Open Call for Abstracts: EECA Interact Program 2025

Deadline: 30-Nov-2024

The EECA Interact invites you to submit your abstracts on HIV, TB, and hepatitis.

EECA INTERACT 2025 will bring together scientists, clinicians, members of civil society, and government officials to tackle topics facing individual countries while building capacity and strengthening research and clinical networks.

They encourage researchers from Eastern and Central Europe, Balkans, Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Baltics to submit abstracts for peer review. There are a limited number of scholarships for the highest scoring abstract presenters to attend the INTERACT workshop in person.

Topics

• They invite researchers to submit abstracts on the following topics:
  • Health & Science
    • Epidemiology, including surveillance and data collection
    • Antiretroviral treatment and HIV care
    • Access to diagnostics, medicines, and medical products
    • Basic science and HIV cure, vaccines, and monoclonal antibodies
    • HIV co-infections, including hepatitis, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infections, and (re)emerging pathogens
    • HIV and co-morbidities
    • Laboratory monitoring/diagnostics
    • HIV prevention
    • New PrEP technologies and PrEP rollout
    • Paediatrics and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT)
    • Implementation science,
    • Financing, cost-effectiveness, and impact modelling
    • Information technology innovations for HIV (MHealth, electronic records, social media)
  • Society
    • Community/civil society/stakeholder engagement
    • Community-based participatory research
    • Innovative approaches to priority populations that are at risk and underserved
    • Socio-behavioural research
    • Women and HIV
    • Stigma and discrimination
    • Regulatory, ethical, and research conduct challenges
  • Policy
    • Structural determinants of HIV vulnerability
    • Health systems strengthening
    • Knowledge translation to policy and programming

Eligibility Criteria 

• There are a limited number of scholarships, preference is given to young investigators (under 35) or less than 5 years out from PhD or MD.
• You may submit the abstract in either English or Russian language.

For more information, visit EECA INTERACT.