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– TUESDAY 11 JUNE 2013
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Daily Update
– Tuesday 11 June 2013
Sessions
P2
:
Financing of harm reduction: the
correct affiliation of
Victoria
Macdonald
is health and social care
correspondent, Channel 4 News.
P2
:
Financing of harm reduction:
Michael
Borowitz
from the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria,
is not coming. New speaker is
Daniel
Wolfe
, International Harm Reduction
Development Program, Open Society
Foundations.
M4
:
Regional track – Human rights
violations: who to blame and what
should be done?
Dainius Puras
will
chair the session instead of
Stephen
Lewis
.
Romas Valentukevi
č
ius
’
correct affiliation is representative of
the ombudsman office (Lithuania). New
speaker:
Lella Cosmaro
, chairperson
of the HIV Civil Society Forum,
European Parliament (Italy).
CC11
:
#797
Access to justice for vulnerable
women in the criminal justice system in
Sierra Leone –
Sabrina Mahtani
is not
coming. New speaker
Ruth Morgan
Thomas
will present on Connecting and
amplifying the voices of sex workers
through global and regional networks.
CC12
: Harm reduction donors – chair will be
David Wilson
instead of
Nedim
Jaganjac
.
CC13
:
Mohd. Zaman Khan Rahim Khan
is
not presenting.
CC15
:
Regional track – the cost of hepatitis C.
Session will be chaired by
Tim Nguyen
instead of
Azizbek Boltaev
. Speaker
change:
Archil Talakvadze
, deputy min-
ister of corrections and legal assistance,
Georgia, replaces
Paata Sabelashvili
,
Georgian Harm Reduction Network.
New speaker:
Lyudmila Maistat
,
International HIV/AIDS Alliance (Ukraine).
In CC16
:
Raminta Stuikyte
’s affiliation is EHRN
and EATG.
CC18
: Creative uses of the law –
#826
How
bureaucratic loopholes can help get
IDUs out of pre-trial detention:
Ralf
Jurgens
will be presenting instead of
Dmitry Dinze
.
CC19
: Healthcare and health needs –
#473
A
history and explanation of the USA
‘911 Good Samaritan’ law and its
implications for preventing fatal
overdose –
Meghan Ralston
is not
coming. New presentation by
Lung Vu
:
#751
Estimating the health impact of a
take-home naloxone programme for
people who inject drugs in Russia.
Posters
#210
:
Anindita Ray
,
Suchandrima
Bhattacharya
. Returning to the fold: social and
economic reintegration of drug users in Kolkata,
India will be presented on Tuesday in poster
session 2, on board
#16
.
Machteld Busz
will be presenting poster
#320
,
board 11, Ticking the boxes: HIV combination
prevention for men who have sex with men
(MSM), including intravenous drug users in Cape
Town, South Africa (instead of
Glenda
Mangnus
).
Poster
#440
Mentoring to maintain momentum,
board 47, will be presented by
Daniel Vassallo
instead of
James Parker
.
Pablo Cymerman
’s poster
#719
(previously
scheduled to Monday session, board 28) will be
presented on Tuesday on board 52.
The Ukraine had seen vast improvements in its HIV/AIDs response, although the
success was ‘fragile’, executive director of The International HIV/AIDS Alliance in the
Ukraine, Andriy Klepikov, told a press conference yesterday. Michel Kazatchkine and
Nicolas Cantau, meanwhile, stressed the Global Fund’s commitment to continue
funding for treatment and prevention in the region, and hoped that Ukraine’s
example could be followed in Russia, where less than ten per cent of injecting drug
users have access to treatment. Left to right: Andriy Klepikov, Michel Kazatchkine,
Nicolas Cantau and former UK health secretary Norman Fowler.
Harm reduction funding in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia – the current state of play and
options for the future. A press conference from 10.45–11.30 this morning in the Media Centre, with EHRN executive director Sergey Votyagov,
EHRN steering committee member Nino Tsereteli and HIV/AIDS programme manager at WHO, Martin Donoghue.
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