IWHOD: International Workshop on HIV Observational Databases

EuroCoord, in partnership with the IWHOD scientific committee (SC), has taken over the organisation and administration of IWHOD as from 2009.

The objective of this highly successful workshop is to bring together researchers from both developed and developing countries working on cohorts of patients with HIV, to present in an informal, closed-meeting format new research and allow open discussions on common issues of cohort methodology, techniques and statistics.

Indeed, the presented data are not made public through this workshop thereby allowing for discussion of work-in-progress not presented in other conferences (e.g. abstracts accepted to the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) cannot be invited to IWHOD). The table below gives an overview of the participants and the workshop over time.

	2005 Budapest	2009 Lisbon	2010 Sitges	2011 Prague	2012 Athens	2013 Cavtat	2014 Sitges
Cohorts or collaborations represented	55	56	77	68	67	69	71
Abstracts submitted	132	171	168	140	150	198	172
Abstracts presented	80	109	135	119	122*	120	123
Acceptance rate	61%	64%	80%	85%	81%	61%	72%

^{* 123 abstract were accepted, one was withdrawn by authors}

The workshop involves cohorts from Europe, Australia, North America and resource-limited countries. The presented data at this workshop are not made public, thereby allowing for discussion of work in progress.

The 19^th International Workshop on HIV Observational Databases will be held in Catabia, Sicily, Thursday 26^th - Saturday 28^th March 2015.

For more information on the 2015 workshop, please visit http://iwhod.org/.