FAQ

We are committed to ensuring the event provides and facilitates appropriate care for all delegates who may have special medical and healthcare needs, especially delegates who use or have used drugs, or who are living with HIV, viral hepatitis or TB. Read more about wellbeing at the conference here.

Registration for HR17 is now open! Registrations can be completed online via the HR17 registration website page.

Simply log in and edit the primary email address listed under your contact details. All future correspondence will be sent to the new address.

Pricing is tiered according to your country's income catagory (high or low income, according to the World Bank). We are also offering discounted Early Bird rates for delegates who register before 27 January 2017. All prices are in GBP.

Read more about the pricing structure here.

Overview:

Low/middle income countries:

• Standard (until 21 April 2017): £515

High income countries:

• Standard (until 21 April 2017): £625

Late or ‘on the day’ registration: £995

You will be notified at the beginning of February. If your application is unsuccessful but you still want to register as a delegate, contact conference[at]hri[dot]global to access the Early Bird discount.

Registrations are refundable, but there is an admin fee. See Terms and Conditions for details.

If you cannot attend the conference, someone else may take your place. You must inform us by e-mail (conference[at]hri[dot]global) before 28 April 2017, and the new delegate must present your original payment confirmation on arrival at the conference.

Visitors need a valid passport to enter Canada and they may also require a visa. For information please see Visa Information.

If you requested an invitation letter for your visa when you registered, this will be available on your online registration account in due course.

Notification was sent to the primary email addresses of everyone who submitted an abstract in late December or early January. No emails bounced, but some may have ended up in junk or spam folders. If you still can’t find the email, please contact conference[at]hri[dot]global.

All abstracts submitted have been be put through a rigorous peer review process, first by an online International Review Committee, and then by an Executive Review Committee which met in London in December 2016 to formulate the conference programme. Read more about the programme process and timeline here.

Key speakers are being announced regularly from now until the conference. Check out the news section for the latest updates.

Session titles are now available here.

Montréal boasts a wide variety of hotels for every taste, no matter what your budget or needs. Each neighbourhood has its own distinctive hotel type, from boutique hotels to internationally recognised hotel chains, and from guesthouses to small independent hotels. Read our list of recommended accommodation, including information on a special discounted rate at the Novotel Montréal Centre.

Plenty! We will provide detailed information shortly.

This will be announced soon.

Speakers will have the option to make their presentations available afterwards. We will let all delegates know when these presentations are ready to be downloaded after the conference.

Find out about all sponsorship, exhibiting and advertising options, including prices, here.

Yes. At present, delegates have access to a discounted hotel rate at the Novotel Montréal Centre. Watch this space for other special deals.

Yes, we will provide these details shortly.

The local partner organisation is AIDQ.

Harm Reduction International is a leading non-governmental organisation working to promote and expand support for harm reduction. Find out more here.

Harm reduction refers to policies, programmes and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with the use of psychoactive drugs in people unable or unwilling to stop. The defining features are the focus on the prevention of harm, rather than on the prevention of drug use itself, and the focus on people who continue to use drugs. Read more here, including a full explanation in over 12 languages.

Details will be available soon, but in the meantime, please email conference[at]hri[dot]global to let us know you're interested in volunteering.

HR17 will be held at the Centre Mont-Royal in Montréal, Canada. At the centre of Montréal’s business and entertainment district, the Centre Mont-Royal offers a unique space for special events and conferences.

We’ll be updating this FAQ as we add more information to the conference site, so your question may well appear here once we have an answer. In the meantime, please let us know what you’d like to ask, in case we haven’t thought of it, by emailing conference[at]hri[dot]global.