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Latest News Guidance on standards for the establishment and operation of drug consumption rooms in the UK (03 December 2008)  This report provides essential guidance for local multi-agency partnerships that are contemplating establishing and operating a drug consumption room (DCR) in the UK. A number of local partnerships across England, Wales and Scotland are currently discussing whether or how DCRs might help address their local drug problems. At present there are no DCRs in the UK, however, evidence elsewhere suggests that they can be valuable for engaging marginalised drug users, reducing overdose deaths and can have a beneficial impact on community safety in areas where public drug use is widespread. For the full report click here.  Open Letter from Professor Stimson, Conference Director Over the past few months, there has been a lot of hard work behind the scenes in planning for Harm Reduction 2009: IHRA’s 19th International Conference. With this letter, I would like to update you on some of the significant developments with what promises to be a landmark conference for harm reduction in Thailand, across South-East Asia and internationally. Read more.
| Would you like to volunteer at Harm Reduction 2009 in Bangkok? Every year IHRA has had a team of volunteers, usually recruited locally and comprising people from all sorts of groups – students, drug user advocates and NURSES – who bring to the conference a range of skills and abilities. These volunteers perform a range of tasks, ranging from using language skills to help delegates for whom the main language of the conference (English) is not their own, to providing technical help, to welcome and information services for delegates, to assisting with registration of delegates, to guiding delegates around the venue and operating roving microphones in sessions.Read more... INHRN supporting organisation of IHRA's Harm Reduction 2009 IHRA and the Conference Consortium are please to announce Harm Reduction 2009: IHRA’s 20th International Conference – which will take place in Bangkok, Thailand from the 19th to the 23rd April 2009. These conferences have gone from strength to strength in recent years – attracting over 1,200 delegates from 90 different countries. Please visit .
INHRN, for its second consecutive year, is part of the Executive Programme Committee (EPC) for Harm Reduction 2009, and is callling Nurses and Allied Professionals to be involved, once again, in the development of this conference and submit your abstracts.
In order to submit an abstract, you must first register for the conference by visiting www.ihraconferences.net. Once you have created a new user account, simply click on “your submissions” and follow the instructions. Abstracts must be submitted in english an be no longer than 300 words. | World AIDS Day The 1st of December, World AIDS Day, is the day when individuals and organisations from around the world come together to bring attention to the global AIDS epidemic. 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. Whilst we have come a long ways since 1988, there is still much more to be done. Visit www.worldaidscampaign.org for more information. Harm Reduction and Human Rights The Global Response to Injection-Driven HIV Epidemics INHRN has endorsed,alongside with many other Harm Reduction Organisations, the Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the biennial report on HIV/AIDS requested by Commission on Human Rights Resolution E/CN.4/RES/2005/84, by IHRA. This document is available here.
Harm Reduction 2009 Website Launched
IHRA and the Conference Consortium are pleased to launch the new website for Harm  Reduction 2009: IHRA’s 20th International Conference. This event – the latest in a long-running series – will take place in Thailand. The website – www.ihraconferences.net – will contain all the information that delegates need to register for and attend the conference. |
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