PWUD and HARM REDUCTION ROAD MAP RED
Pre - Conference Plenary
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Events in the Main Conference area Events in the Global Village
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Events off Site
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Film Screen in the GV Screening Room
DATE
TIME
NAME OF EVENT / SESSION / FILM
VENUE
DESCRIPTION
17-Jul
08:00-18:30
3rd International HIV / Viral Hepatitis Co infection meeting
Session Room 8 – Main conference area
Pre-conference plenary meeting. The meeting will focus on identifying opportunities for increased diagnosis and treatment of viral hepatitis in PLHIV, particularly in low and middle-income settings.
18-Jul
09.00-10.00
The Good, The Bad and the Truth of Harm Reduction policies in Africa
Harm Reduction Networking Zone
Prof Isidore Obot from Nigeria will be discussing the current situation regarding Harm Reduction policies within Africa
18-Jul
12.00-13.00
Dying a Slow Death: Inside Indonesia’s Drug War
Harm Reduction Networking Zone
Film screening followed by a discussion
Session Room 5 – Main Conference area
The panel will include topics like the role of religion and culture on treating HIV, best treatment options, and vulnerable populations like People Living With HIV/AIDS, People Who Use Drugs, Men Who Have Sex With Men, Sex Workers, and Women in conservative social settings.
18-Jul
12.30 – 14.30
HIV in Conservative Social Settings: Promoting A Rights Based Approach To HIV
12:45 = 13:45
Women who use drugs – taking a place in the HIV movement
Women's Networking Zone - Global Village
Women who use drugs are often not heard in PLWHIV or positive women’s groups. ICW and INWUD have developed a joint position statement to promote the need to include the voice of women who inject drugs in the HIV movement. Key points from the position statement will be raised and discussed.
18-Jul
14.00-15.00
Discussing the Golbal Commission on Drug policy
Harm Reduction Networking Zone
Dr Khalid Tinasti from the Global Commission on Drug Policy will be discussing Recommendations and Advocacy for Drug Policy reform
19-Jul
10.00-12.00
Access to Justice – As Crucial as a Clean Needle
Harm Reduction Networking Zone
Q&A Panel Session with Naomi Burke Shyne from Open Society Foundation
18-Jul
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19-Jul
11.00 – 12.30
Doing the Right Things in the Right Ways: Policy, Legal and Ethical Challenges in Delivering Comprehensive Treatment and Prevention Services for Key Populations
19-Jul
11.00 – 12.30
Pathways: Moving from Structural Risks to Responses
19-Jul
11.00-12.30
Doing the Right Things in the Right Ways: Policy, Legal and Ethical Challenges in Delivering Comprehensive Treatment and Prevention Services for Key Populations
19-Jul
14.00-15.00
Drug Users on the Front Line
19-Jul
19-Jul
14.30 – 17.00
16.15 – 16.40
Effective Integrated Clinical and Programmatic Service Delivery for People Living with HIV who use Alcohol and Drugs
Kerrigan: Adherence Barriers for Young Indigenous Women of Canada
Session Room 1 – Main Conference area
Presentations address lack of policies to protect and support key populations in accessing relevant HIV services and identify challenges and obstacles with existing laws that impede key populations from access to necessary prevention, care and treatment services.
Session Room 7 – main conference area
Several short presentations. One of which looks at Whoonga and another that addresses the Youth’s responses to Harm Reduction in Vancouver.
Session Room 1 – main conference area
This session addresses how research can improve access to appropriate and userfriendly care, treatment and prevention services for key populations. Targeted towards policy makers, ethicists, civil society and key populations representatives as well as researchers and programme implementers, it analyses how underlying policy, legal and ethical principles and current practices are either enabling or restricting delivery of HIV services to key populations.
Harm Reduction Networking Zone
Presentation by John Kimani from KENPUD looking at PUWD in Kenya
Session Room 8 – main conference area
This workshop is aimed at clinical providers and allied health professionals to improve quality and access of treatment programming for people living with HIV who are substance users. The topics cover comorbid conditions including alcohol and drug use, mental health, and increased health conditions including tuberculosis and hepatitis C.
GV Film Screening Room
The film encourages discussion about vulnerable Indigenous populations living with HIV who are often stigmatized in society, within their communities and within the healthcare system facing stigma and discrimination. The documentary also highlights the case of a two spirited young woman and her mental health challenges due to substance use.
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19-Jul
20-Jul
Global Fund Advocates Networking Zone
Film Screening followed by a Q & A/Discussion. This documentary film by Rights Reporter Foundation with the support of INPUD highlights how the lives of people who use drugs are affected by the global war on drugs, showing individual stories through the course of one day on earth. The film switches between nine cities on earth throughout the day, from Russia, the US, Germany, India, Indonesia, Hungary and Mexico. The film emphasises the need for comprehensive harm reduction programmes and progressive drug policy reform, and highlights the central role that drug user activists and their organisations play in achieving this."
09.00-10.00
Our Lives, Our Advocacy: We are the International Network of People who use Drugs
Harm Reduction Networking Zone
Ruth Birgin (INPUD) Brun Gonzalez (INPUD) Edo Agustian (ANPUD) Jude Byrne (AIVL) – will be discussing members perscpective on UNGASS2016 and an Overview of INPUD Advocacy Publications
11.00-12.00
Funding Crisis for Harm Reduction in Middle Income Countries
Harm Reduction Networking Zone
A presentation by Claudia Stoicescu (Harm Reduction International)
Session Room 5 – Main conference area
This session addresses the shortcomings in the response to HIV and hepatitis C among people who use drugs. Participants will develop an understanding of the links between the scale up of harm reduction, the decriminalization of drug use, the end of incarceration for users, and the positive outcomes on the health and human rights of all.
16.30 17.15
One Day in Our Lives on Earth: Impacts of the War on Drugs (Edited Version for AIDS2016)
20-Jul
20-Jul
11.00-12.30
UNGASS 2016, HIV/AIDS and Unsafe Drug Use: Public Health and International Drug Policy
20-Jul
11.00 – 12.30
Reaching the Unreached: Service Uptake and Retention Among Marginalized Populations
Session Room 10 – main conference area
There is a persistent mismatch between national programme messaging and the delivery of services to those most at risk of HIV infection (e.g. resources for schoolbased prevention instead of support for people who inject drugs). The workshop presents examples of successful programmes for access and service delivery that have been able to reach these unreached populations.
20-Jul
12.00-14.00
We are Drug Users
Harm Reduction Networking Zone
Film screening
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GV Film Screening Room
Lost Childhood is a documentary film produced by Alliance for Public Health in Ukraine. This video demonstrates the existence of a significant gap in time between the moment of the beginning of risky practices and initiation of harm reduction services delivered to young people with drug dependence.
13.30-15.00
Reforming drug policy and promoting harm reduction in Africa
Human Rights networking zone
The session will discuss efforts to promote harm reduction and drug policy reform in Africa, challenges and opportunities to expand these efforts and the role of Africa in international drug policy debates.
20-Jul
14.00-15.00
Discussions: Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Nelson Mandela Rules) AND UN International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders
Harm Reduction Networking Zone
Discussions with Jason Eligh from UNODC
20-Jul
14.30-17.30
Addressing the needs of Women who Inject Drugs
Session Room 9 – Main Conference area
Addressing the needs of women who inject drugs
20-Jul
15.00-17.00
One Day in Our Lives on Earth: Impacts of the War on Drugs (Edited Version for AIDS2016)
Harm Reduction Networking Zone
Documentary film by Rights Reporter Foundation with the support of INPUD
20-Jul
16.30 – 18.00
Alcohol, Substance Use and HIV
Session Room 2 – Main Conference area
5 Short presentations followed by a discussion relating to Substance Use, OST, incarceration and HIV
09.00-10.00
Discussion: Women who use Drugs in Advocacy
Harm Reduction Networking Zone
Ruth Bilgin from INPUD Pye Jakobsson (Rose Alliance) Jude Byrne (INWUD) and Carina Edlund (INWUD)
Session Room 3 – Main Conference area
This interactive workshop brings together human rights defenders from around the world to share the practical methods they use to engage and organize their communities to claim human rights protections and to challenge human rights violations.
Harm Reduction Networking Zone
Film Screenings introduced by Ann Fordham from IDPC
Harm Reduction Networking Zone
Ruth Bilgin (INPUD) Judy Chang (INPUD/WHRIN)Olga Belyaeva (EHRN) and Jane Dicka (HRV)
Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel
Panel presentations and discussions
20-Jul
20-Jul
21-Jul
21-Jul
12.50 – 12.55
Lost Childhood: Urgent Response Needed in Order to Save Lives of Adolescents Who Use Drugs
11-12.30
21-Jul
12.00-14.00
21-Jul
14.00-15.00
21-Jul
15,3
Advocacy Tactics II: Communities Challenging Human Rights Violations
Support Don’t Punish Films: “A Broad Consensus?” and “Voices for Drug policy Reform in Asia” Discussion: From Gender Blind to Gender Transformative servcies for Women who use Drugs. How do we get there? OSIEA Harm Reduction meeting
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21-Jul
22-Jul
22-Jul
22-Jul
16.30-18.30
Barriers Must Fall: Community-led Delivery
Session Room 5 – Main Conference area
Oral abstract session discussing various situations where service delivery has been impacted by the community
09.00-10.00
Can you Hear us? Giving voice to the Silenced – Recording Human Rights Violations Experienced by PWID Accessing Harm Reduction Services
Harm Reduction Networking Zone
Shaun Shelly from TBHIV Care and Machteld Busz from Mainline discuss Human Rights Violations in South Africa
Harm Reduction Networking Zone
Documentary Film Screening directed by William Fairman and Max Gogarty about a group of men of men battling with HIV, drug addiction and finding acceptance in a changing world.
Session Room 8 – Main Conference area
Examines a series of concentrated epidemics of HIV in four settings in Africa where risk behaviour is being driven by a confluence of geographical, cultural, social and economic realities underpinned by alcohol and/or drug use. The session explores the dynamics of these epidemics and the implications for interventions.
10.00-11.30
11.00 -12.30
“Chemsex”
Alcohol, Drug Use and Sexual Risk Behaviour: Hotspots for HIV in Africa and Implications for Interventions
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