(Please note that, unfortunately, the first half of this informal dialogue was not recorded. If you have a copy that we could use to produce transcriptions, please do not hesitate to get in touch). Ricardo Pareyda, Veterans Action Council: How can cannabis and cannabinoid medicines benefit from the numerous WHO programs on patient safety & pharmacovigilance, …
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Side Event: Insights into Treatment and Care for People with Drug Use Disorders in Contact with the Criminal Justice System – Alternatives to Conviction or Punishment
Side event organized by the UNODC Justice Section, with the support of Norway and Vietnam, and the African Union, the UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, the World Health Organization, and the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC) – and organised back-to-back with another UNODC side event entitled “No-one Left Behind: UNODC-WHO Programme on Drug Dependence …
Side Event: Drug use and COVID-19: public health challenges and priorities at the time of the pandemic and beyond
Side event organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) Mariângela Simão (WHO Assistant Director-General, Access to Medicines and Health Products): I am pleased to welcome you all to this important side event on COVID-19, and to discuss the provision of essential services related to drugs during the pandemic. Throughout the pandemic, WHO emphasised the need …
Side event: Procurement, Pricing, and Access to Controlled Medicines During COVID-19
Organized by the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care with the support of Australia, Belgium, and Dejusticia, Harm Reduction International, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the World Health Organization Participants: Ambassador Ghislain D’Hoop, Ambassador of Belgium to the UN organizations Vienna Dr. Zukiswa Zingela, INCB Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, UN …
Side Event: Five years of UNGASS implementation – promoting public health and well-being
Organized by Sweden with the support of Denmark, Finland and Norway, and the UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section and the World Health Organization Opening remarks • H.E. Ambassador Kjersti E. Andersen, Permanent Representative of Norway to the UN in Vienna: We are, in many ways, siblings – sharing more political similarities. There are some …
Side event: Forced treatment, people who use drugs and the right to health: empirical evidence from Asia and Latin America
Organized by Equis Justicia Para Las Mujeres A.C., the International Drug Policy Consortium, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Leigh Toomey, Vice Chair, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: (Intro) Annette Verster, World Health Organization: Health and welfare of humankind are the fundamental underpinnings of the Conventions. This is very important …