• MWCCS Manuscript & Abstract Submission Form

    MWCCS Manuscript & Abstract Submission Form

    Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) & Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS)

  • Please use this form to submit manuscripts and abstracts to the MWCCS for review prior to submitting them to journals or conferences. Manuscript and abstract tracking assists us in reporting how MWCCS data is used. Accepted publications can be submitted through the Productivity Report Form through your Investigator View of DACCTrack.

     

    Manuscript Submission: Please ensure that you have included the appropriate assigned co-authors, MWCCS acknowledgement, and DACC grant number. The MWCCS acknowledgement is available on the MWCCS website. Per NIH request, all manuscripts using data from the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS), including those using historical MACS and/or WIHS data, should incorporate “MWCCS” within the title and/or abstract to ensure our productivity is easily discoverable. If you do not receive feedback or any concerns within seven business days of submission you may proceed with the submission of your paper.

    Abstract Submission: Please ensure that you have included the appropriate assigned co-authors and DACC grant number on the abstract you are uploading below. Per NIH request, all abstracts using data from the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS), including those using historical MACS and/or WIHS data, should incorporate “MWCCS” within the title and/or body of the abstract to ensure our productivity is easily discoverable. Abstracts must be submitted three business days prior to the conference deadline.

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  • Please provide a brief lay language summary of the study’s findings. This summary should be written at an 8th grade education level and is not the same as an abstract. The CCS provides these summaries to study participants so they can understand the study’s findings in terms they can understand. Please keep it simple, short, and clear. Write the summary in a way that is engaging and exciting for someone without a medical background to read.

    Click here to utilize a Readability Calculator. You can copy and paste your LLS into the readability calculator and it will give you the grade level using different literacy scales. As long as one scale is between 8-10 the LLS is sufficient.

    Click here to read an article "How to Write for an Eighth-Grade Reading Level".

    This is an example of an appropriate lay language summary.
    Medicaid and Medicare are government programs that help people with HIV get medical care and prescription drugs. Some people with HIV who are especially poor and sick get HIV treatment through both Medicare and Medicaid. These people are called “dual eligibles” because they are enrolled in both programs. Before 2006, if someone with HIV used both Medicaid and Medicare, they could only get prescription drugs through Medicaid. After 2006, the people who were dual eligibles were switched from getting prescription drugs through Medicaid to getting them from Medicare. This switch changed the way dual eligibles with HIV get their prescription drugs and dual eligibles had to pay more money for their prescription drugs at pharmacies. We were worried that people who had to pay more for their HIV prescription drugs may not take them every day in the way they were told to do so by their doctors. We were also worried they may become depressed, or more depressed, and that their HIV viral loads how much HIV virus is in their blood) would go up and become detectable. We were happy to find that dual eligibles did not stop taking their HIV prescription drugs and their depression levels stayed the same. We were also happy to find out that their HIV viral loads did not go up and stayed undetectable.

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