PWUD and HARM REDUCTION ROAD MAP

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1 PWUD and HARM REDUCTION ROAD MAP RED BLACK ORANGE GREEN PURPLE Pre - Conference Plenary Events in the Events in the Global Village Events off Site Film Screen in the GV Screening Room DATE TIME 17-Jul 08:00-18:30 NAME OF EVENT / SESSION / FILM 3rd International HIV / Viral Hepatitis Co infection meeting VENUE Main conference DESCRIPTION Pre-conference plenary meeting. The meeting will focus on identifying opportunities for increased diagnosis and treatment of viral hepatitis in PLHIV, particularly in low and middle-income settings. 18-Jul The Good, The Bad and the Truth of policies in Africa Prof Isidore Obot from Nigeria will be discussing the current situation regarding policies within Africa 18-Jul Dying a Slow Death: Inside Indonesia s Drug War Film screening followed by a discussion 18-Jul HIV in Conservative Social Settings: Promoting A Rights Based Approach To HIV The panel will include topics like the role of religion and culture on treating HIV, best treatment options, and vulnerable populations like People Living With HIV/AIDS, People Who Use Drugs, Men Who Have Sex With Men, Sex Workers, and Women in conservative social settings. 18-Jul 12:45 = 13:45 Women who use drugs taking a place in the HIV movement Women's Networking Zone - Global Village Women who use drugs are often not heard in PLWHIV or positive women s groups. ICW and INWUD have developed a joint position statement to promote the need to include the voice of women who inject drugs in the HIV movement. Key points from the position statement will be raised and discussed. 18-Jul Discussing the Golbal Commission on Drug policy Dr Khalid Tinasti from the Global Commission on Drug Policy will be discussing Recommendations and Advocacy for Drug Policy reform Access to Justice As Crucial as a Clean Needle Q&A Panel Session with Naomi Burke Shyne from Open Society Foundation Page 1 of 5

2 Doing the Right Things in the Right Ways: Policy, Legal and Ethical Challenges in Delivering Comprehensive Treatment and Prevention Services for Key Populations Session Room 1 Presentations address lack of policies to protect and support key populations in accessing relevant HIV services and identify challenges and obstacles with existing laws that impede key populations from access to necessary prevention, care and treatment services. Pathways: Moving from Structural Risks to Responses Session Room 7 main conference Several short presentations. One of which looks at Whoonga and another that addresses the Youth s responses to Harm Reduction in Vancouver Doing the Right Things in the Right Ways: Policy, Legal and Ethical Challenges in Delivering Comprehensive Treatment and Prevention Services for Key Populations Session Room 1 main conference This session addresses how research can improve access to appropriate and userfriendly care, treatment and prevention services for key populations. Targeted towards policy makers, ethicists, civil society and key populations representatives as well as researchers and programme implementers, it analyses how underlying policy, legal and ethical principles and current practices are either enabling or restricting delivery of HIV services to key populations Drug Users on the Front Line Presentation by John Kimani from KENPUD looking at PUWD in Kenya Effective Integrated Clinical and Programmatic Service Delivery for People Living with HIV who use Alcohol and Drugs main conference This workshop is aimed at clinical providers and allied health professionals to improve quality and access of treatment programming for people living with HIV who are substance users. The topics cover comorbid conditions including alcohol and drug use, mental health, and increased health conditions including tuberculosis and hepatitis C Kerrigan: Adherence Barriers for Young Indigenous Women of Canada GV Film Screening Room The film encourages discussion about vulnerable Indigenous populations living with HIV who are often stigmatized in society, within their communities and within the healthcare system facing stigma and discrimination. The documentary also highlights the case of a two spirited young woman and her mental health challenges due to substance use. Page 2 of 5

3 One Day in Our Lives on Earth: Impacts of the War on Drugs (Edited Version for AIDS2016) Global Fund Advocates Film Screening followed by a Q & A/Discussion. This documentary film by Rights Reporter Foundation with the support of INPUD highlights how the lives of people who use drugs are affected by the global war on drugs, showing individual stories through the course of one day on earth. The film switches between nine cities on earth throughout the day, from Russia, the US, Germany, India, Indonesia, Hungary and Mexico. The film emphasises the need for comprehensive harm reduction programmes and progressive drug policy reform, and highlights the central role that drug user activists and their organisations play in achieving this." 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) will be discussing members perscpective on UNGASS2016 and an Overview of INPUD Advocacy Publications Funding Crisis for Harm Reduction in Middle Income Countries A presentation by Claudia Stoicescu (Harm Reduction International) UNGASS 2016, HIV/AIDS and Unsafe Drug Use: Public Health and International Drug Policy Main conference This session addresses the shortcomings in the response to HIV and hepatitis C among people who use drugs. Participants will develop an understanding of the links between the scale up of harm reduction, the decriminalization of drug use, the end of incarceration for users, and the positive outcomes on the health and human rights of all. Reaching the Unreached: Service Uptake and Retention Among Marginalized Populations Session Room 10 main conference There is a persistent mismatch between national programme messaging and the delivery of services to those most at risk of HIV infection (e.g. resources for schoolbased prevention instead of support for people who inject drugs). The workshop presents examples of successful programmes for access and service delivery that have been able to reach these unreached populations We are Drug Users Film screening Page 3 of 5

4 Lost Childhood: Urgent Response Needed in Order to Save Lives of Adolescents Who Use Drugs GV Film Screening Room Lost Childhood is a documentary film produced by Alliance for Public Health in Ukraine. This video demonstrates the existence of a significant gap in time between the moment of the beginning of risky practices and initiation of harm reduction services delivered to young people with drug dependence Reforming drug policy and promoting harm reduction in Africa Human Rights networking zone The session will discuss efforts to promote harm reduction and drug policy reform in Africa, challenges and opportunities to expand these efforts and the role of Africa in international drug policy debates Discussions: Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Nelson Mandela Rules) AND UN International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders Addressing the needs of Women who Inject Drugs One Day in Our Lives on Earth: Impacts of the War on Drugs (Edited Version for AIDS2016) Session Room 9 Discussions with Jason Eligh from UNODC Addressing the needs of women who inject drugs Documentary film by Rights Reporter Foundation with the support of INPUD Alcohol, Substance Use and HIV Session Room 2 5 Short presentations followed by a discussion relating to Substance Use, OST, incarceration and HIV 21-Jul Discussion: Women who use Drugs in Advocacy Ruth Bilgin from INPUD Pye Jakobsson (Rose Alliance) Jude Byrne (INWUD) and Carina Edlund (INWUD) 21-Jul Jul Jul Advocacy Tactics II: Communities Challenging Human Rights Violations Support Don t Punish Films: A Broad Consensus? and Voices for Drug policy Reform in Asia Discussion: From Gender Blind to Gender Transformative servcies for Women who use Drugs. How do we get there? Session Room 3 This interactive workshop brings together human rights defenders from around the world to share the practical methods they use to engage and organize their communities to claim human rights protections and to challenge human rights violations. Film Screenings introduced by Ann Fordham from IDPC Ruth Bilgin (INPUD) Judy Chang (INPUD/WHRIN)Olga Belyaeva (EHRN) and Jane Dicka (HRV) 21-Jul 15,3 OSIEA meeting Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel Panel presentations and discussions Page 4 of 5

5 21-Jul Barriers Must Fall: Community-led Delivery Oral abstract session discussing various situations where service delivery has been impacted by the community 22-Jul Can you Hear us? Giving voice to the Silenced Recording Human Rights Violations Experienced by PWID Accessing Harm Reduction Services Shaun Shelly from TBHIV Care and Machteld Busz from Mainline discuss Human Rights Violations in South Africa 22-Jul Chemsex Documentary Film Screening directed by William Fairman and Max Gogarty about a group of men of men battling with HIV, drug addiction and finding acceptance in a changing world. 22-Jul Alcohol, Drug Use and Sexual Risk Behaviour: Hotspots for HIV in Africa and Implications for Interventions Examines a series of concentrated epidemics of HIV in four settings in Africa where risk behaviour is being driven by a confluence of geographical, cultural, social and economic realities underpinned by alcohol and/or drug use. The session explores the dynamics of these epidemics and the implications for interventions. Page 5 of 5