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Date(s) - Mon - 18 Jul - Fri - 22 Jul
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Dear friends of the UFC,
During the upcoming Aids Conference the UFC, together with TB/HIV Care will be responsible for setting up and running a Harm Reduction Networking Zone. The Zone will have three main purposes:
- To provide a space for drug users to meet up and chill out. This is open to delegates who use drugs and to drug users who are not part of the conference.
- To provide harm reduction services to people who use drugs that are delegates at the conference. This will include providing clean needles and syringes, condoms, lubricants and saline. We will also have a psychiatrist who will be assisting with the ‘translating’ of prescriptions for those who are on opioid substitution therapy medication.
- To provide a series of talks and presentations on issues pertaining to drug use. These will take place every day. Please see the attached programme.
Entrance to the Global Village is free. It is worth looking up what is happening at the Global Village during the Aids Conference as it promises to be very vibrant. Please join us in the Harm Reduction Networking Zone for some of the presentations, or just to chill out.
For more information please contact Fathima Ally on 031 373 2100
Programme below:
| AIDS 2016 | |
| HARM REDUCTION NETWORKING ZONE PROGRAMME | |
| GLOBAL VILLAGE: DURBAN EXHIBITION CENTRE | |
| Monday 18th July 2016 | |
| Time | Activity |
| 08h30 – 09h00 | Relax/Network |
| 09h00 – 10h00 | The Good, the Bad and the Truth of Harm Reduction Policies in AfricaProf Isidore Obot (University of Uyo, Nigeria)
Chair: Monique Marks (UFC) |
| 10h00 – 12h00 | Relax/Network |
| 12h00 – 13h00 | Film Screening/Discussion: “Dying A Slow Death: Inside Indonesia’s Drug War”(PKNI)Chair: Suhendro Sugiharto (PKNI)
Chair: Tamlynn Fleetwood (UFC) |
| 13h00 – 14h00 | Relax/Network |
| 14h00 – 15h00 | Discussing the Global Commission on Drug Policy: Recommendations and Advocacy for Drug Policy ReformDr Khalid Tinasti (Global Commission on Drug Policy)
Chair: Ann Fordham (IDPC) |
| 15h00 – 17h00 | Relax/Network |
| Tuesday 19th July 2016 | |
| Time | Activity |
| 08h30 – 10h00 | Relax/Network |
| 10h00 – 12h00 | Access to Justice- As Crucial as a Clean Needle: Q&A Panel SessionZara von Homeyer (TB/HIV Care)
Christopher Baguma (UHRN) Kunal Naik (CUT Mauritius) Chairs: Naomi Burke Shyne (Open Society Foundation) and Chris Abuour (OSIEA) |
| 12h00 – 14h00 | Relax/Network |
| 14h00 – 15h00 | Drug Users on the Front LineJohn Kimani (KENPUD)
Chair: Tamlynn Fleetwood |
| 15h00 – 17h00 | Relax/Network |
| Wednesday 20th July 2016 | |
| Time | Activity |
| 08h30 – 09h00 | Relax/Network |
| 09h00 – 10h00 | Our Lives, Our Advocacy: We are the International Network of People who use Drugs Ruth Birgin (INPUD)
Brun Gonzalez (INPUD) Edo Agustian (ANPUD) Jude Byrne (AIVL) Discussion Topics: · Members’ perspectives on UNGASS · Overview of INPUD advocacy publications Chair: Andrea Schneider (THCA) |
| 10h00 – 11h00 | Relax/Network |
| 11h00 – 12h00 | Funding Crisis for Harm Reduction in Middle Income CountriesClaudia Stoicescu (Harm Reduction International)
Chair: Daniel Wolfe (OSF) |
| 12h00 – 14h00 | Film Screening: “We are Drug Users” (Consortium of Drug User Organisations and Slingshot (Ed.)) |
| 14h00 – 15h00 | Policy Discussion: Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) and UN International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use DisordersJason Eligh (UNODC)
Chair: Machteld Busz (Mainline) |
| 15h00 – 17h00 | Film Screening: “One Day in Our Lives on Earth” (Rights Reporter Foundation and INPUD) |
| Thursday 21st July 2016 | |
| Time | Activity |
| 08h30 – 09h00 | Relax/Network |
| 09h00 – 10h00 | Discussion Group: Speaking Out: Women who use Drugs in Advocacy Ruth Birgin (INPUD)
Pye Jakobsson (Rose Alliance) Jude Byrne (INWUD) Carina Edlund (INWUD) Chair: Shaun Shelly (THCA) |
| 10h00 – 12h00 | Relax/Network |
| 12h00 – 14h00 | Support. Don’t Punish Film Screenings:“A Broad Consensus?” and “Voices for Drug Policy Reform from Asia”
Introduced by Ann Fordham (IDPC) |
| 14h00 – 15h00 | Discussion Group: From Gender-Blind to Gender-Transformative Services for Women who use Drugs. How do we get there? Ruth Birgin (INPUD)
Judy Chang (INWUD/WHRIN) Olga Belyaeva (EHRN) Jane Dicka (HRV) Chair: Tamlynn Fleetwood |
| 15h00 – 17h00 | Relax/Network
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| Friday 22nd July 2016 | |
| Time | Activity |
| 08h30 – 09h00 | Relax/Network |
| 09h00 – 10h00 | Can You Hear Us? Giving Voice to the Silenced : Recording Human Rights Violations Experienced by PWID Accessing Harm Reduction ServicesShaun Shelly (TB/HIV Care) and Machteld Busz (Mainline)
Chair: Monique Marks (UFC) |
| 10h00 – 11h30 | Film Screening: “Chemsex”(Directed by William Fairman and Max Gogarty) |
| 11h30 – 12h30 | Relax/Network |