Who selects the abstracts and decides how they will be presented?
All abstracts submitted to the conference go through a blind, peer-review process carried out by an international review panel. “Blind” means that the reviewers see only the content of the abstract, not the submitters’ name; this ensures that all abstracts are evaluated fairly, without bias. Each of the abstracts submitted to the conference will be reviewed by no less than four reviewers, who each allocate a score to the abstract. The highest scoring abstracts are then sent to the Scientific Programme Committee – a committee made up of HIV specialists from all regions of the world – for final selection. This committee also decides which abstracts will be presented orally, as posters, or included on the CD-ROM.
