AIDS Issues Update: Features:
Submit Your Research to the AIDS Housing Summit!
AIDS housing expert Ginny Shubert and NAHC Executive Director Nancy Bernstine (at last year’s summit) urge you to submit abstracts
Do you have AIDS housing research that you want to share with an international crowd? Submit abstracts for the fifth-annual North American Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit in Toronto, Ontario by March 22! The conference takes place June 2 to 4.
Both research and policy abstracts are encouraged, and abstracts may be submitted for oral or poster presentations. Notification of acceptance will be emailed no later than April 16, 2010. Conference fees will be waived for presenting authors.
Even if you aren’t submitting an abstract, register for the summit! Early Bird registration is available until April 23.
The Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit series is an interdisciplinary, interactive forum for the presentation of research findings on the relationship of housing status and HIV prevention and care, coupled with dialogue on public policy implications and strategies. Summit V continues the collaboration between the U.S. National AIDS Housing Coalition (NAHC) and the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) as co-convening organizations, working in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The theme of Summit V is Evidence into Action, with a focus on evidence-based policy and practice that targets housing as a key social determinant of HIV risk and health outcomes. The Summit conveners invite abstracts presenting the results of scientific research, economic analyses, program evaluations, community-based interventions, and public policy strategies that reflect this theme.
Of particular interest is work that broadens our understanding of:
- Housing need among populations disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS, including Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, African Americans, Alaskan Natives, American Indians, Black Canadians, and people of African, Asian, Caribbean and Latino descent living in North America.
- Work in areas of emerging housing need, such as persons re-entering the community from prison or jail, victims of violence and other forms of trauma, and military veterans.
Abstracts may be no more than 600 words and must include the presentation title and a complete list of authors including affiliations.
For more information on the Summit and to view the Call for Abstracts, please visit the Summit website.
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