Lunchtime Meeting at Harm Reduction 2008: IHRA’s 19th International Conference
Barcelona, Spain
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Wednesday May 14th 2008
13:00 – 14:00
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Organised by the World Health Organization Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
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This session explores the treatment of opioid dependence in HIV/AIDS prevention - particularly opioid substitution treatment - and introduces the new WHO Guidelines on ‘Psychosocially Assisted Pharmacological Treatment of Opioid Dependence’ – a toolkit for the evaluation of opioid substitution treatment programmes.
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Meeting Agenda:
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• Nicolas Clark (WHO, Geneva) – ‘WHO guidelines for the psychosocially assisted pharmacological treatment of opioid dependence’
• Ambros Uchtenhagen (Switzerland) – ‘Evaluation of opioid substitution therapy in diverse settings: The WHO Collaborative Study on Substitution Therapy of Opioid Dependence and HIV/AIDS in 8 countries - Outcome Evaluation and Process Evaluation’
• Martin Donoghoe (WHO European Region Office, Copenhagen) - Access to pharmacological treatment of opioid dependence in Eastern Europe
• Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar, Islamic Republic of Iran- The evolution of opioid dependence treatment in the Islamic Republic of Iran
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