Abstract Categories
and Cross-cutting Themes 

The track category is the general heading under which abstracts will be reviewed and later published in the Conference printed matters if accepted. When submitting your abstract, you should choose the category that best describes the abstract. Please click here to find the complete list of abstract categories.

In the scientific vision for AIDS 2008 six cross-cutting themes have been identified, with relevance across the five tracks. These cross-cutting themes will help structure the whole program of the conference and will serve as a basis for interdisciplinary sessions conveying presentations from various tracks and disciplines on relevant issues. In addition to choosing the track category, you may also indicate a cross-cutting theme that is relevant to your abstract:

• Globalization & HIV/AIDS: how, in a world with borders, globalization and global inequalities affect the response to the epidemic, and how this response can best contribute to increasing the benefits and reducing the drawbacks of globalization.
   
• Science & Technology: how to transfer to the field and increase worldwide access to recent biomedical advances, technological innovations and improvements in public health policies in HIV prevention, treatment and support.
   
• Health Systems Strengthening & Integration: how to strengthen broad-based health systems and integrate HIV interventions to deliver the necessary services to those in greatest need; and how HIV-targeted programs can reciprocally contribute to health systems strengthening and global health?
   
• Stigma, Discrimination & Social Justice: how to combat stigma and discrimination against PLWHAS and groups more exposed to the risks of HIV infection, and to overcome existing barriers in access to HIV care and prevention, with a special interest in approaches that incorporate these goals within a social justice framework.
   
• "Do the Right Thing" and Evidence-informed policies & Programmes: how to guarantee that public policies and interventions by all concerned partners are based on the best available evidence and on established good practices at the global, national and local levels.
   
• Tracking Progress & Accountability: how to track the progress that has been made in the response, as well as the remaining gaps and limitations, in order to increase accountability of all partners towards the communities most affected by the epidemic.