is based on abstract selection by the Scientific Committee

Timelines

  • Call for abstract invitation: September 2012
  • Abstract submission opens: November 2012
  • Abstract submission deadline: December 2012
  • Abstract selection and final program by Scientific Committee: January 2013
  • Abstract status will be notified starting the last week of January 2013

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 2012.

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 16th IWHOD, Athens 2012 Best Poster Award has been granted to Deborah Ford for her poster presented on behalf of the DART (Development of AntiRetroviral Therapy in Africa) Trial Cohort.

Past awards:

15th IWHOD, Prague 2011 Best Poster Award: Alexandra Scherrer on behalf of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study

14th IWHOD, Sitges 2010 Best Poster Award: Jannie Van der Helm on behalf of CASCADE collaboration

European HIV cohorts registry

EuroCoord would like to keep an updated registry of all cohorts or clinical databases of people with HIV in Europe. If you know of a cohort or clinical database apart from those listed (http://www.eurocoord.net/cohort_registry.aspx) then please submit the details here. EuroCoord will verify these details with the cohort/database investigators and add to the registry.

For further information email: IWHOD-ScSecretary@isped.u-bordeaux2.fr