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Providing a scientific basis for managing illegal drug problems

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
22 September 2010
The INSEAD is pleased to announce that the Abu Dhabi Campus will hold a research seminar focusing on drug initiation, price responsiveness and operation of the illegal supply chain. Resulting understandings will provide the foundation for estimating the cost-effectiveness of different strategies for controlling drug use and its associated social harms.

Correlation Seminar - Building capacities on HCV: A training for trainers

Budapest, Hungary
21 September 2010 - 23 September 2010
The main objective of the pilot training is to test the training tool and receive feedback from potential users of the tool. Such feedback is crucial to ensure that the tool is being used and is adapted to the needs of the target group. The training tool will be completed based on the feedback from Correlation partners, the results of the training and the evaluation by participants.

Advanced seminar on amphetamine use for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Prague, Czech Republic
31 August 2010 - 2 September 2010
This three-day training is designed to assist public health professionals in acquiring an understanding of work with stimulant users and will equip them with the skills required to analyse local drug situation with respect to the types of stimulant drugs.

Second Latin American Conference on Drug Policy

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
25 August 2010 - 26 August 2010
Intercambios in association with Psicotropicus will bring together public officials, scholars, advocates, and professionals to debate drug policy, next August in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The second Latin American Conference and first Brazilian Conference on Drug Policy will take place in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro on August 26 – 27, and hopes to send a regional call to leave behind repressive policies and to tackle drug-related issues from a health and human rights perspective.

AIDS 2010: “Honoring Life: Constructing the most effective HIV prevention among people injecting by adding overdose prevention work"

Vienna, Austria
20 July 2010
This workshop will teach basic techniques of preventing and recognising overdose and will train participants how to teach opiate users and their community to respond effectively with naloxone; it will examine best practices of integrating overdose response into the work of harm reduction and AIDS service organisations; and we will discuss how addressing this major cause of death can have an impact on increasing the effectiveness of HIV programming.

AIDS 2010: “HIV risks and the compulsory centers for drug users”

Vienna, Austria
20 July 2010
Compulsory centres for drug users are plagued with high relapse rates and high financial and human costs that burden the State, the overall community and drug users and their families alike. The approach creates a dangerous ‘revolving door’ for drug users, and is an obstacle to achieving Universal Access.

AIDS 2010: Make your voice heard at the Human Rights March and Rally

Vienna, Austria
19 July 2010
The Human Rights March and Rally on July 20 will be a historic event where thousands will join in solidarity with human rights defenders around the world. The March and Rally is an opportunity for all people whose human rights are affected by HIV to make their voice heard.

AIDS 2010: "Methadone Man and Buprenorphine Babe"

Vienna, Austria
17 July 2010 - 22 July 2010
The Open Society Institute's International Harm Reduction Development Program (IHRD) developed Methadone Man and Buprenorphine Babe to help raise awareness about the glaring lack of access to these lifesaving drugs.

'Rights Here, Right Now': XVIII International AIDS Conference

Vienna, Austria
17 July 2010 - 22 July 2010
The XV11 International AIDS Conference will take place in Vienna in July of this year. Rights Here, Right Now emphasizes that concrete human rights measures need to be in place to protect those most vulnerable to and affected by HIV, especially women and girls, people who use drugs, migrants, prisoners, sex workers, men who have sex with men, and transgender persons.

International Seminar on Drugs and HIV in Colombia

Colombia
11 July 2010 - 15 July 2010
This seminar, organised by UNODC and the Colombian Ministry for Social Protection, will provide a space for national and international experts to reflect issues related to drugs and HIV, in order to draft a joint agenda with short, medium and long-term actions to prevent, treat and reduce the impact of drug injection on HIV and public health in Colombia.