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www.harmreduction2006.ca Table of Contents
2 Session Index 6 Committees 8 Letters of Welcome 14 Rolleston Winners 15 Delegate Information 18 Maps 21 Social Events 22 Film Festival Guide 35 Satellite Meetings 39 Program Listing 91 Exhibit Guide 95 Networking Contacts 100 Notes 109 Presenter Index 113 Program at a Glance
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Table of Contents • Harm Reduction 2006 • Session Index Monday, May 1
plenary Session Mo.01 indigenous Peoples: Remembering the Past and Rebuilding the Present
Major Sessions Mo.02 advancing Harm Reduction through Human Rights Mo.03 half the World are Women: Gender and Harm Reduction
Mo.04 film festival lounge sessions
concurrent Sessions Mo.05 Sex Work and Harm Reduction
Mo.06 Ethical Issues and IDUs Mo.07 Indigenous Populations: Recognizing the Problems and addressing the Issues Mo.08 Cross Cultural – Global Approach Mo.09 Safe Injection Sites (SIS) Mo.10 Scaling Up Mo.11 Living room session — Living Room: I Wish I had One Mo.12 Film Festival Lounge Sessions Mo.13 Safe Cocaine Use Mo.14 Human Rights Violations Against Drug Users Mo.15 Breaking the Cycle: Marginalized Women and Harm Reduction Mo.16 Oh Canada!: Contradictions in Harm Reduction Mo.17 Syringe Access Mo.18 Primary Health Care Mo.19 Living room session — Women’s Issues: Better Understanding = Best Practices Mo.20 Film Festival Lounge Sessions
Mo.21 keynote address
plenary Session Mo.22 universal Access for HIV and Hepatitis C Treatment: Is it hype or Hope?
Mo.23 Best of the Fest Film Night
Monday Posters A and D Programs Advocacy Areas of Conflict or Crisis Cost-effectiveness of HR Programs Criminal Justice Cross-culture: A Global Perspective Disease Prevention, Screening & Vaccination Educational Programs
• Harm Reduction 2006 • Session Index Session Index Tuesday, May 2
plenary Session tu.01 policing the cities: the role of policing in harm reduction
major Sessions tu.02 users working with government tu.03 perspectives on treatment: it’s not just about opiates
Tu.04 Film Festival Lounge Sessions
concurrent Sessions Tu.05 avoiding Incarceration Tu.06 governments and Harm Reduction Tu.07 educating Youth about Harm Reduction Tu.08 heroin Prescription Tu.09 tobacco Harm Reduction Tu.10 networking for Success Tu.11 living room session — Hot Topics for the Living Room Tu.12 film Festival Symposium Sessions Tu.13 reaching Those Behind Bars Tu.14 regulating Drugs Tu.15 aSian Perspective Tu.16 challenges of Opioid Treatment Tu.17 intoxicating Ideas: HR Potpourri Tu.18 drug User Activism in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Tu.19 living room session — Family Tu.20 film Festival Lounge Sessions
plenary Session TU.21 uS, UN and Drug Policy
TU.22 film festival special screening
skills building Sessions Tu.23 Models of Drug User Groups Tu.24 educational Programs Tu.25 concurrent Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder in Youth
tuesday Posters Educational Programs Emerging Drug Patterns Epidemiology Ethics Government and Harm Reduction Grass Roots and Community Initiatives
Session Index • Harm Reduction 2006 • Session Index Wednesday, May 3
plenary Session We.01 decriminalization vs. Legalization of Cannabis: Stirring The Pot
Major Sessions we.02 uSers’ choice we.03 care and Treatment of HCV in Drug Users: Have we made any progress?
We.04 film Festival Lounge Sessions
concurrent Sessions We.05 overdose: Death is not an Option We.06 hcv Epidemiology We.07 eMerging Patterns in Drug Use We.08 alcohol and Harm Reduction We.09 preventing Harms of the Needle We.10 advocacy We.11 living room session — Voices from the Global Frontier We.12 film Festival Symposium Sessions We.13 youth At Risk We.14 peer Support Programs We.15 Epidemiology We.16 drugs and Mental Health We.17 north American Medical Marijuana We.18 north American User Activism We.19 living room session — Disasters in the Living Room We.20 film Festival Lounge Sessions
plenary Session WE.21 alcohol: A Legal Epidemic
wednesday Posters HIV Treatment Human Rights Indigenous Populations Mental Health Overdose Peer Support Programs Spirituality and Harm Reduction Transferring Knowledge into Practice Women Family Hepatitis C Treatment
• Harm Reduction 2006 • Session Index Session Index Thursday, May 4
major Sessions th.01 not So Fast: Youth on Speed th.02 Spirituality and Harm Reduction plenary Session th.03 there Is No Minimum Age With Infectious Disease: Working With Youth To Prevent Drug Related Harm
Session Index • Harm Reduction 2006 • Committees
Executive Program Drug User Advisory International Advisory Committee Committee Committee
Kevin Craib, Canada Raffi Balian Abu S. Abdul-Quader, USA Sue Currie, Canada Deb Breau David Bangsberg, USA Ernest Drucker, USA Sue Currie Susan Berkhout, Canada Robert Hogg, Canada Guilia DiGiorgio Dan Bigg, USA David Marsh, Canada Rosemary Fayant Ricky Bluthenthal, USA Bill Nelles, Canada Sook Lee Raj Boyjoonauth, UK Kimberly Page-Shafer, USA Ann Livingston Deb Breau, Canada Diane Riley, Canada Chris Livingstone Kimberly C. Brouwer, USA Kay Roberts, Scotland Brian Mackenzie Julie Bruneau, Canada Martin Schechter, Canada Warren Michelow Caroline Brunt, Canada Patricia Spittal, Canada Rob Morgan Chris Buchner, Canada Gerry Stimson, UK Jean Francois Morin Vicky Bungay, Canada Tim Stockwell, Canada Bill Nelles Scott Burris, USA Grzegorz Krol, Poland Caitlin Padgett Jane Buxton, Canada Darlene Palmer Sheena Campbell, Canada Kenn Quayle Holly Catania, USA Patricia Spittal Tim Christie, Canada Brent Taylor Allan Clear, USA Diane Tobin Ken Clement, Canada Robert Weppler Trevor Corneil, Canada Paddy Costall, UK Kevin Craib, Canada Nick Crofts, Australia Joanne Csete, Canada Sue Currie, Canada Matthew Curtis, USA Marcus Day, Carribean Stanley DeVlaming, Canada Jimmy Dorabjee, Australia Chuck Doucette, Canada Cameron Duff, Canada David Eby, Canada Pat Erickson, Canada Mike Farrell, UK Sarah Fielden, Canada Benedikt Fischer, Canada Sam Friedman, USA Jason Grebely, Canada Robert Haemmig, Switzerland Michael Hahn, USA Joumana Hermez, Lebanon Vivian Hope, UK Joy Johnson, Canada Caitlin Johnston, Canada
• Harm Reduction 2006 • Committees Committees
Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Peer Coordinators Kuala Lumpur Nancy Laliberte Andrey Kastelic, Slovenia Caitlin Padgett Barb Keith, Canada Thomas Kerr, Canada Immigration and Kaveh Khoshnood, USA Cultural Support Alex Kral, USA Tom Lampinen, Canada Rajwinder Deol Agustin Lapetina, Uruguay Monica Malta, Brazil Rapporteur Jane McCall, Canada Steffanie Strathdee, USA Warren Michelow, Canada Peggy Milson, Canada Rapporteur Team David Moore, Canada Rob Morgan, Canada Tasnim Azim, Bangladesh Jean Francois Morin, Canada Monica Malta, Brazil Zarina Mulla, Canada Cari Miller, Canada Bill Nelles, Canada Darlene Palmer, Canada Rick Olson, USA Robin Pollini, USA Danielle Ompad, USA Geoffrey Oyat, Uganda Health and Safety Caitlin Padgett, Canada Committee Darlene Palmer, Canada Chris Buchner Ciro Panessa, Canada David Marsh David Patrick, Canada Bill Nelles Richard Pearshouse, Canada Caitlin Padgett Andrew Percy, Northern Ireland Todd Sakakibara Jeff Potts, Canada Rob Weppler Christiane Poulin, Canada JVR Prasada Rao, Thailand Mike Rekart, Canada Valencia Remple, Canada Diana Rossi, Argentina Elise Roy, Canada Melanie Rusch, Canada Susan Sherman, USA Will Small, Canada Dan Small, Canada Ton Smits, Thailand Patricia Spittal, Canada Kennedy Stewart, Canada Steffanie Strathdee, USA Brent Taylor, Canada Dwight Vick, USA Urban Weber, Switzerland Evan Wood, Canada
Committees • Harm Reduction 2006 • Letters of Welcome
Message From the Premier of British Columbia
As Premier of the province of British Columbia, it is my pleasure to welcome everyone to the 17th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm in Vancouver. I would also like to extend a special welcome to everyone who has travelled across the globe to be here.
This conference is a unique opportunity for international dialogue and networking between many different participants in the health care, policy making and scientific research communities. I am sure the speakers, research papers and discussions will benefit all those in attendance, helping to improve the resources and tools available in the reduction of drug related harm.
I would like to recognize the organizers and sponsors who have given their time and energy to coordinate this meaningful international event. I would also like to extend special welcome to the keynote speaker, Stephen Lewis, United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa.
On behalf of the people of British Columbia, welcome to our province and I wish you an enjoyable and successful conference.
Sincerely,
Gordon Campbell Premier
• Harm Reduction 2006 • Letters of Welcome Letters of Welcome
Message from the Mayor of Vancouver
It is with great enthusiasm that I welcome delegates of the 17th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm to our beautiful coastal city of Vancouver, Canada.
As Mayor I am excited that so many individuals and organizations from around the globe have come to Vancouver to attend this conference and learn from each other, share experience and help us to broaden our horizons as to the best ways to reduce harm from the use of drugs in society.
Vancouver, like every other city in the world, has engaged in a range of strategies to address the many issues raised by the use of psychoactive substances both legal and illegal. Our citizens are all too familiar with the terrible human costs and societal costs of problematic substance use and have been engaged in a vigorous dialogue over the past few years on the best approaches for addressing the impacts of harmful drug use on individuals and communities. The City of Vancouver has developed a Four Pillar Approach to Drug Problems (see http://www.vancouver.ca) and we are committed to an integrated strategy that puts forward harm reduction as a key pillar of our approach to address drug use.
I have a firm belief that drug addiction is a problem that we have to learn to manage. I am very pleased that the conference will focus on all substances, both legal and illegal, and that participants will explore ways to focus on the critical issue of minimizing the damage that substance use has on our community.
This conference will be an important event for Vancouver and will contribute valuable information and knowledge to our own local efforts to move forward in improving the lives of individuals and communities.
Yours truly,
Sam Sullivan MAYOR
Letters of Welcome • Harm Reduction 2006 • Letters of Welcome
Welcome from the IHRA
On behalf of the Executive Committee of the International Harm Reduction Association I extend a warm welcome to you at our 17th conference here in Vancouver. My thanks to all the people who have worked hard over the last two years to organize this event for you.
This is the key annual conference on harm reduction. This is a major opportunity to exchange ideas and to engage in debate and discussion. I hope that the program has something in it for all of you.
IHRA’s conference is a unique event. It brings together all aspects of harm reduction including science and research, policy analysis, critical commentary, and harm reduction practice. It brings together people from all over the world who are working to promote and implement harm reduction approaches to all psychoactive substances.
Please enjoy the conference: learn new things, make new friends. The promotion of harm reduction on a global basis depends on the knowledge we share and the networks we make.
Gerry Stimson
Executive Director International Harm Reduction Association
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Co-Chairs Welcome
Welcome to HEAR + NOW: THE PEER CONFERENCE – and thank-you. When our planning began three years ago, we envisioned a conference that was a platform for peers, providers, scientists and other participants from various parts of the world. A conference as a vehicle for your voice, your experience and your feedback, as well as a place to interact, learn and challenge one another about reducing drug-related harm in an effort to support and improve the lives of all persons negatively affected by drug-related harm.
HEAR + NOW reflects our commitment for people to be heard and acknowledged at this conference as well as conveying the urgency for action. The word PEER is an acronym for our guiding principles: Protection, Empowerment, Equality, Respect. But “The PEER Conference” also refers to the record number of people who use drugs and who have been involved in the planning of the conference, as well as present papers and participate as delegates. In addition to drug user involvement, we have also received abstracts from 94 countries for this conference! Peer feedback also resulted in some creative programming, including our “living room sessions” and spotlighting poster presentations at lunch, breakfast satellite programming and even a “Best of the Fest” film night. You told us last year that you wanted to see more emphasis on gender, indigenous people, hepatitis C and youth issues, and we are proud to say that they are an integral part of the program. We are also pleased to highlight our “Users Choice and Drug Users Working with Government” major sessions, which are sure to be well attended!
We want to thank many organizations for helping make this event happen. First, we want to thank the International Harm Reduction Association and our collaborating organizations: Providence Health Care, and the City of Vancouver. We can’t forget about our families and friends for putting up with us over these past few years and personally acknowledge the efforts of our core conference team, Bonnie Devlin, Candice Gartry, Bill Nelles, Shannon Brown, Robyn Sussel, Caitlin Padgett, Nancy Laliberte, Bill Hallam, Kevin Craib, Robert Hogg and David Marsh. In addition to the above organizations and core members, there are literally hundreds of people, organizations and sponsors locally and globally, that have volunteered countless hours and who believe in the importance of their meeting and its goals.
We hope that you will be able to learn and interact with other attendees and take home practical tools and resources. Thank you again for coming and for your personal efforts to reduce drug-related harm.
All the best,
Patricia Spittal and Sue Currie Conference Co-Chairs
Letters of Welcome • Harm Reduction 2006 • 11 Honourary Co-Chairs
The city of Vancouver is well known internationally for embracing the concept of reducing drug-related harm. In addition to the efforts of our current mayor, his Worship Mayor Sam Sullivan, and current premier, Gordon Campbell (also a former mayor of Vancouver), we would like to acknowledge the work of two former mayors, Philip Owen and Senator Larry Campbell for not only supporting harm reduction but for taking extraordinary measures to ensure harm reduction was part of their “Four Pillars” approach to drug use, which helped facilitate programs and services such as needle exchanges. They did this regardless of the popularity of the initiatives or the political cost. They demonstrated incredible leadership during their terms as Vancouver mayor and both of them remain committed to furthering harm reduction programs across Canada and around the world. For this leadership and commitment, we would like to salute their work by making Philip Owen and Senator Larry Campbell Honourary Co-Chairs of the 17th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm. We will acknowledge them in the Opening Ceremony and we hope you will join us in honouring their efforts.
Sue Currie and Patricia Spittal
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the honourable larry w. campbell The Honourable Larry W. Campbell was born in 1948 and raised in Brantford, Ontario. In his early years he worked as a steelworker in Hamilton. After moving to Vancouver in 1969, Larry Campbell worked for the RCMP, becoming a member of the Drug Squad in 1973. He changed careers in 1981 and established the first Vancouver District Coroner’s office. In 1996, Larry was appointed BC Chief Coroner.
In 2000, when he retired as BC Chief Coroner, he worked as a private consultant, and provided forensic services for both industry and government. As well, he was a script writer for the Gemini award-winning television series Da Vinci’s Inquest, which chronicles the life of a Vancouver coroner.
Larry Campbell was elected Mayor for the City of Vancouver in December 2002 and, on August 2nd, 2005, he was appointed to the Senate of Canada by the Right Honourable Paul Martin. He is currently a Member of the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples.
PHILIP w. OWEN Philip Owen was elected Vancouver’s 42nd Mayor in November 1993, re-elected in 1996 and 1999 making him Vancouver’s longest serving consecutive-term Mayor. He was a Parks Board member before serving seven years on Vancouver City Council
During Philip’s nine years as Mayor, Vancouver experienced massive growth and change. The downtown residential population doubled from 40,000 to 80,000 and the residents now enjoy a new vitality in a part of the city that continues to improve and is a model for North American cities. The city maintained a “Triple-A” credit rating as well as being rated the number one city in the world for quality of life.
It is the Four-Pillar Approach that distinguished Philip Owen’s career. This plan is a courageous, innovative drug policy aimed at fighting the despair of drug addiction. After four years of research, Philip led local and national debate to fight the drug problems of Canadian cities. An 85 page document titled, A Framework for Action, was passed unanimously by Vancouver City Council in May, 2001.
In recent years Philip has received recognition from many organizations including B.C. Health Officers, Simon Fraser University, Lions International, Rotary International, The Brotherhood Inter-Faith Society, F.C. Civil Liberties Association, The Richard J. Dennis Drugpeace Award (New York) and the Canadian Criminal Justice Association.
Honourary Co-Chairs • Harm Reduction 2006 • 13 Rolleston Winners
IHRA Rolleston Awards
The Rolleston Awards are Previous winners of the Rolleston presented each year at the Awards International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related International Rolleston Award Harm to people who have made 1992 Dave Purchase, USA an outstanding contribution to 1993 Ernie Drucker, USA reducing drug or alcohol related 1994 Alex Wodak, Australia harm. 1995 Anne Coppell, France 1996 Aaron Peake, Nepal The awards were inaugurated 1997 Luigi Ciotti, Italy at the 1992 conference in 1998 Nick Crofts, Australia Melbourne and are named 1999 Jean-Paul Grund, after Sir Humphrey Rolleston, Netherlands President of the Royal College 2000 Pat O’Hare, Italy of Physicians, who chaired the 2001 Fabio Mesquita, Brazil UK Departmental Committee on 2002 Ethan Nadelmann, USA Morphine and Heroin Addiction. 2003 Ambros Uchtenhagen, In 1926, this committee Switzerland determined that it was legitimate 2004 Anya Sarang, Russia medial practice to prescribe 2005 Zunyou Wu, China heroin or morphine to people dependent on those drugs. This National Rolleston Award decision epitomizes a benign, 1992 Les Drew, Australia pragmatic and humane approach 1993 Wijnand Mulder, to drug problems, and was a Netherlands landmark event in the history of 1994 Catherine Hankins, Canada harm reduction. 1995 San Giuliano Unità di Strada, Italy The International Rolleston 1996 The Australian IV League Award is given to an individual 1997 Alain Mucchielli, France who has made an outstanding 1998 Tarcisio Andrade, Brazil contribution to harm reduction at 1999 André Seidenberg, an international level. The winner Switzerland is chosen by the IHRA. 2000 Mike Wavell, Jersey 2001 Jimmy Dorabjee, India The National Rolleston Award 2002 Tatja Kostnapfel-Rihtar, is awarded to an individual Slovenia or organization making an 2003 Mae Chan Project, Thailand outstanding contribution to 2004 Tony Trimingham, Australia harm reduction at a national 2005 Des Flannagan, level. The winner is chosen by Northern Ireland the Conference Local Organizing Committee.
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sun 30 april, 18:00–19:30 mon 1 may, 8:00–9:00 internationally. We will present the International Rolleston Award, the Opening Ceremony Opening Session National Rolleston Award and the BC Ballroom, BC Ballroom, Travis Jenkins Award to deserving Fairmont Hotel Fairmont Hotel recipients. Vancouver Vancouver wed 3 may, 19:30–24:00 Join us for the Opening Ceremony The official conference opening will with our keynote speaker, Dr. Martin begin at 8:00 sharp. Please come Closing Celebration Schechter of the North American and enjoy our vibrant and energizing Commodore Ballroom Opiate Medication Initiative morning entertainment, followed 868 Granville Street (NAOMI) Project, as well as other by the official kick-start with our conference welcomes. co-chairs and guests. A great way to end a productive and busy conference! Join us for sun 30 april, 19:30–21:30 mon 1 may, 19:15–21:00 an evening of fun and relaxation on the last night of the conference. Welcome Reception Best of the Fest Enjoy music, entertainment, and Pacific Ballroom, BC Ballroom, refreshments at a local, legendary entertainment facility — reserved Fairmont Hotel Fairmont Hotel just for our conference! Tickets Vancouver Vancouver to attend the Closing Celebration Join us for an exciting evening of are complimentary to delegates. If You have just arrived, registered and entertaining film viewing for a rare space is available, additional tickets attended the Opening Ceremony. glimpse into drug use issues in an may be available for purchase on- Now it’s time to try to track down international context. Increasingly site on a first-come, first-served peers and colleagues and meet around the world documentary basis. Please visit the Registration new ones. The Welcome Reception filmmakers have been examining Desk for more information. We is just around the corner from the issues of illegal drugs from all will be walking to the Commodore the Opening Ceremony in the angles. This is the third year that (about five minutes away). You are Pacific Ballroom. Please show your the conference has included a free to arrive at your leisure or to delegate badge for complimentary film festival stream and again an join a group in the lobby of either attendance at the reception. Your exciting program has been created. the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver or badge includes a complimentary The ‘Best of the Fest’ is a must the Hyatt Regency Vancouver at drink ticket and there is a no-host participate social event that features 19:15. Just look for the conference bar in the venue. The cuisine will short documentaries from Australia, volunteers in blue to guide you. feature international nibbles from UK, USA, Bolivia, Cambodia and the four corners of the world, a fair Iran. The evening will also announce representation of the diversity for the winner for best documentary in THU 4 may, 12:05–13:00 which Vancouver is known. 2006 and other films that receive an honourable mention. Closing Session mon 1 may, 7:00–8:00 BC Ballroom, Fairmont Hotel tue 2 may, 17:00 Early Risers’ Breakfast Vancouver bc foyer, Award Presentation Our Rapporteur, Dr. Stephanie fairmont hotel bc ballroom, Strathdee, and her team will vancouver Fairmont hotel summarize highlights from the We know it’s early, but we want vancouver conference and provide context to you to start the week right. A the information presented. complimentary continental breakfast At this special event, we will will be provided, followed by the recognize individuals who have Opening Session. made an outstanding contribution to reducing drug and alcohol related harm, nationally and
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Drugs’ had little impact as reflected in the rising number of drug users and drug selling related arrests. The historical significance of this documentary has greater resonance because as of 2006 the Government of Malaysia officially endorsed the harm reduction approach by Mon 1 May, 12:30–13:30 implementing drug substitution programs, needle syringe programs, Film Festival Lounge and the creation of drop in centres Sessions for drug users to name but a few public health interventions to OXFORD ROOM improve the lives of active drug Time: 12:30 users. Film Title: The Prime Minister, The Junkie and the Boys on Time: 13:20 Death Row Film Title: Gearhead Director: Kevin Sim Director: Joe Magee Producer: Kevin Sim Producer: Knowle West Media Auspice Organization: Yorkshire Centre/Detached Youth Worker Television for IYV Simon Willis Country: UK/Malaysia Auspice Organization: Knowle West Media Centre Abstract: Country: England Made in 1991 this documentary provides a compelling overview of Abstract: the drug use situation of Malaysia Between 2002 and 2004 artist- widely described by the government filmmaker Joe Magee worked with as a threat to national security. young people and Knowle West The government response has been Media Centre (UK, Bristol) on the to impose draconian measures in Knowle West estate - resulting in which the trafficking of sometimes this award-winning short film. The small amounts of illicit drugs has film was made with non-actors, resulted in the death penalty. The with no crew or lighting. Shot on documentary features a probing digital video, the imagery has been interview with the former Prime heavily manipulated and graphically Minister of Malaysia, Mahatier colorized, with Magee creating an Bin Mohamad, about his views experimental soundtrack. ‘Gearhead’ on the death sentence for those presents a day in the life of a heroin convicted of drug related crimes, addict. In 2004 ‘Gearhead’ won follows a drug user and explores the the Film Council First Light Best difficulties of his drug dependency, Film Award. Sir Alan Parker, who highlights the views of a senior law presented the award, said, “The enforcement official during and judges felt that this film was a after a drug raid, and poignantly clear winner due to the incredibly captures the insights of prisoners sophisticated use of visual, aural that live on death row. Thousands and structural properties of of drug users during the making film. This is a haunting film and of this documentary were sent to stays with the viewer perhaps for rehabilitation centres for up two longer than they would like. Very years, yet the government was imaginative, edgy - strongly directed resigned to acknowledging that little and grimly clear.” success was achieved by this action. The execution of many people as a result of the Malaysia’s ‘War on
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Mon 1 May, 13:30–15:00 Time: 13:50 Time: 14:30 Film Festival Film Title: Hitting Home Film Title: Budi’s Story Presenter: Greg Scott Presenter: Jangkar Representative Symposium Sessions Director: Greg Scott and Director: Arif R Iryawan OXFORD ROOM Victoria Stob Producer: Exceed Community Time: 13:30 Producer: Greg Scott – Jakarta Indonesia Film Title: Opie Auspice Organization: Sawbuck Auspice Organization: Exceed Presenter: Ray Stephens and Productions Community Mal Dorien Country: USA Country: Indonesia Director: Ray Stephens and Mal Dorien Abstract: Abstract: Producer: Greg Logan ‘Hitting Home’ is an illustrated Budi’s Story was made during the guide to hepatitis B and C first Short-film making workshop, a Auspice Organization: Turning Point prevention through safer injection skill-building program for injecting Alcohol and Drug Centre of illicit drugs. Referencing video drug users, held by Exceed Country: Australia footage of live injections, the Community (Depok, Indonesia) in narrator (an active injector) explains August 2005. Budi, a made-in- Abstract: common unsafe injection practices, Indonesia junkie, is on his way to The Adventures of Opie is a 7- demonstrates safer practices, and loosen himself from the grip of drug minute animation tracking the life comments on brief clips of active dependency. With a risk taking past of an opiate molecule from the drug injectors incorporating safer that shadows him, Budi has an HIV poppy, through processing to heroin, practices into their injections. This test in search of clearer paths for smuggling, administration, exerting film allows the viewer to witness his newly planned life – alone. The its effects then elimination from injection practices in a way few movie explores Budi’s confusion and the body. The purpose of ‘Opie’ is health care providers ever can, doubts as he tries to make sense of training. At Turning Point we train by placing them at the scene. the new situation. The film is part of a diverse range of clients, from This immediacy gives a more a process to a better understanding doctors and nurses to people with comprehensive understanding to, of the rich and often misunderstood little to no background knowledge not only injectors’ behaviours, but relationship between drug users and of drug related matters. A base line the associated health care issues. HIV/AIDS. The workshop committee, level of knowledge is an essential This multi-dimensional film is production and post-production building block. Students can be lost especially relevant to those who team, comprise of active IDUs from at this point. We wanted to make an provide health-related assistance a wide variety of backgrounds across accessible, user-friendly tool for this to injecting drug users, such Jakarta. purpose. as public health departments, medical practitioners, clean syringe program staff, community outreach Although The Adventures of Opie workers, HIV reduction program is an animation, it is not meant for staff, substance abuse intervention schools or children. ‘Opie’ has a professionals, and deliberate harm reduction focus. infectious disease-orientated It does not seek to glorify the use researchers. of heroin, but acknowledge that it takes place. The potential for infection and overdose and their strong link to injection are central themes to the animation. ‘Opie’ was funded by the Ian Potter Foundation and created using Macromedia Flash. The animations were done by Mal Doreian, and brought to life by Ray Stephens. The Adventures of Opie is available as a free download from http://www. turningpoint.org.au
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Mon 1 May, 15:30–17:00 representations of heroin and its dependents. Film Festival Lounge
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OXFORD ROOM Film Title: Time Bomb Time: 15:30 Director: Rizky Ika Syafitri, Nita Meirina, Eric Wirawan Film Title: Plan Columbia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure. Producer: Dian Herdiany Director: Gerard Ungerman and Auspice Organization: Ford Audrey Brohy Foundation Producer: Gerard Ungerman and Country: Indonesia Audrey Brohy Abstract: Auspice Organization: Free-Will Productions HIV/AIDS transmission among injecting drug users in Indonesia Country: USA has increased dramatically in recent years. Up to 80% of new HIV/AIDS Abstract: notifications are to be found among ‘Plan Columbia’ looks at the those with a history of injecting so-called ‘War on Drugs’ waged drugs. This documentary film by Washington in Columbia and provides descriptions about how assesses its efficacy both to fight the injecting process happens, why drug-trafficking and to provide people share needles, and outlines alternative revenues for farmers how much is known about the issue. who grow coca. The documentary This is interspersed with interviews discusses the counter-insurgency with people sharing their fears and nature of the so-called ‘Plan regrets while reflecting on what Columbia’ that provides dual- they have done in the past. This purpose assistance to the Columbian documentary was screened at the military fighting leftist rebels in the Jakarta International Film Festival oil-rich regions of the country. in 2004 and the Drugs: Exploring Myths, Discovering Facts, Reducing Harm, International Documentary Time: 16:30 Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia Film Title: Damo in 2005. Director: Suzi Taylor Producer: Kurt Breitenmoser Auspice Organization: Nil Country: Australia
Abstract: ‘Damo’ won ‘Best Documentary’ at the St Kilda Film Festival, Melbourne in 2003 and ‘Best Australian Film’ in the International Big Issue Film Festival. It is about a man’s journey from ten years of homelessness and heroin abuse to a stable life selling the Big Issue on the streets of Melbourne. This is a tribute to our dynamic human capacity for re-invention and a subtle challenge to mainstream
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Mon 1 May, 19:15–21:00 peers of the risks of drug use, as its decision. We learn something well as the negative future ahead about coca’s traditional uses, the Best of the Fest for a glue sniffer on the streets. The distinction in Bolivia between legal 2004 - 2006 film has simulated glue use and and illegal coca and the failures shows what this leads to: vagrancy, of crop substitution programs. BC BALLROOM poverty, loneliness, crime, attacks Brief interviews provide context from gangs and the huge risk to life throughout, including with coca Film Title: Rubber Hammer and well-being. In Khmer culture, eradicator Coronel Jaime Cruz Vera, Director: Warren Tiedgen ghosts are very much believed in former Brazilian Secretary of Drug Country: Australia and feared. The message is clear Enforcement Walter Maierovitch, that glue can destroy your life human rights attorney Rose Marie Running time: 5 mins in many ways. The children and Acha and Bolivian Congressman M’Lop Tapang have used this film Evo Morales. ‘Chew On This’ was Abstract: to educate their peers, families and a cooperative project produced An engaged couple return to their the whole community. entirely by professors and students apartment after travelling overseas. of the Narco News School of They have been to South America Authentic Journalism in 2004. Film Title: Chew on This on a trip to collect a special cargo It was funded solely by The Fund to bring home. After settling in Director: The Narco News School of for Authentic Journalism, a non- they begin to take laxatives, and Authentic Journalism profit corporation based in the the female character leaves for the Producer: The Narco News School of United States. toilet. On her return from the toilet Authentic Journalism she seems relieved, almost elated. Auspice Organization: The Narco The male then leaves for the toilet News School and the Fund of but something goes wrong and the Authentic Journalism man collapses and it looks as if he will die. What will his fiancé do and Country: Bolivia what of the special cargo? Running time: 10 mins
Film Title: Glue Made Me A Ghost Abstract: Director: Andrew Pope, Farhad While harm reduction strategies Shadraven (Fit Media) with Children admirably focus on problems of M’Lop Tapang related to drug consumption, too often the plight of those at the Producer: Daniel Littlewood, Fit lowest levels in drug producing Media regions is ignored. ‘Chew On This’ Auspice Organization: M’Lop Tapang provides an important introduction Country: Cambodia to the realities experienced by coca growers in Bolivia that is Running Time: 8 mins both revealing and intimate. With all original footage shot entirely Abstract: in Bolivia, the film allows coca The film was written and performed farmers to tell their own story by ex-street children: Most of whom of the repression they face and were addicted to glue. The story how they are organizing to meet is based on real life experiences those challenges. In rare footage of these and other children with of coca eradication in progress, long histories of using glue, we see the heavily armed soldiers whilst trying to earn money from march past an anguished mother scavenging and sleeping on the and her traumatized child. Stories streets. All of these children are of other ordinary coca growers now reintegrated back to education follow. Augmented by the award and their families. These children winning still photography of Jeremy have friends that have been injured Bigwood, we learn of the decree to by traffic accidents whilst using close the legal coca markets and and they wanted to educate their the mass resistance that forced the Bolivian government to reverse
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Mon 1 May, 19:15–21:00 Film Title: Eva Goes to Foreign Film Title: Worth Saving (continued) Director: Tass Darlington Director: Gretchen Hildebran and Leah Wolchok Best of the Fest Producer: Hibiscus Auspice Organization: FPWP/Hibiscus Producer: Gretchen Hildebran and 2004 - 2006 Leah Wolchok Country: UK Country: USA BC BALLROOM Running Time: 2 mins Running Time: 10 mins Film Title: Kierin Abstract: Director: John Fitzgerald Abstract: The UK’s Concerted Inter-agency Producer: John Fitzgerald Drugs Action (CIDA) estimates that ‘Worth Saving’ is a short Auspice Organization: University of some 35 to 45 tonnes of cocaine documentary about drug users Melbourne enter the UK annually. One means rescuing each other from overdose. Although often preventable with Country: Australia of entry, which receives a great deal of tabloid press coverage, is simple interventions, overdose Running Time: 8 mins through the use of drug ‘mules’. is the leading cause of death for The majority are women, mostly San Francisco’s 15,000 injecting Abstract: driven by endemic poverty to risk drug users. Worth Saving explores ‘Kierin’ takes you on his weekly smuggling cocaine through UK a ground breaking public health journey from an outer urban suburb customs. The drugs are smuggled program that saves lives by to Melbourne’s Central Business inside the body cavities, with prescribing Narcan, an opiate District to score heroin. He is a 28- each courier bringing in up to antidote carried by paramedics, year old tradesman and injecting 500 grams. The large numbers of directly to drug users. The drug user who scores for himself women making the mule run from film follows the Drug Overdose and his friends from the street Jamaica carrying Colombian cocaine Prevention and Education (DOPE) drug market. Through the course sparked a diplomatic row, leading Project to needle syringe programs, of the journey ‘Kierin’ talks about the UK and Jamaican governments residential hotels and police stations the impact of aggressive policing, to set up ‘Operation Airbridge’ in as they reach out to drug users, the racism, inequalities emerging from June 2002. This project, involving often-ignored casualties of the ‘War the prohibitive policy environment the installation of UK-funded ion on Drugs’. The DOPE training and and the violence that goes with scanners at Jamaican airports, access to Narcan transforms the the street drug markets. As ‘Kierin’ appears to have greatly reduced the life – savers as well. Kai is a young arrives at Melbourne’s newest amount of couriers arriving from man who struggles with addiction retail environment, we have Kingston; however, the flexible, while living on the streets of San travelled through the inner life of demand-led market has reacted by Francisco. Kai has been brought an articulate confident injecting opening alternative routes. http:// back from an overdose before and drug user, and travelled through www.release.org.uk/html/~Human_ attends the training in order to be an impressionistic visual story of Rights/~The_Unjust/Eva_Goes_to_ a better resource to his community. heroin use in Melbourne. Shot from Foreign.php Hibiscus, a charity Art is a formally homeless elder the eye of the narrator, the movie working with foreign women couriers who has saved three lives since was developed from an in depth in British prisons, made ‘Eva Goes attending the training. Although interview with ‘Kierin’, and visual to Foreign’ to highlight the plight of living with his own addiction, Art materials trace Melbourne’s street these women. has become the ‘house medic’ in drug markets. The movie provides his Tenderloin residential hotel. unique insights into a drug user’s Worth Saving tracks these two DOPE perspective on a contemporary project participants through the social issue. training and beyond, as they save the lives and bring hope to their communities.
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Film Title: Scaling up HIV Prevention Film Title: The Shulgin Project and Harm Reduction in Iran Director: Etienne Sauret Director: Neville Powis Producer: Sebastion Saville Producer: Neville Powis Auspice Organization: Turn of the Auspice Organization: Asian Harm Century Productions Reduction Network Country: UK Country: Iran Running Time: 17 mins Running Time: 24 mins Abstract: Abstract: Alexander Shulgin - chemist The Islamic Republic of Iran is extraordinaire and living legend in reported to have more than two underground drug culture- features million drug dependent individuals. in this new film on the unexplored Of these more than 150,000 are potential of psychedelic drugs. injecting drug users. Between Having quit his post as a senior 50,000 – 60,000 people are HIV research chemist at Dow Chemical positive and of these at least half Company in 1965, together with his are injecting drug users. The Iranian wife Ann he set forth on a personal Judiciary has now sanctioned the quest to design new psychoactive de-criminalizing of drug dependence drugs. The lifestyle drugs market and the national scaling up of is now estimated to be worth up to harm reduction. It sees these as $25 billion annually, providing legal the best ways to combat the dual treatments for conditions ranging epidemics of HIV infection and from depression to impotence. Why injecting drug use. This film looks should people be prevented from at the general situation of drug use using other drugs, which alter their in Iran, meets people affected by mental and physical experiences? opiate dependence and HIV/AIDS, Many have been used for centuries and hears from officials about the and others continue to be applied services that are presently being in therapeutic, creative, religious, offered to drug users and their exploratory, recreational and military families. settings. Are these drugs so innately dangerous that people need to be protected from them? Or are there other reasons? Doctors prescribing MDMA for post traumatic stress disorder and terminal cancer, military psychiatrists testing LSD on troops, chemists developing new ‘designer drugs,’ shamans using psychedelics to heighten spiritual awareness, multiple sclerosis sufferers self-medicating with cannabis, artists using LSD as a creative tool. Such practices are at best restricted and at worst outlawed - but what are the motives behind the regulations?
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tue 2 May, 12:30–13:30 Time: 13:20 Film Festival Lounge Film Title: Happy Ending Director: Chris Irrizarry Sessions Producer: HBO Young Filmmakers OXFORD ROOM Lab Time: 12:30 Auspice Organization: Arts Engine Inc Film Title: Heroin Wars (Part One Country: USA – Opium Convoy) Running Time: 8 mins Director: Adrian Cowell and Chris Menges Abstract: Auspice Organization: Channel 4 Drugs have taken Chris’s mum out Television of his life but not out of his heart. Country: England In this personal travelogue, he goes to Philadelphia in search of a happy Abstract: ending. Winner of the Family and Society Award, USA. The ‘Opium Convoys’ picks up the story in the early 1960s when the Burmese Army seized power in a coup which abolished democracy for the next three decades. The initial traffic in drugs was a way to finance revolution against the ensuring dictatorship and the film follows various guerrilla armies as they fight for control of the huge mule convoys which exported opium to the outside world. The US joined in on an all out-attack on the convoys and sent an invitation to the first ‘King of Opium’ to negotiate, only to have him arrested. The directors of this documentary started filming this episode in 1964 and what is uncovered is an extraordinary, fascinating insight of the trade in drugs with a specific focus on the Shan State of Burma. A historical gem that is remarkably eye opening.
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tue 2 May, 13:30–15:00 Time: 14:05 Film Title: Drug Users Perspectives Film Festival Presenter: Pascal Tanguay Symposium Sessions Director: Neville Powis OXFORD ROOM Producer: Neville Powis Time: 13:30 Auspice Organization: Asian Harm Film Title: Hope Reduction Network Presenter: TBA Country: Various Asian Countries Director: Liechil Luwang Abstract: Producer: SASO and Shalom In 2003 there were around an Auspice Organization: SASO and estimated 13.2 million injecting Shalom, Imphal, Manipur, India drug users (IDUs) worldwide. Country: India Around 25% of all injecting drug users live in South and Southeast Abstract: Asia. Stigma and discrimination remains an enormous barrier to This film tells the truth about the effectively fight the twin epidemics People Living with HIV/AIDS in of injecting drug use and HIV/AIDS. Manipur, India. ‘Hope’ is a space This short film gives a voice to drug where they freely expressed their users and ex-drug users in five Asian feelings and expectations while countries: Cambodia, Thailand, fighting against HIV/AIDS in the Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia. They conflict situation of Manipur. Their talk frankly about their drug use liberty of being alive is enlightened experiences, their lack of knowledge by the humanitarian touch of the in avoiding the sharing needles project. The hollow space of their and of the social stigmatization, hearts and lives were filled by the discrimination and marginalization unforgettable loves of the Pathway they have experienced. Project, showing the high hope to survive. PCI (Project Concern International) join hands together Time: 14:30 with SASO (Social Awareness Film Title: Scottish Prisons Service Service Organization) and Shalom Harm Reduction (Society for HIV/AIDS and Lifeline Operation in Manipur) provides the Presenter: Stephen Heller-Murphy impulse for these very poor people Director: Tim Christie to survive. Manipur continues to Producer: Stephen Heller-Murphy experience a severe epidemic of HIV and AIDS, substantially impacting Auspice Organization: Scottish upon the drug injecting community, Prisons Service their non-injecting partners and Country: Scotland their children. Abstract: A film produced to show to every prisoner on entry to prison highlighting the help one can expect and the risks associated with heroin use. This film was made in response to the need to reduce drug related death following release from prison. The film format is of interviews with six prisoners discussing their overdose experience and what interventions have helped them with their drug use whilst in prison.
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tue 2 May, 15:30–17:00 created by Vietnamese young people Time: 16:10 living on or associated with the Film Title: Breaking the Cycle Film Festival Lounge Richmond public housing estate in Director: Nick Bird Sessions inner city Melbourne. ‘La La Land’ has been created by a group of Producer: Victoria Police OXFORD ROOM Vietnamese young women living in Auspice Organization: Time: 15:30 the western suburbs of Melbourne. Victoria Police Film Title: Get the Facts: Hepatitis C Country: Australia Director: Christopher Mc Neil Time: 16:05 Producer: Diana Sylvestre Film Title: On the Street Abstract: Where you Live Auspice Organization: Organization to This training film is made in a Achieve Solution in Substance Use Director: Ettiene Coutinho documentary style aimed at raising awareness of the diversion initiatives Country: USA Producer: Eldred Tellis in Melbourne, Australia. The Auspice Organization: Sanklap diversion initiatives are alternatives Abstract: Rehabilitation Centre to a court appearance. The film Peer based educational video about Country: India articulates the processes required hepatitis C. Created in four parts: when using the programs and the Part 1; the basics of hepatitis C. Abstract: benefits for doing so. The film Part 2; Its effects on the liver. contains comments from police and The film depicts the plight of Part 3; Testing. Part 4; Treatment. health workers in relation to drug injecting drug users in Mumbai. Appropriate to be shown in both a use, drug treatment and an overall The financial capital of India, clinical and non-clinical setting. support and encouragement for the Mumbai attracts migrants from all This film is designed especially use of the programs. This film was over the country and many of them for injecting drug users and to be a part of a communications strategy end up living on the streets. Many screened as a single session viewing launched in 2003 which aimed to turn towards drug use within a few or modular viewing over the span of increase the use of the diversion months, end up as scavengers, four separate screenings. The film is programs. This communications and live in abject poverty. In a fast fast paced and contemporary. strategy accompanied with on-going paced city like Mumbai, people are training and awareness raising has on the move throughout the day and significantly increased the use of Time: 16:00 have begun looking at drug users as both the Cannabis Cautioning and part of the garbage in which they Film Title: La La Land and Tattoo the Drug Diversion programs by are found. Even Public hospitals police. Director: Liss Gabb had begun to shun these citizens Producer: Arts and Culture Program, from the ‘margins’ of society. In North Richmond Community Health this context, the outreach efforts Centre in Partnership with the of Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust Vietnamese Community Australia. and the services provided at their ‘low threshold’ drop in centre have Country: Australia received a ‘thumbs up’ from the drug users who access the services Abstract: in large numbers. Needless to say, The two short films were created by the appreciation also translates of and with two groups of Vietnamese transformed human beings because young people aged 15-18 years in of a ‘Sankalp’ – ‘Resolve’. inner city Melbourne, Australia. The young people worked in collaboration with professional artists, filmmakers and animators, to create two films which are fast paced and feature live action, animation, and original music. Vastly different in style and content each film offers accessible information to young people about the dangers of Hepatitis C transmission. ‘Tattoo’ has been
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Time: 16.25 for young people through free Film Title: Rough Edges Internet and computer access, multimedia training, and the use of Director: James Boldiston a movie camera and digital editing Producer: Francisco Dos Santos equipment. In the film, four young Country: Australia people talk candidly about their experiences of being attracted to heroin and why they started using. Abstract: They also discuss their repeated Francisco Dos Santos is a youth attempts to detox, with the support worker in Dandenong, an outer of Open Family street outreach suburb of Melbourne, Australia. workers, and their experiences The area has a reputation as being whilst using heroin. This is foremost a hotbed of drug related crime and a story of hope, however, as the low economic standing. This is an young people tell of their dreams for inaccurate appraisal as Dandenong a ‘normal’ future. A powerful and is also a cultural melting pot and moving film, these young people tell a lively centre of activity. In an their own stories, and their dreams urban and developed first world for rebuilding their lives. city, Francisco sees a pattern of drug abuse and health issues that spreads from generation to Time: 16.36 generation: Alcohol, violence and Film Title: Out of Crime and Into drug use are often passed on in Treatment- the Drugs Interventions families where poor education and Programme in Hartlepool, UK poverty are evident. ‘Rough Edges’ Director: Joe Carter dramatically captures Francisco’s experiences as we follow a drug Producer: Susan Perryman dependent person’s life from birth. Auspice Organization: Hartlepool Drug The fundamental message is that Intervention Programme if there is blame, it should not be Country: England to the individual, but to the society that allowed the cycle of harm to continue. Abstract: Hartlepool (in North-Eastern England) has one of the highest Time: 16.30 rates of Class A drug use in the UK. Film Title: There’s Always Dreams The film ‘Out of Crime and Into Director: Bridget McAloon Treatment’ was commissioned by the Hartepool Drug Interventions Producer: Hoang Nguyen Programme to be shown to Auspice Organization: Open Family community groups, schools and Australia, Incorporated other agencies, and shown in Country: Australia the arrest referral suite whenever someone was arrested for a drug related crime. The film aims to Abstract: dispel some of the myths about In September of 2005, young drug addiction, presenting a new people engaged in outreach approach to guide users into programs at the Open Family specifically tailored treatment youth service in Footscray, a programmes. It follows three disadvantaged area of Melbourne heroin users who have been prolific known for its street drug scene, offenders as they go through the were involved in creating a short new Fast-Track treatment being film as part of the Beanbag Net pioneered in Hartlepool. With a Centre initiative. The Beanbag special focus on what drugs can to Net Centres are sponsored by the do people, this documentary is both Inspire Foundation, and provide heart breaking and uplifting. learning and social opportunities
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tue 2 May, 19:15–21:00 wed 3 May, 12:30–13:30 Time: 13:20 Film Title: Adequate and Film Festival Special Film Festival Lounge Uninterrupted Screening Sessions Director: Greg Manning OXFORD ROOM OXFORD ROOM Producer: Greg Manning Time: 19:15 Time: 12:30 Country: India Film Title: FIX: The Story of an Film Title: Heroin Wars (Part Two Addicted City – Smack City) Abstract: Director: Nettie Wild Director: Adrian Cowell and Chris ‘Adequate and Uninterrupted’ is Producer: Nettie Wild Menges a short training film, located in and Betsy Carson Auspice Organization: Channel 4 Nagaland State, India, designed to guide the rapid introduction Country: Canada Television of needle exchanges which can Country: England Running time: 92 mins provide protection from HIV to entire communities of injecting Abstract: Abstract: drug users. In the form of a love song for IDUs, it documents the ‘FIX’ is a powerful documentary Smack City looks at Hong Kong, the training of an NGO in North-East which chronicles the fight to stop drugs capital of South-East Asia, India to move from a strategy, which the drug death toll and manage during the 1960s and early 1970s. concentrated on ‘contacting’ IDUs Vancouver’s addiction issues. Wild, It examines the ‘War on Drugs’ from to a strategy aiming for coverage whose previous works received the viewpoint of the consumer and for HIV prevention. Scaling up awards from the Berlin International the dealer, by following the Triad needle syringe distribution demands Film Festival and the International gang which controlled the selling that many stakeholders adopt new Documentary Association, guides of heroin on one street in Hong postures. For example, suspicions her story through the eyes of Kong. Over the course of 20 years of drug users and superficial Vancouver Area Network of Drug some of the gang evade the police, understanding of injecting drug Users activists Ann Livingstone and but others are jailed. One gang use can lead to a reluctance to Dean Wilson, former mayor Philip member, Ah Sing tries to kick his deliver enough needles, to eliminate Owen, businessman Bryce Rositch addiction to heroin, but fails. When the need to share. Poor planning and Vancouver Police Department his wife leaves him, he becomes and remote evaluation leads to Sergeant Doug Lang. Filmed over 18 so depressed that he dies from an a sporadic supply of needles months, the documentary explores overdose of heroin and tranquillers. and syringes. Hence, the film the struggle to open a safe injection The other side of the battle, the evokes the mantra ‘adequate and centre. According to former mayor Hong Kong police are featured too, uninterrupted’. Owen, who is often present at film as they raid heroin factories and screenings, more than 50,000 distribution centres. It appears a Canadians have seen ‘FIX’ in futile struggle, since the police theatres and several hundred seldom reduce the amount of heroin
thousand more have seen the film reaching the gangs at street level. on television. Filming of this documentary took place from the early 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Note: This will be followed by a Q & A session with Nettie Wild, director of FIX, and another guest linked to this film (to be announced)
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wed 3 May, 13:30–15:00 Time: 13:50 Time: 14:10 Film Festival Film Title: Worth Saving Film Title: Scaling up HIV prevention Presenter: Gretchen Hilderan and harm reduction in Iran Symposium Sessions Director: Gretchen Hilderan and Presenter: Pascal Tanguay OXFORD ROOM Leah Wolchok Director: Neville Powis Time: 13:30 Producer: Gretchen Hilderan and Producer: Neville Powis Film Title: OTT Leah Wolchok Auspice Organization: Asian Harm Presenter: Sebastian Saville Country: USA Reduction Network Director: George Scott Running Time: 10 mins Country: Iran Producer: Celia Blake and Sebastian Running Time: 24 mins Saville Abstract: Auspice Organization: The Red Hot ‘Worth Saving’ is a short Abstract: AIDS Charitable Trust documentary about drug users The Islamic Republic of Iran is rescuing each other from overdose. Country: England reported to have more than two Although often preventable with million drug dependent individuals. simple interventions, overdose Of these more than 150,000 are Abstract: is the leading cause of death for injecting drug users. Between ‘OTT’ unique aim is to provide San Francisco’s 15,000 injecting 50,000 – 60,000 people are HIV prisoners with knowledge of ways drug users. Worth Saving explores positive and of these at least half to reduce risk-taking behaviour a ground breaking public health are injecting drug users. The Iranian regarding their drug use upon program that saves lives by Judiciary has now sanctioned the release. It is during this very prescribing Narcan, an opiate de-criminalizing of drug dependence vulnerable period that tolerance antidote carried by paramedics, and the national scaling up of is greatly reduced, and drug users directly to drug users. The harm reduction. It sees these as are subject to the highest risk film follows the Drug Overdose the best ways to combat the dual of overdose. ‘OTT’ is a drama Prevention and Education (DOPE) epidemics of HIV infection and addressing this issue, which Project to needle syringe programs, injecting drug use. This film looks has been distributed to prisons residential hotels and police stations at the general situation of drug use throughout England to form part of a as they reach out to drug users, the in Iran, meets people affected by pre-release package, with guidance often ignored casualties of the ‘War opiate dependence and HIV/AIDS, notes on how to run a workshop on Drugs’. The DOPE training and and hears from officials about the around the content of the video. access to Narcan transforms the services that are presently being It follows the main character Si life – savers as well. Kai is a young offered to drug users and their on his first day of freedom, giving man who struggles with addiction families. an honest and graphic portrayal while living on the streets of San of some of the feelings and Francisco. Kai has been brought temptations (and the consequences back from an overdose before and of these) that arise. attends the training in order to be a better resource to his community. Art is a formally homeless elder who has saved three lives since attending the training. Although living with his own addiction, Art has become the ‘house medic’ in his Tenderloin residential hotel. Worth Saving tracks these two DOPE project participants through the training and beyond, as they save the lives and bring hope to their communities.
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Time: 14:45 wed 3 May, 15:30–16:30 Film Title: Glue Made Me A Ghost Film Festival Lounge Director: Andrew Pope, Farhad Shadraven (Fit Media) with Children Sessions of M’Lop Tapang OXFORD ROOM Producer: Daniel Littlewood, Fit Time: 15:30 Media Film Title: Sex, Needles and Roubles Auspice Organization: M’Lop Tapang Director: Chloe Mercier Country: Cambodia Producer: Chloe Mercier Running Time: 8 mins Auspice Organization: Laika Pictures Limited Abstract: Country: England The film was written and performed by ex-street children: Most of whom Abstract: were addicted to glue. The story is based on real life experiences of Sex, Needles and Roubles takes these and other children with long us on a journey to the cold winter histories of using glue, whilst trying nights of St Petersburg where to earn money from scavenging and we meet with some of its young sleeping on the streets. All of these drug dependent sex workers. children are now reintegrated back Through poignant real-life stories to education and their families. and interviews with leading These children have friends figures in the fight against AIDS, that have been injured by traffic corrupt policemen – pimps and accidents whilst using and they discriminating doctors, this wanted to educate their peers of documentary seeks to understand the risks of drug use, as well as how HIV/AIDS has reached such the negative future ahead for a alarming proportions over the last glue sniffer on the streets. The decade. This is a crisis which has film has simulated glue use and catapulted Russia into being the shows what this leads to: vagrancy, country with the fastest spreading poverty, loneliness, crime, attacks epidemic of HIV in the world today. from gangs and the huge risk to life Official selection Prix-Europa and well-being. In Khmer culture, Television – Current Affairs 2004, ghosts are very much believed in and 1001 Documentary Festival, and feared. The message is clear Istanbul, 2005. that glue can destroy your life in many ways. The children and M’Lop Tapang have used this film to educate their peers, families and the whole community.
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sun 30 april, 9:00–16:00 sun 30 april, 13:30–15:30 • Opportunities to discuss important issues and share experiences on Sex Worker Harm Benefits and the changing rapid HIV testing Reduction Session Challenges in the environment. Waddington ROOM, Use of Rapid Testing Fairmont Hotel This Symposium will be of interest Vancouver in Sustainable to researchers, medical and health The Vancouver Agreement’s HIV Programs for care practitioners and support Women’s Task Team and the BC groups, community representatives, Coalition of Experiential Women Developed and government and public health (BCCEW) host a dialogue from Developing World workers, and persons affected by international Sex Work activists HIV/AIDS. and present the Canadian and Settings BC/Yukon perspective on Violence BC Ballroom, sun 30 april, 14:00–16:00 and Trafficking derived from Fairmont Hotel Vancouver consultations with active sex In this symposium, you will WHO Good Practice in workers. hear fascinating and informative Harm Reduction: Case presentations from internationally sun 30 april, 12:00–17:00 renowned speakers that represent Studies from Asia the latest understanding on the Stanley ROOM, International Drug many aspects of HIV rapid testing, Perspectives Level, followed by an open discussion Hyatt Regency Users Congress forum. This WHO meeting will be focused Saturna Island ROOM, on good practice case studies in Fairmont Hotel Vancouver In many parts of the world, rapid harm reduction. At the Belfast International HIV testing has been routine Conference in March 2005, drug use in voluntary counseling users and former user delegates and testing programs for many decided to work more closely during years, and is often the only type the following year in preparation of testing available for resource for the Vancouver International constrained settings. In contrast, Conference to increase the level of rapid testing for HIV diagnosis is user participation at this important only recently being implemented annual event. in most developed-world settings where laboratory-based testing has The Belfast delegates also had a been the standard for over twenty collective vision of an international years. Despite the benefits of rapid project that could help to bring testing in each of these application together national drug user settings, unique challenges remain. organizations and user activists, inform them of each other’s The objectives of the Symposium activities and projects, and provide are to provide: opportunities for co-working, especially at events such as the • State-of-the-art information on International Harm Reduction sustainable rapid HIV testing conference. delivery. • An overview of quality and cost/ benefit challenges. After Belfast, an international group started to work together to achieve • Expert views on emerging this. This resulted in the creation of pressures to change how HIV is a website to support users attending diagnosed in the developed world. the conference, an international • Perspectives on outreach testing questionnaire to gather information programs for marginalized and on the mission and goals of drug hard-to-reach populations. user organizations around the world, and the creation of a working group to take this forward.
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tue 2 may, 7:00–8:30 tue 2 may, 7:00–8:30 This satellite session will give a brief overview of recent Vancouver Living Well with Canadian Community data and highlight the valuable Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Epidemiology networking and collaboration which has developed between Vancouver Island Room, Network on Drug Use- provincial and local health and Fairmont Hotel Vancouver Vancouver Committee: enforcement agencies. Examples of This 75-90 minute breakfast session interventions and policy initiatives is geared to provide participants The Interface of which have developed from the with practical information, tools committees’ work will be discussed. and resources to help improve the Local Surveillance, A panel of representatives from lives of persons living with hepatitis Enforcement, various agencies will share their C. The session will focus on the perspectives of CCENDU and following three areas: Research, Treatment how their roles and knowledge has expanded to embrace all 4- 1. What is it? and Policy pillars. Time will be available to Saturna Island Room, 2. What does it mean to other ensure interactive discussion with people? Fairmont Hotel Vancouver attendees. 3. What can I do about it? The Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) Vancouver-site This program will address some of committee is comprised of the following topics such as: the representatives from national/ myths and barriers about hepatitis provincial/local health and C; its stigma and effects on enforcement agencies. It collects, relationships at home, work, school collates and interprets recent local and the community; and living well data relating to major drug use to with hepatitis C, including nutrition, produce a regular report exploring ongoing substance use, rest and Vancouver data with provincial and other harm reduction strategies. national comparisons. Meetings The goal of this session will be with committee members allow to provide practical strategies for identification of current concerns, persons with chronic hepatitis C to inform the data and broaden context improve their liver health and live for the members. Six Vancouver better with HCV. This session will site reports have been produced minimize traditional presentations. since 1996. Trends are explored Instead, the facilitator will: 1) ask with input from members and a series of questions to the expert clarified where changes in data faculty panel of providers and HCV- collection and definition occur. In affected peers and 2) moderate addition through community agency attendee questions and discussion. engagement we evaluated the reach of information to local organizations providing services and support to clients with problematic substance use.
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tue 2 may, 7:00–8:30 WED 3 may, 7:00–8:30 WED 3 may, 7:00–8:30 Implementation of Coverage of HIV Traditional Harm Respondent-Driven Prevention Programs Reduction Sampling: Lessons among Injecting Drug Vancouver Island Room, Fairmont Hotel Vancouver from the Field Users This panel will address cultural Waddington Room, Saturna Island Room, approaches to providing HR Fairmont Hotel Vancouver Fairmont Hotel Vancouver services to Aboriginal communities. This thematic session will focus Around the globe, researchers Particular attention will be paid on providing information based and practitioners are engaged to the importance of providing on implementation of RDS in in activities related to coverage practical and culturally safe various settings. Each presentation of harm reduction programs yet services, both on and off reserve. will highlight the successes and there is still little agreement on The panel will be moderated by challenges of using RDS to recruit what constitutes coverage, on Kevin Barlow, Executive Director populations at risk to collect what methods should be used to of the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS risk behavior data and/or provide assess coverage and on coverage Network. prevention services. Presenters will targets: how much harm reduction discuss the reasons for selecting will achieve the desired effects of Speakers include: RDS for the study, how it was prevention or control/ reversal of a
implemented in the field including HIV epidemic among injecting drug Margaret Akan, Executive Director, seed selection and recruitment, users? All Nations Hope AIDS Network, recruitment of study participants, Saskatchewan time it took to meet the desired sample size, the lessons learned, Researchers, practitioners and Chief Wayne Christian, Splats’ in and the findings in terms of sample program planners and managers First Nation, British Columbia are invited to attend this Satellite description (if available). LaVerne Monette, Session, to be chaired by APMG Executive Director, Ontario Director Dave Burrows, to discuss Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy WED 3 may, 7:00–8:30 these issues following brief papers from the following speakers: Gender, Women and
Harm Reduction. What • Don Des Jarlais, Beth Israel are the Issues? Medical Center, NY, USA Waddington Room, • Matt Hickman, Bristol University, Fairmont Hotel Vancouver UK IMPART is a Research Training • Robert Heimer, Yale University, program funded by the Canadian New Haven, USA
Institutes of Health Research that • Rob Gray, Population Services focuses on issues of gender, women International, Tashkent Uzbekistan and addiction. Over the past three • Andrey Zheluk, Sydney University, years, trainees and mentors have Australia grappled with issues related to understanding how sex difference • Mukta Sharma, Family Health and gender influences affect women International, Dhaka, Bangladesh with addictions. The program is (TBC) unique in that involves trainees and mentors from the basic, social A set of proceedings will be and health sciences. In this session compiled of presentations and major we invite discussion on the ways points from group discussions: this that harm reduction needs to be will be made available free of charge conceptualized and implemented on the APMG website: in ways that are responsive to www.aidsprojects.com women’s needs.
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THU 4 may, 13:30–16:30 fri 5 may, 9:00–16:00 The day starts with Registration and Breakfast at 9am. The Congress will Alcohol: Estimating Canadian Drug Users be called into session at 10 am. Benefits and Harms Congress Due to the number of people hoping to attend, and due to limitations of Pacific Ballroom, Saturna Island Room, space, admittance to this meeting Fairmont Hotel Fairmont Hotel is by invitation only. Anyone user Vancouver Vancouver or former user unable to attend is The topic of moderate drinking By Invitation Only welcome to take part in the pre and post Congress discussions that take and health benefits is rarely out of For nearly a year, a small group the news media or, for that matter, place in the Canadian Coalition of Canadian drug users have been section of the User Delegates the pages of health and medical working with the organizers of the journals. It is also a key issue in Website at 17th International Harm Reduction http://vancouver.mammajamma.org the debates about harm reduction Conference. The result of this work approaches to alcohol, sometimes is a day-long Congress. The event posed in counterpoint to regulatory has been organized to bring together This is a developing project, and we and legislative approaches. Canadian drug users and former look forward to sharing our progress This symposium brings together users, and a small number of invited and achievements with our peers for the first time an international allies and international peers. after the Congress. research group drawn from the The event has three main aims. USA, Canada and Australia that has They are: collaborated at a distance over the past three years to review evidence from longitudinal studies linking • To establish our right to be patterns of drinking and different meaningful participants in the mortality outcomes. New research national debate on drug policy recently published by the group in Canada. in the journal Addiction Research and Theory suggests there may be • To encourage the formation of flaws in the majority of prospective a national voice for Canadian studies that have suggested drug users. moderate drinking may protect against heart disease. The main conclusion is not necessarily that • To seek allies and resources to cardiac protection does not occur make this happen. but that there are serious problems in much of this epidemiological research regarding the measurement of consumption and hand the classification of different drinkers. This symposium will also address a broader agenda identifying important new advances in national monitoring of alcohol consumption and related problems drawing on experiences from both the USA and Australia.
38 • Harm Reduction 2006 • Satellite Meetings fairmont hotel vancouver hotel fairmont PACIFIC Welcome Reception s F BC Opening Ceremony s vancouver hotel fairmont BC Registration Begins s airmont hotel vancouver hotel airmont un april 30, 19:30–21:30 30, april un 18:00–19:30 30, april un 8:00 30, april un
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MON MAY 1, 7:00 Canada, including in injection drug is alarming and a grave concern. Many people in our Early Risers’ Breakfast communities are addicted, suffering in isolation CONFERENCE LEVEL, and still grappling with the legacy of physical FAIRMONT HOTEL VANCOUVER and sexual trauma. With significant increases in resources, acknowledging this trauma and unresolved emotional pain may be one way that community based health representatives (CHRs), Opening Session addiction specialists and other practitioners can MON MAY 1 , 8:00–8:45 begin to mitigate the impact of the epidemic currently threatening our communities. In Welcome: Carl Roy, order for harm reduction principles to be CEO, Providence Health Care effective, community based response including addictions programming must be built solidly Keynote Address: Penny Ballem, upon indigenous laws, values and strategies for onday healing. m Deputy Minister, Ministry of Health, Province of British Columbia Mo.01.2 BC Ballroom, Walters, Karina. USA. fairmont hotel vancouver Remembering the Past and Rebuilding the Present: Is there a Future for Harm Reduction and Indigenous Peoples? Plenary Session American Indians, Alaska Natives, First Nations MON MAY 1, 8:45–10:15 and other Indigenous populations have endured a succession of historically traumatic and Mo.01 discriminatory assaults on their communities and Indigenous Peoples: Remembering families over time. Anecdotal and preliminary the Past and Rebuilding the Present empirical evidence suggests that these types of assaults are associated with drug use and BC Ballroom, HIV risk behaviors. Utilizing data from an urban fairmont hotel vancouver Native HIV prevention study, this presentation Session Chair: Kevin Barlow highlights how historical trauma and Mo.01.1 microaggression experiences can be integrated into future harm reduction strategies for drug Christian, Wayne. Canada. abuse and HIV risk prevention efforts. Culture is Healing-The Foundation For Creating Mo.01.3 Harm Reduction Policy and Programs For Indigenous People. Kien, Serey Phal. Cambodia. Many Aboriginal communities in Canada have Recovering from the Past: endured the multigenerational legacy of the The Cambodian Experience forced removal of children and placement Mo.01.4 in the residential school system (boarding Ray, Ropata. New Zealand. school). The full impact of this legislated “Te Kanohi Ora” genocide is reflected in our communities in The Living Face multiples ways; rapidly increasing rates of communicable disease, the complex effects of MON MAY 1, 10:15–10:45 addiction, social dislocation, discrimination, human rights violation, and high numbers Refreshment Break of children in care of the state, suicide and CONFERENCE LEVEL, poverty. Harm reduction philosophy must be FAIRMONT HOTEL VANCOUVER grounded in the understanding that many of our First Nations are in pain. The levels of drug use on and off reserves in British Columbia,
40 • Harm Reduction 2006 • Program Listing major Sessions 10:45–12:05 Program Listing
Major Sessions Mo.03 MON MAY 1, 12:30–13:30 Fairmont hotel Vancouver Half the World are Mo.04 MON MAY 1, 10:45–12:05 Women: Gender and Film Festival Lounge Harm Reduction Mo.02 Sessions Advancing Harm BC Ballroom oxford room, Session Chair: Susan Boyd HYATT REGENCY VANCOUVER Reduction through Mo.03.1 Mo.04.1 Human Rights Kingsley, Cherry. Canada. Sim, Kevin. UK. Pacific Ballroom How the US Conservative The Prime Minister, The Session Chair: Joanne Csete Sexual Agenda Gets Exported Junkie and the Boys on Death Mo.02.1 Around the World Row Richardson, John. Canada. Mo.03.2 Mo.04.2 Simon, Sue. USA. onday
Use of legal and human rights Magee, Joe. UK. m approaches in confronting Gender and Harm Reduction: Gearhead police abuse of people who Reducing Harm to Women use drugs in Vancouver and Community in relation Mo.02.2 drug use and sex work Suwannawong, Paisan. Mo.03.3 Thailand. Macrory, Faye. UK. Human rights-unfriendly Working With Indifference: practices in addiction Sex, Drugs and The Role of treatment in Thailand the Consultant Midwife Mo.02.3 Schaeffer, Dirk. Germany. MON MAY 1, 12:15–13:30 Self Help of Drug Users In Lunch & Monday Germany: Critical Opponent Poster Presentations and Partner in Drug Work REGENCY BALLROOM, Mo.02.4 HYATT REGENCY VANCOUVER Froese, Beverly. Canada. Use of a human rights framework in securing methadone access in federal prisons in Canada
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Concurrent Sessions Mo.06.2 Admitted to a Detoxification HYATT REGENCY VANCOUVER Berkhout, Suze. Canada. Program in Northern British MON MAY 1, 13:30–15:00 Columbia, Canada: a Six-Year The Ethics of HIV Vaccine Study Mo.05 Trials in Vulnerable Mo.07.4 Sex Work and Harm Populations: Beyond Informed Consent Keith, Barb. Canada. Reduction Mo.06.3 Full Circle: Harm Reduction plaza a Buchner, Christopher. Canada. and Aboriginal Specific Health Care Session Chair: Susan Sherman Ethics and Outcomes: Access Mo.05.1 to Long-term Intravenous Mo.08 Shannon, Kate. Canada. Antibiotics for Active Cross Cultural - Global Injection Drug Users in a Using Illicit Drugs With Community Setting Approach Clients is Associated with onday high-risk behaviours Among Mo.06.4 Plaza C m Survival Sex Workers Laplante, Julie. Canada. Session Chair: K. Ginandjar Deradjat Mo.05.2 Strategies Towards a Mo.08.1 Maksimova, Svetlana. Russia. Successful Clinical Trial: Aceijas, Carmen. UK. How To Benefit From Active HCV Prevalence and A Global Overview of HIV Participation of Injecting Drug Injecting Risk Behaviour Trends Among IDU Worldwide Users Among Injecting Drug Mo.08.2 Users Including Women Sex Mo.07 Moore, David. Australia. Workers in Barnaul, Russian Federation Indigenous Intersecting Spaces: Globalisation, Young People Mo.05.3 Populations: and Drug Use Chanda, Sanchoy. Bangladesh. Recognizing the Mo.08.3 Intravenous Drug Users Problems and Duff, Cameron. Canada. (IDU) Among Brothel- Addressing the Issues Based Commercial Sex Understanding Drug Use Workers (CSW) In Tangail Prince of Wales room Settings, Cultures and and Persuade on the Harm Session Chair: Deb Schwartz Contexts: The Importance of Space, Affect and Subjectivity Reduction Strategy Mo.07.1 Mo.08.4 Mo.05.4 Moniruzzaman, Akm. Canada. Sherman, Susan. USA. Wechsberg, Wendee. USA. Demographic and Behavioural Breaking a Myth About HIV Variables Associated with Ethical Issues in Substance Among Sex Workers In South Attempted Suicide Among Use Research Africa: Are Boyfriends the Aboriginal Youth That Use Mo.09 Risk? Injection and Non-Injection Drugs in British Columbia Safe Injection Sites Mo.06 Mo.07.2 (SIS) Ethical Issues and Ramos, Rebeca. Mexico. Georgia B IDUs High Prevalence of Injection Session Chair: Jean Francois Morin Plaza B Risk Behaviors among Mo.09.1 Session Chair: Ishita Chaudhry Injection Drug Users in Two Salmon, Allison. Australia. Mexican-U.S. Border Cities Mo.06.1 Mo.07.3 Describing the Frequently Grau, Lauretta. USA. Attending Clients of the Callaghan, Russell. Canada. Informed Consent in Hepatitis Sydney Medically Supervised B Vaccine Research with HIV Among Aboriginal Injecting Centre Injection Drug Users Injection Drug Users
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Mo.09.2 Mo.11 Mo.12 Stoltz, Jo-anne. Canada. Living Room Session Film Festival Lounge Characteristics of Young — Living Room: Sessions Injection Drug Users Using oxford room North America’s First I Wish I had One Medically Supervised Safer Regency Ballroom Mo.12.1 Injecting Facility Session Chair: Chris Livingstone Stephens, Ray. Australia. Mo.09.3 Mo.11.1 Opie Pearshouse, Richard. Canada. Joseph, Herman. USA. Mo.12.2 Legal Issues Surrounding The Housing for Seriously and Scott, Greg. USA. Practice of Assisted Injection Persistently Mentally Ill Stob, Victoria. USA at Safe Injection Facilities Methadone Patients After Hitting Home Mo.09.4 Release From Jail: a Housing Mo.12.3
First Pilot Project onday Lia, Anlaug. Norway.
Iryawan, Arif. Indonesia. m Mo.11.2 Injection Room in Oslo, Budi’s Story Norway: a Trial Project. Shapter, Jax. UK. On-Foot Needle Exchange and Mo.10 MON MAY 1, 15:00–15:30 Assertive Outreach, Engaging Scaling Up South London’s Street- Refreshment Break Georgia A Homeless Injection Drug regency ballroom, Users With a Harm Reduction Session Chairs: hyatt regency VANCOUVER Approach. Prasada Rao & Akira Fujino Mo.11.3 Mo.10.1 Concurrent Sessions Costa, Thiago. Brazil. Power, Robert. Australia. hyatt regency VANCOUVER Supporting Access to Crack A Development Matrix for MON MAY 1, 15:30–16:45 Users and Homeless People Harm Reduction in The Asia to Health Services Pacific Region Mo.13 Mo.11.4 Mo.10.2 Safe Cocaine Use Jones, Kevin. USA. Gray, Robert. Uzbekistan. Plaza A “I Have 18 Months To Live:” Moving Beyond Low or No Session Chair: Rob Morgan Accounts of a Homeless, Coverage: Tracking and Mo.13.1 23 Year Old, Puerto Rican, Expanding Coverage of HIV Injecting Drug User Living Filipe, Elvira. Brazil. Prevention Programs in With AIDS Misconceptions about Harm Central Asia Mo.11.5 Reduction: Implications for Mo.10.3 HIV Prevention Among Crack Morgan, Rob. Canada. Peryshkina, Alena. Russia. Users Aboriginal Urban Partnership for scaling up Mo.13.2 Homelessness in Comparision Mo.10.4 to the Strong Traditional Guanabara, Luiz. Brazil. Yerasilova, Isidora. Cultural Values That Those Hepatitis in the Sniffing Kazakhstan. Aboriginals had in the Past Straw: the Distribution of Barriers to Scaling Up Drug Sniffing Kits in Communities Use Harm Reduction in in Rio de Janeiro and Results Kazakhstan Living Room from a Related Research Mo.10.5 Sessions Mo.13.3 Lewis, Gary. India. Where you see the words Winsor, Yasmin. Canada. “Living Room”, prepare to Scaling up in South Asia - Tools for Rock get casual and comfortable. Lessons Learned
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Mo.13.4 Mo.15.2 Mo.16.4 Leonard, Lynne. Canada. Xu, Zhixiang. China. Tupper, Kenneth. Canada. How Ottawa Got Its Crack Healing From Social Maxwell, Gillian. Canada Pipes: An Integrated Suffering: Women’s Keeping the Door Open— Community Approach to Harm Experience in the Drug Abuse Building Support for Harm Reduction Afflicted, Jingpo Community, Reduction through Public Yunnan, China Engagement Mo.14 Mo.15.3 Human Rights Mo.17 Salmon, Amy. Canada. Syringe Access Violations Against Housing Support in the Georgia B Drug Users Perinatal Period: Reducing Session Chair: Chris Buchner Plaza B Harms for High-risk, Substance Using Women and Mo.17.1 Session Chair: Sebastian Saville
onday their Children Davis, Corey. USA. m Mo.14.1 Mo.15.4 A Police Crackdown and Schleifer, Rebecca. USA. Azim, Tasnim. Bangladesh. Syringe Exchange Program Injection Drug Users,Harm Vulnerability to HIV Infection Utilization: Disparate Effects Reduction, and Human Rights Among Female Injecting Drug and Missed Opportunities in Ukraine Users in Dhaka, Bangladesh Mo.17.2 Mo.14.2 Mo.16 Bluthenthal, Ricky. USA. Cohen, Jonathan. USA. Oh Canada!: Do Syringe Dispensation Documenting Human Rights Policies Matter? Examining Violations Against Injection Contradictions in Association Between Syringe Drug Users: Advocacy for Harm Reduction Coverage and Dispensation Health Policy Among SEP Clients Georgia A Mo.14.3 Mo.17.3 Session Chair: Darlene Palmer Nikitenko, Peter. Russia. De, Prithwish. Canada. Mo.16.1 The Russian Federal Drug Personal and Drug Injecting Riley, Diane. Canada. Control Service is Opaque Network Factors Associated and Prone to Corruption. Drug Policy in Canada: A with Secondary Syringe Results of The Human Rights Decade of Dithering Exchange Among Injection Monitoring in Six Russian Mo.16.2 Drug Users Regions. Lockhart, Nathan. Canada. Mo.17.4 M Tolton, Susan. Canada Higgs, Peter. Australia. Breaking the Cycle: Harm Reduction and the Scaling Up: Promoting Government of Canada’s Drug Marginalized Women Harm Reduction Across Two Strategy Provinces In Vietnam and Harm Reduction Mo.16.3 Plaza C Smith, Michael. Canada. Session Chair: Teresa Marsh Strengthening the Voice of Mo.15.1 People who Use Drugs: A Population Specific Approach Gilchrist, Gail. Australia. to Public Health Comparison of Drug Use and Psychiatric Morbidity Between Prostitute and Non- Prostitute Female Drug Users in Glasgow, Scotland
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Mo.18 Mo.19.4 Primary Health Care Wulan Sari, Sekar. Indonesia. Prince of Wales room Indonesia: Serving Women IDU in Jakarta Session Chair: Nick Crofts Mo.19.5 Mo.18.1 Loudfoot, Jodi. Canada. Limbu, Bobby. Myanmar. Primary Care Health Services Safer Crack Use Kits: and Harm Reduction in Reaching Street-Involved Myanmar Women Through a Grassroots Initiative Mo.18.2 Nwankwo, Nonso. Nigeria. Mo.20 Harm Reduction and Primary Film Festival Lounge
Health Care in a Homeless Sessions onday and a Poor Resource Setting m oxford room in Enugu. Mo.20.1 Mo.18.3 Ungerman, Gerard. USA. Lum, Paula. USA. Plan Columbia: Cashing in on Integrating Buprenorphine the Drug War Failure into HIV Primary Care Settings: Models from Ten Mo.20.2 Demonstration Sites in the Taylor, Suzi. Australia. U.S. Damo Mo.19 Mo.20.3 Living Room Session Syafitri, Rizky. Indonesia. — Women’s Issues: Time Bomb Better Understanding = Best Practices Regency Ballroom Session Chair: Vicki Bright Mo.19.1 Hodgins, Dawn. Canada. Breaking Down Barriers One Step at a Time Mo.19.2 Weaver, Sydney. Canada. Shame Reduction: Best Practice with Substance- Using Mothers Mo.19.3 Berezhnova, Irina. Russia. HIV/AIDS Behavioral Risks Among Women Using Drugs
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keynote address Plenary Session MON MAY 1, 17:00 – 17:30 MON MAY 1, 17:30 – 18:45
Welcome: Ida Goodreau, President Mo. 22 and CEO, Vancouver Coastal Health Universal Access for HIV and Hepatitis C Treatment: Is it hype Mo. 21 or hope? Keynote Address: Stephen Lewis, BC Ballroom, UN Envoy for AIDS in Africa Fairmont hotel vancouver BC Ballroom, Session Chair: Prasada Rao Mo.22.1 Fairmont hotel vancouver Wolfe, Daniel. USA.
onday The Global Fund: Greatest Hope or Lost m Promise? In countries with injection-driven epidemics, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria –-with its explicit commitment to civil society involvement and independent proposal review—is often seen as the best hope for bolstering needle exchange and substitution treatment. Programs in Russia, and Ukraine, Thailand, China, and many Central Asian Republics, for example, have received support to begin harm reduction or to bring pilot programs to national scale. Drawing on reports from Asia and the former Soviet Union, this presentation uses country- level analysis to critically assess key benefits and challenges facing the Global Fund and harm reduction advocates who it supports. Topics include: Civil society engagement. Grassroots harm reduction organizations are often regarded with ambivalence or frank hostility, by government structures such as law enforcement agencies or ministries of health. How do these relations play out within “country coordinating mechanisms” of the Global Fund, and what lessons do they offer? Gauges of success. The GFATM, itself a new entity, faces questions from supporters and critics alike about its efficacy. How do the Fund’s criteria for evaluation shape operations for harm reduction programs frequently facing special bureaucratic or legal obstacles? New nodes of governance. The GFATM provides a unique mechanism for securing large amounts of funding without government approval. In Thailand and Russia, for example, drug user and harm reduction organizations have successfully applied for grants outside of the
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official country-coordinating mechanisms. What policies of multi-national organizations. For are the implications of these awards for national example, the WHO has proposed rescheduling commitment to harm reduction, or on program buprenorphine, a medication successfully used operations in the long term? for treatment of opiate dependence, thereby Transformation through bureaucratization? placing it under stricter guidelines for use. GFATM funding has meant infusions of funds The U.S. has encouraged this approach as the and new reporting requirements, for programs most influential player in WHO deliberations. used to operating flexibly and with little Opposition to science has not been limited structure. What is gained and what is lost in this to policy makers — community activists have contract? also assaulted scientific inquiry. For example, recent, high-profile opposition to research on Mo.22.2 tenofovir as a chemoprophylactic agent showed Page-Shafer, Kimberly. USA. how ideology can overwhelm science. Political Access to Programs and Research to Prevent HIV barriers to effective prevention programs and and HCV Among Drug Users is Constrained by research for sex workers and IDU need to be challenged, and community stakeholders need to onday Ideology and Inattention to Science m be better informed about the scientific process Recent reports of the effects of U.S. policies so that successful models can be implemented and funding restrictions with respect to HIV and new concepts can be tested. Funders, prevention have focused on how science-based scientists, community groups, and especially prevention programs have been constrained by vulnerable populations need to work closely the interference of misguided ideology bounded together to overcome the evident war on science by morality. Condom promotion campaigns now being waged so extensively in the harm must mention abstinence; programs targeting reduction arena. persons <15 years old cannot mention condoms unless the minors are at “high risk” of HIV Mo.22.3 infection; and groups receiving US funds for HIV Guarinieri, Mauro. Italy. prevention programs must pledge opposition Rolleston Oration 2006: Out of Sight: Breaking to commercial sex work and sex trafficking. Down the Barriers to HIV and HCV Treatment HIV prevention research has suffered further for IDUs as a result of the widely cited changes in NIH and CDC grant-making language demanded by Although representing more than ten percent Congressional overseers and by unprecedented of annual HIV infections worldwide, and the Congressional efforts to de-fund research on driving force behind the world’s fastest growing sexual behavior. The media focus on these epidemics, drug users are a population that has restrictions, which affect any sexually active been and still is widely disenfranchised and populations, has overshadowed the parallel marginalized. At least 41 countries have an difficulties of providing HIV and HCV prevention HIV prevalence rate of more than 5% among to those at risk of blood-borne infections injection drug users (IDUs). In certain areas of associated with drug use. After more than 20 15 countries, the HIV prevalence rate among years of the HIV pandemic, surveillance data now IDUs is 50% or more. Yet, the vast majority show that up to 25% of HIV-infected persons of HIV-positive injection drug users living in and almost all new HCV infections are among developing and transitional countries are not Intravenous Drug Users (IDU). Basic public receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART). IDUs have health programs that include needle and syringe less access to ART in the developed world too, distribution and disposal, harm reduction, and where treatment is often delayed and sometimes IDU care and treatment remain under attack withheld, regardless of clinical indication. by policy makers who shun scientific evidence Many factors contribute to these disparities in in favor of misguided moralism, both nationally care and treatment, including: and internationally. Despite long-standing • Discomfort of medical providers, due to lack evidence of effectiveness of needle exchange of training and/or experience providing care to programs (NEP), many U.S. government officials injection drug users, and/ or bias; irrationally continue to question the efficacy • Concerns about adherence; of such programs and also seek to affect the
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• Lack of information on successful approaches policies that go beyond the criminal model, to working with IDUS; trying to reduce the glaring and destructive price the world is paying for an ideologically-driven • Insufficient drug-user specific research on safety, efficacy and tolerability of ART; war on drugs. Last and foremost, by recognizing the existence • Lack of research on optimal antiretroviral regimens for drug users; and of discrimination within the PLWHA and larger AIDS advocacy community against populations • Lack of data on interactions between ART and such as injecting drug users, the AIDS illicit drugs. community has committed itself to establishing As a result, and although the standard of care better and stronger linkages between PLWHA for HIV disease has significantly evolved through and harm reduction and drug users’ groups, years of research, HIV-positive drug users have and fight united to secure the meaningful received fewer benefits from such research than involvement of active drug users living with HIV non-users. To some extent this is due to the in all the phases of policy development, and overall lack of HIV medicines to treat anyone
onday the implementation, monitoring and evaluation m living with the virus. Yet there are more insidious of all activities related to HIV and associated reasons that HIV positive drug users and infections. members of other vulnerable populations are not able to obtain treatment, and HIV-infected drug MON MAY 1, 18:45–19:15 users who turn to doctors for help often have doors slammed in their face. Best of the Fest Refreshment Break This, in spite of numerous studies offering BC Ballroom foyer, convincing evidence that well-designed and fairmont hotel vancouver supportive programs can help injecting drug users adhere to ARV therapy and enjoy improved quality of life, shows that evidence is not always sufficient to overcome prejudice. The good new is that in the last four years people living with HIV, drug users, harm reduction activists, and advocates from around the globe have been building coalitions to call for a worldwide revolt of public opinion on drug use, working together, building collaborative mechanisms to make sure the lessons learnt in 20 years of the HIV epidemic are applied everywhere in the world, to avoid substituting ideology for science, and to realize the moral imperative of saving lives. Among the results achieved by this new coalition is the inclusion of methadone and buprenorphine in the WHO’s list of essential medicines, the demand to international agencies and regulators to take a leading role in securing informed and equal involvement of active drug-users into ongoing clinical trials of new anti-HIV agents, the promotion of clinical studies to evaluate potential interactions between ARV and most common illegal drugs. By recognizing that criminality is not caused by drug use but by an unbalanced drug policy heavily reliant on supply control and law enforcement, AIDS advocates are fighting for
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Mo. 23 Best of the Fest Film Night BC Ballroom, fairmont hotel vancouver Mo.23.1 Tiedgen, Warren. Australia. Rubber Hammer Mo.23.2 Pope, Andrew. Camboida. onday
Glue Made Me A Ghost m Mo.23.3 The Narco News School of Authentic Journalism, Bolivia. Best of the Fest Chew on This Mo.23.4 Join us for an exciting evening of short Fitzgerald, John. Australia. Kierin documentaries from around the world Mo.23.5 and the announcement of the winners Darlington, Tass. UK. Eva Goes to Foreign for best documentary in 2006! Mo.23.6 Hildebran, Gretchen. USA. Wolchok, Leah. USA Worth Saving Mo.23.7 Powis, Neville. Iran. Scaling Up HIV Prevention And Harm Reduction In Iran Mo.23.8 Sauret, Etienne. UK. The Shulgin Project
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Monday Posters Mo.008P Mo.016P Regency Ballroom, Young, M.. USA. Arcuri, Anthony. Australia. Hyatt regency vancouver Florida’s Substance Comparative Pre- and Post- A and D Programs Abuse Treatment Provider Treatment Mental Health Mo.001P Administrative Data Project: of Indigenous and Non- Comparing Users of Marijuana Indigenous Young People MacMaster, Samuel. USA. Only to Other Substance Admitted To Residential A Computer Based Users Substance Use Treatment Intervention to Reduce Mo.009P Mo.017P Alcohol and Substance Atmosukarto, Ingrid. Indonesia. Kalon, Stobdan. France. Related Harm on a College Stambul, Béatrice. France Campus Indonesia: Extending Mo.002P Methadone Services For More Discovering Drug Use Among IDUs Through Local Hospitals Commercial Sex Workers DeLetis, Robert. USA. onday and Public Clinics (CSWs): Experiences of m Treating the Triggers: The Mo.010P Medecins du Monde in Effects of Exposure Response Kachin, North Myanmar Winarso, Inang. Indonesia. Prevention on Reducing Mo.018P Addictive Cravings Indonesian National Strategy Kalon, Stobdan. France. Mo.003P for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control in Prisons: Pioneering Harm Reduction Schultz, Meriel. Australia. Mo.011P In a Difficult Operating Barriers and Incentives to Environment’ Outcomes and Secord, Sharon. Canada. Treatment for Illicit Drug Use Lessons Learned From MDM’s Mo.004P Chemical Dependency Decade Long Experience In Resource Team (CDRT) Myanmar Atkinson, Christine. USA. Introduces Harm Reduction Mo.019P Jones, Megan. USA. Philosophy in an Acute Care Rindels, Barb. USA. Hospital Puri, Ajay. Canada. Reducing Harm for Battered Mo.012P Vancouver Detoxification Women with Alcohol or Drug Service: Description and Platt, Lucy. UK. Problems Evaluation Methods of Community Mo.005P Mo.020P Recruitment For Hidden Lavrova, Kaleria. Russia. Populations: Comparing Apakupakul, Nualta. Thailand. Harm Reduction (HR) ‘indigenous field worker’ and The Opinions Among Drug Advocacy: Building Positive ‘respondent-driven’ sampling users and Steakeholders in Attitudes in Russia approaches “Harm Reduction Program”: Mo.006P Mo.013P a Study in Northern, North- eastern and Southern, Goheen, Mark. Canada. Magdiyev, Yusup. Uzbekistan. Thailand Turner, Karen. Canada The Implementation of a New Mo.021P Teachable Moments: How Drug Treatment Rehabilitation Slips/Relapses Can Become Project in Uzbekistan Fernandez, Osvaldo. Brazil. Therapeutic Learning Mo.014P Careers and Circuits: A Study Opportunities Within of the Uses of the Body, Maeschalck, Cynthia. Canada. Inpatient Residential Settings Social Rituals and Cocaine Mo.007P Lifetox Sniffing Sociability. Mo.015P McNally, Grant. UK. Mo.022P Tatarsky, Andrew. USA. Enhanced Peer To Peer McNally, Grant. UK. Hepatitis C Education - a Harm Reduction: From Peer OD RAAP (Response, Precision Intervention Advocacy to Treatment Awareness, Action and Prevention of death)
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Mo.023P Mo.031P Mo.039P Riddell, Rosemarie. Canada. Wood, Evan. Canada. Chura, Volodymyr. Ukraine. Hospital Care for Drug Users Detoxification Service Use Participatory Site Assessment Mo.024P Associated With the Use of a in Ukraine. January-May Medically Supervised Safer 2005. Costa, Thiago. Brazil. Injecting Facility For Injection Mo.040P ‘Transmissible Diseases Drug Users Prevention on a Precarious Anyasi, Lucky. Nigeria. Mo.032P Environment and its Reducing Violence By Drug Characteristics: Crack and Kerr, Thomas. Canada. Users Multiple Drug Users on Incidence of and Factors Mo.041P Crackland Associated With Having Karpetas, Sandra. Canada. Mo.025P an Overdose at Vancouver Supervised Injection Site Ibogaine: A Novel Lareau, Stephanie. Canada. Pharmacotherapy for the Mo.033P onday
Sex Work and Drugs and Treatment of Chemical m Alcohol Guide MacFarlane, Devon. Canada. Dependence Mo.026P Pulling It Together: Mo.042P Moving from Consultation Allen, Elizabeth. UK. Poole, Nancy. Canada. to Development of Drug Attitudes of Needle and Alcohol Services and Harm Reduction Applies to Exchange and Pharmacy Supports for Queer and Trans Tobacco Too - Integration In Staff to Changes in the Legal communities Women’s Treatment Guidelines on the Numbers of Mo.034P Mo.043P Needles/Syringes That Can Be Johnston, Jennifer. Australia. Distributed in Scotland Marlow, Mary. Canada. Bradshaw, Denise. Canada. How Dependent IDUs Mo.027P Implementing Core Addiction Make the Decision to Seek Kiatying-Angsulee, Niyada. Services at Urban Community Treatment For the First Time Thailand. Health Centers Mo.044P Human Rights Violation on Mo.035P Jankovic, K. Serbia & Drug Users and Injecting Drug Montenegro. Users in Thailand Malone, Daniel. USA. Training of Journalists on Mo.028P Project Housing First: Evaluation of Harm Reduction HIV/AIDS Hapiyenko, Oleksandr. Housing Ukraine. Advocacy Mo.036P Advocacy of Substitutive Mo.046P Elovich, Richard. USA. Methadone Treatment in Nassirimanesh, Bijan. Iran. Sumy, Ukraine Reimagining Drug Treatment Using Targeted Advocacy as a Mo.029P Mo.037P Strong Tool For Scaling Up Capler, Rielle. Canada. Elovich, Richard. USA. Mo.047P Compassion Clubs: The Use of Photo Shamas, Eid. Pakistan. Therapeutic use of Cannabis Ethnography in Harm Advocacy With Key Policy for Alcohol and Drug Reduction Research Makers on The Rights of IDUs Treatment and Prevention Mo.038P Mo.048P Mo.030P Digiusto, Erol. Australia. Trigueiros, Daniela. Brazil. Jenkins, Lindsay. USA. Determinants of Clients’ Strengthening Social Network Woefel, Tiffany. USA. Satisfaction With Drug and as a Strategy of Rights Impact of Volunteer Programs Alcohol Treatment, and Defense at Needle Exchanges Strategies for Increasing Their Satisfaction
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Mo.049P Study, A Needs Assessment Arasi, Kalai. India. of Female Detainees in Mo.065P Baltimore City Effectiveness of Advocacy Butkus, Kestutis. Lithuania. Mo.057P for Provision of DOTS for TB Assesment of Health Care and Coinfected Injectors Living Paivinen, Helena. Canada. Social Services Needs of Drug With HIV AIDS Hyde, Stephanie. Canada. Users In Lithuania Mo.050P Voice Mo.066P Goossens, Stijn. Belgium. Mo.058P Janayeva, Assel. Kazakhstan. Peer Support, Advocacy Boci, Arian. Albania. Fighting Social Exclusion and Users Working With the Survey About the Level of Mo.067P Government Knowledge on HIV/AIDS in Hunter, Garson. Canada. Mo.051P Albanian Prisoners Donovan, Kathleen. Canada. Hussein, Zahid. Pakistan. Mo.059P
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Areas of Conflict or Mo.087P Mo.094P Crisis Ghimire, Kamala. Nepal. Buxton, Jane. Canada. Mo.079P Problem of HIV/AIDS Among Identifying Prevalence of and Street Children in Kathmandu Risk Factors For HIV/Hepatitis Ilundain, Enrique. Spain. Valley C in British Columbia’s Youth Good Intentions, Bad Mo.088P in Custody to Inform Harm Performance: The Narcosalas Reduction Interventions Lirtmunlikaporn, Sumalee. (SIFs) Conflict in Barcelona Thailand. Mo.095P Mo.080P Effects of Boot Camp Program Thomson, Nicholas. Thailand. Farhoudian, Ali. Iran. on Stages of Change and Drug User Incarceration A Study Of Changes in the Abstinence Self-Efficacy and Penile Modification - A Use of Opioid Drugs and the among Thai Adolescents with Dangerous Partnering Related Interventions In Bam Methamphetamine Use Mo.096P During the First Year After the Mo.089P Gomes, Ronan. Bangladesh. onday Earthquake m Hyman, Paul. Canada. Drug Resistance Education Children and Youth Brain Gym: Expanding Your Program-DRE Reduced Drug Mo.081P Therapeutic Interventions Demand Upon Youth: the Panessa, Ciro. Canada. Mo.090P First and Successful Drug Demand Reduction Activities The Role of Classroom Kenny, Steve. UK. in Bangladesh Based Educational Behavior A Study of Heavy Cannabis Mo.097P Change Interventions in the Use Among Young People in Prevention of Hepatitis C Greater Manchester in North Axelson, Pamela. USA. Mo.082P West England: Emergent UFO Clinical Care for Young Carboni, Stefano. Italy. Findings Street Based Drug Injectors Mobile Unit For the Alcohol Mo.091P Mo.098P Correlated Harm Reduction. Racine, Stephane. Canada. Johnston, Jennifer. Australia. Mo.083P What We Hear When Research Into Cultures Potts, Jeff. Canada. Canadian Street Youth and Contexts of Ecstasy Talk About Their Use of and Related Drug Use in Public Health: Taking our Substances Victoria, Australia: New Bases Lead From the Experts - For Prevention and Harm Canada’s Youth Mo.092P Minimisation Mo.084P Jimenez, Lanny. Canada. Bungay, Vicky. Canada. Youth Engagement in the Cost-effectiveness of Prevention of Problematic Street-Involved Youth’s Use of HR Programs Drug Use: Linking Policy Crystal Methamphetamine Mo.100P and Practice through the Mo.085P Engagement of Vancouver’s Ganguly, Joy. India. Ghosh, Gautam. India. Youth Community Comprehensive Community Minimising the High Risk Mo.093P Based Harm Minimization Behaviour of Youth - an Ripley, Lu. Canada. Mo.101P Initiative Uneasy Allies? A&D Abdullaeva, Zarina. Tajikistan. Mo.086P Prevention and Harm Khidirov, Murtazokul. Basu, Dolon. India. Reduction: Lessons from a Tajikistan. Vancouver Initiative Miscleneous Use of Musical The Creation of Harm Performences to Build Reduction Association of Awareness Among the Masses Tajikistan.
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Mo.102P Mo.110P Mo.118P Uddin, Taslim. Bangladesh. Fountain, Jane. UK. Scholar, Shoshanna. USA. Detoxification of ILWHA Should Prison Officers Be One Step Forward, Two Makes Difference in a Involved in Delivering Drug Steps Back: Advocating for Resource Poor Setting Like Services to Prisoners? Needle Exchange with the Los Bangladesh. Mo.111P Angeles Police Department Criminal Justice Duan, Yong. China. Mo.119P Sherrod, Martha. USA. Mo.103P Adapting Harm Reduction to the Policy Environment in Treatment Courts of Madison Brown, Randy. USA. Yunnan, China County, Alabama Predictive Modeling of Mo.112P Mo.120P Treatment Completion in Drug Court Denham, Greg. Vietnam. Cournoyer, Louis-Georges. Canada. Mo.104P ARHP Advocacy Approaches onday
m For Harm Reduction and Law Relationship Between Heller-Murphy, Stephen. UK. Enforcement Substance Use and Perceived Needle Exchange in the Mo.113P Help Among Young Offenders Scottish Prison Service: From Québec Practical Issues for Johnson, Bruce. USA. Implementation Rising Marijuana Arrests and Cross-culture: A Global Mo.105P Disproportionality by Race/ Perspective Ethnicity and Class Thomson, Roderick. UK. Mo.123P Mo.114P Evaluating the Effectiveness Chang, Paul. Jamaica. of a Bail Support Programme Johnson, Bruce. USA. Criminals, Gangs, Values and For Problematic Drug Users Dodging Cops: Arrest Attitudes: Crossing Borders Mo.106P Avoidance Practices of Blunt thru Prohibition; Case: and Marijuana Users in New Kinner, Stuart. Australia. Columbia - Jamaica - Canada York City / USA / UK Patterns of Substance Among Mo.115P Recently Released Prisoners Mo.124P in Queensland, Australia Ramos, Rebeca. Mexico. Luger, Lisa. UK. Mo.107P Injecting Drug Users’ Boyjoonauth, Raj. UK. Experiences of Policing Mateu-Gelabert, Pedro. USA. Enhancing Cultural Practices in Two Mexican- Competence in Dealing With A Criminal, a Patient? US U.S. Border Cities Drug Policies, Drug Users’ People With Drug Problems Mo.116P Behaviors and Public Health Mo.125P O’Reilly, Sharon. Australia. Mo.108P Yang, Fang. China. Sex in the City; an Integrated Thomas, Gerald. Canada. Qualitative Study on Drug Use Response to Street Sex and Syringe Sharing Among Substance Abuse and Worker Involvment in IDUs in Guangdong Corrections in Canada: An the Criminal Justice Environmental Scan and Gap System Using Therapeutic Mo.126P Assessment Jurisprudence Mesquita, Fabio. Indonesia. Mo.109P Mo.117P Indonesia Response to Loxley, Wendy. Australia. Guanabara, Luiz. Brazil. HIV/AIDS Crises Among Injecting Drug Users Is Under Women, Drugs and Criminal The New Brazilian Drug Law Construction Justice: Findings From the Project: Echoes from the Drug Use Monitoring in Dictactorship Australia Study
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Mo.127P Mo.136P Mo.143P Ryder, David. Australia. Friedman, Samuel. USA. Hahn, Judith. USA. High Risk Alcohol Use: Sexually-Transmitted HCV Sero-Sorting in Young Cultural and Socio-Economic Infections (STIs) in Injectors’ IDU (The UFO Study) Influences Networks Mo.144P Mo.128P Mo.137P Stenström, Nils. Sweden. Mantsios, Andrea. USA. Beynon, Caryl. UK. Patterns of Service Utilization Gender Differences in Citric Acid Introduction at UK in a Syringe Exchange Drug Use Behaviors in two Syringe Exchange Schemes: Program Mexican-U.S. Border Cities an Assessment of Its Impact Mo.145P Using Matched Pair Analyses Mo.129P Mullens, Amy. Australia. Mo.138P Oryschuk, Oksana. Ukraine. The Meanings of Substance STEPS Outpatient Program Beynon, Caryl. UK. Use in the Experiences onday
Demonstrates Efficacy in The Role of Substance Use in of Gay and Bisexual Men: m Reducing Alcohol Use in Non-Drug Related Deaths: a Implications for Harm Ukraine Cross-Sectional Study of Drug Reduction Mo.130P Treatment Clients in England Mo.146P Brouwer, Kimberly. USA. Mo.139P Costa, Thiago. Brazil. Drug Use Behaviors Borodkina, Olga. Russia. Prevention and Immunization Associated With Border Prevalence of HIV Among Against Hepatitis Crossing Among Injection Injection Drug Users Mo.147P Drug Users Along the Mexico/ in Russia; Results of Hu, Yiqing. USA. U.S. Border Sociological Study. Cost-Effectiveness of Mo.131P Mo.140P Hepatitis B Vaccination in Weinhold, Jan. Germany. Sylvan, Staffan. Sweden. Injection Drug Users Ritual Revisited: a Socio- Efficacy of a Voluntary HIV Mo.148P Pharmacological Model of and Hepatitis Prevention Allen, Elizabeth. UK. Controlled Drug Use Programme in the Absence of Policy in Practice: Increasing Mo.132P Legal Access to Needles and Syringes Among Drug Users Supply of Needles/Syringes Luu, Tuan. Canada. in Uppsala Does Not Necessarily Reduce Cruz, Byron. Canada. Risk Behaviours. Mo.141P Bridges of Hope Mo.149P Sutton, Andrew. UK. Mo.133P Nielsen, Diane. Canada. Modelling the Impact of Riley, Shannon. USA. Gilbert, Mark. Canada. Prison Vaccination on Harm Reduction Health Care Hepatitis B Transmission Public Health Response to in the Barrio Within the Injecting Drug an Increased Prevalence of Community-Acquired MRSA Disease Prevention, User Population of England and Wales (CMRSA10) in a Marginalized Population in Calgary, Alberta Screening & Mo.142P Mo.150P Vaccination Sutton, Andrew. UK. Leonard, Lynne. Canada. Mo.135P Modelling the Cost- Hope, Vivian. UK. Effectiveness of Hepatitis Needle Exchange Programmes Well Positioned to Scale-Up Hepatitis B Vaccine Uptake C Screening on Prison Essential Harm Reduction for Among Injecting Drug Reception in England and Crack Smokers Users in England 1998 to Wales 2004: Are Prisons Driving Improvements?
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Mo.151P Grau, Lauretta. USA. Hepatitis B Seroprevalence Among Injection Drug Users: Results from a Study of a SEP-based Vaccine Campaign Mo.152P Strike, Carol. Canada. Development of Needle Exchange Program (NEP) Best Practice Recommendations: a Service Provider and Academic Collaboration
onday Mo.153P m Heimer, Robert. USA. Efficacy of Accelerated HBV Vaccination for IDUs at Syringe Exchange Programs Mo.154P François, Anne. Switzerland. Primary Care Consultation in an IV Injecting Room in Geneva: a Practice Analysis (2002-4) Mo.155P Farrell, Jason. USA. Safe Injection Room in New York City Mo.156P DeVlaming, Stanley. Canada. Deep Tissue Infections in Injection Drug Users (IDUs)
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plenary Session both injecting and non-drug-using participants TUE MAY 2, 8:45–10:15 raising children expressed support for police actions that reduced public drug activity. Tu. 01 Placing this study within the broader context of Policing the Cities: the Role of research on policing and injectors’ health, we Policing in Harm Reduction recommend the implementation of strategies, designed by partnerships of community groups BC Ballroom, and governmental and non-governmental fairmont hotel vancouver organizations, which reduce public drug activity Session Chair: Howard Sapers without imperiling injectors’ health or amplifying Tu.01.1 police-related violence. Possible strategies include improving access to drug treatment and Soares, David. USA. establishing safe injection spaces. Prosecuting Drug and Alcohol Related Offenses Tu.01.3 in the 21st Century Ramos, Rebeca. Mexico. Tu.01.2 Injecting Drug Users’ Experiences of Policing Cooper, Hannah. USA. Practices in Two Mexican-U.S. Border Cities Police Drug Crackdowns, Harm Reduction, Background: Research has suggested that law and Police-Related Violence: Results from a enforcement practices can affect behaviors Qualitative Study of One New York City Precinct of IDUs, but few studies have examined the Arrests for drug possession in the USA have context of these effects, especially in Mexico. doubled over the past 25 years. Shifting trends We undertook a qualitative study of IDUs’ in domestic drug-related police strategies have experiences of policing practices in two Mexican partially fueled this increase: between 1980 cities on the U.S. border.
and the present, police departments have DAY
Methods: In-depth interviews and brief S turned their focus from drug distributors and structured surveys were conducted with 43
upper-level dealers to drug users and street- TUE current IDUs residing in Tijuana and Ciudad level dealers. To better understand the public Juarez, Mexico (24 men, 19 women). Topics health implications of this strategic shift, we included context of drug use, access to syringes conducted a qualitative study of the impact of and experiences with police. Field notes and a drug crackdown, a drug-user-focused police transcribed interviews were hand-coded and strategy, on the health of drug injecting and analyzed to identify emergent themes. non-drug-using residents of one New York City police precinct in 2000. As with most NYC Results: Almost all IDUs reported that it was precincts in which crackdowns have been common to be arrested and detained for carrying located, this precinct was impoverished and sterile or used syringes, or for having track principally comprised of Black and Latino marks. Most reported that they or someone they residents. Major study findings include (1) knew had been beaten by police. Interviews particular crackdown tactics, such as increased suggested 5 key themes: 1) impact of policing surveillance of local public spaces, hampered practices on accessibility of sterile syringes some injectors’ capacity to reduce the harm (fear of carrying syringes), 2) influence of police of their drug use; (2) some crackdown tactics, on choice of injection settings (e.g., shooting such as frequent stops and searches, elevated galleries), 3) police violence (physical and sexual the level of police-related violence experienced abuse), 4) police corruption (e.g., payoffs), by both drug injectors and non-drug-users; and 5) perceived changes in policing practices (3) the crackdown’s health effects were most (police presence, corruption, violence). severe for participants who were men and/or Discussion: Behavior of some police officers in deeply impoverished; (4) many participants felt Tijuana and Cd. Juarez is inconsistent with legal their community was targeted for a crackdown norms and may negatively influence the risk of because of the area’s extreme poverty and racial/ acquiring blood borne infections among IDUs. ethnic composition; and (5) simultaneously, Although NGOs in both cities have experienced
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positive influences of police, the findings herein while balancing this with their policing and law are disturbing and suggest that implementing a enforcement role? comprehensive and successful HIV prevention Inspector Thompson will raise these issues program among IDUs in these cities will require in the context of the VPD experience in the interventions to influence the knowledge, DTES during the past decade. The intent is to attitudes and practices of law enforcement encourage a healthy and constructive debate officers. about the role of police in the context of harm Tu.01.4 reduction. Thompson, Scott. Canada. Are Police “Harm Reduction” Practitioners? tue MAY 2, 10:15–10:45 For the past decade the Vancouver Police Refreshment Break Department has implemented and/or been part of a number of progressive initiatives that CONFERENCE LEVEL, have arguably reduced harm to the drug user FAIRMONT HOTEL VANCOUVER population in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). These include aggressive enforcement in licensed premises to control the over service of liquor when it was learned there was link between alcohol consumption and heroin overdose deaths. Linking excessive alcohol consumption to the homicide rate and taking enforcement action. Advocating, and becoming a “community activist” to pressure government to regulate the sale of rice wine and its removal
DAY from convenience stores in the DTES. Publicly S supporting the “Four Pillars” and the Health
TUE Contact Centre as well as working with health authorities. Participating in the project teams for North America’s first legal supervised injection site, and the North American Opiate Medical Initiative (NAOMI). Adopting an overdose response policy whereby police do not routinely attend drug overdose incidents. Creating innovative projects like “Lucille”, “Raven” and “Haven” that targeted the infrastructure that perpetuates the cycle of crime, drugs and violence, that in turn, exploits and harms the most vulnerable citizens of the DTES. All of these initiatives could be described as “harm reduction” and are not traditional law enforcement as it is defined in the “Four Pillars” model. This raises the issue of just what is harm reduction and who should be implementing it? Is it something only health authorities are responsible for? Does harm reduction only mean needle exchange and supervised injection sites and other health related services? Is the current definition of harm reduction too confining to the point where it may actually undermine public support? What role can police play in supporting and working with health authorities
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Major Sessions Tu.03.3 FAIRMONT HOTEL Winstock, Adam. Australia. VANCOUVER Cannabis Withdrawal: from TUE MAY 2, 10:45–12:05 Practice to Research
Tu. 02 Tu.03.4 Users Working with Marsh, David. Canada. Government Heroin Prescription in Canada: The North American BC Ballroom Opiate Medication Initiative Session Chair: Bill Nelles (NAOMI) Tu.02.1 Bennett, Susan. UK. tue MAY 2, 12:15–13:30 A Powerful Process - Users Lunch & Tuesday Working with Government Tu.02.2 Poster Presentations Regency Ballroom, Garratt, Daren. UK. hyatt regency vancouver Developing A National Model Of Peer-Led Advocacy Tu.02.3 tue MAY 2, 12:30–13:30 Woods, Joycelyn. USA. Tu. 04 Using the System to Promote Film Festival Lounge
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Sessions S Tu.02.4 oxford room, Taylor, Brent. Canada. TUE Hyatt regency vancouver Ongoing Funding for User Tu.04.1 Group Initiatives: Barriers and Bridges Cowell, Adrian. UK. Menges, Chris. UK. Tu. 03 Heroin Wars (Part One - Perspectives on Opium Convoy) Treatment: It’s Not Tu.04.2 Just About Opiates Irrizarry, Chris. USA. Pacific Ballroom Happy Ending Session Chair: Kay Roberts Tu.03.1 Nutt, David. UK. Pharmacological Mechanisms TUE MAY 2, 12:45 in Harm Reduction Tu.03.2 IHRA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Kinner, Stuart. Australia. GALIANO ROOM, FAIRMONT HOTEL VANCOUVER Understanding the Ecstasy All paying members of IHRA are invited to attend. Market - a Case Study Of Queensland, Australia
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Concurrent Sessions Tu.06.2 Tu. 08 hyatt regency VANCOUVER Delic, Milutin. Serbia. Heroin Prescription TUE MAY 2, 13:30–15:00 Practice to Policy, Influencing Georgia B GoV Decision Making Tu. 05 Session Chair: Alex Chan Tu.06.3 Avoiding Incarceration Tu.08.1 Murphy Richardson, Maureen. Plaza A Metrebian, Nicola. UK. China. Session Chair: Jonathan Cohen RIOTT in the UK: Moving Mountains in China Randomised Trial of Tu.05.1 Tu.06.4 Supervised Injectable Weck, Jonna. Poland. Sobolev, Igor. Estonia. Opioid Treatment (Heroin And Methadone) at New Penalty Practice Towards The Role and Potentialities Supervised Injecting Clinics Drug Users - Training Courses of NGOs Providing Harm for Polish Judges and Public Reduction Programs in Tu.08.2 Prosecutors With Regard to Perspective Collaboration with Haemmig, Robert. Switzerland. Drug Law State Institutions Harm Reduction Ethics: Tu.05.2 Radical in the Beginning, Tu. 07 McSweeney, Tim. UK. Diluted by Politics Today Educating Youth about Assessing The Impact of Tu.08.3 ‘Coerced’ and Comparable Harm Reduction Oviedo Joekes, Eugenia. ‘Voluntary’ Treatment Options Plaza C Spain. on Substance Use, Offending and Social Functioning Session Chair: Guilia Di Giorgia Randomised Study on Tu.07.1 the Difference Between
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S Prescribed Intravenous Nasir, Muhammad. Pakistan. Sherman, Susan. USA. Diacetylmorphine vs. Oral
TUE Drug Prevention Education: Release From Jail: Moment Methadone: The Andalusian a Case Study of Secondary of Crisis or Window of Trial (PEPSA) Schools of Bahawalpur, Opportunity for Female Tu.08.4 Pakistan Detainees in Baltimore City? Kerr, Thomas. Canada. Tu.07.2 Tu.05.4 Changes in Canadian Heroin Goddard, Perilou. USA. Small, Deborah. USA. Supply Coinciding With the Effects of Education and Caught in the Net: The Australian ‘Heroin Shortage’ Dispositional Variables on Impact of Drug Policies on American College Students’ Tu. 09 Women and Families in the Attitudes toward Harm United States Tobacco Harm Reduction Tu. 06 Tu.07.3 Reduction Georgia A Governments and Roy, Elise. Canada. Session Chair: Roxanna Bonnell Harm Reduction Pourquoi Commencer? (Why Tu.09.1 Plaza B Start?) - a Media Campaign Aimed at Preventing Initiation Alcabes, Philip. USA. Session Chair: Perry Kendall of Drug Injection Among Public Health, Social Justice, Tu.06.1 Street Youth (SY) and Human Rights: Latent Hotz, Rudolf. Switzerland. Tu.07.4 Linkages Between Harm Between Courage and Gray, Robert. Uzbekistan. Reduction and Tobacco Control Hesitation - 20 years of Preventing Initiation to Harm Reduction Politics in Injecting Drug Use through Switzerland Programs Targeting IDUs - PSI’s Break the Cycle Program in Central Asia
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Tu.09.2 Tu. 11 Drug Users Perspectives Sweanor, David. Canada. Living Room Session Tu.12.3 Applying Harm Reduction — Hot Topics for the Heller-Murphy, Stephen. UK. Principles to Tobacco Policy Living Room Scottish Prisons Service Harm Tu.09.3 Reduction Regency Ballroom Bonnell, Roxana. USA. Session Chair: Kenn Quayle Framing The Debate: Next tue MAY 2, 15:00–15:30 Tu.11.1 Steps in Supporting Tobacco Refreshment Break Harm Reduction Orgel, Michael. UK. Acknowledging Pain in Drug regency ballroom, Tu.09.4 Dependency: Analysis of hyatt regency VANCOUVER Onigbogi, Olanrewaju. Nigeria. Opioid Use in Patients With Lung Cancer Prevention: Chronic Pain Barriers to Participating in Tu.11.2 Programs Using Smokeless Kushlick, Danny. UK. Tobacco For Smoking Cessation in Nigeria (West After The War on Drugs Africa) - Controlling Drugs in a Post- Prohibition World Tu. 10 Tu.11.3 Networking for Success Colvin, Lesley. UK Prince of Wales Room Perspectives on Pain Session Chair: Marcus Day Management and Drug
Tu.10.1 Dependency DAY S Stuikyte, Raminta. Lithuania. Tu.11.4 TUE Advocacy Through Reinforced O’Neill, Sandra. UK Networking and Partnerships: Training A+E Staff to Treat ARV 4 IDU case Drug Users for Both Pain Tu.10.2 and Withdrawal Jintakanon, Seree. Thailand. Tu.11.5 A Year in the Life of a Global van Beek, Ingrid. Australia Fund Grant: the Thai Drug An Update on Drug Overdose Users’ Network’s (TDN) Cases at the Sydney Medically Experience Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC), May 2001 – July Tu.10.3 2005 Pandey, Bijay. Nepal. Tu. 12 Networking Among Drug Users and Drug Users Film Festival Organizations. Symposium Sessions Tu.10.4 oxford room Evans, Sarah. Canada. Tu.12.1 Drug Users Working in Luwang, Liechil. India. Vancouver’s Supervised Injection Site: On the Inside Hope Tu.12.2 Powis, Neville. Asian Multinational. Tanguay, Pascal, Asian Multinational.
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Concurrent Sessions Tu.14.3 Tu. 16 hyatt regency VANCOUVER Haden, Mark. Canada. Challenges of Opioid TUE MAY 2, 15:30–16:45 Post Prohibition: a Public Treatment Health Approach for Tu. 13 Georgia A Controlling Currently Illegal Reaching Those Drugs Session Chair: Garth McIver Behind Bars Tu.14.4 Tu.16.1 Plaza A Oomen, Joep. Belgium. Stambul, Béatrice. France. Session Chair: Tracey Donaldson The Challenge of 2008 Medecins Du Monde Program in Myanmar. a Survey of Ten Tu.13.1 Tu. 15 Years of Action in Kachin Burris, Scott. USA. Asian Perspective State: From Needle Exchange Drug Law in Practice in a to Methadone Treatment Plaza C Polish City Tu.16.2 Session Chair: Ray LeClair and Tu.13.2 Strike, Carol. Canada. Sook Lee Tutty, Steve. UK. Tu.15.1 Factors predicting One and Reducing Self Harm Amongst Two Year Retention in MMT in Vongchak, Tasanai. Thailand. Drug Using Inmates In the Ontario, Canada Following Major UK Prisons: HIV Infection Among Tu.16.3 HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Injection Drug Users in Bruce, Robert. USA. HMP Holloway/YOI and HMP Northern Thailand After the Pentonville Launch of the War on Drugs Buprenorphine Entry Into Substance Use Treatment Tu.13.3 Tu.15.2
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S Lapshyna, Viktoriya. Ukraine. Sarkar, Kamalesh. India. Tu.16.4 Cohort Study in Prison Cross-border Epidemic of HIV TUE Wan, Shaoping. China. Tu.13.4 Among IDUs of Himalayan West Bengal, India Experiences with Piloting Spacca, Edoardo. Kosovo Tu.15.3 Methadone Maintenance - UNMIK. Therapy in Liangshan, China Strathdee, Steffanie. USA. Harm Reduction in European Prisons - What Do We Correlates of Receptive Tu. 17 Advocate For? Needle Sharing among Intoxicating Ideas: Injection Drug Users in Tu. 14 Dushanbe, Tajikistan HR Potpourri Georgia B Regulating Drugs Tu.15.4 Session Chair: Will Small Plaza B Stibich, Mark. USA. Tu.17.1 Session Chair: Danny Kushlick Experiences with Drug Tu.14.1 Treatment Among Injecting Fleck, Alexine. USA. Drug Users (IDUs) in Kerr, Thomas. Canada. Inventing Addiction: The Dushanbe, Tajikistan Cocaine Scare of the 1880s, Drug Dealing Among a Cohort the Crack Scare of the 1980s of Injection Drug Users in and the Figure of the Addict Vancouver Tu.17.2 Tu.14.2 Allman, Dan. UK. De Greiff, Gustavo. Mexico. Hidden Biases and Harm Legalisation vis-a -vis Harm Reduction: Reflections on Reduction the Rhetoric of Modern Intoxication Policy
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Tu.17.3 Tu. 19 Tu.20.2 Tobin, Diane. Canada. Living Room Session Gabb, Liss. Australia. The Development of Peer- — Family La La Land and Tattoo driven Intervention for Regency Ballroom Tu.20.3 Individuals Requiring Coutinho, Ettiene. India. Assistance with Injection Session Chair: Nichola Hall Tellis,Eldred. India Tu.17.4 Tu.19.1 On the Street Where you Live May, Tiggey. UK. Munro, Bruce. Australia. Tu.20.4 Drug Dealers and Stepping Stones - a Model Bird, Nick. Australia. Communities and Course to Assist Families Tu.19.2 Breaking the Cycle Tu. 18 Schultz, Meriel. Australia. Tu.20.5 Drug User Activism in In My Life: a Book of Stories Boldiston, James. Australia. Eastern Europe and From Families Who Support Dos Santos, Francisco. Central Asia a Family Member During Australia. Treatment For Illicit Drug Use Rough Edges Prince of Wales room Tu.19.3 Tu.20.6 Session Chair: Raminta Stukiyte Whittaker, Anne. UK. McAloon, Bridget. Australia Tu.18.1 Fatherhood, Problem Drug Nguyen, Hoang. Australia. Curtis, Matthew. USA. Use and Harm Reduction There’s Always Dreams Supporting Organizations Tu.19.4 Tu.20.7 of People Who Use Hall, Nichola. Canada. Carter, Joe. UK.
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International Harm Reduction From Grief to Action: Families Perryman, Susan. UK. S Development Program as Community Activists Out of Crime and Into TUE Tu.18.2 Tu.19.5 Treatment- the Drugs Interventions Programme in Dumitriu, Camil. Romania. Darby O.B.E., Annie. UK. Hartlepool, UK Advocacy for Access to Supporting Families Affected Treatment for Drug Users by Substance Misuse - a tue MAY 2, 17:00–17:20 Tu.18.3 Harm Reduction Approach Tu.19.6 Augulyte-Butkuviene, Lina. Awards Ceremony Lithuania. Rashid, Harun. Bangladesh. BC BAllroom, Which Strategy Defending Funeral Support on The Death FAIRMONT HOTEL Drug Users’ Interests is Better of Drug Users Makes The VANCOUVER - Drastic Demonstrations or Harm Reduction Program Purposeful Public Relations? Acceptable to The Community International Rolleston Award - an Insight. Tu.18.4 National Rolleston Award Sárosi, Péter. Hungary. Tu. 20 Travis Jenkins Award Innovative Tactics to Advocate Film Festival Lounge User’s Rights in Hungary Sessions oxford room Tu.20.1 Mc Neil, Christopher. USA. Sylvestre, Diana. USA Get the Facts: Hepatitis C
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Plenary Session importance of multilateralism in global health TUE MAY 2, 17:30–19:00 policy, and the value of community-driven responses to HIV/AIDS. It should come as no Tu. 21 surprise that governments and civil society from US, UN and Drug Policy many countries revolted when U.S. officials BC Ballroom, indicated their intention to oppose references to fairmont hotel vancouver needle exchange in United Nations documents at the 2005 Commission on Narcotic Drugs and Session Chair: Joanne Csete the Programme Coordinating Board meeting of Tu.21.1 the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ Trace, Mike. UK. AIDS (UNAIDS). Successful civil society efforts to resist U.S. pressure yield valuable lessons So What Happens Next? for future controversies over HIV-prevention, Mike Trace will speak from the perspective of particularly leading up to the tenth anniversary a European NGO that has worked with partners of the UN Special Session on Drugs in 2008. to minimise the impact of US government Tu.21.3 antipathy to harm reduction philosophies and programmes on other governments and Chequer, Pedro. Brazil. international agencies. He will describe how the The Politics of Global HIV/AIDS Prevention And diplomatic and ideological differences that have Harm Reduction: The Brazilian Experience come to a head in the last 18 months have been USAID funding to explicitly condemn and handled by the various key players, and what oppose prostitution. This requirement would challenges remain for Harm Reduction advocates undermine the country’s efforts to fight in the coming years. These challenges will be HIV/AIDS, which have traditionally included addressed under 4 headings: policies that seek to engage, and not repress or
DAY 1. How to ensure consistent support from UN persecute, commercial sex workers, injection S agencies to Harm Reduction principles within drug users, men who have sex with men and
TUE drug policies. other vulnerable groups. 2. How to assess the needs and priorities for It would be convenient to believe that this international support to Harm Reduction pattern changed substantially with the arrival of programmes. a different administration at the White House 3. How to encourage donor countries and in 2001. However, while this policy may have institutions to invest to a greater degree in gained a greater moralistic connotation under these programmes. the current administration, it has been more or less consistent throughout the last several years, 4. How can practitioners, advocates and focused exclusively on demand reduction. NGOs direct their efforts to influence these processes. The decision taken by the Brazilian Ministry of Health was guided not only by human rights Tu.21.2 framework, but also by substantial research Cohen, Jonathan. USA. showing the success of consistent condom US, UN and Drug Policy promotion to control HIV transmission. By Since 2004, the United States government has the same token, Brazil is a staunch supporter made opposition to needle exchange and harm of harm reduction because it has yielded reduction a growing feature of its foreign policy remarkable results, including a 65% decline in on HIV/AIDS. This trend reflects a larger U.S. the number of drug use-related AIDS cases from hostility toward HIV-prevention strategies that 1993 to 2003. While it is important to retain acknowledge and attempt to mitigate the harms a multi-dimension framework for international of certain “risky” behaviors-be it illicit drug advocacy, the current assault on condom use in use, non-marital sex, or prostitution-rather than favor of alternative methods has showed once promoting abstinence-only and zero-tolerance again that results are the most powerful tool for approaches. As such, it serves as a flash point public policy managers. for deeper controversies around the role of ideology versus evidence in HIV prevention, the
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skills building Sessions Tu. 25 hyatt regency VANCOUVER Concurrent Mental TUE MAY 2, 19:15–20:45 Health and Substance Tu. 23 Use Disorder in Youth Models of Drug User PLAZA C Groups Session Chair: Shimi Kang PLAZA A Tu.25.1 Session Chair: Raffi Balian Kang, Shimi. Canada. Tu.23.1 Smith, Patrick Canada. Concurrent Mental Health and Livingston, Ann. Canada. Substance Use Disorders in Models of Drug User Groups: Youth. Exploitation or Empowerment
Tu. 24 Educational Programs PLAZA B Session Chair: Heather Peters Tu.24.1 Vezhnina, Natalia. Kazakhstan. Education in the sphere of Health Promotion in Central DAY
Asian Prisons S Tu.24.2 TUE MAY 2, 19:15–21:00 TUE Domb, Mindy. USA. The Impact of Online Harm Tu. 22 Reduction Training Film Festival Special Screening Tu.24.3 oxford room, hyatt regency vancouver Desjardins, Lisa. Canada. Tu.22.1 Uptown,Downtown: the Drug Wild, Nettie. Canada. Handbook Carson, Betsy. Canada. Tu.24.4 FIX: The Story of an Addicted City Peters, Heather. Canada. Creatively Utilizing a Harm Reduction Approach in Small, Northern Canadian Communities and Why We Need Harm Reduction in The North
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TUESDAY Posters Regency Ballroom, Tu.009P Youth Drug Education for the Real World Hyatt regency vancouver Chahal, Gurmel. India. Educational Programs Gurpreet, Gurmel. India. Emerging Drug Evaluation of Drug Related Tu.001P Patterns Harm Reduction and Safe Sex Tu.018P Gurung, Dil. Nepal. Campaign Among Youth in Educational Program Rural Areas of Punjab, India. Reja, Md. Zaidi Reja. Bangladesh. Tu.002P Tu.010P Pattern of Drug Abuse Eryomina, Olga. Russia. Fyfe, Graeme. New Zealand. Prevention Increasing Motivation Among Respondent Driven Sampling Tu.019P Harm Reduction Projects of IDU in Metropolitan and Burrows, Dave. Australia. Tu.003P Rural Areas of NZ. Identifying Risk Behaviour of a Hidden Injecting Drug Using Sex Oseni, Musediq. Nigeria. Population Workers: Practical Issues in Behavioural Change Tu.011P Reducing Harm Communication as a Tu.020P Campaign Strategy Against Djakhangirova, Merem. Drug Abuse and Harm Uzbekistan. Twagirumukiza, Marc. Rwanda. Reduction Youth Programs Development Drug Use in Rwandan Tu.004P and Harm Reduction in Community: Pharmacies’ Uzbekistan Sale and Prescriptions Survey Carvalho, Heraclito. Brazil. Tu.012P at Butare, Assessment of Risk Behavior For Drug Country Needs on Harm DAY Aung, Kyaw. Myanmar. S Use and AIDS Infection: Reduction Policies. an Internet Questionnaire Let Harm Reduction Be Tu.021P TUE Coupled With Short Education Beyond Harm... Measham, Fiona. UK. Texts For Portuguese Tu.013P Speakers Recreational Ketamine Use Ghosh, Gautam. India. Tu.005P and the Role of Insider Behaviour Change Knowledge: an Exploratory Barlow, Joy. UK. Communication Strategies Study Children of Substance at Reducing High-Risk Tu.022P Misusing Parents - Putting Behaviour Among Low- Policy into Practice Literate Drug User Reid, Gary. Australia. Tu.006P Communities Illicit Drug Issues in Asia: the Tu.014P Challenges and Responses Beckius-Johnson, Amy. USA. Campbell, Sheena. Canada. Tu.023P A Content Analysis of Fifty Key Documents Concerning Making It Work - Using Peer Miller, Peter. UK. Harm Reduction Advocacy Based Interventions in Needle A Pilot Study Using the Tu.007P Retrieval Campaigns Internet to Study Patterns of Tu.015P Party Drug Use: Processes, Bungay, Vicky. Canada. Findings and Limitations Costa, Thiago. Brazil. The “Safer” Crack Use Tu.024P Initiative Project - An Intervention of the Reducing Overview and Early Findings of Damages in the Health Devaney, Madonna. Australia. Tu.008P Institutions, Aiming at Illicit Drug Use and Insertion of the Drugs Users Responses in Six Pacific Yaromin, Oleg. Belarus. in the Public Services Island Countries Features of the Harm Tu.016P Tu.025P Reduction Program Among Men Having Sex With Men Montoya, Antonia. USA. Bransen, Els. The Netherlands. - Injection Drug Users From Cough Syrup to Crack:
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Problematic Use of Hard Controlled and Occasional Injection Drug Users (IDUs) Drugs By (Former) Asylum Heroin Use in Three U.S. Cities Seekers and Illegal Migrants Tu.034P Tu.042P Tu.026P Mayock, Paula. Ireland. Faruque, Mohammad. Hahn, Judith. USA. An Ethno-epidemiology of Bangladesh. Doubling of Injecting Drug Use Among Slow Initiation of Yaba Methamphetamine Use High-Risk Youth in Ireland (Methamphitamine) Use Among Literally Homeless Tu.035P Among the Youth of Dhaka Adults City: Needs to Draw More Case, Patricia. USA. Tu.027P Attention On the Edge: Tu.043P Hathaway, Andrew. Canada. Methamphetamine in Two Comeau, Natalie. Canada. Mexican-U.S. Border Cities Ford, Chris. UK. Cannabis Normalization and Tu.036P Poly Drug Use - Taking on the Stigma Treatment in Primary Care Brouwer, Kimberly. USA. Tu.028P Drug Market Perceptions Epidemiology Chahal, Gurmel. India. and the Effect on Injection Tu.045P Gurpreet, Gurmel. India. Behaviors Among Injection Imani, Reza. Iran. Abuse of Alcohol, Drugs, Drug Users (IDU) in Mexico Seroprevalence of HBV, HCV Smoking and High Risk Tu.037P Sexual Behaviour Among and HIV Infection Among Krol, Anneke. The Netherlands. Youth in the Rural Areas of Intravenous Drug Users in Punjab State of India Drug Careers in Young Shahre-Kord, Iran Amsterdam Drug Users: Tu.029P Tu.046P DAY
Transitions From Cocaine to S Higgs, Peter. Australia. Fernandez, Osvaldo. Brazil. Heroin.
Differences in the Social TUE Patterns of Cocaine Use in Tu.038P São Paulo / Brazil: the Nature Networks of Ethnic Kral, Alex. USA. and Extent of Consumption Vietnamese and Non- After HIV Impact. The Prevalence of Low- Vietnamese Injecting Drug Frequency Heroin Injection Users and Their Implications Tu.030P Among Street-Recruited IDUs For BBV Transmission Farquhar, Stephen. New Tu.039P Tu.047P Zealand. Page-Shafer, Kimberly. USA. Khan, Mohammad. Patterns of Drug Use in Afghanistan. Dunedin, New Zealand Methamphetamine Use Is High Among Young Injectors The First Ever National Tu.031P in San Francisco, However, Assessment of Problem Drug Farquhar, Stephen. New Temporal Trends Do Not Use in Afghanistan Zealand. Change Over Time (1998 to Tu.048P Poppy Seed Tea: Preparation 2004): UFO Study Hope, Vivian. UK. and Composition of a Legal Tu.040P High Factors Associated With Fairbairn, Nadia. Canada. Symptoms With Injection Tu.032P Increasing Use, and Site Infections in England: Islam, S.M. Bangladesh. Associated Harms, of Crystal Findings From a Multi-Site Inclusion of Heroin Smokers Methamphetamine Injection Survey in Harm Reduction Program Among Injection Drug Users Tu.049P Is More Effective: Experience Tu.041P Chu, Tianxin. China. in Dhaka Lankenau, Stephen. USA. Drug-Related HIV Epidemic Tu.033P The Most Recent Injection of and Harm Reduction Strategy Turnbull, Paul. UK. Ketamine Among Young in Beijing, China Not a Problem: Study of
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Tu.050P Tu.058P Tu.065P Des Jarlais, Don. USA. Emmanuel, Faran. Pakistan. Broers, Barbara. Switzerland. HIV Risk Behaviors Among Injecting Drug Use: the Aging of Substance Using Female IDUs in Developing Driving Force Behind HIV Population and Medical and Transitional Countries Epidemic in Pakistan. Where Complications: Global Trends Tu.051P Is the Epidemic Heading to ... Tu.066P Glenday, Kathleen. Australia. Tu.059P Zamani, Saman. Japan. A Decade of HIV and Ncube, Fortune. UK. High Prevalence of HIV and HCV Prevalence and Risk Blood Borne Virus Prevalence Associated Risks Among Behaviour Surveillance and Voluntary Confidential Community-Based Injecting Among IDUs: the Australian Testing among Injecting Drug Drug Users in Tehran, Iran Needle and Syringe Program Users: Impact of Country of Tu.067P Survey Birth Lampinen, Thomas. Canada. Tu.052P Tu.060P Relation Between Temporal Braine, Naomi. USA. Platt, Lucy. UK. Increases in Both Unsafe Sex Description of Syringe Estimation of the Prevalence With Casual Partners and Distribution Networks in of Injecting Drug Users in Crystal Methamphetamine Medium Sized US City Moscow, Volgograd and Use in a Cohort of Young Gay Tu.053P Barnaul: Implications For HIV Men Prevalence and Prevention Brunton, Cheryl. New Zealand. Tu.068P Tu.061P Tracking the Impact of Harm Higgs, Peter. Australia. Reduction on Blood-Borne Quan, Vu. USA. Behavioural, Virological and
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TUE Needle Exchanges Networks in Rural Chiang Networks II Study Tu.054P Mai, Thailand Tu.069P Aceijas, Carmen. UK. Tu.062P Sharma, Mukta. Bangladesh. A Global Overview of HCV Aksenov, Pavel. Russia. Prostitutes and Injecting Among IDU/Drug Users Second Generation Drugs: Potential Threat For Worldwide, 1998-2005: a Surveillance among IDUs HIV Epidemic in Central-A, Desk Review conducted in two regions of Bangladesh Tu.055P Russian Federation: Altai Tu.070P Territory and Volgograd Region Truong, Minh. Vietnam. Macleod, John. UK. Tu.063P HIV Prevalence and Risk The Natural History of Factors Among MSM in Godin, Gaston. Canada. Injecting Drug Use Khanh Hoa Province, Viet Maintenance of a High Tu.071P Nam Intention to Avoid Starting Shaw, Audrey. Canada. Tu.056P Drug Injecting Among Street Youth: a Longitudinal Study Crack-Use Among Injecting Michelow, Warren. Canada. Drug Users (IDU) in Victoria, Tu.064P Building Street Drug Sample BC. Leclerc, Pascale. Canada. and Analysis Databases for Tu.072P Research and Early Warning HCV Prevalence and Walker, Elizabeth. Canada. Tu.057P Incidence Status as Predictors of HIV Initial Trends in HIV and Morissette, Carole. Canada. Seroconversion Among IDUs Hepatitis C (HCV) Prevalence Correlates of Sterile Material and Associated Risk Use For Drug Preparation and Behaviours Among Injecting Injection Among Injection Drug Users (IDU) in Victoria, Drug Users British Columbia
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Tu.073P Tu.082P Tu.094P Carr, Dana. Canada. Chakraborty, Nibedita. Canada. Matabber, Saidur. Bangladesh. Determining the Feasibility Reflections on Ethics, Harm Reduction Program For and Acceptability of a Research and Health Care IDUs In Dhaka Safe Injection Site Among - Reworking the Ethics Tu.095P Injecting Drug Users (IDU) in Committee For Marginalized Findlay, Linda. Canada. Victoria, British Columbia Populations Taylor, Marliss. Canada. Tu.083P Ethics Shared Vision Shared Action Hudson, Susan. Australia. Tu.075P Tu.096P Maher, Lisa. Australia. Fry, Craig. Australia. Chikritzhs, Tanya. Australia. A Decent Proposal: Using Researcher and Consumer Ethnography to Explore The Impact of Later Trading Conflict in Public Health the Experiences of Street Hours for Hotels on Levels of Research on Illicit Drugs: Sex Workers Who Inject Impaired Driver Road Crashes Mobilising Consumer Psychostimulants. and Driver Breath Alcohol Participation on Applied Ethic Levels. Tu.076P Government and Harm Tu.097P Tousaw, Kirk. Canada. Reduction Frail, Ken. Canada. The Ethics of Cannabis Tu.089P Elimination of Rice Alcohol Prohibition Tsereteli, Zaza. Estonia. Tu.098P Tu.077P Expansion of HIV Prevention Frail, Ken. Canada. Sharoon, Kashif. Pakistan. Work Among Idus and Enforcement Initiatives Bridging Populations in
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Murmansk Region (Russia) S Drug Harm Reduction Health and Reducte Street Program Tu.090P Disorder TUE Tu.078P Shrestha, Bishnu. Nepal. Tu.099P Beyrer, Chris. USA. Harm Reduction and Juniar, Linna. Indonesia. Illicit Drug Policy - Global HIV Prevention Research Public Health Approach For Challenges and Difficult Among IDU in Prevention- IDU-PLWHA in Puskesmas Issues for Government Limited Settings: Ethics, Jatinegara Tu.091P Human Rights, and Research Tu.100P Priorities. Hailu, Degol. UK. Hayes, Meghan. Australia. Tu.079P Determinants of Khat Ede, Robyn. Australia. Suwannawong, Paisan. Production The Public Private Cocktail Thailand. Tu.092P - One Part Government, One The Tenofovir Prevention Trial Acharya, Bishnu. Nepal. Part Private Sector - Recipe in Thailand: A Drug Users’ Harm Reduction Program For Disaster or Success? Perspective Reduces Risk-Taking Behavior Tu.101P Tu.080P Among Injecting Drug Users Hayes, Meghan. Australia. Daniel, Ksenija. Croatia. of Biratnagar, Eastern Nepal. Ede, Robyn. Australia. Dangers of Methadone Pills Tu.093P Sharp Advice - More Than Injections Vick, Dwight. USA. Syringe Supply Tu.081P Five-Year Follow-Up Study of Tu.102P Fry, Craig. Australia. Drug Court Graduates from Potts, Jeff. Canada. Woodbury County, Iowa’s DC Making Values and Ethics Integration: A Key Element in Program Explicit: What a Code of Harm Reduction Policy and Ethics Would Contribute to Practice Harm Reduction
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Tu.103P Tu.111P Tu.119P Tyndall, Mark. Canada. Razaque, Ali. Pakistan. Yamaçake, Alexandre. Brazil. Vancouver’s Supervised Relationship Between the São Paulo’s Harm Reduction Injection Facility: Uptake, World Bank, National and Committee: a Strategy For Interventions and Referrals Provincial Governments and the Collective Construction of Tu.104P Service Providers Within HIV/ Harm Reduction Policies AIDS Perspective Bruneau, Julie. Canada. Tu.120P Tu.112P Is Welfare Distribution Ricard, Dominique. Vietnam. Contributing to HIV National Steering Committee. Large-Scale Implementation Transmission Among Injection Canada. of Harm Reduction (HR) in Drug Users (IDUs)? National Forum on Crack Viet Nam Tu.105P Cocaine and Hepatitis C Virus Tu.121P (HCV) Dinner, Katherine. Canada. Haemmig, Robert. Switzerland. Tu.113P Is a Harm Reduction Drug Policy: From 4 Pillars Approach Sufficient to Westin, Caio. Brazil. to a 3-Dimensional Cube. Prevent Hepatitis C in People Establishing the São Paulo Recent Developments in Who Use Injection Drugs? State Guidelines For Harm Switzerland Tu.106P Reduction Among Crack Tu.122P Users Razaque, Ali. Pakistan. Conocente, Miguel. Argentina. Tu.114P Public-Private Partnership to Tobacco Harm Reduction in 4 Scale Up Harm Reduction Gkaitatzis, Ioannis. Macedonia. to 5 year old Children Services in Pakistan Influence of Systemic Family Tu.123P
DAY Therapy Interventions on S Tu.107P Small, Will. Canada. Reduction of Adolescent’s Duo, Lin. China. A Social Perspective on TUE Drug Related Harm Multi-sectors and Muslim Syringe Disposal Among Tu.115P collaborated in Harm Injection Drug Users: Factors Reduction in Yunnan Pearshouse, Richard. Canada. Influencing Disposal Trends in Tu.108P Model Legislation to Address Vancouver, 2001-2005 the HIV Epidemic Among Waikhom, Ronny. India. Tu.124P People Who Use Drugs A Decade Old Harm Hammett, Theodore. USA. Tu.116P Reduction Based Response HIV Prevention for IDUs, amongst Injecting Drug Chen, Chu-tzu. Taiwan. Vietnam - China Border Users and Sexual Partners of Taiwan’s Top-Down HR Tu.125P Manipur, India. Programs were Initiated Summers, Helena. Canada. Tu.109P Tu.117P A Tale of Two Cities: Harm Sobeyko, Justyna. Poland. Andersson, Magnus. Sweden. Reduction in a Harm- Bridging the Gap Between Running a Needle Exchange Reduction-Free Zone Needs and Services: Towards Program Against the Wishes Tu.126P Evidence-Based Drug Policy of Your Government: the Stoltz, Jo-anne. Canada. in Poland Swedish Experience Changes in Injecting Tu.110P Tu.118P Practices Associated With Use Wang, Yusui. China. Silva, Silvia. Brazil. of a Safer Injecting Facility Adopting Health Promoting Damage Reduction as a Model to Implement Harm Strategy for the Care for the Reduction Approaches Vulnerable Populations in the Santo Andre County - São Paulo-Brazil
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Tu.127P Tu.138P Tu.147P François, Anne. Switzerland. Gagarkin, Nikolay. Ukraine. Siwakoti, Devi. Nepal. The Problem of Conflicting Penitentiary Initiative: HIV Vulnerability Among Drug Policies: Geneva’s Injection Developing Ukrainian Network Users in Nepal : A Serious Room Squashed Between of Drug and AIDS Services in Issue Public Health Interest and Prison Tu.148P a Zero-Tolerance Local Tu.139P Baba, Ismail. Malaysia. Environment Friedman, Samuel. USA. Community Reactions on Tu.128P Two Kinds of Positive Needle Exchange Programmes Lampinen, Thomas. Canada. Deviance Approaches to to Reduce HIV Infections Estimated Scope of Crystal Prevention By IDUs: “Micro- Among Drugs Users Not in Methamphetamine Use Social” (Small Group) and Treatment. Among Men who have Sex Formal-Organizational Tu.149P with Men in Vancouver Prevention Models Steer, Lorie. Canada. Tu.129P Tu.140P Toronto Crack Users Carriere, Gayle. Canada. Chuprina, Elena. Ukraine. Perspectives: Inside, Outside, The Needle Safety Initiative: IDU and HIV+ Support Upside Down A Community Approach Groups In Prison Tu.150P Tu.130P Tu.141P Michelow, Warren. Canada. Nevendorff, Laura. Indonesia. Dingwell, Julie. Canada. CosmiKiva Psychedelic Indonesia: Integrating A Community Approach Safe Space: Taking Harm Major Stakeholders to to Harm Reduction - the Reduction Outreach to the
Build Comprehensive Harm Saint John Sex-trade Action Next Level DAY S Reduction Services in Jakarta Committee Tu.151P Tu.131P Tu.142P Speed, Tamara. Australia. TUE Hart, Andy. Australia. De Greiff, Gustavo. Mexico. Tenuous Partnerships ACT Needle Vending Facing the challenge of Tu.152P Machines: One Year Trial Viena 2008; Latin American Dowling, John. Australia. Results Drug Policy Reform Network Rural Drug Services, Police Tu.132P (REFORMA) Action Plan and Community Ghozalie, Imam. Indonesia. Tu.143P Tu.153P The Increasing Of HIV/AIDS Young, Mark. Australia. Anker, Jørgen. Denmark. Prevalence in Makassar IDU CORSS: an After Hours For the Good of Drug Users? Tu.133P Community Response to Young People’s Illicit Drug Mobilisation For and Against Matabber, Saidur. Bangladesh. Use Harm Reduction Initiatives in Reaching the Affluent Female Denmark Tu.144P Dus: Challenges and Learning Tu.154P An, Yanboo. China. Mancinelli, Michael. Canada. Grass Roots and Involving Ethnic Minority Community Initiatives Communities in Harm Promoting the Safer Use of Crack: a Community-Based Tu.137P Reduction in Liangshan, China Approach Newmark, Suzanne. Canada. Tu.146P Tu.155P A Capacity Building Approach Marques Filho, Altino. Brazil. Chuenchooklin, Nantapol. to Harm Reduction on the Music Reducing Drugs Harms Street Thailand. in Street Children and Youth Educating the Community about Harm Reduction
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Tu.156P Patton, Cindy. Canada. Community Nursing, IDUs, and HIV in the Context of Harm Reduction Tu.157P Gustafson, Diana. Canada. Walsh, Tree. Canada. Needs Assessment of Injection Drug Users in St. John’s, Newfoundland Tu.158P Quayle, Kenn. Canada. i2i Peer Support, People Who Use Drugs in Canada Tu.159P Lam, Yee Ling. China. Luk, Lai Tau. China. Reducing the Drug Effect on Sex Workers: Strategies of Empowerment and Networking DAY S TUE
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Plenary Session Approach: A review of the evidence regarding civil penalty schemes for minor cannabis WED MAY 3, 8:45–10:15 offences; reflection on the rationale and Welcome: Patrick Smith experience of cannabis law reform in Western Australia where a prohibition with civil Senior Advisor, Mental Health penalty scheme was introduced in 2004; and and Addictions, Provincial Health consideration of some findings of a large pre- Services Authority post evaluation of that scheme. Key Points: Experience in drug policy research We. 01 suggested that for a successful and sustained Decriminalization vs. Legalization translation of a scheme for cannabis law reform into actual legislative change it needed to be: of Cannabis: Stirring the Pot supported by the general public; survivable BC Ballroom, for politicians; supported by law enforcement; fairmont hotel vancouver supported by cannabis users; supported by Session Chair: Monica Gorgulho the evidence; sustainable under international drug conventions; and subject to evaluation We.01.1 and review. This paper will describe how the Nolin, Pierre Claude. Canada. Cannabis Infringement Notice Scheme which Why Canada Needs A Efficient Stategy on the became law under the Cannabis Control Act 2003 Problematic Use of All Psychoactive Substances met these criteria. In our case, reforms aimed at We.01.2 legalisation of cannabis use would not have met these criteria and would have no-doubt failed to Erickson, Patricia. Canada. result in legislative change. The Progress of Normalization Implications: Context is everything and what Canadian drug policy has been at an impasse will be acceptable in one place and time cannot since the Le Dain Commission. Neither be transposed elsewhere in a ‘cookie-cutter’ decriminalization nor legalization is currently on approach. When windows of opportunity open the federal political agenda. These terms often for changing drug laws one must consider a are not clearly or consistently presented in the shift from ideals and theories to compromise, ongoing debates. This presentation describes practicalities, and alliance building. At best the shortcomings of both of these approaches we can aim that reforms are meaningfully to legal change. It then proposes a more better than what they replace, that they will innovative stance: to examine the dimensions be robust in the face of misinformed attack, of normalization of cannabis use and ask how but be flexible enough to be modified as new far this process has advanced in Canada. Much evidence emerges. This, rather than ‘legalisation’ DAY
more progress is evident in the social evaluation or ‘decriminalisation’, should be the goal of S and reaction to cannabis use among both users cannabis, or other drug, law reform.
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transformation of cultural meanings of drug use W Barnaby, Loraine. Jamaica. is emphasized as a precursor to change. Such an analysis can serve as a guide for understanding Legalization vs. Decriminalization of Cannabis: and surmounting the barriers to drug policy the Jamaican Situation reform. We.01.3 WED MAY 3, 10:15–10:45 Lenton, Simon. Australia. Refreshment Break Stirring the Pot: Is ‘Legalisation or CONFERENCE LEVEL, Decriminalisation’ the Right Question? FAIRMONT HOTEL VANCOUVER Issue: An often asked question in cannabis law reform is whether legalisation or ‘decriminalisation’ (prohibition with civil penalties) should be the goal.
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Major Sessions We. 03 WED MAY 3, 12:30–13:30 fairmont hotel Care and Treatment vancouver We. 04 of HCV in Drug Users: WED MAY 3, 10:45–12:05 Film Festival Lounge Have We Made Any We. 02 Sessions Progress? Users’ Choice oxford room Pacific Ballroom BC Ballroom Hyatt regency vancouver Session Chair: Grant McNally We.04.1 Session Chair: Rob Weppler We.03.1 Cowell, Adrian. UK. We.02.1 Maher, Lisa. Australia. Menges, Chris. UK. Naydenova, Milena. Bulgaria. Barriers to Hepatitis C Heroin Wars (Part Two - The First DU Organizations in Treatment Uptake Among Smack City) Bulgaria. the Need of Du in Indo-Chinese IDUs We.04.2 the Decision Making Process. We.03.2 Manning, Greg. India. We.02.2 Mehta, Shruti. USA. Adequate and Uninterrupted Pandey, Bijay. Nepal. Barriers to Hepatitis C Virus Meaningful Involvement (HCV) Treatment among of IDUs In Designing and Community-Based Injection Implementing Programs Drug Users (IDUs) in We.02.3 Baltimore, MD Jurgens, Ralf. Canada. We.03.3 From Principle to Practice: Genoway, Krista. Canada. Greater, Meaningful Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus Involvement of Drug Users (HCV) Infection in Injection We.02.4 Drug Users (IDUs) Enrolled in Fayant, Rosemary. Canada. a Directly Observed Therapy From Street Involved to (DOT) Program Streetworks We.03.4 Zule, William. USA. Impact of A Motivational Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Use Among HCV DAY
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Concurrent Sessions We.06.3 We. 08 Hyatt regency vancouver Alanko, Marianne. Sweden. Alcohol and Harm WED MAY 3, 13:30–15:00 Transmission of Blood Borne Reduction Viruses In a Needle Exchange We. 05 Prince of Wales room Program In Sweden Overdose: Death is not Session Chair: Warren O’Briain We.06.4 an Option We.08.1 Hickman, Matthew. UK. Plaza A Loxley, Wendy. Australia. HCV Prevalence, and Session Chair: Alex Wodak Injecting Risk Behaviour In Reducing The Harms of We.05.1 Six Sites In England In 2004: Alcohol: Evidence For Implications for Surveillance Effective Alcohol Policy In Vongchak, Tasanai. Thailand. and Prevention Australia High Mortality Among Drug We.08.2 Users Without HIV Infection We. 07 Chikritzhs, Tanya. Australia. in Northern Thailand Emerging Patterns in We.05.2 Evidence for Hypothecated Drug Use Alcohol Taxation? Revisiting Fielden, Sarah. Canada. Plaza C the Evaluation of the Northern Development of an Overdose Territory’s Living With Alcohol Session Chair: Inspector Dave Nelmes Emergency Warning System Program We.07.1 In Vancouver, Canada We.08.3 We.05.3 Grund, Jean-Paul. The Malone, Daniel. USA. Netherlands. Huriaux, Emalie. USA. Developing Harm Reduction Naloxone By Prescription In Initiation Into Injecting Drug Housing for Chronic Public San Francisco, California Use In Ukraine: Results Inebriates: Overcoming From a Respondent Driven We.05.4 Moral Judgments and Sampling Study Among Young Pollini, Robin. USA. Misconceptions (and IDUs and Their Non-IDU Opponents With Money) Non-Fatal Overdose among Peers We.08.4 Injection Drug Users (IDUs) We.07.2 in Baltimore, Maryland: Gilchrist, Gail. Australia. Targeting Overdose Survivors Frail, Ken. Canada. Hazardous Drinking Among for Preventive Interventions Drug Overdose Response Patients Attending Victorian Policy - Vancouver Police General Practice (Preliminary We. 06 Department Results From the Diamond DAY
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Session Chair: Dave Patrick Opiate Type and Risk for HIV EDNE W We.06.1 in the Russian Federation Craib, Kevin. Canada. We.07.4 Incidence of HCV Infection Johnson, Joy. Canada. Among Aboriginal Youth Understanding Frequent That Use Injection and Non- Marijuana Use among Youth Injection Drugs In Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada and Prince George, Canada We.06.2 Maher, Lisa. Australia. High HCV Incidence In New Injecting Drug Users In Australia: a Policy Failure
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We. 09 We.10.3 We. 12 Preventing Harms of Yoshida, Elisa. Brazil. Film Festival the Needle Women Under Arrest - Symposium Sessions Striving for Health Rights Georgia B oxford room We.10.4 Session Chair: Sam Friedman We.12.1 Borenstein, Michael. Australia. We.09.1 Saville, Sebastian. UK. Development Practices Clay, Cyndee. USA. OTT and Harm Reduction - “ “The Real Deal on Seal”: a Capacity Building Through We.12.2 Collaborative Intervention Participation - Breaking Down Hildebran, Gretchen. USA. to Reduce Risks Associated The Walls” with Hormone and Worth Saving Silicone Injection Among We. 11 We.12.3 Transgendered Women Living Room Session Tanguay, Pascal. Iran. We.09.2 — Voices from the Scaling Up HIV Prevention Scott, Greg. USA. And Harm Reduction In Iran Phlebotomy during HBV Global Frontier Regency Ballroom Vaccination as an Opportunity WED MAY 3, 15:00–15:30 to Teach Safer Injection: Session Chair: Ernie Drucker Assessing the Efficacy of a We.11.1 Refreshment Break 10-Minute Intervention REGENCY BALLROOM, Rigley, Eardley. India. We.09.3 HYATT REGENCY VANCOUVER Rehabilitation and Brunt, Caroline. Canada. Reintegration “The Dance” We.11.2 We.09.4 Chura, Volodymyr. Ukraine. Boyd, Susan. Canada. Hidden Risks of Involvement: Cinematic Representations of The Case of Participatory Site Illegal Drug Users, Addiction, Assessment and Drug Services We.11.3 We. 10 Haque, Masum. Bangladesh. Advocacy No More in Darkness Georgia A We.11.4 DAY S Session Chair: Deb Breau Rahimi Movaghar, Afarin. Iran. We.10.1 An Experience from Bam EDNE Earthquake: Getting or Losing W Lenton, Simon. Australia. Opportunities? Making the Most of ‘Windows We.11.5 of Opportunity’ For Drug Policy Change’ Theoretical Amatya, Binay. Nepal. and Practical Aspects’ Increasing Self Esteem in We.10.2 Order For Harm Reduction to Be Effective Wang, Ming. China. We.11.6 Harm Reduction Policy Development in Yunnan Kim, Joseph. Australia. Province, China Taking to the Developmental Stage: ‘Acting Up’ at VIVAIDS
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Concurrent Sessions We.14.3 We.16.2 Hyatt regency vancouver Livingstone, Christopher. Somers, Julian. Canada. WED MAY 3, 15:30–16:30 Canada. Collaborative Care for We. 13 Western Aboriginal Harm Substance Use and Mental Reduction Society “Finding Health Disorders - A Multi- Youth At Risk the Circle” Jurisdictional Initiative in Plaza A Canada We. 15 Session Chair: Jeff Potts We.16.3 We.13.1 Epidemiology Johnson, Joy. Canada. Plaza C Nonn, Éva. Canada. Tobacco and Mental Illness: The Role of the Testing Session Chair: Mark Tyndall Reducing the Potential Harm Process in the Social We.15.1 Associated with Tobacco Control Initiatives Construction of the Meaning Evans, Jennifer. USA. of Hepatitis C Among HCV Correlates of Injection We. 17 Infected Street-Involved Drug Use Cessation in a Young IDUs (HCV-SYDUs) North American Prospective Cohort of Young We.13.2 IDU in San Francisco (UFO Medical Marijuana Davidson, Peter. USA. Study) Prince of Wales room Meanings Associated With We.15.2 Session Chair: Warren Michelow New Hepatitis C Results Krol, Anneke. The Netherlands. We.17.1 Among Young Injecting Drug Decline In Injecting Drug Quayle, Kenn. Canada. Users In San Francisco (The Use, But Not In Sexual UFO Study): Implications For Facilitating Medicinal Risk Behavior, Seen In The Testing Cannabis Access in Canada: A Amsterdam Cohort Study Peer-based approach We.13.3 Among Drug Users We.17.2 Mayock, Paula. Ireland. We.15.3 Lucas, Philippe. Canada. Identity, Risk and a Place to Maas, Benjamin. Canada. Call Home: Young People, Regulating Compassion :A Neighborhood of Residence Drugs and Homelessness 5-Year Overview of Canada’s Independently Predicts HIV Federal Medicinal Cannabis Infection among a Cohort We. 14 Policy and Program of Injection Drug Users in We.17.3 Peer Support Programs Vancouver, Canada Plaza B Capler, Rielle. Canada. DAY
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We. 18 We. 20 North American User Film Festival Lounge Activism Sessions Georgia A oxford room Session Chair: Jon Zibell We.20.1 We.18.1 Mercier, Chloe. UK. Brooks, Rebecca. Canada. Sex, Needles and Roubles User Organizations and Advocacy: Unite Your Voice for Systematic Change We.18.2 Perron, Chantale. Canada. Drugs Users Must Be Part of The Action and Not Only Be Services Users! We.18.3 Farrell, Jason. USA. New York User Union
We. 19 Living Room Session — Disasters in the Living Room Regency Ballroom Session Chair: Holly Catania We.19.1 Catania, Holly. USA. Rahimi-Movaghar, Afarin. Iran. Maxwell, Sarz. USA. Kaplan, Karyn. Thailand.
DAY Can We Avert Disaster? S Experiences, Strategies and Responses When the EDNE Availability of Opiates Is W Interrupted by Catastrophe
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Plenary Session We.21.2 WED MAY 3, 16:30–18:00 Hao, Wei. China.
We. 21 Alcohol and Drug Use in China: Current Status Alcohol: A Legal Epidemic and Trend Alcohol and drug use, with their substantial BC Ballroom, health, social and economic costs, has become a fairmont hotel vancouver major public health concern in China. Session Chair: Tim Stockwell Historically, China had extraordinarily high rates We.21.1 of opiate dependence, and these rates declined Obot, Isidore. Switzerland. drastically following the 1949 revolution. Alcohol-Related Harm: A Global Public Health However, opiate abuse re-emerged in the late Challenge 1980’s and has spread quickly since then. The number of registered addicts in 2004 was This presentation focuses on the global picture 1.14 million (more than 75% of them heroin of alcohol and alcohol problems based on data addicts), but the real number is probably far from the World Health Organization Global higher. Opiate abuse contributes substantially Alcohol Database (GAD) and related sources. to the spread of HIV/AIDS in China, with Globally the burden of disease attributable intravenous drug use the most important route to alcohol (4% in 2000) is substantial and of transmission (51.2%). While the use of comparable to the burden associated with traditional illicit drugs such as opiates continues tobacco (4.1%). The burden is higher in western to increase, the wider use of drugs such as countries and in a growing number of low and amphetamine-type stimulants and ketamine is middle income countries where, in some cases, emerging very rapidly. alcohol is the leading risk factor for acute and chronic health conditions. In spite of alcohol’s Over recent decades there has been a striking role in morbidity and mortality around the world, increase in alcohol consumption and related little attention is paid to harmful consumption problems in China. Alcohol is a traditional part itself and to the social and economic factors of Chinese life dating from 9000 years ago, which contribute to rising trends in patterns commercial alcohol production in China has of drinking associated with acute and chronic increased more than fifty fold per capita since harm. Accumulating evidence suggests that 1952. In parallel there is evidence of a marked effective strategies to reduce the harm caused increase in prevalence of alcohol dependence, by alcohol exist but that these strategies are which has moved from the 9th to the 3rd most often disregarded in favour of less promising prevalent mental illness. approaches. The presentation highlights these The author will present some major
effective strategies, the renewed focus of the epidemiological surveys (mainly conducted by DAY World Health Organization and regional bodies author) on drinking and drug use in China, and S on alcohol, and the need for a global consensus discuss strategy and policy related issues on the
in addressing alcohol-related harm from a public problems. EDNE W health perspective. We.21.3 Graham, Kathryn. Canada. Stopping Drunks From Beating Each Other Up: Alcohol-Related Violence - The Perfect Arena For Harm Reduction Although the pharmacological of effects of most illegal drugs have not been linked directly to violent behavior (e.g., Haggård-Grann et al, 2006), there is consistent evidence that the effects of alcohol contribute to aggressive
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behavior in a causal way (Bushman, 1997). On the other hand, there is also considerable evidence that the relationship between alcohol and violence can be moderated greatly by social factors. And, while there are few cultural contexts where no violence occurs when people are drinking, there are many contexts where drinking-related violence is rare (MacAndrew & Edgerton, 1959; Washburne, 1960). The powerful moderating influence of social factors suggests that much of the harm related to alcohol-related aggression can be reduced by focusing on the social factors without necessarily reducing the drinking. In this presentation, I will briefly touch on harm reduction strategies in the alcohol field generally, describe the development and evaluation of the Safer Bars program as a way to reduce bar violence, and explore harm reduction strategies for preventing alcohol- related violence in other social contexts. Finally, I will discussion the implications for using social interventions to reduce drug-related harm generally.
Discussant: Michael Perron
WED MAY 3, 19:30–24:00 DAY S CLOSING CELEBRATION COMMODORE BALLROOM EDNE
W Featuring music by The Dynamics and The Harm Reduction All-Stars Meet at 19:15 in the lobby of either conference hotel to walk with a group to the venue.
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WEDNESDAY Posters We.008P We.017P HIV Treatment Costa, Thiago. Brazil. Onyango, George. Kenya. Regency Ballroom, Human Rights for Crackland Curse or Poverty? Africans Hyatt regency vancouver in Brazil Have Been Know Since Time We.001P We.009P Memorial to Drink Alcohol During Occassions. This Was Yoshida, Elisa. Brazil. Bueno, Regina. Brazil. During Social Events. Striving For IDU and People Behaviors Profile of Patients We.018P Under HAART Followed in Living With AIDS Citizenship Malta, Monica. Brazil. STD/Aids Public Health We.010P Services in Sao Paulo City Access to Hepatitis Treatment Janayeva, Assel. Kazakhstan. - Brazil and Risk Behaviors Among Human Rights Monitoring in We.002P Disenfranchised Drug Users HIV Sphere in Kazakhstan From Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Malta, Monica. Brazil. We.011P We.019P Improving the Access to HIV Livingston, Ann. Canada. Baldwin, Simon. Australia. Treatment Among Drug Users From Latin America Experiencial Workers Rights Drug Policy in the Asia Pacific We.003P We.012P Region: Striving to Be Drug Thomson, Nicholas. Thailand. Free? Tyndall, Mark. Canada. We.020P Adherence to HIV Therapy Long Term Effects of Handoyo, Patri. Indonesia. Among Injection Drug Users Thailand’s "War on Followed in Comprehensive Drugs" on Young In West Java, Indonesia, Care and Support Programs in Methamphetamine (MA) Injecting Drug Users Living Vancouver. Users: a Qualitative With HIV/AIDS are involved Exploration in Northern in Promoting HIV Prevention, Human Rights Thailand Care, Support and Treatment We.004P Indigenous Populations We.021P Canada. Tousaw, Kirk. We.014P Abidjanova, Nigora. Tajikistan. Sacramental Cannabis and Bharti, Rakesh. India. Low Threshold Treatment the Charter Readiness and Drug-Free Societal Response to AIDS We.005P Treatment and Rehabilitation Pandemic in Amritsar Programs For Heroin/Opiate Khongbantabam, Rajesh. We.015P India. Dependents in Tajikistan
Edi, Fredy. Indonesia. We.022P DAY Is This Harm Reduction or S Maximisation? Empowerment of Balinese Sobeyko, Justyna. Poland. Peers for Better HR Services
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We.016P Amphetamine Use in the City W Macdonald, Scott. Canada. The Legal Justification of Mingjian, Ni. China. and Rural Areas in Northwest Drug Testing in Canada: What Imam Participation in HIV/ Poland is the research evidence? AIDS Responses in High We.023P We.007P Prevalence Areas in Xinjiang Fyfe, Graeme. New Zealand. Uyghur Autonomous Region Eastwood, Niamh. UK. Needle Exchange in New of Northwest China UK Drugs Laws: Abrogating Zealand: The Success of the the Human Rights of Drug Peer Based Model Users?
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We.024P Mental Health We.039P Jurgens, Ralf. Canada. We.032P Pettey, Donna. Canada. Creating the Conditions For Miller, Peter. UK. Providing Integrated Needle Exchange Programs in Treatment to Individuals with Suicide-Related Behaviour Prisons in Ukraine Co-Occurring Substance Use and Indifference: the and Mental Health Disorders We.025P Importance of Developing a Rubanets, Yulia. Ukraine. Nomenclature For Suicide in We.040P Developing a Prevention the Alcohol and Other Drug Pettey, Donna. Canada. Strategy of Initiation into Sector Development and Integration Injecting Drug Use among We.033P of a Hospital Outreach Youth in Ukraine. Ibanez-de-Benito, Stephane. Service for Individuals with We.026P UK. Co-occurring Serious Mental Illness and Substance Ford, Jamye. USA. Attitudes and Perceptions in Use Disorder (Concurrent Dual Diagnosis Willingness to Participate in Disorders) Preventive HIV Vaccine Trials We.034P Among Young Injection Drug Bertrand, Karine. Canada. Methadone and Other Users in San Francisco (UFO Improvement of Screening, Substitution Strategies Study) Evaluation and Treatment We.042P We.027P Integration For Persons With Nassirimanesh, Bijan. Iran. Morse, Pete. USA. Dual Disorders: an Innovative Low Threshold MMT Cross-Training Project Negotiating Contradictions Incorporated in Holistic We.035P Between Research and Approach Versus Intensive Service Goals in Drug User Ghanimi, Farzaneh. Iran. Model Studies (The UFO Study) Case Study on an Out- We.043P We.028P reacher’s Motivation for Asril, Asliati. Indonesia. Bajracharya, Rickson. Nepal. Cooperation with Harm Methadone Maintenance Reduction Program Failure of Harm Reduction Treatment Program Drug We.036P in Nepal Dependence Hospital Jakarta We.029P Marques Filho, Altino. Brazil. Indonesia Nkole, Chinedu. Nigeria. Music Removing Barriers We.044P The Menace of Agbo (A We.037P Ezechiedo, Kelvin. Nigeria. Native Beverage With Alcohol DAY Oleson, Megan. Canada. Participatory Community S Base) to Road Users, the Compassion Clubs: Research: Effective Nigerian Experience Therapeutic Roles of Mechanism in Tracking EDNE We.030P Cannabis Use with Mental Drug Hot Spots - Isale Eko W Craib, Kevin. Canada. Health Community, Lagos - Nigeria Demographic and Behavioural We.038P We.045P Characteristics of Sex Trade Bertrand, Karine. Canada. Dunlop, Adrian. Australia. Workers Among Aboriginal Evaluation of a Collaboration Treating Australian Female Youth in Prince Project Between an Addiction Vietnamese Heroin Users With George and Vancouver, Center and an Hospital Buprenorphine Canada in Order to Implement Integrated Detoxification Services
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We.046P We.054P Methadone and Other Oviedo Joekes, Eugenia. Ibanez-de-Benito, Stephane. Substitution Strategies Spain. UK. We.062P “The Problem Is That, Primary Care in the treatment Phillips, Peter. UK. Besides Needing the Drug, of drug users: An Approach. We Have Lost Everything”: We.055P Harm, Hope and Heroin the Andalusian Heroin Trial - Reducing Drug Related Millson, Peggy. Canada. From the Participants’ Side Deaths in North London Change in Measures of We.047P We.063P Addiction Severity after 12 Taylor, Avril. UK. Madden, Annie. Australia. Months in a Harm Reduction Consumers and Methadone Programme IDUs’ Knowledge of Overdose Pharmaceutical Companies - We.056P Risk Behaviours When Working Together Works We.064P Millson, Peggy. Canada. We.048P Smith, Tom. USA. Predictors of Injection and Bourke, Margaret. Ireland. Sexual Related Risk Factors Naloxone Distribution to The Evolution of a Strategy After 6 Months in a Harm Opiate Users in New York City For the Provision of Reduction Methadone We.065P Methadone Harm Reduction Programme Taylor, Avril. UK. Treatment in a Suburban We.057P Community in Dublin Ireland. IDUs’ Perceptions of Personal Ahmed, Munir. Bangladesh. Overdose Risk We.049P Initial Breakthrough at We.066P Asril, Asliati. Indonesia. Policy Level of Bangladesh Desjardins, Lisa. Canada. Methadone Maintenance in Support of Pilot Oral Drug Taylor, Marliss. Canada. Treatment Program Preventing Substitution (ODS) Program. Drug Education and Overdose HIV Through Drug Treatment We.058P Prevention Project: a First for We.050P Raffa, Jesse. Canada. Canada Zhang, Linglin. China. Recreational Drug Use We.067P The Effectiveness of Does Not Affect Methadone Green, Traci. USA. Methadone Maintenance Adherence in IDUs Receiving Therapy in Leshan, China Treatment For HIV in a Medical Expert Agreement of Drug User Reported Overdose We.051P Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) Program Symptoms Akthar, Salim. Nepal.
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Methadone Prescribing in UK W We.052P Peer Education Support For General Practice Gaidadzis-Knezevic, Slavica. STIs Clinic in Reduction of Macedonia. We.060P HIV/AIDS Progress in Development Goodyear-Smith, Felicity. New We.070P Zealand. of Methadone Meintenance Nguyen, Tuan. Vietnam. Treatment Programs in Perspectives of Methadone Using Peer Educators to Macedonia Maintenance Specialist Staff, Target Injecting Drug Users Clients, Family Doctors and We.053P (IDUs) For HIV Prevention in Patients on Transfer From Mendelevich, Vladimir. Russia. Khanh Hoa - Vietnam Secondary to Primary Care Opposition to Substitution Therapy in Russia
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We.071P Outreach Program to Reduce Exchange as Public Health Mingjian, Ni. China. HIV Risks for Injecting Drug Practice Users Role and Impact of Ex-Drug- Users in Needle Syringe We.079P We.087P Programs in Yining City Kalon, Stobdan. France. Tupua, Leone. Fiji Islands. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous ‘Showing the Way Ahead’ Innovative Approaches Region Benefiting From Peer to Combating Drugs and We.072P Networks in the Community: Adolescent Sexual and Rajkumar, Tomalsana. India. Experience of MDM’s Harm Reproductive Health Issues: a Reduction Program in Multi-Sectoral Fashion to Pre- Peer led Prevention & Myanmar Emptive Behavior Change Interventions through Harm Reduction Measures. We.080P We.088P We.073P Alam, Md. Shakawat. Sugiarto, Edi. Indonesia. Bangladesh. Moirangthem, Joychandra. Indonesia : Community Base India. Review of Harm Reduction on Harm Reduction Program Program in Establishing in Jakarta NSEP Through Outreach Took Comprehensive Intervention- a Major Role in Reaching We.089P Perspective CARE More Population But the Bangladesh. Stuikyte, Raminta. Lithuania. Misconceptions Among the DU and PLWHA Community: Community People Are at We.081P Needs and Opportunities Large. Bright, Vicki. Canada. We.090P We.074P The MAKA Project: a Scott, D. USA. Schatz, Eberhard. The Community-Academic Netherlands. Partnership to Develop HIV Project NEON: Options for Programs With and For Gay and Bi Men Who Use Access to Health and Social Women Survival Sex Workers Crystal Services For Marginalized People - the Role of We.082P We.091P Empowerment and Peers Tanguay, Pascal. Thailand. Leclair, Raymond. Canada. We.075P There Is Always a Way Where Using Peer-Based Methods Zhou, Hongmei. China. There Is a Will ... to Reduce Asian Intravenous Drug User Vulnerabilities Developing Peer Education We.083P Among Drug Users in Yunnan, Leclerc, Pascale. Canada. Spirituality and Harm
DAY China What About Secondary S Reduction We.076P Exchangers in Syringes We.093P Wan, Shaoping. China. Distribution Programs in EDNE Montreal? Tupper, Kenneth. Canada. W Peer Involvement in a Harm Contemporary Ayahuasca Use: Reduction Intervention: We.084P Harm Reduction or Benefit Experience from Liangshan, ambekar, Atul. India. Maximization? Sichuan, China Reducing the Risk of HIV We.094P We.077P Among Drug Users: a Peer- Morgan, Rob. Canada. mccallum, William. New Led Intervention Zealand. We.085P Medically Supervised Safer Smoking Facilities for Crack Expanding Peer Involvement Weppler, Robert. Canada. Cocaine Users: Implications in Harm Reduction Professional Peers for Community and Public We.078P We.086P Health Visavakum, Prin. Thailand. Irwin, Kevin. USA. Bangkok Metropolitan Peer Prevention Networks: Administration (BMA) Peer Formalizing Satellite Syringe
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We.095P We.103P We.111P Shannon, Kate. Canada. Westin, Caio. Brazil. Carey, Neil. UK. HIV and HCV Prevalence Outreach Work: Drug User Drug Practitioners as and Risk Behaviours Among and/or Heath Care Worker Researchers/Evaluators: Injection and Non-Injection We.104P Lessons Learned From Two Drug Using Crack Cocaine UK Studies on Substance Gomes, Leni. Norway. Smokers Misuse in Young People Ramstad, Berit. Norway. We.112P Transferring Knowledge Three Low Threshold into Practice Institutions in Oslo, Norway Chakraborty, Nibedita. Canada. Storytelling to Share We.096P We.105P Knowledge About HIV/AIDS Razzak, Sultan. Bangladesh. Russell, Claire. UK. We.113P Popular Theater the Calculating Risk: Theory and Woelfel, Tiffany. USA. Effective Behaviour Change Practice in Risk Addiction Communication Tool We.106P Tracking Research Participants Through Needle We.097P Burris, Scott. USA. Exchange Programs Roy, Elise. Canada. Evaluation of a Rapid Policy Evaluation of a Media Assessment and Response Voluntary Counselling Campaign Aimed at Intervention: Szczecin, and Testing Poland Preventing Initiation Into We.115P Drug Injection Among Street We.107P Masih, Nazir. Pakistan. Youth (SY) Phillips, Rosie. UK. Voluntary Counseling and We.098P An Exploration of the Testing of PLHA and IDUs Lwin, Myo. Myanmar. Relationship Between Worker We.116P Partnership With Government Values and Client Outcomes Ncube, Fortune. UK. in Harm Reduction Responses We.108P Trends in Uptake of Voluntary in Myanmar Domb, Mindy. USA. Confidential Testing For We.099P Building the Capacity of HIV and Hepatitis C Among Bokazhanova, Aliya. USA. Drug and Alcohol Treatment Injecting Drug Users in Training of Traners (ToT) - Providers to Practice Harm the UK: Implications For How Do We Know It Works? Reduction Prevention We.100P We.109P We.117P
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Women We.127P We.135P We.120P Paivinen, Helena. Canada. McVinney, Donald. USA. Dias, Giselle. Canada. Eclipsing Venus: The status The Social Construction of of research of Methadone Crystal Meth “Horror Stories” Unlocking Our Futures: a Maintenance and Women and the Impact of Public National Study on Women, Health Social Marketing Prisons, HIV, and Hepatitis C We.128P Campaigns We.121P Khidirova, Alfira.Tajikistan. We.136P Braine, Naomi. USA. Civil War, Migration of Men, Gender Disbalance, Female Young, M. USA. Sexual Risk Among SEP Prostitution First Step: A Residential Participants and The Treatment Program Serving Possibilities For Prevention We.129P Substance-Involved Intervention Hills, Holly. USA. Postpartum Mothers and We.122P Improving the Identification Their Infants in Sarasota, Sirett, Angela. UK. of Substance Use during Florida Pregnancy: Creating a Improving Retention, Through We.137P Community Collaborative Care and Aftercare For Drug Mittal, Ashita. India. Users in the Borough of We.130P Working With Partners of Sefton, England by Utilising Watkins, Michele. Canada. Substance Users To Address the Drug Interventions Team Women Working Toward Feminization of the HIV We.123P their Goals Through AADAC Epidemic - “Women Make Booth, Robert. USA. Enhanced Services for Women A Difference” - a Case Study (ESW) Methadone Treatment From North E Retention and it’s We.131P We.138P Effectiveness with Street- Swaine, Katy. UK. Gilchrist, Gail. Australia. Recruited Opiate Injectors Drugs, the Law and Human Crack And Cocaine Use We.124P Rights: Legal Services and Among Female Prostitutes In Payne, Sarah. Canada. Harm Reduction Glasgow: Risky Business Harm Reduction Model We.132P We.139P Within an Acute Care Setting Edgecliffe-Johnson, Abigail. Carriere, Gayle. Canada. Designed to Improve Perinatal UK. Linking Vulnerable Women: a Outcomes For Women Exploring The Meanings Of Population Health Approach Experiencing Problematic Motherhood For Drug-Using DAY We.140P S Substance Use Women Junqueira, Liliane. Brazil. We.125P We.133P
EDNE Women and Harm Reduction: Korolenko, Tatiana. Russia. Choudhri, Yogesh. Canada. W Limits and Brazilian Drug Addictive Disorders of I-Track: Observed Increase Possibilities Children and Adolescents And in Prevalence of HIV among We.141P HCV In Novosibirsk, Injecting Drug Users in Two We.126P Rounds of I-Track Survey Mungazi, Godfrey. Zimbabwe. Szetela, Carolyn. USA. We.134P Use Of Condoms Amongst Sex Workers Who Trade Sex Role Play Strategies to Train German, Danielle. USA. For Drugs And Money. Practitioners to Intervene in Experiences With Pregnancy We.142P Alcohol Use in Pregnancy and and Abortion Among Young Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Thai Methamphetamine Users Genoway, Krista. Canada. Initiation of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Treatment among Injection Drug Users (IDUs)
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We.143P Dell, Colleen. Canada. Women-Centred Harm Reduction, Evidence for their Integration Family We.144P Patterson-Sterling, Cathy. Canada. Family Reflective Teams In Inpatient Residential Treatment We.145P Sandoval, Milagros. USA. When Do Mother’s and Religion Matter? Two Different Paths to Recovery and Disclosure By HIV+ IDUs We.146P Templeton, Lorna. UK. Focusing on the Family to Reduce Drug and Alcohol Related Harm Hepatitis C Treatment We.147P Hoogenboezem, Geeske. The Netherlands. HCV Treatment of Drug Users in the Netherlands
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Major Sessions Th. 02 fairmont hotel Spirituality and Harm vancouver THU MAY 4, 8:45–10:15 Reduction Pacific Ballroom Th. 01 Session Chair: Br. Tom Maddix Not So Fast: Youth on Th.02.1 Speed TBA. BC Ballroom Th.02.2 Session Chair: Patricia Case Marlatt, G. USA. Th.01.1 Mindfulness Meditation, Buxton, Jane. Canada. Harm Reduction, and the Crystal Methamphetamine Middle Way Use Associated With Non- Th.02.3 Fatal Overdose Among a Sanders, Edwin. USA. Cohort of Injection Drug Users Spirituality as an Essential Th.01.2 Component of any Effective Sirirojn, Bangorn. Thailand. HR Initiative Sexual Risk Behaviours Amongst Young thu MAY 4, 10:15–10:45 Methamphetamine Users in Northern Thailand Refreshment Break Th.01.3 CONFERENCE LEVEL, Stibich, Mark. USA. FAIRMONT HOTEL Occupational Use of Injected VANCOUVER Methamphetamine In Commercial Sex Workers In Moscow, Russia Th.01.4 Chintalova-Dallas, Repsina. USA. Boltushka: Use of Homemade Amphetamine in Odessa, Ukraine DAY S THUR
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Plenary Session young people refusing to participate in non- THU MAY 4, 10:45–12:05 adequate programs and young people continuing dangerous behaviours and practices. Th. 03 If countries want to stop the spread of HIV, There Is No Minimum Age they need to increase the attractiveness of HIV With Infectious Disease: Working Prevention/Harm reduction programs and their commitment of young people receiving HIV With Youth To Prevent Drug related services. All these points require active Related Harm participation of young people in the process of BC Ballroom, decision-making and implementation. fairmont hotel vancouver What should be done to include young people Session Chair: Peter McDermott in this process? Common knowledge supposes that young people should advocate and lobby Th.03.1 their interests. It can be done in friendly, Usenko, Dima. Kyrgikistan. indifferent or amicable environment, by active Youth and Decision-Making advocacy (like mass demonstrations) or by very The HIV epidemic in CIS region is mostly in close and very informal contacts with influential young people between the ages of 14-30. All advocates, adherents or supporters from the national programs of all countries in CIS region circle of officials or public stakeholders. These have prevention and harm reduction among methods of youth inclusion in the decision- youth as the one of chief priorities. Funding and making process in the field of HIV are an area for resources allocated for implementing HIV-related ongoing discussion. activities are the largest part of national plans Th.03.2 and budgets. Yin, Yu. China. Young people are perceived to be one of the There Is No Minimum Age With Infectious most vulnerable to HIV and AIDS. There are Disease: Working With Youth To Prevent Drug a lot of factors for this, but one chief issue is Related Harm excluding young people from the process of Background: Located next to northern Myanmar, making and control of political decisions. Young Yunnan has been known for one the primary people are excluded or under-represented in the distribution stop of illicit drugs with high HIV/ national coordination mechanisms, are not able AIDS epidemic in China. Youth aged between to influence the development of strategies of HIV 15 to 35 years old has become the major drug preventive work on a national level, nor part of addict and potential victims of HIV/AIDS. In monitoring and evaluating existing efforts. Yunnan Province, the average age of drug users There exist a lot of reasons, myths or vague is 27 and the trend tend to be younger, they explanations why young people are excluded have become the most vulnerable group in such as young people: the society. At the meantime, a considerable • haven’t enough experience/knowledge/ numbers of youth have interested in participating responsibility the works of against drug abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention as volunteers. The volunteers have • haven’t “political influence/respect” lots of creative idea in educating their peer • don’t know what’s best for them (adults know on drug issues and AIDS prevention, yet harm better) reduction is a brand new concept to local people • should be thankful and satisfied that they are and their knowledge on such issues is limited. served by any interventions and should not Method: These volunteer have recognized their ask more than what adult politicians want to limitation and have gathered occasionally to
provide. talk about their puzzlement, gradually they have DAY S These myths are raising different challenges: established a discussion group to share their declining effectiveness of HIV programs, understandings and information on HIV/AIDS
funds and resources are spent for nothing, and drugs issues. With ARHP support, they set THUR up an email group, arrange regular informal chat
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meeting, invite experts frequently to answer their The project is unique in that it is both youth question and use brainstorming to help peers to driven and community responsive at the same solve their question related on harm reduction time, working within VCH. and HIV/AIDS issues. Outcomes: The youths’ peer advocacy and Outcome: The volunteer group has grown referrals increase access to support groups steadily, its members have become more for youth that are HIV or Hepatitis C positive, knowledgeable on HIV/AIDS and drugs issues, and increase access to community detox and their self-confidence have increased, and they health services. The project has partnered have been actively participated in the local with a community clinic to conduct a pilot household to household education programs on study of the peers ability to increase referrals harm reduction, and joined in the helping drug of street-involved and marginalized youth to users’ family members program and taught them primary health care and needle exchange. about HIV/AIDS prevention. They have also reach A model of training, health promotion and out to students groups to enlarge their impact integration has been developed and it a working on youth against HIV/AIDS and drugs. All their example of participant-driven programming. It works have facilitate the building of supportive is transferable to any urban community or sub- environment for harm reduction implementation community in need of increased awareness and of ARHP project. access to health-related services, education and Th.03.3 advocacy. Neiva-Silva, Lucas. Brazil. The presentation would include the following: Open Service Centers as a Strategy to Prevent • A presentation from peer participants who Drug Related Harm Among Children and Youth in will speak from their experiences training and Street Circumstances in Porto Alegre, Brazil working with Crystal Clear; Th.03.4 • A discussion of the key learning from the development of this model, and the initial Padgett, Caitlin. Canada. findings of a longitudinal program evaluation; CRYSTAL CLEAR: A Peer-Based Health • A discussion of the benefits and challenges of Promotion Project a youth-driven, peer-user project within a larger Issue: The development of a participant-driven organization, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH). project that empowers marginalized street- involved youth using methamphetamine to make safer, healthier choices and to increase Thu MAY 4, 12:05 individual and community awareness. Closing Ceremony Setting: According to anecdotal evidence, BC Ballroom, methamphetamine predominates as the drug fairmont hotel vancouver of choice for the 700 to 1000 street youth in Vancouver’s Downtown South, a community of Rapporteur’s Report about 80,000 residents. Evidence suggests Rapporteur: Steffanie Strathdee youth who are afflicted by poverty and homelessness are some of Vancouver’s most Thank-You and Closing Remarks vulnerable residents. Project: The youth participants pursue a Introducing the 18th International continuum of activities that include street level outreach and needle exchange, harm reduction, Conference on the Reduction of support, peer education and participatory Drug-related Harm, Warsaw, Poland. research. Peers also engage in community-based
DAY advocacy - increasing the awareness of the larger S community about the needs of street-involved youth that use methamphetamine. THUR
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Vancouver Coastal Health 1 & 2 Burnet Institute 19
International Harm Reduction Association 3 ASP Healthcare Project 20
ASIA–Asian Society for the Intervention of AIDS 4 Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network 21
Warsaw 2007 Harm Reduction Conference 5 Cardinal Health, Martindale Products 22
SLS Health 6 Better World Advertising/AIDS Project Management Group 23 NOVX Systems 7 City of Vancouver 24 Red Road HIV/AIDS Network Society 8 bioLytical™ Laboratories 25 & 31 Government of Canada 9, 10 & 11 OraSure Technologies Inc 26 Unilife Medical Solutions 12 British Columbia Ministry of Health 27 Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse 13 Providence Health Care 28 Healing Our Spirit BC Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Society 14 NAOMI Study/CHÉOS 29 Frontier Plastics Ltd. 16 BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS 30 International Users Advisory Group 17
Therapeias Health Management 18
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Booth 4 Booth 23 Booth 19 ASIA - Asian Society for Better World Burnet Institute the Intervention of AIDS Advertising/AIDS Project Macfarlane Burnet 119 West Pender Street, Management Group Institute for Medical Suite 210 BWA: 1205 - 870 Market Street Research & Public Vancouver, BC Canada V6B 1S5 San Francisco, CA USA 94102 Health Limited Phone 604.669.5567 Phone 415.837.1100 Commercial Road Fax 604.669.7756 Fax 415.837.1101 Melbourne, Victoria 3004 Rosy Deol Les Pappas Australia [email protected] [email protected] Phone 613.9282.211 www.asia.bc.ca www.socialmarketing.com Fax 613.9282.2100 Visit ASIA’s booth for an opportunity Simon Baldwin to network, learn about local Asian APMG: Level 2, 50 York Street [email protected] specific services and information. Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia www.burnet.edu.au Phone 612.8231.6625 Harm Reduction 2006 Film Fesival Fax 612.8231.6624 Information Booth 20 Dave Burrows ASP Healthcare Project [email protected] www.aidsprojects.com Booth 21 PO Box 540 Social Marketing and Project Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal St. Marys NSW 1790 Australia Management Network
Phone 612.9623.7677 1240 Bay Street, Suite 600 Fax 612.9673.4032 Booth 25 & 31 Toronto, ON Canada M5R 2A7 Garth Young bioLyticaL™ Laboratories Phone 416.595.1666 [email protected] Fax 416.595.0094 1108-13351 Commerce Parkway, www.aspharmreduction.com.au Joanne Csete Richmond, BC Canada V6V 2X7 Fitpack Sharps Containers [email protected] Phone 604.204.6784 www.aidslaw.ca Fax 604.244.8399 Legal Network reports and fact sheets Debbie Collins Booth 30 on harm reduction BC Centre for [email protected] Excellence in HIV/AIDS www.biolytical.com INSTIT, HIV-1 Rapid Antibody Test Booth 13 608-1081 Burrard Street Canadian Centre on Vancouver BC Canada V6Z 1Y6 Booth 27 Substance Abuse Phone 604.806.8515 British Columbia 75 Albert Street, Suite 300 Fax 604.806.9044 Ministry of Health Ottawa, ON Canada K1P 5E7 Glen Edwards (Communicable Disease & Phone 613.235.4048 x243 Fax 613.235.8101 [email protected] Addictions Prevention) www.cfenet.ubc.ca Brooke Bryce 4-2, 1515 Blanshard Street Vancouver Injection Drug Users [email protected] Victoria, BC Canada V8W 3G8 Study / Scientific Evaluation of www.ccsa.ca Phone 250.952.1487 Information / educational materials, Supervised Injecting Fax 250.952.1570 FAQs, etc Rafe Mooney [email protected] www.hlth.gov.bc.ca/prevent/pdf/ hrcommunityguide.pdf
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Booth 22 Booth 9,10 & 11 Booth 7 Cardinal Health, GOVERNMENT OF Canada NOVX Systems Martindale Products 123 Slater Street, Rm D278 185 Renfrew Drive Hubert Road Ottawa, ON Canada Markham, ON Canada L3R 6G3 Brentwood, Essex UK CM14 4LZ www.healthcanada.gc.ca/cds Phone 915.474.5051 x292 Phone 44.01277.266.600 Fax 905.474.1023 Fax 44.01277.848.976 Erik Hansen Booth 3 Ella Izquierdo [email protected] International Harm [email protected] www.novxsystems.com www.cardinalhealth.co.uk Reduction Association Urine analysis solutions and software Physeptone SF PO Box 818 North Melbourne 3051 Melbourne, Victoria Australia Booth 26 Booth 24 Phone 613.9278.8104 OraSure Technologies City of Vancouver Fax 613.9328.3008 Inc. 453 West 12th Avenue Hazel Mann 220 East 1st Street Vancouver, BC Canada V5Y 1V4 [email protected] Bethlehem, PA USA 18015 Phone 604.871.6040 www.ihra.net Phone 800.869.3538 Fax 604.871.6488 International Harm Reduction Fax 610.882.1830 Donald MacPherson Association and International Journal Michelle Smith [email protected] of Drug Policy: Information about [email protected] www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/fourpillars IHRA and IHRA’s official journal www.orasure.com Information & materials regarding OraQuick ADVANCE Vancouver’s Four Pillars approach Booth 17 International Users Booth 28 Booth 16 Advisory Group Providence Health Care Frontier Plastics Ltd Canada 1081 Burrard Street Newbridge Road Industrial Phone 613.336.2458 Vancouver, BC Canada V6Z 1Y6 Estate Blackwood, Brent Taylor Phone 604.806.8693 South Wales UK NP12 2YN [email protected] Fax 604.806.9186 Phone 44.1495.235800 http://vancouver.mammajamma.org Pamela Miller Fax 44.1495.235808 [email protected] Mark Tudor www.providencehealth.bc.ca [email protected] Booth 29 Information related to the services, www.frontier-group.co.uk NAOMI Study / CHÉOS mission & values of Providence Needle exchange containers 620B-1081 Burrard Street Health Care with harm reduction and packs Vancouver, BC Canada V6Z 1Y6 Phone 604.806.8367 Fax 604.806.8210 Booth 8 Booth 14 Julie Schneiderman Red Road HIV/AIDS Healing Our Spirit BC [email protected] Network Society Aboriginal HIV/AIDS www.naomistudy.ca 804-100 Park Royal South Society www.cheos.ubc.ca West Vancouver, BC Canada 100-2425 Quebec Street Information regarding the V7T 1A2 Vancouver, BC Canada V5T 4L6 NAOMI clinical trial and CHÉOS Phone 604.913.3332 Phone 604.879.8884 interdisciplinary research Fax 604.913.3352 Canada toll-free 866.745.8884 Michelle George Fax 604.879.9926 [email protected] Georgina Flamand www.red-road.org [email protected] www.healingourspirit.org Information & resources available
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Booth 6 Booth 1 & 2 SLS Health Vancouver Coastal 2505 Carmel Avenue, Suite 210 Health Brewster, NY USA 10509 320-1290 Hornby Street Phone 845.279.5994 Vancouver, BC Canada V6Z 1W2 Fax 845.279.7678 Chris Buchner Rob Deletis [email protected] [email protected] www.vch.ca www.erptherapy.com Information about health services ERP Therapy Kits (Supervised Injection Site, Health Contact Centre, Needle Exchange Booth 18 etc) Therapeias Health Management Booth 5 140 West Foothill Boulevard, Warsaw 2007 Harm Suite D Reduction Conference Claremont, CA USA 91711 Conference Consortium Phone 909.626.6380 x110 480a Holloway Road Fax 909.447.7015 London, UK N7 6HT William Work Phone 44.208.123.9981 [email protected] Fax 44.207.272.6902 www.therapeias.com Paddy Costall The TheraScan web-based clinical [email protected] research system provides real-time www.harmreduction2007.org links between field researchers/clinics Information for Warsaw 2007 Harm and off-site study management. Reduction Conference TheraScan is especially relevant for multi-center or off-shore implementations.
Booth 12 Unilife Medical Solutions 35 Clarence Street Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia Phone 612.8346.6500 Fax 612.8346.6511 Kate Goodwin [email protected] www.unilife.com.au www.unitract.com.au Unitract Safe Syringe
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Abdullaeva, Zarina Mo.101P Borenstein, Michael We.10.4 Colvin, Lesley Tu.11.1 Abidjanova, Nigora We.021P Borodkina, Olga Mo.139P Comeau, Natalie Tu.027P Aceijas, Carmen Mo.08.1, Tu.054P Bourke, Margaret We.048P Conocente, Miguel Tu.122P Acharya, Bishnu Tu.092P Boyd, Susan We.09.4 Cooper, Hannah Tu.01.2 Agbor, Walter Nkongho Mo.054P Boyjoonauth, Raj Mo.124P Costa, Thiago Mo.024P, Mo.11.3, Ahmed, Munir We.057P Bradshaw, Denise Mo.034P Mo.146P, Tu.015P, We.008P Aksenov, Pavel Tu.062P Braine, Naomi Tu.052P, We.121P Cournoyer, Louis-Georges Mo.120P Akthar, Salim We.051P Bransen, Els Tu.025P Coutinho, Ettiene Tu.20.3 Alam, Md. Shakawat We.080P Bright, Vicki We.081P Cowell, Adrian Tu.04.1, We.04.1 Alanko, Marianne We.06.3 Broers, Barbara Tu.065P Craib, Kevin We.030P, We.06.1 Alcabes, Philip Mo.064P, Tu.09.1 Brooks, Rebecca We.18.1 Crown, Abiola We.119P Allen, Elizabeth Mo.026P, Mo.148P Brouwer, Kimberly Mo.130P, Tu.036P Cruz, Byron Mo.132P Allman, Dan Tu.17.2 Brown, Randy Mo.103P Curtis, Matthew Tu.18.1 Amatya, Binay We.11.5 Bruce, Robert Tu.16.3 Daniel, Ksenija Tu.080P Ambekar, Atul We.084P Bruneau, Julie Tu.104P, We.148P Darby O.B.E., Annie Tu.19.5 An, Yanboo Tu.144P Brunt, Caroline We.09.3 Darlington, Tass Mo.23.5 Andersson, Magnus Tu.117P Brunton, Cheryl Tu.053P Davidson, Peter Mo.069P, We.13.2 Anker, Jørgen Tu.153P Buchner, Christopher Mo.06.3 Davis, Corey Mo.17.1 Anyasi, Lucky Mo.040P Bueno, Regina We.001P Day, Marcus Mo.052P Apakupakul, Nualta Mo.020P Bungay, Vicky Mo.084P, Tu.007P De Greiff, Gustavo Tu.14.2, Tu.142P Arasi, Kalai Mo.049P Burris, Scott Tu.13.1, We.106P De, Prithwish Mo.17.3 Arcuri, Anthony Mo.016P Burrows, Dave Tu.019P DeLetis, Robert Mo.002P Asril, Asliati We.043P, We.049P Butkus, Kestutis Mo.065P Delic, Milutin Tu.06.2 Atkinson, Christine Mo.004P Buxton, Jane Mo.094P, Th.01.1 Dell, Colleen We.143P Atmosukarto, Ingrid Mo.009P Cakic, Zoran We.117P Denham, Greg Mo.112P Augulyte-Butkuviene, Lina Tu.18.3 Callaghan, Russell Mo.07.3 Des Jarlais, Don Tu.050P Aung, Kyaw Tu.012P Campbell, Sheena Tu.014P Desjardins, Lisa Tu.24.3, We.066P Axelson, Pamela Mo.097P Capler, Rielle Mo.029P, We.17.3 Devaney, Madonna Tu.024P Azim, Tasnim Mo.15.4 Carboni, Stefano Mo.082P DeVlaming, Stanley Mo.156P Baba, Ismail Tu.148P Carden, Michael We.149P Dias, Giselle We.120P Bajracharya, Rickson We.028P Carey, Neil We.111P Digiusto, Erol Mo.038P, We.16.1 Balakireva, Olga We.109P Carr, Dana Tu.073P Dingwell, Julie Tu.141P Baldwin, Simon We.019P Carriere, Gayle Tu.129P, We.139P Dinner, Katherine Tu.105P Barahona, Paola We.09.1 Carson, Betsy Tu.22.1 Djakhangirova, Merem Tu.011P Barlow, Joy Tu.005P Carter, Joe Tu.20.7 Domb, Mindy Tu.24.2, We.108P Barnaby, Loraine We.01.4 Carvalho, Heraclito Tu.004P Donovan, Kathleen Mo.067P Bassi, Marilena Mo.071P Case, Patricia Tu.035P Dos Santos, Francisco Tu.20.5 Basu, Dolon Mo.086P Catania, Holly We.19.1 Dowling, John Tu.152P Beckius-Johnson, Amy Tu.006P Chakraborty, Nibedita Tu.082P, Duan, Yong Mo.111P Bennett, Susan Tu.02.1 We.112P Duff, Cameron Mo.08.3 Berezhnova, Irina Mo.19.3 Chanda, Sanchoy Mo.05.3 Dumitriu, Camil Tu.18.2 Berkhout, Suze Mo.06.2 Chang, Paul Mo.123P Dunlop, Adrian We.045P Bertrand, Karine We.034P, We.038P Chen, Chu-tzu Tu.116P Duo, Lin Tu.107P Beynon, Caryl Mo.137P, Mo.138P Chequer, Pedro Tu.21.3 Eastwood, Niamh We.007P Beyrer, Chris Tu.078P Chikritzhs, Tanya Tu.096P, We.08.2 Ede, Robyn Tu.100P, Tu.101P Bharti, Rakesh We.014P Chintalova-Dallas, Repsina Th.01.4 Edgecliffe-Johnson, Abigail We.132P Bhuiyan, Md. Nakib Mo.070P Choudhri, Yogesh We.133P Edi, Fredy We.015P Bird, Nick Tu.20.4 Christian, Wayne Mo.01.1 Elovich, Richard Mo.036P, Mo.037P Bluthenthal, Ricky Mo.17.2 Chu, Tianxin Tu.049P Emmanuel, Faran Tu.058P Boci, Arian Mo.058P Chuenchooklin, Nantapol Tu.146P Erickson, Patricia We.01.2 Bokazhanova, Aliya We.099P Chuprina, Elena Tu.140P Eryomina, Olga Tu.002P Boldiston, James Tu.20.5 Chura, Volodymyr Mo.039P, We.11.2 Evans, Jennifer We.15.1 Bonnell, Roxana Tu.09.3 Clay, Cyndee We.09.1 Evans, Sarah Tu.10.4 Booth, Robert We.123P Cohen, Jonathan Mo.14.2, Tu.21.2 Ezechiedo, Kelvin We.044P
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Fairbairn, Nadia Tu.040P Gurmel, Gurpreet Tu.009P, Tu028P Jones, Kevin Mo.11.4, We.110P Farhoudian, Ali Mo.080P Gurung, Dil Tu.001P Jones, Megan Mo.004P Farquhar, Stephen Tu.030P, Tu.031P Gustafson, Diana Tu.157P Joseph, Herman Mo.11.1 Farrell, Jason Mo.155P, We.18.3 Haden, Mark Tu.14.3 Juniar, Linna Tu.099P Faruque, Mohammad Tu.042P Haemmig, Robert Tu.08.2, Tu.121P Junqueira, Liliane We.140P Fayant, Rosemary We.02.4 Hahn, Judith Mo.143P, Tu.026P Jurgens, Ralf We.02.3, We.024P Fernandez, Osvaldo Mo.021P, Hailu, Degol Tu.091P Kalon, Stobdan Mo.017P, Mo.018P, Tu.029P Hall, Nichola Tu.19.4 We.079P Fielden, Sarah We.05.2 Hammett, Theodore Tu.124P Kamarulzaman, Adeeba Th.02.1 Filipe, Elvira Mo.13.1 Handoyo, Patri We.020P Kang, Shimi Tu.25.1 Findlay, Linda Tu.095P Hao, Wei We.21.2 Kaplan, Karyn We.19.1 Fitzgerald, John Mo.23.4 Hapiyenko, Oleksandr Mo.028P Karpetas, Sandra Mo.041P Fleck, Alexine Tu.17.1 Haque, Masum We.11.3 Keith, Barb Mo.07.4 Ford, Chris Tu.043P, We.059P Hart, Andy Tu.131P Kenny, Steve Mo.090P Ford, Jamye We.026P Hathaway, Andrew Tu.027P Kerr, Thomas Mo.032P, Tu.08.4, Fountain, Jane Mo.110P Hayes, Meghan Tu.100P, Tu.101P Tu.14.1 Frail, Ken Tu.097P, Tu.098P, Heimer, Robert Mo.153P Khan, Mohammad Tu.047P We.07.2 Heller-Murphy, Stephen Mo.104P, Khidirov, Murtazokul Mo.061P, François, Anne Mo.154P, Tu.127P Tu.12.3 Mo.062P, Mo.101P Friedman, Samuel Mo.136P, Tu.139P Hickman, Matthew We.06.4 Khidirova, Alfira We.128P Froese, Beverly Mo.02.4 Higgs, Peter Mo.17.4, Tu.046P, Khongbantabam, Rajesh We.005P Fry, Craig Tu.075P, Tu.081P Tu.068P Kien, Serey Phal Mo.01.3 Fyfe, Graeme Tu.010P, We.023P Hildebran, Gretchen Mo.23.6, Kiatying-Angsulee, Niyada Mo.027P Gabb, Liss Tu.20.2 We.12.2 Kim, Joseph We.11.6 Gagarkin, Nikolay Tu.138P Hills, Holly We.129P Kingsley, Cherry Mo.03.2 Gaidadzis-Knezevic, Slavica We.052P Hodgins, Dawn Mo.19.1 Kinner, Stuart Mo.106P, Tu.03.2 Ganguly, Joy Mo.100P, We.14.2 Hoogenboezem, Geeske We.147P Korolenko, Tatiana We.125P Garratt, Daren Tu.02.2 Hope, Vivian Mo.135P, Tu.048P Kral, Alex Tu.038P Genoway, Krista We.142P Hotz, Rudolf Tu.06.1 Krol, Anneke Tu.037P, We.15.2 German, Danielle We.134P Hu, Yiqing Mo.147P Kushlick, Danny Tu.11.2 Ghanimi, Farzaneh We.035P Hudson, Susan Tu.083P Lam, Yee Ling Tu.159P Ghimire, Kamala Mo.087P Hunter, Garson Mo.067P Lampinen, Thomas Tu.067P, Tu.128P Ghosh, Gautam Mo.085P, Tu.013P Huriaux, Emalie We.05.3 Lankenau, Stephen Tu.041P Ghozalie, Imam Tu.132P Hussein, Zahid Mo.051P Laplante, Julie Mo.06.4 Gilbert, Mark Mo.149P, Mo.15.1, Hyde, Stephanie Mo.057P Lapshyna, Viktoriya Tu.13.3 We.08.4, We.138P Hyman, Paul Mo.089P Lareau, Stephanie Mo.025P Gkaitatzis, Ioannis Tu.114P Ibanez-de-Benito, Stephane We.033P, Lavrova, Kaleria Mo.005P Glenday, Kathleen Tu.051P We.054P Leclair, Raymond We.091P Goddard, Perilou Tu.07.2 Ilundain, Enrique Mo.079P Leclerc, Pascale Tu.064P, We.083P Godin, Gaston Tu.063P Imani, Reza Tu.045P Lenton, Simon We.01.3, We.10.1 Goheen, Mark Mo.006P Irrizarry, Chris Tu.04.2 Leonard, Lynne Mo.13.4, Mo.150P Gomes, Leni We.104P Irwin, Kevin We.07.3, We.086P Lewis, Gary Mo.10.5 Gomes, Ronan Mo.096P Iryawan, Arif Mo.12.3 Lia, Anlaug Mo.09.4 Goodyear-Smith, Felicity We.060P Islam, S.M. Tu.032P Limbu, Bobby Mo.18.1 Goossens, Stijn Mo.050P, We.14.1 Janayeva, Assel Mo.066P, We.010P Lirtmunlikaporn, Sumalee Mo.088P Graham, Kathryn We.21.3 Jankovic, Katarina Mo.044P Livingston, Ann Tu.23.1, We.011P Grau, Lauretta Mo.06.1, Mo.151P Jenkins, Lindsay Mo.030P Livingstone, Christopher We.14.3 Gray, Robert Mo.10.2, Tu.07.4 Jimenez, Lanny Mo.092P Lockhart, Nathan Mo.071P, Mo.16.2 Grebely, Jason We.03.3 Jintakanon, Seree Tu.10.2 Loudfoot, Jodi Mo.19.5 Green, Traci We.067P Johnson, Bruce Mo.113P, Mo.114P Loxley, Wendy Mo.109P, We.08.1 Grund, Jean-Paul We.07.1 Johnson, Joy We.07.4, We.16.3 Lucas, Philippe We.17.2 Guanabara, Luiz Mo.117P, Mo.13.2 Johnson, Sandra We.02.4 Luger, Lisa Mo.124P Guarinieri, Mauro Mo.22.3 Johnston, Jennifer Mo.043P, Luk, Lai Tau Tu.159P Gurmel, Chahal Tu.009P, Tu.028P Mo.098P Lum, Paula Mo.18.3
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Luu, Tuan Mo.132P Montoya, Antonia Tu.016P Peters, Heather Tu.24.4 Luwang, Liechil Tu.12.1 Moore, David Mo.08.2 Pettey, Donna We.039P, We.040P Lwin, Myo We.098P Morgan, Rob Mo.11.5, We.094P Pham, Son We.069P Maas, Benjamin We.15.3 Morissette, Carole Tu.057P Phillips, Peter We.062P Macdonald, Scott We.006P Morse, Pete We.027P, We.05.3 Phillips, Rosie We.107P MacFarlane, Devon Mo.033P Mullens, Amy Mo.145P Platt, Lucy Mo.012P, Tu.060P Macleod, John Tu.070P Mungazi, Godfrey We.141P Pollini, Robin We.05.4 MacMaster, Samuel Mo.001P Munro, Bruce Tu.19.1 Poole, Nancy Mo.042P Macrory, Faye Mo.03.3 Murphy Richardson, Maureen Tu.06.3 Pope, Andrew Mo.23.2 Madden, Annie We.047P Narco News School of Authentic Potts, Jeff Mo.083P, Tu.102P, Maeschalck, Cynthia Mo.014P Journalism Mo.23.3 We.102P Magdiyev, Yusup Mo.013P Nasir, Muhammad Tu.07.1 Power, Robert Mo.10.1 Magee, Joe Mo.04.2 Nassirimanesh, Bijan Mo.046P, Powis, Neville Tu.12.2, Mo.23.7 Maher, Lisa Tu.083P, We.03.1, We.042P Praptoraharjo, Ignatius We.100P We.06.2 Naydenova, Milena We.02.1 Puri, Ajay Mo.019P Maksimova, Svetlana Mo.05.2 Ncube, Fortune Tu.059P, We.116P Quan, Vu Tu.061P Malone, Daniel Mo.035P, We.08.3 Neiva-Silva, Lucas Th.03.3 Quayle, Kenn Tu.158P, We.17.1 Malta, Monica We.002P, We.018P Nevendorff, Laura Tu.130P Rabinovitch, Jannit We.101P Mancinelli, Michael Tu.154P Newmark, Suzanne Tu.137P Racine, Stephane Mo.091P Manning, Greg We.04.2 Nguyen, Hoang Tu.20.6 Raffa, Jesse We.058P Mantsios, Andrea Mo.128P Nguyen, Tuan We.070P Rahimi Movaghar, Afarin We.11.4, Marlatt, Alan Th.02.2 Nielsen, Diane Mo.149P We.19.1 Marlow, Mary Mo.034P Nikitenko, Peter Mo.14.3 Rajkumar, Tomalsana We.072P Marques Filho, Altino Tu.155P, Nkole, Chinedu We.029P Ramos, Rebeca Mo.07.2, Mo.115P, We.036P Nolin, Pierre Claude We.01.1 Tu.01.3 Marsh, David Tu.03.4 Nonn, Éva We.13.1 Ramstad, Berit We.104P Masih, Nazir We.115P Nutt, David Tu.03.1 Ranumas, Hathaikant Mo.055P Matabber, Saidur Tu.094P, Tu.133P Nwankwo, Nonso Mo.18.2 Rashid, Harun Mo.060P, Tu.19.6 Mateu-Gelabert, Pedro Mo.107P Obot, Isidore We.21.1 Razaque, Ali Tu.106P, Tu.111P Maxwell, Gillian Mo.16.4 Oleson, Megan We.037P Razzak, Sultan We.096P Maxwell, Sarz We.19.1 O’Neill, Sandra Tu.11.4 Reid, Gary Tu.022P May, Tiggey Tu.17.4 Onigbogi, Olanrewaju Tu.09.4 Reja, Md. Zaidi Reja Tu.018P Mayock, Paula Tu.034P, We.13.3 Onyango, George We.017P Ricard, Dominique Tu.120P Mc Neil, Christopher Tu.20.1 Oomen, Joep Tu.14.4 Richardson, John Mo.02.1 McAloon, Bridget Tu.20.6 O’Reilly, Sharon Mo.116P Riddell, Rosemarie Mo.023P Mccallum, William We.077P Orgel, Michael Tu.11.1, Tu.11.3 Rigley, Eardley We.11.1 McLean, Rachel Mo.056P Oryschuk, Oksana Mo.129P Riley, Diane Mo.16.1 McNally, Grant Mo.007P, Mo.022P Oseni, Musediq Tu.003P Riley, Shannon Mo.133P McSweeney, Tim Tu.05.2 Oviedo Joekes, Eugenia Tu.08.3, Rindels, Barb Mo.004P McVinney, Donald We.135P We.046P Ripley, Lu Mo.093P Measham, Fiona Tu.021P Padgett, Caitlin Th.03.4 Roy, Elise Tu.07.3, We.097P Mehta, Shruti We.03.2 Page-Shafer, Kimberly Mo.22.2, Rubanets, Yulia We.025P Mendelevich, Vladimir We.053P Tu.039P Russell, Claire We.105P Menges, Chris Tu.04.1, We.04.1 Paivinen, Helena Mo.057P, We.127P Ryder, David Mo.127P Mercier, Chloe We.20.1 Pandey, Bijay Tu.10.3, We.02.2 Salmon, Allison Mo.09.1 Mesquita, Fabio Mo.126P Panessa, Ciro Mo.081P Salmon, Amy Mo.15.3 Metrebian, Nicola Tu.08.1 Patterson-Sterling, Cathy We.144P Sanders, Edwin Th.02.3 Michelow, Warren Tu.056P, Tu.150P Patton, Cindy Tu.156P Sandoval, Milagros We.145P Miller, Peter Tu.023P, We.032P Payne, Sarah We.124P Sarkar, Kamalesh Tu.15.2 Millson, Peggy We.055P, We.056P Pearshouse, Richard Mo.09.3, Sárosi, Péter Tu.18.4 Mingjian, Ni We.016P, We.071P Tu.115P Sauret, Etienne Mo.23.8 Mittal, Ashita We.137P Perron, Chantale We.18.2 Saville, Sebastian We.12.1, Mo.23.8 Moirangthem, Joychandra We.073P Perryman, Susan Tu.20.7 Schaeffer, Dirk Mo.02.3 Moniruzzaman, Akm Mo.07.1 Peryshkina, Alena Mo.10.3 Schatz, Eberhard We.074P
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Schleifer, Rebecca Mo.14.1 Szetela, Carolyn We.126P Weppler, Robert We.085P Scholar, Shoshanna Mo.118P Szterenfeld, Celia Mo.068P Westin, Caio Tu.113P, We.103P Schultz, Meriel Mo.003P, Tu.19.2 Tanguay, Pascal Tue.12.2, We.082P Whittaker, Anne Tu.19.3 Scott, D We.090P Tanguay, Pascal We.12.3P Wild, Nettie Tu.22.1 Scott, Greg Mo.12.2, We.09.2 Tatarsky, Andrew Mo.015P Winarso, Inang Mo.010P Secord, Sharon Mo.011P Taylor, Avril We.063P, We.065P Winsor, Yasmin Mo.13.3 Shamas, Eid Mo.047P Taylor, Brent Tu.02.4 Winstock, Adam Tu.03.3 Shannon, Kate Mo.05.1, We.095P Taylor, Marliss Tu.095P, We.066P Woelfel, Tiffany Mo.030P, We.113P Shapter, Jax Mo.11.2 Taylor, Suzi Mo.20.2 Wolchok, Leah Mo.23.6 Sharma, Mahesh Mo.059P Tellis, Eldred Tu.20.3 Wolfe, Daniel Mo.22.1 Sharma, Mukta Tu.069P Templeton, Lorna We.146P Wood, Evan Mo.031P Sharoon, Kashif Tu.077P Thomas, Gerald Mo.108P Woods, Joycelyn Tu.02.3 Shaw, Audrey Tu.071P Thompson, Scott Tu.01.4 Wulan Sari, Sekar Mo.19.4 Sherman, Susan Mo.08.4, Tu.05.3 Thomson, Nicholas Mo.095P, Xu, Zhixiang Mo.15.2 Sherrod, Martha Mo.119P We.012P Yamaçake, Alexandre Tu.119P Shrestha, Bishnu Tu.090P Thomson, Roderick Mo.105P Yang, Fang Mo.125P Silva, Silvia Tu.118P Tiedgen, Warren Mo.23.1 Yaromin, Oleg Tu.008P Sim, Kevin Mo.04.1 Tobin, Diane Tu.17.3 Yerasilova, Isidora Mo.10.4 Simon, Sue Mo.03.1 Tokombaev, Sherboto Mo.063P Yin, Yu Th.03.2 Sirett, Angela We.122P Tolton, Susan Mo.16.2 Yoshida, Elisa We.009P, We.10.3 Sirirojn, Bangorn Th.01.2 Tousaw, Kirk Tu.076P, We.004P Young, M. Mo.008P, We.136P Siwakoti, Devi Tu.147P Trace, Mike Tu.21.1 Young, Mark Tu.143P Small, Deborah Tu.05.4 Trigueiros, Daniela Mo.048P Zamani, Saman Tu.066P Small, Will Tu.123P Troung, Minh Tu.055P Zhang, Linglin Mo.053P, We.050P Smith, Michael Mo.16.3 Tsereteli, Zaza Tu.089P Zhou, Hongmei We.075P Smith, Patrick Tu.25.1 Tupper, Kenneth Mo.16.4vWe.093P Zule, William We.03.4 Smith, Tom We.064P Tupua, Leone We.087P Soares, David Tu.01.1 Turnbull, Paul Tu.033P Sobeyko, Justyna Tu.109P, We.022P Turner, Karen Mo.006P Sobolev, Igor Tu.06.4 Tutty, Steve Tu.13.2 Somers, Julian We.16.2 Twagirumukiza, Marc Tu.020P Spacca, Edoardo Tu.13.4 Tyndall, Mark Tu.103P, We.003P Speed, Tamara Tu.151P Uddin, Taslim Mo.102P Stambul, Béatrice Mo.017P, Tu.16.1 Umo, Umo We.118P Steer, Lorie Tu.149P Ungerman, Gerard Mo.20.1 National Steering Committee Tu.112P Usenko, Dima Th.03.1 Stenström, Nils Mo.144P van Beek, Ingrid Tu.11.5 Stephens, Ray Mo.12.1 Uzzaman, Hasan Mo.072P Stibich, Mark Th.01.3, Tu.15.4 Vezhnina, Natalia Tu.24.1 Stob, Victoria Mo.12.2 Vick, Dwight Tu.093P Stoltz, Jo-anne Mo.09.2, Tu.126P Visavakum, Prin We.078P Strathdee, Steffanie Tu.15.3 Vongchak, Tasanai Tu.15.1, We.05.1 Strike, Carol Mo.152P, Tu.16.2 Waikhom, Ronny Tu.108P Stuikyte, Raminta Tu.10.1, We.089P Walker, Elizabeth Tu.072P Sugiarto, Edi We.088P Walsh, Tree Tu.157P Summers, Helena Tu.125P Walters, Karina Mo.01.2 Sutton, Andrew Mo.141P, Mo.142P Wan, Shaoping Tu.16.4, We.076P Suwannawong, Paisan Mo.02.2, Wang, Ming We.10.2 Tu.079P Wang, Yusui Tu.110P Swaine, Katy We.131P Watkins, Michele We.130P Sweanor, David Tu.09.2 Weaver, Sydney Mo.19.2 Syafitri, Rizky Mo.20.3 Wechsberg, Wendee Mo.05.4 Sylvan, Staffan Mo.140P Weck, Jonna Tu.05.1 Sylvestre, Diana Tu.20.1 Weinhold, Jan Mo.131P
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