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Running in the family...
Honorary IHRA president and founder of HIT, Pat O'Hare, takes a
break by the Mersey with his daughters and HIT colleagues, Maddy (left) and Lucy.
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IHRA, The Conference Consortium and The Centre for Research on Drugs
and Health Behaviour, are pleased to announce the first Alison Chesney
and Eddie Killoran memorial lecture.
The lecture is being held to celebrate the memory of two exceptional
individuals and former managers of ROMA, one of the UK's most innovative
harm reduction projects.
The first lecture -
Harm reduction a journey from science to advocacy
will be
delivered by Professor Gerry Stimson, outgoing executive director of IHRA and
international Rolleston award winner.
The free public lecture will be held in the London school of hygiene and tropical
medicine in October.
Further details will be available shortly at www.conferenceconsortium.org
2 –
Daily Update
– DAY FOUR – Thursday 29 April 2010
About the daily update
The Daily Update
is produced on behalf of IHRA by CJ
Wellings Ltd, publishers of
Drink and Drugs News
(DDN)
in the UK. DDN is a free fortnightly 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
Sessions
09.00:
Harm reduction for
producer nations? Farmers'
perspectives on the war on
drugs.
Sanho Tree will not
present.
Additional presentation:
Ja Hla will present
Opium
production in Burma.
Additional presentation:
Pedro Arenas García will
present
Aerial fumigation
in Colombia.
Spanish translation will be
provided – a headset
should be taken.
09.00:
Policies and developments
in Asia and the Pacific.
Two
additional discussants, Dean
Lewis and Madame Hien.
The session will be chaired
by Mukta Sharma.
11.00:
Police and harm reduction.
Aleksandr Zelichenko and
Tyson Volkmann will not
present in this session.
13.00:
Plenary session 3: Creating
evidence for action.
Evan
Wood will be replaced by
Daniel Werb. Andrew Ball
will be replaced by Annette
Verster.
Programme
changes
THURSDAY 29 APRIL 2010
On call...
Gill Bradbury from the IHRA medical team has been looking after delegates
throughout the conference.