November 17-19 2010

Gaylord National Hotel, National Harbor, MD

  CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 

The Scientific Planning Committee for the 2010 National Summit on HIV Diagnosis, Prevention and Access to Care is issuing a Call for Abstracts for presentations at the upcoming National Summit conference.

Online Abstract submission begins:    August 06, 2010
Friday August 6-Online abstract site opens and abstract submission begins
2010 HIV Summit Abstract Submission Website

EXTENDED DEADLINE Wednesday September 1- Abstract submission deadline

Friday September 17- Registration open for accepted abstract presenting authors

Friday September 24- General registration open

The mission of the 2010 HIV Summit is to address and support the continued implementation of CDC's recommendations for routine HIV testing.

We will further identify and build upon strategies for HIV diagnosis, prevention, linkage to and retention in care. In short - the 2010 Summit serves to highlight the progress made in the four years since the recommendations were released and draw the roadmap for moving from pilot and demonstration projects to sustainable programs.

The 2010 National Summit on HIV Diagnosis, Prevention and Access to Care, co-chaired by Dr. John G. Bartlett and Dr. Kenneth H. Mayer, will be held November 17-19, 2010 at the Gaylord National Hotel, National Harbor, MD.

We are requesting abstract submissions with the goal to assemble new and relevant information about the implementation of routine or expanded HIV testing activities furthering HIV prevention and access-to-care goals in the U.S. Abstracts should enhance sharing of information and experiences in different settings, encourage collaboration, and support the scale-up of voluntary HIV testing services. Thus, we welcome abstract submissions that are original or that have been presented at meetings or conferences within the past year. All accepted abstracts will be presented as posters, which will be displayed for the duration of the conference and will be published as part of the meeting proceedings. A select number of abstracts will be chosen for oral presentations. Registration will be available to accepted abstract presenters prior to open registration.

The conference program consists of four tracks:

Track A: Routine/Expanded HIV Testing Models and Systems Development
Track Description: review activities designed to increase testing in various clinical and other settings and address challenges and opportunities to routine/expanded testing access (including policy, legal, and financial issues, training, systems development, buy-in, capacity and resources, federal harmonization, and health care reform)
Co-chairs: Richard Rothman, MD, PhD, FACEP; Monica Sweeney, MD, MPH
Goals:

• To highlight the state of the art in implementation of routine HIV testing in a variety of health care and other settings
• To examine how the latest developments in HIV diagnostic testing technologies can support the goal of routine HIV testing
• To examine how current policies may facilitate or impede the implementation of routine testing, steps needed to change policy to improve HIV diagnosis and linkage to care, and best practices for expanding testing under existing policies.
• To highlight innovation and best practices and lessons learned from non-traditional care settings that have been implemented routine HIV testing

Track B: Prevention Models in the Context of HIV Testing
Track Description: discuss HIV prevention models and services associated with HIV testing for both HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected people, including activities taking place within or outside of clinical settings, such as community-based organizations or other community venues.
Co-chairs: Judith Auerbach, PhD; Ronald Valdiserri, MD, MPH
Goals:

• To examine best practices for HIV prevention efforts associated with HIV testing in clinical and non-clinical settings for both HIV-infected and uninfected persons
• To examine the ways in which individual, group, and community -level HIV prevention activities can increase the uptake of HIV testing and improve access to care services.
• To identify policy and legislative impediments to the support of HIV prevention activities delivered in the context of HIV testing programs
• To examine the ways in which health care reform affects HIV prevention models and services associated with HIV testing

Track C: Outcomes and Impact Evaluation of HIV Testing, Prevention and Care
Track Description: discuss and recommend practices to measure the success of testing, prevention and linkage and engagement in care programs. Measures and models include : overall numbers tested and testing rates of specific populations; testing metrics for national evaluations (including consideration of National HIV/AIDS Strategy and HEDIS metrics); strategies to improve yield; strategies to improve delivery of results and confirmatory testing; strategies to address testing costs; disease stage at testing; provider knowledge, skill and acceptance; patient knowledge and satisfaction; impact on prevention, and successful linkage to care; community, payor, and provider acceptability of routine/expanded HIV testing activities; use of electronic medical records, private sector data, and comparing data across programs; adverse outcomes such as stigma and discrimination; cost effectiveness of programs; comparative effectiveness; and evaluation of social marketing campaigns among other topics
Co-chairs: Michael Horberg, MD, MAS; Daniel Seekins, MD
Goals:

• To review and build on the latest evidence on how effectively routine HIV testing is being implemented
• To review and build on evidence that expanded HIV testing is resulting in persons being diagnosed and linked to and engaged in care more effectively.
• To examine the metrics of routine/expanded HIV testing, both in terms of the data we currently have as well as the gaps in current knowledge and to establish mechanisms to fill the identified gaps.

Track D: Access, Linkage and Retention in Care
Track Description: focus on models for linking individuals to HIV care; engaging persons who are aware of their status but not currently in care, and strategies for retaining individuals in care and optimizing use of antiretroviral therapy; address the adequacy of the HIV care workforce and clinic capacity.
Co-chairs Laura Cheever, MD, ScM; Andrea Weddle, MSW
Goals:

• To identify ways in which persons identified through routine HIV testing can be more effectively linked to and engaged in care
• To identify ways to maximize health outcomes and retention for patients currently engaged in care
• To identify mechanisms to overcome the challenges inherent in providing HIV care including addressing clinic capacity and workforce issues

In addition to the four tracks, the conference program will feature three cross-cutting themes.  When submitting abstracts, authors should indicate if the abstract addresses one or more of the cross-cutting themes.

Cross-Cutting Theme: Accountability and Sustainability
Theme Description: highlight ways in which sustainable programs for HIV testing, prevention and linkage to care can be built and to identify the resources needed to sustain them and to identify stakeholders involved in creating and maintaining programs.
Co-chairs: Kathleen McNamara, RN; Michael Saag, MD
Goals:

• To discuss how programs move from pilot and demonstration projects to sustainable programs
• To address current challenges in providing care in the context of low reimbursements and flat funding

Cross-Cutting Theme: Provider Engagement

Theme Description: identify models for and ways in which organizations (such as professional societies of providers, managed care organizations, local and federal government programs, advocacy groups and others) can promote HIV testing, prevention and linkage to care among clinical providers.
Co-chairs: Judith Aberg, MD; Judith Feinberg, MD
Goals:

• To review how organizational responses support the improvement of HIV testing, prevention, and linkage to care in provider practices
• To discuss best practices for reaching and engaging providers

Cross-Cutting Theme: Stigma
Track Description: identify the ways in which stigma impacts and impedes program success, and to identify innovations and best practices for increasing the acceptability of HIV testing, preventions services, linkage to and retention in care.
Co-chairs: Victoria Cargill, MD MSCE; David Munar
Goals:

• To identify the ways in which external stigma, self-stigma, and perceived stigma in the forms of discrimination, prejudice, fear, or self image impact HIV diagnosis, prevention and access, linkage and retention in care
• To discuss ways to reduce or eliminate the impact of these issues on the success of earlier HIV diagnosis and linkage to care programs.
• To review the various unintended negative personal, interpersonal, and social sequelae of HIV testing, and to identify mechanisms needed for providers and others in the health care community to prevent and minimize such outcomes.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Online submission of abstracts will begin on August 06, 2010.  The site will be linked on the 2010 HIV Summit webpage.

The format for abstracts is as follows.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FORMAT
(max 400 words for sections 3-6)

Author 1 First Name Last Name, Affiliation, City, State
Author 2 First Name Last Name, Affiliation, City, State
Author 3 First Name Last Name, Affiliation, City, State
Etc.

Indicate the Presenting Author

Authors will be contacted by email of abstracts acceptance and presenting authors of accepted abstracts will receive the Summit registration information.  All accepted abstracts will be presented as poster presentations. In addition, selected abstracts will be chosen for oral presentations.

Registration Information

Registration will open September 17^th, 2010 and more information will be available on the 2010 HIV Summit webpage.

A registration fee of $500 will be charged which covers two nights at the hotel and all meals associated with the event. A commuter registration fee which covers access to the meeting and meals (no hotel) will be available for $150.

We will make every effort to provide travel scholarships for those that require assistance to attend the meeting.  Information about scholarships will be available on the webpage when registration begins.

For additional questions, please contact Ben Hauschild, bhausch@hivforum.org.