SLCOSHH Conference 2019: Annual Scientific Sessions 2019, Sri Lanka College of Sexual Health and HIV medicine Galle face Hotel Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 3-4, 2019

The Sri Lanka College of Sexual Health and HIV Medicine (SLCoSHH) is proud to announce that its 24 th Annual Scientific Sessions will be held from 3 rd -4 th October 2019 at the Galle Face Hotel, Colombo.

The council of the Sri Lanka College of Sexual Health & HIV Medicine hereby inform the members to submit abstracts for the upcoming annual scientific sessions. The abstract submission guideline is attached for details.

All submissions are requested to be done through the link given in the conference area of the college website http://www.slcoshh.org/conferences/

(The college highly encourages the presenting author to be a member of the college or otherwise at least one of the authors of the article should be a member of the college)

Submission Guidelines

1. Preparation of documents 

All submissions should have a covering letter with the abstract.
1.1. Covering letter: should explain the originality of the work, disclose about any previous publications and possible overlap with prior publications (if any) to the editorial board. The letter should acknowledge any potential conflict of interest. The name, full mailing address, and telephone number of the author responsible for correspondence about the paper should also be included (E-mail addresses are mandatory).
1.2. Abstract: all parts of the abstract must be typed using fonts of Calibri, 11 points, with 1.0 spacing. Use A4 paper size with normal margins and begin the text of the abstract without indentation. Number of words should not exceed 250 (title, author names, affiliations and level 1 headings are excluded in counting number of words).
The abstracts should be structured as (i) Title, (ii) Author line/s and (iii) affiliations on the top. The body text should have following appropriate level 1 headings.

For original research articles (i) Introduction, (ii) Objective/s, (iii) Method, (iv) Results, and (v) Conclusions .

For case reports (i) Introduction, (ii) Case report, (iii) Discussion, and (iv) Conclusions 

1.2.1. Guideline for the use of units: Use SI units throughout, except for blood pressure and haemoglobin content. Other units may be given in parentheses.

1.2.2. Guideline for the use of drugs and instruments: Generic names must be used for all drugs. Include the proprietary name only if it is needed for a specific purpose. Instruments may be referred by proprietary name, giving the name and location of the manufacturer in the text in parentheses.

2. Authorship Authorship credit should be based on, 

(A) Substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
(B) Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
(C) Final approval of the version to be published.

Authors should meet conditions A, B and C to claim authorship of the paper. The author/s surnames should be followed by the initial/s. Do not use prefix/s as Mr/ Mrs /Dr or Professor.

3. How to submit

Covering letter and the abstract should be submitted online. Log in to the conference areas of the college website and submit through the online abstract
submission system found at http://www.slcoshh.org/
Covering letter should be addressed to the Editor in chief, Sri Lanka CoSHH, No. 29 De Saram Place, Colombo 10. Kindly note that abstracts not confirming
to the specifications will be rejected.

Venue and Dates

The conference will be held at Galle Face Hotel Colombo .

The Free paper session will be held on 3rd of October 2019 from 1 pm to 3 pm at the ClinMARK auditorium, National hospital of Sri Lanka.

The poster presentations will be displayed in electronic format at the ClinMark Auditorium on the 3rd of October and at the Galleface Hotel on 4th of October 2019. The Judging of Poster presentations will be carried out on the 4th of October.

Contact

For further information please contact the President SLCoSHH, Dr D O C de Alwis (071-5928696) or the Secretary, Dr. Anuruddha Karunaratne (077-3320102).