The call for abstracts EECA INTERACT 2025 is open. Please, apply!
Attention researchers! EECA INTERACT 2025 invites you to submit your abstracts on HIV, TB, and hepatitis by November 30. Share your work with the region’s leading experts in Tbilisi!
The online application is open from 7 October until 30 November. Submit your abstract via this form.
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. We 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. We 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
Abstract requirements
max. 500 words / 3000 characters. The text should be under four headings: Background, Methodology, Results, Conclusion. Graphs, images, and tables are not allowed. Please note that the conference secretariat cannot be held responsible for any typing or language errors in submitted abstracts. Abstract Review criteria:
- Is there a clear background and justified objective?
- Is the methodology/study design appropriate for the objectives?
- Are the results important and clearly presented?
- Are the conclusions supported by the results?
- Is the study original, and does it contribute to the field?
The online application is open from 7 October until 30 November.
Submit your abstract via this form.
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. Information is available on request via info@eeca-interact.org.
EECA Interact 2025 is organized by AFEW International and the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health & Development (AIGHD).
Local partner – Ilia State University.
