Thank you to all of the speakers who made HR19’s programme so engaging, informative and diverse.
Click the abstract numbers in the programme below to find out more about the abstracts and their presenters, and click ‘view slides’ for a pop-up presentation window.
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Sunday April 28 2019
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16:00 - 18:00
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Opening Ceremony
Chaired by: Naomi Burke-Shyne, Executive Director, Harm Reduction International, and José Queiroz, Executive Director, APDES
Welcome remarks: José Queiroz, Executive Director, APDES
Keynote address: Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Speakers: Dr. Raquel Duarte, Secretary of State for Health, Portugal Professor Alexandre Quintanilha, President, Parliamentary Committee on Education and Science; Chair, Commission for the National Strategy to Combat Drugs (1998) Dr. Ricardo Baptista Leite, MP, Portugal; President, UNITE – Global Parliamentarians Network Rui Coimbra Morais, Consumidores Associados Sobrevivem Organizados (CASO)
Awards Presentations: Carol and Travis Jenkins Award International Rolleston Award National Rolleston Award
Closing Keynote Speech: Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio, Former President of Portugal(1996-2016), member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy
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Opening Ceremony
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16:00 - 18:00
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Monday April 29 2019
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09:00 - 10:30
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Plenary 1:
Drug Policy: The Push for Justice
Chair: Ann Fordham
Mary Chinery-Hesse, West Africa Commission on Drugs (View slides)
Kristine Mendoza, StreetLawPH (View slides)
Imani Robinson, Co-director, RE:GENERATE Festival 2018
Bikas Gurung, Asian Network of People Who Use Drugs
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Plenary 1:
Drug Policy: The Push for Justice
- 10:30 - 17:30
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11:00 - 12:30
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Major 1:
Practice is Empowerment: The Evolution of Peer Involvement in Service Provision
Chair: Dirk Schaeffer
- José Queiroz: Peer 2 Peer: reinforcing peers’ involvement in outreach work (626)
- Maria João Oliveira: Obstacles and challenges to the peers’ professionalization in health education projects: case study at a Portuguese NGO (582) (View slides)
- Graham Brown: What Works and Why (W3) Project – a partnership with peer led organisations to demonstrate the value of participation of people who inject drugs in health services and policy (733) (View slides)
- Kevin Joseph NYERERE: From a staff-led to a community-based drop-in center for people who use drugs – Lessons learnt in Temeke, Tanzania (1218) (View slides)
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Major 2:
Structures of Risk & Response: A Research Lens
Chair: Dan Werb
- Emile Dirks: The China Drug Database Project: Policy Trends and Outcomes in the People's Republic of China (1990-2016) (410) (View slides)
- William Goedel: Can emergency implementation of syringe services programs prevent rapid HIV transmission among people who inject drugs in rural counties in the United States?: A modeling study (682)
- Mélanie Quétier: Sociocultural and religious norms and values at the foundation of repression and violence towards people who use drugs in Kachin State, Myanmar. (1104) (View slides)
- Ediomo-Ubong Nelson: Initiating and continuing illicit drug injecting: structural, social and subjective determinants (171) (View slides)
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Major 3:
Money, Money, Money
Chair: Ethan Nadelmann & Pat O'Hare
Chair should take discussant role
- Emily Rowe: The Harm Reduction Funding Crisis in 7 Countries in Asia (425) (View slides)
- Ivan Varentsov: The impact of the Global Fund’s Eligibility Policy on the sustainability of the results of the last Global Fund HIV grant for Russia (981) (View slides)
- Tetiana Deshko: Harm reduction programs sustainability at city levels: lessons from EECA (883) (View slides)
- Maria Plotko: Criminalization costs: the case of EECA region (1371) (View slides)
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Major 4:
Global Drug Policy at a Crossroads
Chair: Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
380 strongly recommended for plenary
- David Badcock: Time to review the UN Conventions to limit their harms to research (1059) (View slides)
- John-Peter Kools: Drug policy in Central Asian countries; Opening windows of opportunities (855) (View slides)
- Rick Lines: The competing concepts of dignity in human rights and drug control (3) (View slides)
- Ann Fordham: The 2019 UN Ministerial Segment on drugs: Global drug policy at a crossroads (380) (View slides)
- Magdalena Dabkowska: Shrinking space for civil society in Eastern Europe and Central Asia - how does it affect harm reduction and drug policy organizations? (887) (View slides)
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Workshop 1A:
Reagent Drug Checking as an Underground Harm Reduction Practice
- Mitchell Gomez: Reagent Drug Checking as an Underground Harm Reduction Practice (494)
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Major 1:
Practice is Empowerment: The Evolution of Peer Involvement in Service Provision
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14:00 - 15:30
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Concurrent 1:
Community Based Provision of Hepatitis Testing and Treatment
Chair: Annette Verster
- Claudius Mone Iye: Community Involvement in Hepatitis C Treatment Guidelines in Indonesia (589) (View slides)
- Aung Yu Naing: Neglected Hepatitis B –Place prevention before treatment (365) (View slides)
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Meghan Morris:
Successes and Lessons Learned from a Collective Impact Initiative to Eliminate HCV in San Francisco CA USA. (1134)
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- Marianne Alanko Blome: PROJECT ACTIONNE: HEPATITIS C TREATMENT AT THE MALMÖ NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAM (1136) (View slides)
- Teresa Sousa: Low threshold Hepatitis C Treatment: diagnosis, access, criteria and outcomes (572) (View slides)
- Nico Clark: Opportunistic treatment of hepatitis C in a medically supervised injection room - a client centred approach (427) (View slides)
- Mathilde Laval: An innovative peer-based support program, providing a scalable solution for access to HCV screening and treatment for PWID into the public healthcare system in Hanoi, Vietnam (1187) (View slides)
- Abigael Lukhwaro: occasional injecting increases risk of acquiring Hepatitis C among People who Inject Drugs in Nairobi Kenya (354) (View slides)
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Concurrent 2:
Challenging Injustice: Legal Aid Experiences Around the World
Chair: Giada Girelli
- Albert Wirya: Investigating the potential of a paralegal program to realize improve access to drugs and the right to health for key populations in Jakarta, Indonesia (1261) (View slides)
- Abdalla Badhrus: Community Paralegal Interventions for access to justice, legal and health care rights for drug users charged with drug offences in Mombasa, Kenya. (990) (View slides)
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Concurrent 3:
Civil Society Pushing for Reform
Chair: Jamie Bridge
- Prince Bull-Luseni: Evidence-based Drug policy: the road map to decriminalization and sustainable harm reduction (936)
- Sovannary Tuot: Cambodia’s experience: Government and NGOs working together to shift compulsory to community based drug treatment amongst people who use drugs (1210) (View slides)
- Rodney Holcombe: Clean Slate: Reducing Barriers to Post-Conviction Relief in the United States (1142)
- Marielle Marcaida: Understanding the Narratives of Pateros Mothers’ Activism under the Philippine Drug War (1381)
- Cécile Kazatchkine: Resistance = Life: Civil society mobiizing to defend overdose prevention sites and supervised consumption services in Ontario, Canada (1406) (View slides)
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Concurrent 4:
Reaching Communities Impacted by Conflict and Crisis
Chair: Benjamin Phillips
- Marie Jauffret-Roustide: Drug use and migration: Urgent need for reinforcing access to care and social integration - Results from ANRS-Coquelicot study, France (671) (View slides)
- Dan Werb: Reforming medication-assisted treatment to achieve harm reduction goals and address injection initiation assistance in Tijuana, Mexico. (700) (View slides)
- Svetlana Moroz: Access to Harm Reduction Services among Women who Use Drugs Living near the Armed Conflict Zone in Ukraine (648) (View slides)
- SUDAN MANANDHAR: Effects of Regulation on Methadone and Buprenorphine Provision in the Wake of Catastrophic Earthquake in Nepal (1188)
- Min Wai Lwin: Desensitizing local static community using community based organizations (1211) (View slides)
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Concurrent 5:
The Kids Are Alright: Harm Reduction and Youth
Chair: Zoe Carre
- Chinara Imankulova: Integration of comprehensive package of services for minors who use drugs in the Kyrgyz Republic (445) (View slides)
- Joana Pereira: YPWUD and law enforcement interactions - drugs are not born in trees or sent to parties with the force of a Jedi (1268) (View slides)
- Damon Barrett: Canada, Cannabis and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (5) (View slides)
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Workshop 2A:
Working with people who use performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs): engagement workshop targeted at healthcare professionals
- Katinka van de Ven: Working with people who use performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs): engagement workshop targeted at healthcare professionals (574)
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Workshop 2B:
An Integrative Harm Reduction Therapy Approach to Addictions: Addressing the Roadblocks to Healing, Growth and Positive Change
- Andrew Tatarsky, PhD: An Integrative Harm Reduction Therapy Approach to Addictions: Addressing the Roadblocks to Healing, Growth and Positive Change (880)
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Concurrent 1:
Community Based Provision of Hepatitis Testing and Treatment
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16:00 - 17:30
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Concurrent 6:
Out There on the Street: Homes, Money and Dogs
Chair: Daniel Wolfe
- Marcela Adriana da Silva Lucena Marcela: Projeto Novos Caminhos - uma experiência de 'housing first' e geração de renda como redução de vulnerabilidades de pessoas que usam drogas na cidade de Fortaleza - Brasil (1276) (View slides)
- ORIOL SEGOVIA MINGUET: New challenges in harm reduction: Canine education as a tool for dealing with users of Drug Consumption Rooms and dog owners in the city of Barcelona (Spain). (1405) (View slides)
- Elaine Polflit: Growing old on the streets: story of a partnership between emergency shelters and the healthcare system in Montreal (1066) (View slides)
- Magdalena Harris: Navigating the street injecting risk environment: learning from the experts to prevent health harms in the UK (1092) (View slides)
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Concurrent 7:
Assessing Risks and Providing Opportunities in Prison Settings
Chair: Cinzia Brentari
- Kestutis Butkus: Lithuania - Substitution treatment is approved by law in the imprisonment places, 7 years of bringing a suit against Lithuanian institutions, 45 days of abstinence and tortures, and moral harm estimated 300 euros. Learned lessons and further steps. (940)
- Perrine Roux: Correlates of self-reported HCV seropositivity among active people who inject opioids: the impact of prison experience (194) (View slides)
- Dina Masalimova: Access to harm reduction and HIV treatment and care services among prison outcasts (843) (View slides)
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Concurrent 8:
Drugs and Sex: Supporting People who Engage in Chemsex
Chair: Machteld Busz
- Jay Levy: Chemsex: A Case Study of Drug-Userphobia (481) (View slides)
- Leon Knoops: Problematic chemsex; from signals to harm reduction interventions (1114) (View slides)
- Adam Bourne: Prevalence of drug use and uptake of harm reduction services among gay and bisexual men in Australia (761) (View slides)
- Vivian Hope: Psychosocial and sexual factors associated with drug use and sexualised drug use among women who have sex with women: a need for targeted harm reduction responses (486) (View slides)
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Concurrent 9:
Technologies and Tools for Harm Reduction
Chair: Tanya Deshko
- Tetiana Saliuk: Increasing HIV awareness and reducing the HIV risk: integration of HI directly assisted self-testing in harm reduction program (318) (View slides)
- Thomas Cai: Impact of different recruitment criteria on the compliance of take home methadone treatment (119) (View slides)
- Faustino (Tino) Fuentes: Grass Roots drug checking for fentanyl with urine test strips (6)
- Reece Cossar: Describing client presentations at syringe dispensing machines in Melbourne, Australia: A novel method of data capture (46) (View slides)
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Concurrent 10:
From Public Health to Politics: Introducing Drug Consumption Rooms
Chair: Kirsten Horsburgh
- Em Pijl: Enhancing the Acceptability of Supervised Consumption Services in Canadian Neighbourhoods: Opportunities for Relationship, Mitigation and Education (206) (View slides)
- Saket Priyadarshi: Learning from an HIV outbreak in Glasgow- the UK's first Safer Injecting Facility is required to reduce harms and address complex needs (384) (View slides)
- Ricardo Fuertes: Drug Consumption Rooms in Lisbon- Implementation Process (1001) (View slides)
- Ryan McNeil: Scaling up supervised consumption services in response to the overdose crisis: Lessons from a rapid ethnographic study of overdose prevention site implementation in Vancouver, Canada (592) (View slides)
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Workshop 3:
Know Your Rights Training As Harm Reduction
- Alex Andrews: Know Your Rights Training As Harm Reduction (1164)
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Concurrent 6:
Out There on the Street: Homes, Money and Dogs
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Dialogue Space
10.30-11.00
The Power of Peer-Led Grief Support – Petra Schulz11.00-11.30
30 years of political controversy on needle exchange programmes in Sweden - Slowly turning the tide – Niklas Karlsson11.30-12.30
Vancouver's Perinatal Addiction Harm Reduction Program- How can we respond to the Fentanyl "Crisis" to improve outcomes in the context of "safe use" – Ron Abrahams12.30-13.00
Nurse Initiated Peripheral IV Starts in Supervised Consumption Sites: A Call for Nurses to Participate in Assisted Injection – Tim Gauthier13.00-13.30
Support. Don't Punish - Juan Fernández Ochoa14.00-15.00
Portugal
When there are no safe places: the perspective of women who use drugs/Quando não há espaços seguros: a perspetiva das mulheres que usam drogas – Magda Ferreira
Housing First and Harm Reduction - inclusive measures/Housing First e Redução de Riscos - respostas inclusivas – Américo Nave What’s the future of peer work?/Trabalho de pares, que futuro? – Renato Pinto
FLORES DO BEM: towards cannabis legalization [Portugal; Uruguay]/FLORES DO BEM: rumo à legalização da canábis [Portugal; Uruguai] – Joana Canedo
1Perto-LX - good practices in Lisbon/Perto-LX boas práticas na cidade de Lisboa – Isabel de Bandos15.00-15.30
Impacts of HR17 Montréal - Sandhia Vadlamudy & Louis Letellier de Saint-Just15.30-16.00
Amphetamine-type stimulant use: Global trends and the harm reduction response – Sam Shirley-Beavan & Dominique Schori16.00-17.00
Lusophone Approaches to Key Populations
Homeless Crack Cocaine Users: Territories and Territorialities in the Constitution of Social Support Networks for Health – Pilar Belmonte Harm Reduction among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Commercial Sex/Redução de Danos em Homens que Fazem Sexo com Homens e Sexo Comercial – Matuzalem Maycon Araújo Santos Matuza SCARJoV: o trabalho de uma ONG Angolana com Trabalhadoras do Sexo – Simão Faria17.00-17.30
Harm Reduction Journal: The involvement and engagement of peers in research
Speakers: TBC
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09:00 - 10:30
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Tuesday April 30 2019
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09:00 - 10:30
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Plenary 2:
Drugs and Beyond: Upholding Human Rights
Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Dejusticia
Sarah Belal, Justice Project Pakistan (View slides)
Tenu Avafia, United Nations Development Programme (View slides)
Nanna W Gotfredsen, Gadejuristen - The Street Lawyers (View slides)
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Plenary 2:
Drugs and Beyond: Upholding Human Rights
- 10:30 - 17:30
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11:00 - 12:30
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Major 5:
Fast-Track Stimulants
Chair: Mat Southwell
- Rafaela Rigoni: Harm Reduction for People who Use Stimulants – the need for an inclusive and human development-oriented approach (1112) (View slides)
- Raquel Rebelo: Distribution of smoke materials as a strategy to approach people who use drugs (569) (View slides)
- Ernesto Cortes: Smokable Cocaines in Latin America and the Caribbean. An exploratory and comparative research (211) (View slides)
- Murtaza Majeed: New trends in Kabul’s open drug scene: „Shisha“, new risks and challenge for harm reduction responses (920) (View slides)
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Major 6:
Urban Drug Policy: The Need for Local Reforms (Session Convened by Global Commission on Drug Policy)
Andriy Klepikov, Alliance for Public Health (View slides)
Carrie Fowlie, Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Association (View slides)
Hannah Hetzer, Drug Policy Alliance (View slides)
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Major 7:
Rogue States: The Death Penalty For Drugs
Chair: Jennifer Hasselgard-Rowe
- Giada Girelli: The death penalty for drug offences: populism against evidence (371) (View slides)
- Julian McMahon: Drugs and the Death Penalty: Language and advocacy in Asia (709)
- Y.S.R. Murthy: Death Penalty for drug offences in Asia: A mere distraction from the real issues? (977) (View slides)
- Aurelie Placais: Women facing the death penalty for drug related offenses (617)
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Major 8:
Mobilising Criminalised Communities
Chair: Iain 'Buff' Cameron
Chair - community speaker from GSHR plenary
- Valentin Simionov: Strengthening community led organising and advocacy through normative guidance (900) (View slides)
- Annie Madden: "The Quest for Legitimacy” – Drug User Representation in 'High Level' Drug Policy Settings (1235) (View slides)
- Antoniu Llort Suárez: Prescrição de espaços associativos para usuários de drogas: um instrumento fundamental para a prevenção da hepatite, HIV e outros problemas associados. (774) (View slides)
- fabrice Olivet: RAFASUD : to escape from double bindness in culture and language for harm reduction initiatives in Africa (319) (View slides)
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Workshop 4A:
How to run a pop-up, unsanctioned Overdose Prevention Site
- Zoe Dodd: How to run a pop-up, unsanctioned Overdose Prevention Site (637)
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Workshop 4B:
Towards 10 by 20: Tracking Harm Reduction and Law Enforcement Spend for PWUD and HIV Organisations in Low Income Country Contexts
- Ardhany Suryadarma: Towards 10 by 20: Tracking Harm Reduction and Law Enforcement Spend for PWUD and HIV Organisations in Low Income Country Contexts (1071)
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Major 5:
Fast-Track Stimulants
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14:00 - 15:30
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Concurrent 11:
First but Last: Indigenous Peoples, Allies and Alliances to Decolonise Harm Reduction
Chair: Chief Austin Bear
- Teresa Marsh: The Impact of a Harm Reduction Approach Using Sweat Lodge Ceremonies for Healing Intergenerational Trauma and Substance Use Disorder Symptoms in Indigenous Peoples in Northern Ontario Canada (982) (View slides)
- Gaby Bruning: Harm reduction in an Aboriginal cultural framework (59) (View slides)
- Mary Deleary: The Indigenous Policy Tool (1017) (View slides)
- Fernanda Matos Fernandes Castelo Branco: PADRÃO DO USO DE ÁLCOOL E OUTRAS DROGAS EM INDÍGENAS DA ETNIA KARIPUNA NA FRONTEIRA FRANCO-BRASILEIRA (679) (View slides)
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Concurrent 12:
Integration and Universal Health Coverage
Chair: Vivian Hope
- Emma Garrod: Hospital harm reduction: peer and provider perspectives (1051) (View slides)
- Bassirou Gandema: A Peer-driven, low threshold Tuberculosis screening and treatment program to address high tuberculosis prevalence among People Who Use Drugs in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. (552) (View slides)
- Annette Verster: A holistic approach to drug user health – a communicable disease perspective (583) (View slides)
- Ni Ni Tun: Integrated community based Harm Reduction Activity in Northern Kachin state, Myanmar, a new strategy for improving access and linkages to treatment and care (722)
- Christopher Baguma: Trend analysis of HIV/TB integrated services utilization and coverage in Uganda Harm Reduction Referral Points in Kampala, Gulu, Mbarara and Mbale (292) (View slides)
- Fiorant DI NINO: Microstructures: an example of team work in GPs office for drugs user. (546) (View slides)
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Concurrent 13:
Drug Checking: Past, Present and Future Innovations
Chair: Sam Shirley-Beavan
- Daan van der Gouwe: DIMS: 26 years of drug checking in the Netherlands - lessons learned and way forward (850) (View slides)
- Laurene COLLARD: Developing a national network of drug checking services in France: how to ensure the best possible articulation between mainstream harm reduction services and the national monitoring system? (811) (View slides)
- Geoff Bardwell: The potential uptake of drug checking technologies among structurally vulnerable people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A qualitative study (30) (View slides)
- Galyna Sergiienko: Drugstore.org.ua: Drug checking service in Ukraine explores recreational drug scene (861) (View slides)
- julian quintero: Reduction of intoxication and deaths due to drug checking and harm reduction information in music festivals in Colombia since 2013 (420) (View slides)
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Concurrent 14:
Going Deeper: Injecting Experience and Practice
Chair: Annie Madden
- Melissa Nicholson: Intravenous catheter harm reduction: Is it a hard line? (1333) (View slides)
- Sarah Hiley: Observations on how injecting drug use is influenced (545) (View slides)
- Jenny Scott: Risky use of acidifiers in drug injection preparation: implications for health harms and service provision in the UK (1095) (View slides)
- Michelle Olding: Injection initiation assistance as harm reduction during a fentanyl-driven overdose crisis: Injection drug users’ experiences and implications for structural interventions (144) (View slides)
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Concurrent 15:
Raising the Bar for People Behind Bars
Chair: Rick Lines
- Ehab Salah: HIV, viral hepatitis and TB in prisons: A global systematic review of infections and mortality, and service coverage (1481) (View slides)
- Cinzia Brentari: The Global State of Harm Reduction in Prisons: Findings from 2018 (995) (View slides)
- Alexandria Macmadu: Experiences with and attitudes towards fentanyl and fentanyl-contaminated drugs: A qualitative study of people receiving medications for opioid use disorder in a unified prison and jail system (129) (View slides)
- Mahad Abdulahi: Advocating for facilitation and continuation of OST provision to serve OST clients and induction of new clients in Mombasa prisons from Kisauni MAT clinic, Mombasa-Kenya (903) (View slides)
- Rishi Raj Ojha: Advocacy for condom promotion activity in Harm Reduction, Prison setting, Nepal (973) (View slides)
- Tim Rhodes: How does methadone treatment travel? On the ‘becoming-methadone-body’ of Kyrgyzstan prisons (1228) (View slides)
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Workshop 5:
What Can Be Done Now: How Harm Reduction Programs Can Navigate the Grey to Establish Effective Overdose Prevention Tools
- Liz Evans: What Can Be Done Now: How Harm Reduction Programs Can Navigate the Grey to Establish Effective Overdose Prevention Tools (1425)
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Concurrent 11:
First but Last: Indigenous Peoples, Allies and Alliances to Decolonise Harm Reduction
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16:00 - 17:30
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Concurrent 16:
Lost in Transition: Harm Reduction in Central and Eastern Europe
Chair: Dagmar Hedrich
- Iga Kender-Jeziorska: When it’s not binding: European NGOs’ account on EU Drug Action Plan implementation. (841) (View slides)
- Yuliya Georgieva: Lost in Transition-Bulgaria struggling to ensure harm reduction activities after Global Fund withdraw (1300) (View slides)
- Nebojša Đurasović: The only one harm reduction program that survived in Serbia - Experience of the Association Prevent (1254) (View slides)
- Robert Csák: Consequences of closing needle and syringe programs in Budapest and Belgrade (912) (View slides)
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Concurrent 17:
Intersectionality: Sex, Drugs and Gender
Chair: Olga Szubert
- Julianna Brown: Safety After SESTA: Community-Based Policy Recommendations to Protect US-Based Sex Workers (705) (View slides)
- Isabel Soares: "Nothing about trans sex workers without trans sex workers": Innovative participatory methods to inform humanistic practices (245) (View slides)
- verapun ngammee: Harm reduction implementation for MSM/TG using Methamphetamine : The lesson learn from Ozone Foundation Thailand (1343) (View slides)
- Andrés Lekanger: Chemfriendly: using humour and dragshow to inform queers about safest possible ways of doing recreational drugs. (436) (View slides)
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Concurrent 18:
ART Adherance
Chair: Shaun Mellors
- Umar Riaz: Reasons for non-adherence to ART among PWID in Pakistan. (602) (View slides)
- Mohammad Shahidul Islam: Integration of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in drop in centers for people who inject drugs (PWID) increased ART enrollment and retention in HIV care: Bangladesh experiences (1338) (View slides)
- Kostyantyn Dumchev: Effective viral suppression despite delayed initiation of ART among HIV-positive PWID in Ukraine (1267) (View slides)
- denis podopelov: Decreasing the level of discrimination against people who use drugs in need of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Almetyevsk, Russia (276) (View slides)
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Concurrent 19:
Bringing Harm Reduction to Housing, Violence and Migrant Health Responses
Chair: Rafael Torruella
- Leon Garcia: Housing as a harm reduction strategy for homeless people who abuse drugs in Brazil. (1417) (View slides)
- Bruce Wallace: Sheltering risks: Harm reduction in homeless shelters (1226) (View slides)
- Wangari Kimemia: Mitigating Violence against People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) through Peer-Led Police Engagement (555) (View slides)
- PAILIN CHANAPHAI: Mapping Police Check-Points: NGO and Law Enforcement Partnership in Implementing Harm Reduction in Southern Thailand. (1165) (View slides)
- Diana Craciun: Drug prevention and harm reduction services for and with migrants in Germany (PaSuMi): A Community Based Participatory Health Project (1478) (View slides)
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Concurrent 20:
Oral and Injectable Opioid Provision: Good Practices
Chair: Bruce Trigg
- Shaun Shelly: The Community Oriented Substance Use Programme: A public well-being response to the use of drugs in Tshwane, South Africa (281) (View slides)
- Lindsay Mackay: Increasing the scope of Harm Reduction: Providing low barrier Injectable Opioid Agonist Therapy inside an overdose response room. (1140) (View slides)
- Siarhei Hartseu: Study of the interest of people who inject opioids (PWID) to participate in the opioid substitution treatment program (OST) (1363) (View slides)
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Workshop 6:
Learning from implementing WINGS: A brief GBV intervention in harm reduction programs in four countries: Building a global advocacy and practice platform to address GBV against women who use drugs
- Louisa Gilbert: Learning from implementing WINGS a brief GBV intervention in harm reduction programs in four countries: Building a global advocacy and practice platform to address GBV against women who use drugs (667)
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Concurrent 16:
Lost in Transition: Harm Reduction in Central and Eastern Europe
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Dialogue Space
10.30-11.00
Peers in Services
I am a peer – Alexandra de Kiewit
Involvement of people who use drugs: strategies for participation and recognition that have proved beneficial – Julie Bouchard11.00-11.30
Recipes from the underground kitchen: Home cooking and the New Zealand drug experience – Rhys Ponton11.30-12.30
Public Spaces and Drug Control
Narcopisos: a new drug use context at Raval Neighbourhood, Barcelona – Intervention strategy from a supervised consumption room – Noelia Girona
Drug use and urban security – Bernd Werse
Far from relief: The impact of drug policy control on access to essential medicines in five Colombian cities – Isabel Pereira-Arana
Impact of Drop in Center Closures on People who Inject Drugs in Yangon – Khine Su Win
A retrospective and introspective analysis of a local government order to suspend harm reduction services for people who inject drugs (PWID) in Durban, South Africa – Monique Marks Persuading Police to Support Public Health: Training to Improve Police Endorsement of Legal Syringe Access – Jaime Arredondo12.30-13.30
Going Down to where we are Needed Most
Bringing doctors to the streets. An integrated harm reduction model to reduce stigma and barriers to health access of persons who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico – Patricia E Zuniga
Advocating to decentralize dispensing of Methadone substitution therapy from police post to Area health center – Marie Cindy Trevedy
Experience of Tanzania crisis response team from TANPUD in enhancing harm reduction from 2015 to 2018 – Marineus Mutongore
Faith Based Perspective to Harm Reduction - Lessons Learnt from the South Eastern Nigeria Round Table on Substance Abuse – Nonso Maduka13.30-14.00
Criminal Justice Issues
Death Penalty Policy in Indonesia : The Assumption Based Policy – Erasmus Napitupulu
Police community engagements with drug users to reduce crime and Harm reduction – Godwin Odhiambo14.00-15.30
Brazil
"Caring is Normal": territorial coordination as a harm reduction practice in Mare's favelas, Rio de Janeiro/"Normal é cuidar”: articulação territorial como prática de redução de danos no conjunto de favelas da Maré, no Rio de Janeiro – Maïra Gabriel Anhorn
Harm Reduction Advocacy: Experience of It's the E de Lei Outreach Center - Sao Paulo, Brazil/Advocacy em redução de danos: a experiência do Centro de Convivência É de Lei - São Paulo – Brasil – Maria Angélica de De Castro Comis
Challenges and Practical Reflections on the Implementation of First Job Programs: Experiences in South America, North America and Europe/Desafios e reflexões práticas para a implantação de programas de “Trabalho Primeiro”: experiências na América do Sul, América do Norte e Europa – Ana Cecília Villela Guilhon16.00-17.00
Harm Reduction and Legal Drugs
Tobacco Harm Reduction: The Switch – Helen Redmond
Human rights and a 'tobacco free world': Lessons from illicit drugs – Julie Hannah
Is it time for more radical alcohol harm reduction? – Bernie Pauly
Vaping – Mafalda Carmona17.00-17.30
EuroNPUD Twinning Pilot Projects (Prague and Ljubljana) – Mauro Guarinieri
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09:00 - 10:30
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Wednesday May 01 2019
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09:00 - 10:30
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Plenary 3:
People before Politics: Harm Reduction on the Frontline
Zoë Dodd, Toronto Overdose Prevention Society (View slides)
Luca Stevenson, International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (View slides)
Raull Santiago, Coletivo Papo Reto (View slides)
Catherine Cook, Harm Reduction International (View slides)
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Plenary 3:
People before Politics: Harm Reduction on the Frontline
- 10:30 - 17:30
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11:00 - 12:30
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Major 9:
Women's Empowerment
Chair: Lynn Paltrow
- Jade Boyd: “Bed Bugs and Beyond”: An ethnographic analysis of North America’s first women-only supervised drug consumption site (340) (View slides)
- Daria Matyushina-Ocheret: Advocacy for the Parental Rights of Women Who Use Drugs (1020) (View slides)
- Aura ROIG: Metzineres. Environments of Shelter for Womxn Who Use Drugs Surviving Violences (Barcelona) (1471)
- ISADORA SIMOES DE SOUZA: Quando filhos são retirados de mães usuárias de drogas no Brasil (772) (View slides)
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Major 10:
Decriminalisation in Action
Chair: Alex Stevens
Marta needs 50% reduction Sandy & Nicholas probably don't need schols Andrei only to replace Mark or Rui if needed; not Ole or Sandy
Sandy to incorporate 1330 in her presentation
1264 to be presented by second author (Rui Coimbra)
- marta pinto: The Portuguese drug policy model: a look from the inside (1232) (View slides)
- Rui Miguel Coimbra Morais: Is Decriminalisation Enough? Drug User Community Voices from Portugal (1264)
- Ole Jørgen Lygren: Peer based drug policy advisory board changing politics in Norway (336) (View slides)
- Sandy Mteirek: How is Lebanon one step closer to decriminalization? (986) (View slides)
- Scott Bernstein: Creating a Regulatory Framework for Currently Illegal Drugs in Canada (914) (View slides)
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Major 11:
Community Power in Research and Advocacy
Chair: Olga Byelyayeva & Meaghan Thumath
- Jeanette Bowles: Defining Peers in Peer-Collaborated Academic Research (1437) (View slides)
- Scott Neufeld: Research 101: Empowering community members in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to develop local guidelines for ethical research with people who use drugs (1347) (View slides)
- Brun Gonzalez: New Developments of the International Network of People who Use Drugs and the new Regional Model (650)
- Oxana Ibragimova: Advocacy by the community of people who use drugs of OST programs in Kazakhstan. (875) (View slides)
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Major 12:
Overdose Prevention and Response
Chair: Louis Letellier de St-Just
Mat S no schol
- Mat Southwell: Peer-led quality review of opioid overdose management in the UK and advocating for peer-to-peer distribution of Naloxone - EuroNPUD's Naloxone Access and Advocacy Project (1060) (View slides)
- Phillip Coffin: Impacts of changing opioid prescribing policy in the United States (1477) (View slides)
- Jane A. Buxton: Changing landscape of opioid use in British Columbia, Canada: A shift towards fentanyl-seeking behaviour (1311) (View slides)
- Gillian Kolla: The complicated work of overdose response by harm reduction workers in community settings (470) (View slides)
- Elizabeth Holliday: Vancouver Coastal Health's Overdose Emergency Response: Strategies for A Region in Crisis (1293) (View slides)
- Thiha Lin: Naloxone Now! A call to prioritize peer-led overdose management in Myanmar (167) (View slides)
- Kirsten Horsburgh: Preservation of Life: Involving Police and Prison Officers in Scotland's National Naloxone Programme (246)
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Major 13:
HCV Elimination and Access to Testing and Treatment for People Who Use Drugs and Prisoners
Chair: Eberhard Schatz
Six speakers
- Ena Oru: Availability versus access: testing and treatment for chronic hepatitis C infection for persons who inject drugs and in prisons (584) (View slides)
- Jason Grebely: HEPATITIS C VIRUS ELIMINATION PROGRESS IN A SETTING OF HIGH HARM REDUCTION COVERAGE: AUSTRALIA ON-TRACK (768) (View slides)
- Giorgi Soselia: SCALING-UP OF AN EFFECTIVE MODEL OF HARM REDUCTION-BASED AND PEER-SUPPORTED HEPATITIS C TREATMENT FOR PWID IN GEORGIA (1342) (View slides)
- Dirk Schaeffer: Counselling and testing services for HIV and Hepatitis C Virus and linkage to care for people who inject drugs – first results of a pilot intervention in Germany (342) (View slides)
- Rui Salvador: C+, BE+, BE YOUR RIGHTS – TO END (ONCE AND FOR ALL) WITH HEPATITIS C AMONG DRUG USERS – AN EXAMPLE OF COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION. (1355)
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Workshop 7:
Making The Universal Periodic Review Work for You: Maximising Opportunities to Promote the Rights of People Who Use Drugs
- David Ruiz Villafranca: Making The Universal Periodic Review Work for You: Maximising Opportunities to Promote the Rights of People Who Use Drugs (1089)
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Major 9:
Women's Empowerment
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14:00 - 15:30
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Concurrent 21:
Narratives: Countering Risk
Chair: Alissa Sadler
- Alana Klein: Constructions of harm reduction in legal and policy reform: opportunities and risks in drug and sex work advocacy in Canada (1340) (View slides)
- Richard Cloutier: Evolution of population perceptions on drug users and harm reduction services in the province of Quebec (Canada) (894) (View slides)
- Pruksa Singhapol: The Adoption of Socio-Ecological Model (SEM) and Online Communications to reduce Stigma and Discrimination against PWID in Thailand (748) (View slides)
- Kat Morrison: Sinners Dinners - Street Based Sex Workers, who identify as intravenous drug users, and harm minimisation in a criminalised framework. (771)
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Concurrent 22:
On the Inside: Operational Experiences in Drug Consumption Rooms
Chair: Marianne Jauncey
- Kasey Elmore: An impractical guide to opening a Drug Consumption Room (DCR) - The new kid on the block (537) (View slides)
- Barrot Lambdin: An Unsanctioned Supervised Consumption Service in the United States: Findings from the first four years of operation (1027) (View slides)
- said slim: The initial experience of safe consumption rooms in Latin America. (1460)
- Mary Clare Kennedy: Peer involvement in low-threshold supervised consumption sites in the context of an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada (745) (View slides)
- Flavie OSTER: Towards a "test and cure" strategy for drug users (DU) in a French drug consumption room (DCR). (547) (View slides)
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Concurrent 23:
Innovative Harm Reduction Approaches
Chair: Jay Levy
- Dato Otiashvili: Patterns of NPS (New Psychoactive Substances) Consumption and Characteristics of Users: Results of the First Online Survey in Georgia (Country) (182) (View slides)
- Magally TORRES LEGUIZAMON: HaRePo (Harm Reduction by Post): An innovative and effective harm reduction program for drug users: remotely service using mail, telephone and post service to provide harm reduction tools and counseling. (1364) (View slides)
- Alexey Kurmanaevskii: Harm reduction via Darknet, or new approaches to harm reduction in the context of a new drug scene. (325) (View slides)
- Vyacheslav Kushakov: Drugstore.org.ua: Nightlife safety, sexual health and harm reduction programme for experimenting young people in Ukraine (857) (View slides)
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Concurrent 24:
Psychedelics: New Frontiers
Chair: Camille Barton
- Toby Lea: Experiences of microdosing with LSD and psilocybin: a subreddit analysis (945) (View slides)
- Sara Gael: Integration as Psychedelic Harm Reduction (1058) (View slides)
- Eric Eligh: Case Study: Assisted Somatic Psychotherapy for Treatment Resistant Stimulant Use Disorder (1070) (View slides)
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Concurrent 25:
Not Just Drugs: Mental Health and Other Co-occurring Health Issues
Chair: Gill Bradbury
- Katherine Rudzinski: Facing symbolic violence: analyzing practices of self-blame and resilience among victimized individuals who smoke crack cocaine in Southern Ontario, Canada (1309) (View slides)
- Elisabeth Avril: Management of drug users with psychiatric disorders in the first drug consumption room in France. (607) (View slides)
- Laurent Michel: Screening for mental health disorders in the community (DRIVE Project): validation of a quick screening tool (QST) among people who inject drugs with Community-Based Organizations (CBO) (719) (View slides)
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Workshop 8A:
Discussion: Prevention and Advocacy in Prisons
- Naoual Laaroussi: Workshop - Discussion: Prevention and Advocacy in Prisons (647)
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Workshop 8B:
Addressing HIV among people who use stimulant drugs
- Monica Anda Ciupagea: Addressing HIV among people who use stimulant drugs (1480)
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Concurrent 21:
Narratives: Countering Risk
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16:00 - 17:30
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Closing Ceremony
Chaired by: Naomi Burke-Shyne, Executive Director, Harm Reduction International
Speakers: Dr. Shannon Hader, Deputy Executive Director, UNAIDS Louise Vincent, Executive Director, Urban Survivors Union Prof. Carl Hart, Chair, Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Award: Brooklyn McNeil Rae of Hope Award, sponsored by the Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation
Film: Rights Reporter Foundation’s Film of HR19
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Closing Ceremony
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Dialogue Space
10.30-11.00
The Harm Reduction Case: The Impact of Patient Data Confidentiality Breaches - 'Criminalization and the Use of Mobile & Cloud-Based Health Tools – Murdo Bijl11.00-12.00
Harm Reduction in Africa
Advocacy work for harm reduction in Mozambique – Job Mutombene
Sharing Universal Challenges in Harm Reduction Implementation in Francophone Countries - Titus Ndi Ndukong
Peer educators' implication in an injecting drugs consumers' harm reduction program in Senegal: learning lessons – Moustapha Mbodj12.00-12.30
10 by 20: rolling out the campaign to redirect resources from drug control to harm reduction on national level – Olga Szubert12.30-13.00
Drug abuse as a professional risk for PWD expertism – Fabrice Olivet13.00-14.00
Progress in Challenging Environments
The Intersectionality of Recovery, Harm Reduction and Drug Policy, Rhode Island – Michael Galipeau
"Human Rights are not optional" - Developing Minimum Standard to Care for Drug Treatment in India – Fazlur Rahman Gulfam
HR Programme to decrease the rate of HIV infection among people who inject drugs: successful cooperation between NGO and the government (Macao)/Sucesso programa de redução de novas infecções de VIH entre os que consomem driogas injectáveis , sucesso de cooperação entre ONG e governo em redução de danos – Augusto Nogueira14.00-15.00
Hot Topics
Monitoring and Evaluation: A ground up approach to community based health research in the Northern Territory of Australia – Donna-Maree Stephens
Opression systems, intersectionality and access to service: analyse and overcome barriers to access – Mélodie Talbot
The "crackhouse": A Pillar of our Communities with Sandra Wesley of Stella and Martin Page of Dopamine – Sandra Wesley15.00-16.00
From the Cradle to the Grave
The role of music in the lives of young substance users – Elise Cournoyer Lemaire
Engaging PWIDs in Belfast City Centre – Iain Cameron
Harm Reduction the trigger to a new social work practice (Portugal/USA) – Mark Bigler
Aging and problematic substance use – Lara Nixon
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09:00 - 10:30
