Dear participant, please read the following guidelines carefully before submitting your abstract:
Abstract Submission Portal; those submitted otherwise will not be considered.
All successful submissions will be acknowledged via email.
Abstract Author: You can have as many authors as possible. However, only one author can be listed as the presenting author. The author is the person who will be registered for symposium in person or virtual.
Kindly use a standard font such as Arial and Times New Roman when formatting your text. This will help to prevent special characters from getting lost when copying your text to the online abstract submission form.
Tables, figures, literature references, and acknowledgements should not be part of the abstract’s content. It is the author’s responsibility to submit a correct abstract. Any errors in spelling, grammar or scientific fact will be reproduced as typed by the author.
Define all abbreviations and concepts in your abstract at first use.
If you have any questions regarding your abstract submission, please contact the abstract support team at abstracts@arasa.info
The symposium offers two options for abstract submission: OPTION 1 and OPTION 2.
The first option is most suited for scientific research. Abstracts presented under the first option should contain concise statements of: Background: indicates the purpose and objective of the research, the tested hypothesis or a description of the problem being analysed or evaluated.
Methods: describe the setting/location for the study, study design, study population, data collection, testing of validity and methods of analysis used.
Results: present as clearly as possible the findings/outcome of the study, with specific results in summarized form. The inclusion of disaggregated data is strongly encouraged.
Conclusions and Recommendations: briefly discuss the data and main outcome of the study. Emphasize its inter-relatedness and/ or impact on migration, digital divide, climate change and SRHR, pandemics and epidemiology and/or support, and future implications of the results.
The second option is most suited for presenting new knowledge or analysis important for understanding and responding to the sexual reproductive health (SRH) gaps in the context of the mega trends and epidemics. It is suited for information gained through systematic knowledge production/ experience, or evaluation including community-level experiences and best practices in response to SRH and human rights other than scientific research. This process must include some evidence provided through the data obtained.
Abstracts presented under the second option should contain concise statements of: Issues: a summary of the issue(s) addressed by the abstract.
Description: a description of the intervention, project, experience, service and/or advocacy.
Lessons learned: conclusions and implications of the intervention or project. Data that support the lessons learned and evidence must be included.
Next steps: possible next steps for implementation, or recommendations.
We encourage work that introduces new ideas and conceptualizations, research and understandings to the field, as well as analysis of both success and failure. Abstracts should disclose primary findings and avoid, whenever possible, promissory statements such as “experiments are in progress” or “results will be discussed”. Your abstract, if accepted, will be published in its full form in the abstract/programme book, and made available on the symposium booklet.
An abstract can be submitted and may be accepted, although it has been previously published or presented at a national, regional or international meeting, provided that there are new methods, new findings, updated information or other valid reasons for submitting that can be provided by the author.
If preliminary or partial data has been published or presented, the author must indicate the details of that conference, meeting or journal and the reasons for submitting the ab- stract to this symposium. The Symposium Committee when making the final decisions, will consider this information.
The inclusion of age and gender breakdown of data is strongly encouraged and should be provided as well as a comprehensive age, gender analysis in the results section whenever possible. If applicable, your abstract should include the age analysis, number and percentage of men, women and non-conforming participating in your research or project. If your research or project was specific to age, one gender, please state.
ARASA is cognisant of other confounding factors for analytic opinion such as ethnicity, religion, disability, inter alia.
The abstract track category is the general heading under which your abstract will be reviewed and later published in the symposium booklet if accepted. Please choose the category which best describes the subject of your abstract as it relates to SRHR and Human Rights.
ARASA has identified a number of cross-cutting themes, with relevance across the track categories. These cross-cutting themes will help structure the whole programme of the symposium and will serve as a basis for sessions conveying presentations from various tracks and disciplines on relevant issues. In addition to choosing the track category, you may also indicate that it is relevant to your abstract.
In addition to the abstract category, please indicate 3-5 keywords (free text, maximum 25 characters per keyword) in bold at the bottom of your abstract. The keywords must be representative of the content of the abstract. If relevant, please specify the subject/population, setting/location and objective/outcome.
All submitted abstracts will go through a blind peer-review process carried out by a reviewing committee. Three independent reviewers will review each abstract. Notification of Acceptance or Rejection to Corresponding Author Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to the submitting (corresponding) author by 15th April 2024. Please note that only the corresponding author will receive an email pertaining to the status of the submitted abstract and is responsible for informing all co-authors.
Abstract Title is a maximum of 100 characters (20 words). Abstract text is a maximum of 2500 characters including spaces (500 words). The standard font is Arial/Times New Roman when formatting your text.
At the end of your submission, you are required to consent upon review and selection, that your abstract would be published by ARASA on all our relevant platforms. However, ARASA will acknowledge you as the original author of your work. Please note that this is compulsory before your submission is considered and validated.
The consent form will be shared on the link for abstract.
