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Interview with Prof. Gerry Stimson |
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 |
The International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) held its 20th annual International Conference on Harm Reduction in Bangkok, Thailand from April 20-23, 2009. The conference brought together harm reduction activists from all over the world to share experiences and discussions on the latest innovations in the field. We met up with Professor Gerry Stimson, Executive Director of IHRA, following the closing of a successful conference and discussed the event as a whole, including the representation from the MENA region. |
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IHRA's 20th IC on HR - Day 4 and Closure Session |
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Friday, 24 April 2009 |
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This is the last day of the Conference, after having a number of interesting sessions that varied from scientific ones, to advocacy, Gender roles, International Drug policies, Nurses role in Harm Reduction, in addition to the Pharmaceutical session that tackled the advantages and the inconvenience of the methamphetamine, IHRA closed the conference were all participants and people who prepared and participated actively to it were acknowledged and thanked. |
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IHRA’s 20th Conference on Harm Reduction – Bangkok- Day 3 |
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Thursday, 23 April 2009 |
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The third day of IHRA’s conference on harm reduction was full of sessions and workshops that were successful, MENAHRA team attended actively in a number of sessions that topics will be serving during the implementation of HR in the MENA region. |
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009 |
IHRA's 20th International Conference on Harm Reduction
Day 2
Plenty of concurrent sessions were held in the second day of the Conference on interesting topics that were presented by people from Asia, Europe, UN agencies and International Networks and Associations on Harm Reduction. The topics of the session were on:
Poverty, marginalization and Drug Use, Alcohol policy and Social Marketing, Pharmaceutical Opioid Use, Prisons and Closed settings, Sex work and Substance Use, in addition to workshops tackling harm Reduction issues.
Also plenty of short movies were showing experiences from Asia, USA, UK, Iran, Canada and other countries involved in implementing Harm Reduction.
An important number of Posters presentations were conducted on studies on the topic of the conference that they were posted all over the two floors of the Conference location. |
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IHRA's 20th International Conference on Harm Reduction |
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009 |
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IHRA's 20th International Conference on Harm Reduction
Day 1: IHRA's 20th International conference on Harm Reduction kicked off at 9h00 AM yesterday morning at the Imperial Queen's Park Hotel- Bangkok.
Conference was opened with a show by traditional Thai drummers, followed by a speech by Mr. Gerry Stimson the Executive Director of IHRA, who welcomed the participants. |
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IHRA's 20TH CONFERENCE ON HARM REDUCTION- BANGKOK, APRIL 20-23, 2009 |
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009 |
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It's the 20th time that IHRA (www.ihra.net) organizes an International Conference on Harm Reduction, the location is the " Imperial Queen's Park Hotel, 199 Sukhumvit Soi 22, Bangkok 10110, Thailand", and the Conference began officially on Monday 20th of April, and will take an end on Thursday April 23, 2009. |
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IEC Materials: Drug User Rights |
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Friday, 03 April 2009 |
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KH-SIDC (Lebanon) has recently developed IEC materials on the Rights of Drug Users with the participation of ex-drug users and based upon a focus group that was held with them. The materials include one brochure and three supplementary posters advocating three rights that were specified by the participants of the focus group. As a result of the focus group discussion, the material of the brochure and posters and the target group were identified. The participants chose the target groups to be the general population in order to raise awareness concerning drug user rights. This population was chosen because the participants felt that everyone, not only organizations, should be aware of and acknowledge drug users as people who have rights.
Three rights were chosen to be included in the brochure and posters:
• The Right of Not Being Discriminated Against
• The Right of Access to Clean Needles
• The Right for OST |
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HIV & Drug Use Fellowship |
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Wednesday, 01 April 2009 |
With the support of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the International AIDS Society (IAS) has established a research fellowship programme focusing on HIV and drug use, with the goal of contributing to advances in the scientific understanding of drug use and HIV, while fostering multinational research on HIV and drug use.
To read more, please follow this URL link:
http://www.iasociety.org/Default.aspx?pageId=288 |
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KH-SIDC – Fifth Regional Training Workshop |
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Wednesday, 25 March 2009 |
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.jpg) KH-SIDC – Fifth Regional Training Workshop:
“Harm Reduction Policy” The SIDC Sub-Regional Knowledge Hub (KH-SIDC) in Lebanon, with the support of the WHO and IHRA, and funded by Drosos Foundation, organized its fifth regional training workshop, this time addressing the topic of “Harm Reduction Policy”. The workshop was held at Le Crillon Hotel in Broummana, Lebanon, from Monday the 16th to Thursday the 19th of March, 2009. Participants attending the workshop included 26 health professionals, medical doctors, police, NGO managers and ex-drug users from Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Sultanate of Oman, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iraq. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 25 March 2009 )
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 |
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Harm Reduction Policy and Practice Worldwide
An overview of national support for harm reduction in policy and practice
Prepared by the International Harm Reduction Association in collaboration with the harm reduction networks from around the world
February 2009 |
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Monday, 02 March 2009 |
The SIDC Sub-Regional Knowledge Hub in Lebanon is pleased to announce its upcoming workshop on “Harm Reduction Policy” from 16-19 March, 2009.
Please note that the workshop will be given in the Arabic language.
For more information and in order to fill in an application to participate in the workshop, please click here. |
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