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Sessions
11.00-12.30
– Banquet Hall 3:
M05; Young people want better
drug policies. Don’t you?
There is a complete panel
change of discussants.
Discussants in this session are
now: Christian Kroll, UNODC,
Austria; Adel Mashmoushi,
Youth Rise, Lebanon; Sally
Shamas, Youth Rise, Lebanon;
Murtaza Majeed, National AIDS
Control Programme,
Afghanistan.
11.00-12.30
– Banquet Hall 4:
M06; Developing harm
reduction. interventions in
prisons in Middle East and
North Africa. Atef Sherif – 492 –
Cancelled. Bahman Ebrahimi –
1154 – Cancelled. New
presenter: Hady Aya, Lebanon.
New presenter: Ihab Abdel
Rahman, Egypt.
14.00-15.30
– Rabieh: C14;
Stimulants and harm reduction
Kate Smith – 924 – Cancelled.
New presenter: Catalina Iliuta,
Romania.
14.00-15.30
– Hamra: C15;
Reducing drug harms in South-
East Asia. Huynh Thi Nguyen –
519 – Cancelled. New
presenter: Lawan Sarovat,
Thailand.
16.00-17.30
– Banquet Hall 4:
C18; Law enforcement and
harm reduction. Change of
chair. The chair for C18 is now
John Ryan.
16.00-17.30
– Hamra: C20;
Sexual identities and drugs.
Anthony Rizk – 1137 – Speaker
change; speaker is now –
Carine Loutfi.
Workshops
12.45-14.15:
How to implement
harm reduction in prisons. This
workshop has a change of
trainers. Dr Farnia, Dr Nazari, Mr
Hoseini and Dr Alasvand have
all cancelled. Instead Emran
Razaghie; Iran, Cinzia Brentari;
Italy and Gata Cucu; Romania
will lead this workshop
discussion.
14.30-16.00:
Hepatitis
treatment and care: A
participative training resource
for developing and improving
services. Danny Morris will take
this workshop, replacing
Eberhardt Schatz.
Posters
Posters added:
396
Barrier for drug user to
access the existing service –
Kimhai So.
795
Advocacy for hepatitis
programs in Ukraine – Tetiana
Deshko, board 89.
981
Understanding the diversity
of sex work practices, life
conditions, patterns of
victimisation and harm
reduction techniques among
Chicago prostitutes – Gregory
Scott, board 122.
Posters withdrawn:
691, 121, 290, 327, 892, 372,
683.
Other notices
European Networking
Meeting
The European Networking
Meeting is taking place today at
11.00-12.00 in the Dina Room
of the Metropolitan Hotel. (Walk
across the covered bridge next
to the conference dome to
access the hotel; the room is
on lobby level).
Programme changes
– TUESDAY 5 APRIL 2011
About the
daily update
2 –
Daily Update
– DAY TWO – Tuesday 5 April 2011
The Daily Update
is produced on
behalf of IHRA by CJ Wellings Ltd, pub-
lishers of
Drink and Drugs News
(DDN)
in the UK. DDN is a free monthly
magazine circulated to people
working in all areas of the drug and
alcohol field, and is read worldwide
online. The DDN website, which
contains current and back issues of
the magazine, is freely accessible at
www.drinkanddrugsnews.com
.
To advertise in DDN
email
ian@cjwellings.com
Daily updates will be available on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday mornings at the
conference, and will include late
changes to the programme.
Reporting team: Claire Brown, David
Gilliver, Ian Ralph. Design: Jez Tucker.
For editorial enquiries or feedback,
please email
claire@cjwellings.com
Fun on the front row:
Elie Aaraj from MENAHRA
shares a joke with Miss Lebanon, Rahaf Abdallah,
and Lebanese singer and composer, Regheb Alama at
the MTV International Drugs and Harm Reduction
Film Festival 2011.
IHRA elects new
Board members
at its 2011 AGM
On Monday, the International
Harm Reduction Association
held its Annual General Meeting
in the Metropolitan Hotel,
adjacent to the conference
venue. At the meeting IHRA
members held elections to fill five
seats on the Board of Directors.
Two of IHRA’s current Board
members were re-elected to
second terms. These were John-
Peter Kools of the Netherlands,
IHRA’s current Board Chair, and
Emran Razaghi of Iran.
In addition, the AGM elected three
new members to the IHRA Board.
Anya Sarang
of Russia is
President of the Andrey Rylkov
Foundation for Health and Social
Justice in Moscow, where she
works on advocacy for access to
health and protection of human
rights, as well as dignity for people
who use drugs and humane drug
policies. Anya is a past winner of
the International Rolleston Award.
Suskma Ratri
of Indonesia has
extensive experience working a
broad range of fields including HIV,
migration, sexual and reproductive
health rights, drug use, human
rights and sex work. She is a
former Core Group member of
WAPN+ (Women of the Asia
Pacific Network of People Living
with HIV/AIDS) and is currently on
the
UNAIDS
Programme
Coordinating Board.
Jamie Bridge
of the UK is the
former Communications and
Programmes Officer for IHRA,
where he played a leading role in
the organisation’s growth. Since
2009, Jamie has been at the Global
Fund, where he is an integral part of
the harm reduction working group.