Attention researchers! EECA INTERACT 2025 invites you to submit your abstracts on HIV, TB, and hepatitis! Share your work with the region’s leading experts in Tbilisi! The submission process is open until 30th November.
The fifth scientific workshop on HIV, Hepatitis C and Tuberculosis in Eastern Europe and Central Asia – EECA INTERACT 2025 – will be held on 27-28 th February in Tbilisi, Georgia!
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. EECA INTERACT encourages researchers from Eastern and Central Europe, Balkans, 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.
Researchers can 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
The online application is open from 7 October until 30 November. Submit your abstract via this form.
More information – www.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.
