Sexually Transmitted Diseases calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Papers: Bodies, Immunity, Discourse: Post-AIDS Literature

44th Annual Convention Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) March 21-24, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts

The 44th Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.

Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2012

Bodies, Immunity, Discourse: Post-AIDS Literature

At this time when HIV infection rates are surging in specified populations, what are the newer, Post-AIDS literary forms (less centered on mourning and loss) that portray the most recent cultural knowledge of the AIDS crisis? How do current literary forms describe and define any of the following: the medicalization of AIDS, the expressivity of AIDS bodies, social vs. individual immunity, the recent social history of immunology, the scarcity of socio-cultural critiques of HIV diagnoses. Abstracts: John Robinson-Appels, jr2168@columbia.edu.

Concurrent Session Call for Programs: School and College Organization for Prevention Educators (SCOPE) 2012 Annual Conference

SCOPE is soliciting program proposals for its 2nd Annual Conference, to be held October 18-20, 2012 at the Caribe Royale Orlando in Orlando, FL.

• The Call for Programs closes on June 1, 2012.
• Notifications of acceptance/rejection will go out electronically by June 15, 2012.

Selections will be based on the following criteria:

o Relevance to the topics of: advocacy, alcohol abuse, bullying, bystander intervention, diversity, drug abuse, eating disorders, harassment, hazing, mental health, peer education, primary prevention, relationship/domestic/intimate partner violence, research, sexual assault, sexuality, sexual health, social norms, stalking, suicide, tobacco
o Completeness, detail and professionalism of the proposal
o Willingness of presenters to facilitate roundtable discussions in addition to their concurrent session(s)
o Evidence‐based, promising and innovative model programs/practices are welcome
o Engaging format, presenters and/or concepts

• You are encouraged to submit multiple proposals
• Co‐presented sessions are encouraged
• All presenters must register for the conference. You need not be a SCOPE member to attend, nor present.
• If accepted, presentation materials will be due on September 4, 2012.

All emails should be directed to Michelle Issadore, executive director via email to execdir@wearescope.org. To reach the SCOPE office by phone, call 610.993.0227.

Call for Papers for Health-Related Sessions at the 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

August 5th-August 10th, 2013 Manchester, United Kingdom

The 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences has the overall theme "Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds".

The Call for Papers will close on July 13, 2012. The call for papers deadline applies to both papers proposed as additions to an existing panel and also to papers proposed to the holding panel. These deadlines are final and no further proposals will be accepted after these dates.

All Panels
-- BH01 Health, nutrition and physical growth in developing nations
-- BH02 Co-evolution of humans and their foods: cross-disciplinary perspectives (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition)
-- BH12 Forensic anthropology; emerging issues and challenges in the 21st century
-- LD01 The vulnerable child: biological responses to life in the past
-- LD02 The role of cosmopolitan-modern medicine and its social and cultural challenges
-- LD03 Health and emerging regional demographic trends
-- LD04 The future agenda for anthropological research on the HIV/AIDS pandemic (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of AIDS)
-- LD05 Urbanization and reproductive health (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
-- LD06 Anthropologies in and of Public Health in the 21st century
-- LD07 Landscapes of life-and-death in India, South Arabia and Asia Minor
-- LD08 Social debate over the prevention, mitigation and rehabilitation for disaster affected children
-- LD09 Anthropology of ageing
-- LD10 Menopausal woman and assisted reproduction: rights to access of ART in an ethical context (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
-- LD11 The states of welfare and wellbeing of indigenous populations?
-- LD12 Health and nutrition: changes in lifestyle in the era of globalization
-- LD13 Gender equity in nutrition and child health
-- LD14 Disjunctions of deathscapes: ways of suffering, dying, and death
-- LD15 Status of the aged in the Third World
-- LD16 Techniques of healing in traditional societies
-- LD18 Dominant caste and their culture: health perspective of the indigenous communities in the south Asian subcontinent and beyond
-- LD19 Traditional and medicinal knowledge among the indigenous communities
-- LD22 The problems and values of old age in postmodern era
-- LD23 Tribal health: emerging consequences in the era of globalization
-- LD24 Documenting the meanings of life and death in the Americas
-- LD25 Health concerns of women during and after menopause
-- LD26 Identified skeletal collections: the testing ground of anthropology?
-- MMM10 Interdisciplinary perspectives on identity, food and wellbeing of migrants I: global resource flows, political contestations and health
-- MMM11 Interdisciplinary perspectives on identity, food and wellbeing of migrants II: memory, emotional sustenance and culinary practices
-- MMM18 Sanitising migration: epidemiology or medical police?
-- PE03 Food and environmental security: the imperatives of indigenous knowledge systems
-- PE06 Food security and rural development
-- PE21 Human life, enterprise and market (IUAES Commission on Enterprise Anthropology)
-- PE24 How women are affected by local vs. corporate food systems (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Women)
-- PE25 Sustainable livelihood security and human development
-- PE26 Plants utility by ethnic communities of eastern India for nutritional and health security, past-present and future
-- PE28 Anthropology of food and nutrition in the globalized economy
-- PE31 Ethnomedicinal properties of traditional vegetables: the present status and future journey
-- SE23 Action anthropology, tribal medicine and development
-- SE24 Exclusion of de-notified (ex-criminal tribes) and nomadic tribes in India: issues and challenges for inclusion
-- SE25 Health activism in the context of 'global health'
-- WMW01 Medical anthropology for a better tomorrow: exploring the mind, medicine and mental health

Call for Abstracts: 5th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights

September 19-22, 2012 Windhoek, Namibia

The Scientific Committee of the 5th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights is pleased to invite Abstracts (oral presentations and posters) exploring the overall theme of the conference – “Sexual Health and Rights in Africa – Where Are We?” and through the following sub-themes:

- Adolescent and Youth Sexuality
- Women’s and Girls Sexuality
- Disabilities and Sexual Rights
- Sexual Rights and Sex Work
- HIV/AIDS and Sexuality
- Sexuality, Culture and Religion
- Sexual and Reproductive Rights (Legal, Policy and Programme Issues- financing, equity, access, implementation, enforcement and redress)
- Sexual Orientation, Sexual/Gender Identity and Sexual and Reproductive Rights
- Capacity building and Knowledge Management

Abstract Format
1. 15-minute oral presentations (10 minutes presentation + 5 minutes for questions).

2. 5 minute oral poster presentations (3 minutes for presentation + 2 minutes for questions).

Authors may choose among the following abstract formats:

- Standard format (Introduction and objectives, Method(s), Results and Conclusion).

- Qualitative Research Studies (Introduction, Method(s), Findings and discussion, Recommendations and References)

- Experiential & Practice Samples (Introduction, Action. Outcome, Discussion, Recommendations and References).

- Historical Survey (Introduction, Approach, Findings and discussions and References).

Abstracts Submission & Evaluation Criteria
- Abstracts should be submitted for poster and podium presentations.

- All abstracts must be submitted online at www.africasexuality.org/abstract/openconf.php

- Abstracts can be submitted in English, French or Portuguese.

- Abstracts will be printed as submitted. It is the author’s responsibility to submit the abstract in the correct order with no spelling or grammar errors.

- Abstracts that are not received in the proper format will not be considered for review by the Scientific Committee.

- The Abstract should include a summary of not more than 200 words and an extended abstract of 2-3 pages (Arial font 11, spacing 1.5).

- The abstract should provide as much relevant information as possible and should follow the one of the 4 formats highlighted above.

- The title should be in capital letters.

- For multiple submissions, consistency in authors’ names should be maintained to avoid duplication in the Author index of the final Program.

- The presenting author’s name should be listed first and underlined.

- Authors must indicate the name of the funders (if any) of research being presented.

- Authors must disclose any potential conflict of interest for their research.

- PowerPoint presentations using a PC data projector will be the standard method of visual data presentation.

- Authors should indicate whether they prefer a podium or poster presentation.

- The final decision on the presentation format will be made by the Scientific Committee.

- Receipt of all abstracts will be acknowledged by e-mail.

- All accepted abstracts will be published in the Conference Proceedings, online and may be reproduced in relevant scientific journals.

- Submitted Abstracts will be treated with utmost confidentiality.

For further information and questions, contact conference@africasexuality.org

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2012

Conference Host
Namibia Planned Parenthood Association
P.O. Box 10936
Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 61 230250
Fax: +264 61 230251
Email: conference@africasexuality.org
www.nappa.com.na

Call for Abstracts: 2012 HIV Diagnostics Conference

December 12-14, 2012  Atlanta, Georgia

The 2012 HIV Diagnostics Conference, co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), provides an opportunity for clinicians, clinical and public health laboratorians, HIV/AIDS program managers and directors, and industry representatives to review developments in HIV diagnostics, share data and research findings, and establish collaborations. Since its inception in 2005, the HIV Diagnostics Conference has served as an opportunity for those interested in issues related to HIV diagnostic testing to gather and discuss new developments and related prevention and surveillance measures.

At the 2010 HIV Diagnostics Conference, a new HIV-1/2 diagnostic testing algorithm was proposed. The 2012 HIV Diagnostics Conference will provide an opportunity for participants to share their experiences with 4th generation antigen/antibody assays and data generated with this new HIV-1/2 diagnostic testing algorithm. The 2012 conference will be held December 12-14 at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel in Atlanta, GA. Online registration will open in February. The registration fee is $350. Registration, abstract submission and proceedings from past conferences can be accessed online. A limited number of scholarships are available to provide partial support for potential conference attendees who would otherwise be unable to participate.

A preconference workshop (included in the registration fee) will be held December 11 for interested program and laboratory personnel. Topics to be reviewed include HIV-related test principles, specimen selection and handling, measures of test performance, and understanding test kit product inserts. The HIV Diagnostic Conference Planning Committee actively encourages manufacturers of HIV diagnostic and prognostic assays or devices to participate in our Exhibitor Sessions and to contribute to the scientific discussion throughout the conference.

Abstracts should present research findings addressing one of the following nine topics:

Abstract Catergories

1. 4th Generation HIV-1/HIV-2 Immunoassay Screening
· Performance in populations with different HIV prevalence
· Performance of fully automated random access analyzers and implications for testing strategies

2. HIV Testing Algorithms in the Laboratory
· Overall performance of the 3rd/4th generation immunoassay, HIV-1/HIV-2 antibody differentiation assay and NAAT algorithm
· Use of high throughput assays as the supplemental test after a reactive 4th generation result
· Performance of HIV-1/HIV-2 differentiation assays or other antibody assays as the first supplemental test after a reactive 4th generation result
· Turnaround time and costs

3. HIV Testing Algorithms outside the Laboratory
· Performance of Point of care (POC) tests
· Training and QA
· Basis for selecting specific test or algorithms

4. HIV-1 Nucleic Acid Tests for Diagnosis and Prognosis
· Qualitative
· Quantitative

5. HIV-2 Testing
· Serologic
· Nucleic acid amplification

6. Alternatives for Diagnostic Decision Making
· Decisions on initial reactive results (repeating reactives vs. alternatives)
· Use of signal-to-cutoff ratio to predict seropositivity

7. Laboratory and Surveillance Issues
· Laboratory reporting to surveillance programs, (i.e., life after Western blot)
· Alternative algorithms for specimens other than blood
· HIV-1 resistance testing

8. Diagnostic Assays under Development
· Serologic
· NAAT

9. Testing for HIV/HBV and HIV/HCV Co-infections

Abstracts will be selected by the Planning Committee for poster or oral presentation. Posters will be displayed for two days. Presentations, in a plenary lecture format for all conference participants, will be grouped into sessions based on subject matter, with question and answer periods after each session.

Submission Instructions
Abstract Submission

Detailed instructions and on-line abstract submission will be available beginning February 1, 2012 at www.hivtestingconference.org. Abstracts should be received by September 21, 2012. The deadline for submission with late-breaking information is November 2, 2012.

Call for Abstracts: Eleventh International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection

11-15 November 2012 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Keeping up to date with developments and new ideas in HIV treatment presents a major challenge to treating physicians, healthcare providers and researchers. Objective scientific assessment of new drug treatments and therapeutic strategies is therefore essential. It will be the aim of the Eleventh International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection to provide a wide-ranging yet accessible forum for such assessment.

The Scientific Programme for Glasgow will again address the use of differing therapeutic strategies in a variety of clinical settings. Alongside treatment strategies, adverse events, resistance and other important sessions within the overall programme, developing world perspectives, paediatric treatment and care, and community-related treatment issues will receive detailed attention. The Congress will again adopt the Pre-Congress Workshop format as introduced at HIV-10, which proved to be a popular session taking place on the opening morning of the Congress.

Abstract submissions are invited from all relevant sources. Specific details on the submission process and subject categories will be provided in January 2012. Online electronic submission will be available. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 16 July 2012.

Contact Us
For All Enquiries Relating to this Event

Eleventh International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection
Organising Secretariat
KnowledgePoint360 Group
Victoria Mill
Windmill Street
Macclesfield SK11 7HQ, UK
Telephone: +44(0)1625 664390
Fax: +44(0)1625 664391
E-mail: hiv11@kp360group.com
Website: www.hivdrugtherapy.org