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OAS - Draft Declaration - Post 2015- How the HIV XLIII General Assembly community can shape the Promoting transparency & future of the HIV and health accountability on the This is the OAS draft development agenda International Narcotics declaration of Antigua, Control Board Guatemala which will be The paper explores the considered by the Member barriers and opportunities for States during the XLIII including HIV in the process General Assembly that will and suggests how HIV and take place in Antigua, related global health needs Guatemala, on June 4-6, should be addressed in the 2013. new development framework

WHO collaborating centre IDPC-Chatham House-IISS 10th OAS hemispheric forum for harm reduction seminar: Modernising drug with civil society: “Toward a established at Vilnius law enforcement Comprehensive Anti-Drug University Policy in the Americas” The event, aimed primarily at By the initiative of World law enforcement practitioners, Guatemala within the "Global Health Organization (WHO) was designed to discuss and drug wars" the Collaborating Centre for promote new approaches to Harm Reduction (WHO’s CC) policing with a view to Now a fundamental rethink of has been established at the improve drug law global drug policy is underway Vilnius University Public enforcement strategies. through the Organisation of Health Institute (PHI) in the American States and led by a

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2013. Identifying structural number of Latin American barriers to an effective HIV countries, including Guatemala. Psychoactive Substances LSE organized an event to response. Bill in New Zealand debate this topic. Seventy-eight governments The Psychoactive 9 May 2013 18:00-20:00 | and civil society in 106 Substances Bill is an London, UK countries report the existence important piece of legislation of laws and policies which Reel Lives: Madness, which clarifies the legal status present obstacles to of ‘legal highs’ and synthetic addiction, and crime in accessing HIV services for Canada drugs in New Zealand. NZ key populations. Drug Foundation has created On Saturday, 11th May, a a page to disseminate all the Marijuana policy and critical dialogue about updates of the topic. presidential leadership: depictions of madness, addiction and crime in : UN expert group How to avoid a federal-state Canadian documentary films concerned about excessive train wreck will take place at Simon Fraser use of deprivation of liberty This paper examines how the University at Harbour Centre. and lack of legal assistance US federal government and This is an event free and open the 18 states have partially to public. The United Nations Working legalized medical or Group on Arbitrary Detention 11 May 2013 | Vancouver, recreational marijuana or both raised concerns regarding the Canada. since 1996 can be true to excessive use of deprivation their respective laws. 7th Annual Conference of the of liberty and the lack of International Society for the effective legal assistance to Transnational organized Study of Drug Policy persons arrested and crime in East Asia and the detained. Pacific: A threat The conference will focus on the collateral costs of illegal Manifest presented to assessment. drugs and the war on drugs, Brazil's minister of the The objective of this UNODC including topics related to Supreme Federal Court report is to further the violence, corruption and understanding about the institutional instability. Seven former ministers of mechanics of illicit trade in the justice in Brazil signed a 15 - 17 May 2013 | Bogotá, East Asia and the Pacific manifest attesting the Colombia unconstitutionality of the region: the how, where, when, who, and why of selected criminalization of the penal 12th Annual Harm Reduction repression of drug possession contraband markets affecting Conference the region. for personal use. The 12th Alberta Harm Blueprint for a public health Give needles, condoms to Reduction Conference is and safety approach to Canada’s most relevant inmates to curb HIV, drug-related conference. Its experts urge drug policy goal is to raise awareness in The New York Academy of Alberta about the application of Opioid substitution treatment and harm reduction measures Medicine (NYAM) and the Harm Reduction principles. Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) are crucial to tackle HIV and 22 - 23 May 2013 | Calgary, other infections in prisons in present this Blueprint for a Public Health and Safety Alberta, Canada. Eurasia. Approach to Drug Policy. Club Health 2013 - 8th Arguments against the International conference on Setting the scene: compulsory treatment of nightlife, substance use and assessing and planning related health issues

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opioid dependence with harm reduction The conference aims to build capacity and capability among ANPUD finds a recent This report summarises the all groups that have a stake in attempt to advocate for results of site assessments healthy nightlife – from the compulsory “rehabilitation” on HIV and drug use in public health and government centres founded on faulty China, India, Indonesia, agencies that regulate it, to the arguments and dubious Kenya and Malaysia. The club owners, festival organizers research that poses a direct assessments were conducted and promoters that make it threat to the human rights of by the International HIV/AIDS happen, to the participants people who use drugs and Alliance and their teams of without whom it would not the dignity of society at large. experts. exist.

Eastern Africa Harm Illicit drug market and its 28 - 30 May 2013 | San Reduction regional meeting economic impact Francisco, United States held in Kenya The goal of this publication is Harm Reduction : International conference The objective of the meeting to produce effective global was to share experiences indicators to evaluate actions 2013 and policies of drug supply from the various harm This international conference is reduction regions and to and drug demand reduction. a key event for all those discuss on strengthening Drug laws in Europe: main interested in harm reduction organizational development around the world. for a resilient harm reduction features and comparisons network which will cover the 9 - 12 June 2013 | Vilnius, The book makes a Eastern Africa region. Lithuania comparison between the laws Why discriminate against of most European countries Excessive alcoholism regarding illegal drug use and young people? Remove age amongst youths in public trafficking activities and spaces: the mobilisation of restrictions for harm highlights the different European cities towards a reduction outcomes of the Italian and common strategy Portuguese laws. To reduce HIV transmission The European and French among children and young Harm reduction wins the Forums for Urban Security are people who use drugs, one of battle against HIV /AIDS in organising, in partnership with the most apparent Ukraine the city of Nantes, a European discriminatory policy failures conference called “Excessive is the strict legal age For the first time since 1999, alcoholism amongst youths in restriction to harm reduction. the overall number of newly public spaces: the mobilisation registered HIV cases in of European cities towards a Drug policy reform in USA Ukraine decreased in 2012. common strategy”. in Action: A 21st century approach 13 - 14 June 2013 | Nantes, An article by R. Gil Kerlikowske, Director, White Leading the way: Toward a House Office of National Drug public health & safety Control Policy about the drug approach to drug policy in policy reform in USA and the New York economic and human cost of In examining New York’s drug drug use. policies, the conference will State by state update to engage with an upcoming report by DPA and The New marijuana York Academy of Medicine:

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decriminalization, Blueprint for a Public Health legalization and reform Safety Approach to Drug Policy. This article in the "Daily Chronic" summarises state by 18:00 2 May - 17:00 3 May 2013 | New York, USA state legal situation of medical marijuana and IDPC and EHRN drug policy marijuana decriminalisation training in Vilnius processes in the USA. IDPC and EHRN will deliver a Cannabis to substitute one-day ‘sample’ training event crack in Bogotá at the 2013 International Harm Reduction Conference in The mayor of Bogota has Vilnius, where they will also recently proposed a pilot launch a Drug Policy Training scheme with crack cocaine Toolkit. The closing date for dependents to explore the applications is Saturday 5th substitution of crack made of May 2013. cocaine base paste (or bazuco) by marijuana, that 13 June - 1 April 2013 | Vilnius, will include problematic users Lithuania from the Bronx area. Testing the waters: first Brighton plans safe rooms international for injecting drug users multidisciplinary conference on detecting illicit drugs in Brighton is set to be the first wastewater British city to offer official "drug consumption rooms" This multidisciplinary event will bring together for the first time where addicts can use heroin, crack and cocaine under international experts working in relevant fields which include: supervision without fear of prosecution. drug epidemiology, pharmacokinetics, statistics, forensic science, analytical chemistry and environmental engineering.

6 - 8 May 2013 | Lisbon,

5th symposium on HIV, the law and human rights Share your experiences, In June, the Canadian perspectives and ideas about HIV/AIDS Legal Network it will drug policy issues on the organises a symposium on IDPC blog . HIV, the law and human rights in Toronto, Ontario.

13:30 13 June - 15:00 14 June 2013 | Toronto, Ontario

Scientific Symposium “Towards an HIV Cure”

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The symposium will bring together senior, mid-career and junior scientists, clinical researchers, scientific journalists, research funding administrators and community representatives.

29 - 30 June 2013 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

7th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2013)

World’s leading scientists, clinicians, implementers, public health experts and community leaders will examine the latest developments in HIV-related research to prevent and treat HIV, particularly in low and middle-income countries.

30 June - 3 July 2013 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Breaking Convention 2013: Drug science and policy

The 2013 Breaking convention conference will feature ten symposia of invited speakers and a track dedicated to talks from submitted abstracts, as well as galleries, exhibitions, films and evening entertainments.

12 - 14 July 2013 | London, England

Drug Policy and Human Rights

This course aims to explore the often tense intersection between drug policy and human rights.

15 - 23 July 2013 | Budapest,

Complexity: Researching alcohol and other drugs in a multiple world

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An interdisciplinary conference for international researchers in drug use and addiction studies from a range of research disciplines. Aarhus University, 21-23 August 2013

21 - 23 August 2013 | Aarhus, Denmark

T2013: 20th International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety Conference

The Conference is a global forum at which all those involved in road safety research, policy, education, enforcement and injury prevention, particularly from the fields of drugs and alcohol, can meet with researchers, academics and professionals to discuss and present on the latest work being undertaken in the field.

25 - 28 August 2013 | Brisbane, Australia

NIGHTS 2013 - Health, Pleasure & Communities Conference

The Health, Pleasure & Communities conference aims to promote a safer nightlife and to propose responses to the new challenges in the fields of harm reduction and health promotion among young European people.

26 - 27 September 2013 | Padova,

International Drug Policy Conference

The International Drug Policy Reform Conference is a biennial event that brings together people from around the world who believe that the war on drugs is doing more

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harm than good.

23 - 26 October 2013 | Sheraton Downtown Denver, United States

MENAHRA Second Regional Conference

This second regional conference, organised by the Middle East and North Africa Harm Reduction Association (MENAHRA), will gather experts to discuss harm reduction in the Middle East and North Africa.

13 - 15 November 2013 | Beirut, Lebanon

The 11th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific

The ICAAP 11 programme has been planned with the needs of the community first and foremost in mind. ICAAP 11 will be held over five days from the 18th to the 22nd of November, 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand.

18 - 22 November 2013 | Bangkok, Thailand

17th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA 2013)

The ICASA conference remains one of the most important events in the calendar of the year, contributing towards overcoming the HIV and TB epidemics that grip this region. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the most affected region with over 22 Million people living with HIV and AIDS and the highest Tuberculosis rates world-wide.

7 - 11 December 2013 | Cape Town,

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20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014)

The 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne will be the premier gathering for those working in the field of HIV, as well as policymakers, people living with HIV and others committed to ending the epidemic.

24 - 25 June 2014 | Melbourne, Australia.

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