En la conferencia se examinará cómo ciudades de todo el mundo responden a la evolución de las poblaciones y se adaptan a nuevas conductas de salud.

Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

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This third International City Health Conference, hosted by AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW) and the Trimbos-instituut, organised by Knowledge•Action•Change, will take place over two days, at the Casa 400 Hotel, in Amsterdam, on 3rd and 4th November 2014.

The city of Amsterdam has a rich cultural history and today is home to vibrant, diverse communities. The city also boasts a proud tradition of innovation in public health, demonstrating the importance and effectiveness of city-level initiatives and interventions, to meet the needs of its citizens and visitors.

The conference will build on the achievements of previous City Health events and the programme will be designed to examine how cities around the globe respond to changing populations and adapt to changing health behaviours, to ensure and promote health and wellbeing to reflect diverse groups and cultures.

The hosts for the conference are both internationally acknowledged leaders in the field of public health and will use this to ensure the programme reflects current thinking and relates to current issues of concern for urban populations.

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III Conferencia Internacional City Health 

La conferencia contará con un interesante programa de ponentes nacionales e internacionales, centrándose en los nuevos tratamientos, la prevención y las políticas en el ámbito de la investigación sobre drogas y alcohol. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

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On behalf of the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs, we are pleased to invite you to join us in Adelaide for the 2014 APSAD Conference.

was chosen by the Scientific Program Committee to reflect the changing times and increased pressures faced by the drug and alcohol sector. Clinical and non-clinical research is also dramatically increasing our understanding of dependence, prevention and treatment. Now is the time to come together and celebrate the achievements of our sector in beautiful Adelaide.

The conference, to be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre from Sunday 9 – Wednesday 12 November 2014, will feature an exciting program of international and national speakers, focusing on new treatments, prevention and policy in the areas of drug and alcohol research. With original and innovative work from the field, the program will encourage alternative presentation styles.

The Poster Session will continue to be a core event of the APSAD Conference in 2014. Selected abstracts, from research to clinical, from all disciplines, will be presented by colleagues from across Australasia and the world. The poster session offers the perfect platform for delegates to see and discuss achievements, ideas and developments face-to-face. In conjunction with the poster session, Poster Tours will be run. Keynote speakers will select the posters that best demonstrate quality research and clinical practice and conduct small group discussions of their chosen posters.

Invitación a la Conferencia APSAD 2014

La reunión incluirá un segmento temático sobre la transmisión del VIH entre personas que usan drogas. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) presents its compliments to the Permanent Missions in Geneva, to Organizations of the United Nations system and to Nongovernmental Organizations dealing with matters pertaining to HIV/AIDS not represented on the Programme Coordinating Board (PCB).

UNAIDS has the honour to inform the aforementioned Missions and Organizations that the thirty-fifth meeting of the Board will be held from 9 to 11 December 2014 in the Executive Board room at the World Health Organization Headquarters, 20 Avenue Appia, Geneva. The opening session will begin at 09:00 on 9 December with registration starting at 08:15. The meeting is scheduled to finish at 18:00 on 11 December 2014.

A copy of the provisional agenda and a note on logistical arrangements are attached hereto. Key agenda items of the meeting include a debate on revised targets for the AIDS response beyond 2015 and a gap analysis and recommendations to end paediatric AIDS. The Board will also receive an update on actions taken to reduce stigma and discrimination in all its forms. The meeting will include a thematic segment on 11 December devoted to the theme of “Halving HIV transmission among people who inject drugs”. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided for the plenary sessions in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Documents are being prepared in English and in French and will be available on the UNAIDS web site closer to the meeting dates.

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35ª reunión de la Junta Coordinadora del Programa de ONUSIDA

Esta conferencia tiene por objeto estimular la inserción laboral y el emprendimiento social entre grupos marginalizados y vulnerables. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

Marginalised and vulnerable groups, such as drug users, homeless people, people with psychiatric problems or (ex) offenders have a large distance to the labour market in most European countries. Their educational level is often low, they have little opportunities to participate in schooling and employment and there are only few initiatives that increase or improve the participation of these groups in the paid or unpaid labour market. The current economical crisis and the increasing unemployment affects all parts of society, but has surely a devastating impact on these groups.

In light of this situation the Rainbow Group, the Omslag Foundation and the partners of the INWORK Project will organise the European Conference 'Social Inclusion, Work Integration and Social Entrepreneurship – Make It Work!' from 10-12 November 2014 in Amsterdam.

The Conference aims at stimulating work integration and social entrepreneurship by bringing together key actors, such as NGO's, (potential) social firm owners, local, national and European policy makers, target group representatives as well as relevant networks and platforms in the field.

Participants will be able to share their knowledge and expertise during plenary sessions, workshops and in policy debates. Furthermore, good practice examples will be presented in the framework of a separate site visit programme. In addition, the conference will highlight the results and outcomes of the European INWORK Project and launch the online toolkit for work integration.

Please click here to visit the conference website.

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Conferencia europea: inclusión social, integración laboral y emprendimiento social – ¡Hagamos que funcione!

La organización IDHDP organizará una sesión en la que se debatirán las políticas sobre el tratamiento de uso de estimulantes, especialmente el crack de cocaína, y los enfoques necesarios para detener la terrible oleada de violencia que tiene lugar en los países productores y de tránsito de Sudamérica. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

The Global Addiction Annual conference is moving out of Europe for the first time. This pattern is to be continued into the future, with the conference alternating between Europe and other destinations year on year.

This movement between continents reflects the truly global nature that the association is now developing. Delegates at the 2013 conference attended from over 50 countries from all around the world. Only by moving the conference to take place across all continents can cultural differences in addictions be represented fully.

IDHDP will be hosting a session where policies on treating stimulant use, particularly crack cocaine, will feature along with what new thinking needs to take place to stem the terrible violence taking place in South American producer and transit countries.

Conferencia anual Global Addiction 2014

En este simposio se analizará la complejidad de las drogas durante la conducción y se evaluarán las nuevas investigaciones y pruebas disponibles para mejorar las iniciativas colectivas de seguridad vial. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

Drugs and driving - Navigating the complexity and finding solutions

The use of drugs while driving is a problem that has only recently captured the attention of safety advocates, policymakers, legislators and enforcement agencies.

We have a lot of science to inform alcohol-related road safety policy and interventions, but things get a lot more complex when we look at “drugs” and driving.

This 2nd International Symposium on Drugs and Driving will examine this complexity in depth and will assess new research and evidence to help inform our collective road safety efforts.

II Simposio Internacional sobre Drogas y Conducción

En esta conferencia se analizará cómo los métodos para aplicar la legislación internacional de los derechos humanos pueden servir de herramienta para examinar cuestiones relacionadas con el control de drogas. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

The human rights impact of drug laws and policies is a new and emerging issue among human rights scholars and advocates. Using the issues of the death penalty for drug offences and the compulsory detention of people who use drugs as examples, this lecture will explore how methods for applying international human rights law can serve as a tool to scrutinise drug control issues.

Dr Rick Lines is the Executive Director of Harm Reduction International, Founder and Chair of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy, and a Visiting Fellow in the Human Rights Centre.

Professor Noam Lubell, Head of the School of Law

Analizando el control de drogas desde una óptica de derechos humanos

El hemisferio enfrenta desafíos importantes en la aplicación de las leyes de drogas. Por otra parte, algunos países de la región americana encabezan la lista de aquellos con mayores tasas de homicidio en el mundo. El crimen organizado y su vinculación con la economía ilegal de las drogas, continúa siendo una amenaza para las instituciones y para la sociedad en su conjunto. Las acciones del Estado contra estas organizaciones han impactado su manera de operar y generado en algunos casos procesos de fragmentación, con directas repercusiones en los niveles locales – especialmente con el aumento de los delitos de carácter predatorio. Dada esta realidad, en diferentes países y ciudades del Hemisferio, las instituciones vienen replanteando la manera cómo han respondido a estos desafíos, adoptando nuevos enfoques que han puesto su acento en la disuasión y la prevención, como respuestas de esto se espera la reducción de la violencia y el delito. Este panel se propone responder a las siguientes preguntas ¿Cómo responder a los actuales desafíos? ¿Qué componentes pueden identificarse en los nuevos enfoques? ¿Cuáles son los principales desafíos y oportunidades?

El 18 de noviembre se realizará en Guatemala el side-event del 56 Periodo de Sesiones Ordinarias de la CICAD, el cual convocará a académicos, funcionarios y miembros de la sociedad civil para debatir sobre "Nuevos enfoques para la aplicación de las leyes de drogas y respuestas a la delincuencia organizada".

El debate contará con la transmisión en vivo del side-event, a través de la página web del Ministerio de Gobernación y tendrá presencia en redes sociales a través de la cuenta @IEPADES.

Nuevos enfoques para la aplicación de las leyes de drogas y respuestas a la delincuencia organizada

Este año, la campaña pide a la gente que muestre su solidaridad con los 34 millones de personas afectadas por el SIDA en todo el mundo luciendo la habitual cinta roja. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

Get involved with the World AIDS Day campaign

This year the Campaign asking people to show solidarity with the 34 million worldwide by wearing the universal symbol of HIV awareness, the red ribbon. We want you to get creative - put it on clothes, on food, on buildings. There is nowhere the red ribbon cannot go! So no matter what you do this World AIDS Day, make sure you #PutARibbonOnIt

Some of the facts of the HIV in the UK are the following:

Over 90% of people with HIV were infected through sexual contact

You can now get tested for HIV using a saliva sample

HIV is not passed on through spitting, biting or sharing utensils

Only 1% of babies born to HIV positive mothers have HIV

You can get the results of an HIV test in just 15-20 minutes

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