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PROGRAMME CHANGES
TUESDAY
Sessions
C3-2:
Abstract #398 will be presented by David Murray and Marion Green
C4-1:
Abstract #1195 will now be presented by George-Henri Melenotte
C4-6:
Abstract #1034 has been withdrawn
C4-6:
Abstract #394 has been withdrawn
GI-3
(Wednesday 8:30):
This will now also include a presentation by Annette Dale-Perrera
from the UK National Treatment Agency
Posters
Board 16: #664 has now been added
Good Practice in Harm Reduction
Tim Murray
Board 31: This poster (abstract #394) has been withdrawn
Board 130: #973 has now been added
Information Component of Harm Reduction Programme
Anna Kucheruk
This year’s
Drugs and harm reduction
film festival
will showcase around 30
films from 15 countries.
Presented by the Burnet Institute, CHR
and IHRA, the tradition has grown from the
2003 screening of a documentary from
Tajikistan shot inside a women’s prison and
focusing on women caught trafficking
drugs. Although unsubtitled, the film had a
huge impact, allowing delegates an
extraordinary insight into a world they might
otherwise never have seen.
‘It was so successful that in 2004 we
started to encourage people from around
the world to submit films,’ organiser Gary
Reid told delegates at Sunday’s opening
session. ‘The festival has brought art,
culture, public health, human rights and
large doses of politics.’
Now in its fifth year, this year’s line up
includes films from Afghanistan, Spain,
Australia, Russia and Cambodia, among
many others. Designed to promote the use
of film as an advocacy tool to encourage a
more constructive and compassionate
approach to global drug issues, there are
afternoon and evening screenings alongside
a supporting series of symposium sessions
with the filmmakers themselves. The full
programme can be found inside the
delegate bags. ‘The films offer a unique
insight into what other countries are
experiencing and how they are responding,’
said Gary Reid. ‘We can be transported to
nations we’ve never visited before.’
For more information and contact details
for the filmmakers visit
www.burnet.edu.au/chr.
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Daily Update
– DAY THREE – Tuesday 13 May 2008
Please can all speakers bring their
presentations to the Speakers Room
(Room 2 on Level 2) as soon as possible.
If presentations are not handed in, we cannot
guarantee that they will be uploaded to the
session computers on time. Delegates may not be
able to upload their presentations at the beginning
of the session. The conference staff in Room 2 will
also be able to print off your slides in order to
assist the translators.
Important notice
for speakers
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