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IHRA is calling on all organisations to sign
up to the
Beirut Declaration on HIV and
Injecting Drug Use: A Global Call for Action,
the official declaration of the 2011
International Harm Reduction Conference.
The declaration, which has already been
featured in the editorial of the world’s leading
medical journal,
The Lancet
, is calling for key
commitments from world leaders at the 2011
United Nations High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS
in June. ‘We need decision-makers to endorse it
– especially institutional and organisational
endorsements,’ said IHRA executive director
Rick Lines. ‘We also call on them to engage their
networks and all the organisations they’re in
touch with. There’s an urgency for people to sign
up – there are ongoing civil society consultations
feeding into the UNGASS process, so if we’re
going to get your support we need it now.’
Sign up at www.ihra.net/declaration or
email declaration@ihra.net
SIGN UP NOW!
Sessions
09.00-10.30
– Banquet Hall 1 & 2:
M13; Naloxone. Elena Borzunova –
373 – speaker change; speaker is now
Dasha Ocheret. Change of chair. The
chair for M13 is now Azzi Momen.
09.00-10.30
– Banquet Hall 3: M14;
The risk environments of drug use
and sex work. May Myat Thu – 518 –
speaker change; speaker is now –
Thinzar Tun.
09.00-10.30
– Banquet Hall 4: M15;
Economics and effectiveness. Robert
Gray – 736 – Speaker change;
speaker is now – Beth Skorochod.
11.00-12.30
– Banquet Hall 1 & 2:
M17; New trends and patterns of
drug use: mephedrone and
prescribed opioids. Mukta Sharma –
117 – cancelled. There are only three
presenters in this session.
13.30-15.00
– Banquet Hall 1 & 2:
Plenary 3; Promoting change. Rich
Needle – 1167 – cancelled. There are
only three presenters in this session.
Closing session
15.30-16.45
– Banquet Hall 1 & 2.
In addition to those listed in the
programme, the following will also
be presenting in the plenary session:
Irina Teplinskaya, INPUD; Pye
Jakobsson, Rose Alliance; and a
member of Youth Rise.
Programme change
THURSDAY 7 APRIL 2011
About the daily update
2 –
Daily Update
– DAY FOUR – Thursday 7 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
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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
Taking control:
A demonstration of female condoms shows women safe and simple harm reduction.
Evolution as IHRA becomes
HarmReduction International
IHRA will change its name to Harm Reduction International, its
chair John-Peter Kools will announce at today’s closing session.
‘THE CHANGE REFLECTS THE EVOLUTION OF THE ORGANISATION
and it puts harm
reduction first,’ executive director Rick Lines told the
Daily Update
. ‘It better reflects our objectives
– from a professional association of harm reduction researchers, providers and activists, we have
become a diverse and multi-faceted organisation.
‘We started as a trade organisation, a convention of members to plug the gap between conferences
in an age before email and social networking,’ added Pat O’Hare, a founder of IHRA. ‘We did a lot of
advocacy, but not in a strategic way. The new name reflects much better the work that we do now.’
This year’s event had been particularly responsive to delegate feedback, incorporating training
and skills building, and making women and sex work key elements of the programme.
A strategic objective now was to take harm reduction messages and drug policy reform to other
NGO sectors. ‘Drug harms have an impact on many other sectors… it’s got to be about building
close allies,’ said Rick Lines. ‘The name Harm
Reduction International will help the organisation to
communicate more directly.’