Abstract Assistance for the International AIDS Conference 2008 Mexico

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ANNOUNCEMENT, NOV. 8, 2008: The Global Forum on Men Who Have Sex with

Men (MSM) and HIV TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TEAM for IAC 2008 Abstract

Submission:

Hello everyone!

As you all know, the period for abstract submission for the 2008

International AIDS Conference in Mexico City has just opened (Nov. 1 to Feb.

19). We recently sent out an e-blast encouraging as many of you as possible to

submit your abstracts concerning MSM and HIV to ensure a strong presence of MSM

issues at the general conference.

To aid this effort, the Global Forum on MSM and HIV has put together a Technical

Assistance Team to provide limited technical support to those of you writing

MSM-related abstracts for the conference. Our team, competent in English,

Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, will be able to go over your abstract and provide

you with suggestions on content, format and language to help ensure that it has

all the elements needed to be accepted into the conference.

Included below are some of the requirements and guidelines for putting

together your abstracts as delineated on the IAC website. Once you have

completed a rough draft of your abstract, you may email it to

jbeck@... with a brief description of yourself and what you do.

Our team can then review the abstract and provide you with some

assistance on developing it further. Please forward this to anyone you think

may want help in crafting their abstract on MSM and HIV for the 2008 IAC.

We encourage work that introduces new ideas and conceptualizations,

research and understandings to the field, as well as analysis of both

success and failure.

The XVII International AIDS Conference offers two options for abstract

submission:

Option 1

Abstracts presented under the first option should contain concise

statements of: Background: the study objectives, the hypothesis to be tested, or

adescription of the problem; Methods: method(s) used or approach taken;

Results: specific results in summarized form (with statistical analysis when

appropriate); Conclusions: description of the main outcome of the study.

Option 2

Abstracts presented under the second option should contain concise

statements of: Issues: a summary of the issue(s) addresses by the abstract;

Description: a description of the research, project, experience, service and/or

advocacy; Lessons learned: conclusions and implications of the research

orproject; Next steps: possible next steps for implementation or further

research.

To help you with your abstract submission, the following general

guidelines have been drafted:

All abstracts must be submitted in English.

Abstracts can only be submitted online; those submitted by fax, post or e-mail

will not be considered.

The abstract text should not exceed 300 words.

Tables and graphs may be included.

It is the author's responsibility to submit a correct abstract. Any errors in

spelling, grammar or scientific fact will be reproduced as typed by the author.

Fields which are marked with a red star in the online form are mandatory.

Abstracts must not have been published or submitted for presentation to any

other national or international meeting, for further information please see

below.

If you have any questions regarding your abstract submission, please contact the

abstract support team at abstracts@... <mailto:abstracts@...>

More guidelines can be found at www.aids2008.org/subpage.aspx?pageId=355

Jack Beck

e-mail: <JBeck@...>