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Daily Update
– DAY ONE – Monday 4 April 2011
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conference, and will include late
changes to the programme.
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Sessions
9.00:
Plenary session. Nafsiah
Mboi will be replaced by
Kemal Siregar.
11.00:
Banquet Hall 1 & 2. M01,
Konstantin Lyezhentsev –
423. Launching price reduc-
tion dialogue to ensure
access to life-saving HCV
treatment – has been
cancelled.
14.00:
Banquet Hall 1 & 2. C01.
Gordon Mortimore will be
replaced by Murtaza Majeed.
14.00:
Banquet Hall 4. C03.
Simone Merkinaite – 1057.
European harm
reductionists and HIV
community unite to bring
about evidence based drug
policies in the EU and
neighbouring countries –
has been cancelled.
14.00:
Rabieh. C04 Wendy
Muckle – 525. Harm
reduction and integrated
care: an evaluation of the
special care unit for women
in ottawa has been
cancelled and will be
replaced by Mehred
Hosseinpour: Perceived
causes of initial decisions to
take drugs among female
drug treatment seekers at
Lorestan Province, Iran.
16.00:
Rabieh. CO9 Patricial Allard
will be replaced by Louis
Letellier de St-Just.
Workshops
1610
Change of trainers for
Challenges to the adoption
of harm reduction policies.
Emran Razaghi and Nader
Nassif will now conduct the
workshop.
Dialogue space
1.30
Today’s session, ‘Change
we can believe in? The
inside story of PEPFAR and
US politics on drug policy’
has been cancelled as Rich
Needle has had authorisa-
tion to travel to the
conference withdrawn.
Posters
700.
Learning from mistakes:
Community Mobilization
a key to success in harm
reduction services –
Sok Chamreun Choub.
New poster.
915
. Ill-treatment as state policy:
can Russia face the scrutiny
of the Committee against
torture? Irina Teplinskaya
replaces Mikhail Golichenko.
410
. Gender sensitive harm
reduction programming:
Reducing the vulnerability
among female drug users:
Alliance Technical Support
Hubs’ experience of
building capacity of
technical support providers
in this area – Shaleen
Rakesh. New poster.
532.
Harm reduction is integrated
as specialized care within
the health network of the
city. The example of Sala
Baluard. Marcela Coromina,
Esther Henar, Ester Aranda.
New poster.
399.
Success and barriers in
referral of injecting drug users
and their sexual partners to
Integrated Counseling and
Testing Centres in the difficult
geographical setting of
Manipur, North East India –
Kingson Shimray. New poster.
981.
Gregory Scott’s poster will not
be presented on board 111.
Posters withdrawn: 297, 794.
Other notices
International HIV/Aids Alliance
reception
– please note that this is
by invitation only.
Refreshments
– lunch will be
served in the exhibition area in
both lobby 1 (dome side) and
lobby 2 (hotel side) at 12.30 and
14.00. Coffee is served at
10.30-11.00 and afternoon tea
is at 15.30-16.00.
Programme changes
– MONDAY 4 APRIL 2011
Getting in the mood...
Local dancers in traditional Lebanese costume get ready to entertain delegates at the opening
session of IHRA’s 22nd International Conference,
Building capacity, redressing neglect
. Other
speakers included Lebanon’s Minister for Health, Mohamad Jawad Khalifeh and journalist and
TV personality, Georges Kordahi.