Thematic session 1: Drug treatment and health services continue to fall short of meeting needs and deaths related to drug use have increased; and the rate of transmission of HIV, the hepatitis C virus and other blood-borne diseases associated with drug use, including injecting drug use in some countries, remains high; Chair (Standing in) Agenda …
El Salvador
Side Event: Accelerating support for increasing access to controlled medicines while preventing diversion and non-medical use
Organized by Australia, Belgium, Canada, El Salvador and the Russian Federation, and European Union, UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, Union for International Cancer Control, Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs and World Health Organization Miwa Kato, UNODC 80% of world defines opioid crises as not having access to opioids. How do we work this out …
Committee of the Whole (Thursday morning) L4. Promoting awareness-raising, education and training as part of a comprehensive approach to ensuring access to and the availability of controlled substances for medical and scientific purposes and improving their rational use
EC77/2020/L4 Belgium:There are some paras where the wording is ‘non-stigma’. A couple of paras have been agreed in informals pending on the solution of non-stigmatisation. Chair: Canada was the state proposing language on stigma Canada: If we are going to focus on PPs first we did have discussions during informals. Linking PP that references stigma …
Opening of the 63rd Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
*** MORNING SESSION *** Chair: Welcome to CND63. I welcome Chief of UNODC Medical Service to talk about coronavirus. Dr: WHO has introduced guidelines on COVID19 outbreak. Measures to make and keep up safe. Latest numbers: quite a big number of people affected – mainly in China. Now more in other countries than China alone. Main …
Item 15. Provisional agenda for the sixty-third session of the Commission
El Salvador: I have a question about 6A? Will we dealing with the review or the commitments. Under item 5 with the international control treaties we dill with each sub-paragraph, so how would 6B for all the commitments, then B for the review? Secretariat: My understanding that item 6 would be much more comprehensive and …
Committee of the Whole, L8. Enhancing the capacity of Member States to ensure the availability of controlled substances
OP 1 Russia: Providing assistance to states for assessing needs and necessary information to control substances for legitimate purposes, in relation to the title, we have no specific proposal we are ready to accept the title as it is on the screen. Nonetheless we would like to examine the text. Spain: there are three separate …