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Over five days, the annual IHRA conferences include around 60 sessions – including:
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- Opening and Closing Sessions – featuring high-profile addresses and speeches from key international figures, dignitaries from the host country, and key activists and advocates.
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- Plenary Sessions – which help to set themes and tones for the rest of the conference and are the focus of the programme at that time, attract over 1,000 delegates.
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- Major Sessions – which showcase key issues and topics in more detail, and run in sets of three at a time, each attracting around 350 delegates.
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- Concurrent Sessions – which run in sets of six sessions at a time, each attracting around 100 delegates, and allow for a range of different subjects and issues to be explored in the programme.
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- Dialogue Space – new for 2010, this will run alongside the main programme and allow for skills building, workshops, and a more informal setting in which to discuss and debate specific issues.
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The format of these sessions varies, but typically involves four presenters speaking for 15 minutes each based on an abstract that they have submitted online. Overall, the conference aims to accommodate around 250 oral presentations and 400 poster presentations over the five days.
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Abstract Submission
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Each year, the conference receives around 1,000 ‘abstracts’, which are reviewed and scored before some of them are accepted to be presented in the conference programme.
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The abstract submission system for Harm Reduction 2010 is now closed.
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In December 2009, the Executive Programme Committee meet, review all of the abstracts that have been submitted, and create a conference programme which reflects the latest global developments and issues in harm reduction, and the conference theme – ‘Harm Reduction: The Next Generation’.
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