VNGOC: Ms. Waly could not make it. Jean Luc Lemahieu – UNODC: I had the fortune to be working as and working with civil society in my career. I welcome the fact that some 90 NGOs are attending CND and most of side vents are organized by you or with you. Civil society participation is …
Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA)
Informal dialogue with the WHO
Lucía Goberna (VNGOC): Welcome Vladimir Pozniak (WHO): Thank you for being here, we hope this will become a tradition at CND. Kenzi Riboulet (FAAAT): There are three departments of WHO concerned with matters related to controlled drugs: Health products (EMP), Substance abuse (MSA), and Traditional/Complementary medicine (T&CM). What collaboration, coordination or cooperation exists between these …
Side Event: Reducing Health Risks of the Use of NPS in EECA Region – Organized by the Governments of Estonia and the Republic of Moldova, and the Eurasian Harm Reduction Association
Aljona Kurbatova (National Institute for Health Development, Estonia): […] Dr. Z hannat Kosmukhamedova (UNODC): The UNODC published a technical guide, the ‘HIV Prevention Treatment, care and support for people who use stimulant drUNODCugs’ to increase awareness of the needs and issues faced by affected groups and to provide recommendations in responding to them. The global …
Side Event: Health Responses to the Opioid Poisoning Crisis: On-the-Ground Experiences and International Implications
Organized by Canada, and Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs, Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation and International Drug Policy Consortium Fatal drug-related overdose is a pressing health crisis in North America. Highly potent synthetic opioids, including fentanyl and analogues, are increasingly present in the unregulated opioid …
Side event: Drug policy: Saving public costs
Organised by the Governments of Estonia and Lithuania, the Association for Safer Drug Policies, and the Eurasian Harm Reduction Association Eliza Kurcevic, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association. What costs more? Criminalisation (prisons) or social and health services (different treatment programmes, prevention, employment benefits, social security services, etc.)? You can use the link here to vote. Here is …
Side event: Women, incarceration and drug policy: Specific vulnerabilities that call for focused responses
Organized by the Center for Legal and Social Studies, the International Drug Policy Consortium, the Washington Office on Latin America, Women and Harm Reduction International Network, Masyarakat Community Legal Aid Institute, the Eurasian Harm Reduction Association and the NoBox Transitions Foundation. Ivana Radacic, OHCHR (Chair): Thank you for inviting me as the Chair of the …