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Programme changes
– MONDAY 10 JUNE 2013
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Daily Update
– Monday 10 June 2013
Sessions
M3
:
Access to hepatitis C treatment:
from national to global advocacy,
correct abstract number for ‘Role
of community in eliminating barriers
to hepatitis C treatment’
by
Sergey Golovin
is
#945
CC08
: National drug policy and harm
reduction advocacy
#590
One step
forward and two steps backward in
Indonesian drug policy and harm
reduction –
Asmin Fransiska
will
not be presenting.
In CC06
: New approaches to harm reduction
programming –
#740
Feasibility and
acceptability of adding tincture of
opium (TO) substitution treatment
programme to OST clinics in
Iran –
Leila Seiri
is not coming.
Replacement:
#320
Tikking the
boxes: HIV combination prevention
for men who have sex with men
(MSM), including intravenous drug
users in Cape Town, South Africa
by
Machteld Busz
.
CC10
: Regional track – opioid substitution
treatment: who defines the quality?
Chair change: instead of
Sergii
Dvoryak
–
Erikas Maciunas
/
Ona
Davidoviene
. Speaker change:
instead of
Telman Mamedgasanov
,
director, the Republican Drug
Treatment Center (Azerbaijan) –
Aleksey Aleksandrov
, chief
narcologist (Belarus).
CC05
: Regional track – drug policy: open
dialogue.
Volodymyr Tymoshenko
,
head of the State Drug Control
Service (Ukraine), is not coming.
New panelists for this session:
Antonijus Mikulskis
, deputy head
of Vilnius Police Department;
Tea Tsulukiani
, minister of justice
(Georgia);
Jind ich Vobo il
, national
anti-drug coordinator, Government
of the Czech Republic.
Posters
Pablo Cymerman
’s poster
#719
(previously
scheduled to Monday session, board 28) will
be presented on Tuesday on board 52.
Ricardo Fuertes
’s poster
#891
will be
presented on board 5 on Monday:
Implementation of a low threshold harm
reduction centre in an area of street sex work
and crack users in Lisbon, Portugal.
Patrick Gallahue
’s poster
#633
– Human
rights guidance in international drug control
(scheduled for first Monday session, board 16)
– will not be presented.
#795
,
Maeve Anne Daly
;
Catherine Maria
Comiskey
;
Orla Dempsey
;
Jennie Milnes
;
The physical and mental health outcomes of
the children of opiate-using parents – will be
presented on Monday, on board 45 (originally
scheduled for Wednesday, board 67).
#681
: Demographic and behavioural patterns that
impact PWID injection practice: Finding from
Hridaya Baseline Study,
Visvanathan Arumugam
will be presented on board 11 on Monday.
Lithuanian minister of health, Vyentis Povilas Andriukaitis, shares a joke with John-Peter
Kools of conference’s international review committee before the serious business of the
week gets underway. ‘We are meeting to discuss a range of problems, including how to
increase awareness and support for the fight against the HIV epidemic and how to make
sure we save as many lives as possible,’ said Mr Andriukatis.