Programme
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Day One: 26 March, 2019
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09:00 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:40 - Welcome Speeches
Dr. Philippe De Botton - President of Medecins Du Monde France
Dr. Elisabeth Avril - Director of Gaia Paris - Responsible for Mission in Georgia - Medecins Du Monde France
Ketevan Khutsishvili - Executive Director - Open Society Georgia Foundation (OSGF)
Zaza Karchkhadze - Chairman of Board of Georgian Network of People who Use Drugs - GeNPUD
Report from Activists Summit
10:40 - 10:50 - Screening of Video Clip
10:00 - 10:50 Opening Session
Opening Session Moderator:
10:50 - 11:00
Ensuring sustainable access to Harm Reduction Services in Transition Period in Georgia : Challenges and Solutions
Kakha Kvashilava - Executive Director - Georgian Harm Reduction Network
11:00 - 11:10
Transition Period: Effective HIV Response and Sustainability of HarmReduction: Strategic Priorities, Implemented Actions and FuturePlans
Tamar Gabunia - Deputy Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories
11:10 - 11:20
Transition and Sustainability Planning: Ensuring sustainable harm reduction programming, perspective of GFATMPIU
Amiran Gamkrelidze - Director General - National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health - NCDC
11:20 - 11:30
Lessons learnt and what to replicate: Harm Reduction and Access to Services in countries preparing for transition
Gyongyver Jakab - Fund Portfolio Manager - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
11:30 - 11:40
Domestic funding for Harm reduction in EECA region: challenges and compromises
Ganna Dovbakh - Executive Director - Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA)
11:40 - 11:50
Lessons learnt and what to avoid: Harm Reduction and Access to Services in countries were transition already happened;
Peter Sarosi - Executive Director - Rights Reporter Foundation
11:50 - 12:30
Panel Discussion and Q&A
10:50 - 12:30 Plenary Session 1: Transition and Sustainability of Harm Reduction Programmes
12:30 - 13:00 Break and Poster Tour
Moderator: Darejan (Jana) Javakhishvili - Senior Programme Manager - Global Initiative in Psychiatry - GIP
13:00 - 13:10
New Psycho active Substances and Non-Injecting Drug Use - Global Challenges and Response Measures
Mat Southwell - Drugs and HIV Consultant - International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
13:10 - 13:20
New Psycho active Substances and Non-Injecting Drug Use in Georgia: Needs and Challenges
Dr. David Otiashvili - Executive Director - Addiction Research Centre ‘’Alternative Georgia’’
13:20 - 13:30
Cannabis Under Control A detailed and cautious scenario for a regulated, not-for-profit cannabis market
Prof. Dr. Tom Decorte - Professor of Criminology – University of Ghent - Faculty of Law and Criminology, Institute for Social Drug research (ISD)
13:30 - 13:40
Drug Consumption Room: An effective measure to reduce human and social harms
Dr. Elisabeth Avril - Director - Gaia Paris - Responsible for Mission in Georgia - MDM France
13:40 - 13:50
Drug Use and Harm Reduction in Night Clubs and Musical Festivals: What we need to introduce?
David Subeliani - White Noise Movement (WNM)
13:50 - 14:30
Panel Discussion and Q&A
13:00 - 14:30 Plenary Session 2: New Harm Reduction
Exhibition Booth 1: Drug Consumption Room
Exhibition Booth 2: Harm Reduction Paraphernalia
Exhibition Booth 3: Drug Checking
Exhibition Booth 4: Heroin Assisted Treatment (HAT) and other practices of OST
Exhibition Booth 5: Syringe Wending Machines
14:30 - 16:00 Lunch and Exhibition Tour: Harm Reduction Best Practices not available in Georgia
Moderator - Ketevan Bidzinashvili - Executive Director - ‘Step to the Future’
HIV/AIDS
16:00 - 16:10
Overview and challenges: HIV and Harm Reduction in Georgia
Nino Janashia - Executive Director -’Ksenoni’
16:10 - 16:20
View of PLWH Community on harm reduction programme and PLWH specific services
Tamar Gakhokidze - Social Worker - 'Hepa +'
16:20 - 16:35
Questions and Answers
Hepatitis C
16:35 - 16:45
HCV and Harm Reduction in Georgia
Maka Gogia - Programme Director - Georgian Harm Reduction Network (GHRN)
16:45 - 17:00
Questions and Answers
Tuberculosis
17:00 - 17:10
Role of Harm Reduction in TB Response
Konstantine Labartkava - Executive Director - 'New Vector'
17:10 - 17:30
Questions and Answers
16:00 - 17:30 Parallel Sessions 1: Harm Reduction Services
Moderator - Nino Tsereteli – Executive Director - Centre for Information and Counseling on Reproductive Health - ‘Tanadgoma'
Opioid Substitution Theraphies
16:00 - 16:10
Opioid Substitution Therapies in Georgia
Khatuna Todadze - Deputy Director - Centre for Mental Health and Prevention of Addiction
16:17 - 16:25
View of Patients OST Programmes: Needs and Challenges
Konstantine Rukhadze - OST Patient
16:25 - 16:35
Questions and Answers
Rehabilitation Programmes
16:35 - 16:45
Rehabilitation Programmes in Georgia: From ART Therapies to Rehab Centre
Vazha Kasrelishvili - Project Coordinators - Centre for Information and Counseling on Reproductive Health - ‘Tanadgoma'
16:45 - 17:00
Questions and Answers
Harm Reduction in Prisons
17:00 - 17:10
Harm Reduction in Prisons - Needs and Challenges
Kakha Kepuladze - Project Coordinator - Centre for Information and Counseling on Reproductive Health - ‘Tanadgoma'
17:10 - 17:30
Questions and Answers
16:00 - 17:30 Parallel Sessions 2: Treatment & Rehabilitation
Moderator - Ernst Wisse - Harm Reduction Adviser - Medecins Du Monde France
Overdose
16:00 - 16:07
Management of Opioid Overdoses
Zaza Karchkhadze - Chairman of Board - Georgian Network of People who Use Drugs (GeNPUD)
16:07 - 16:14
Overdose related to New Psychoactive Substances: Introducing Response Measures
Temo Khatiashvili - Director - Community Alliance
16:14 - 16:20
View of Night Club Hosts on Harm Reduction in Club Settings: Needs and Asks
Naja Orashvili - Owner - Night Club ‘Bassiani’
16:20 - 16:35
Questions and Answers
Drug Use and LGBTQI Community
16:35 - 16:42
IBSS and PSE among MSM Population in Georgia
Curatio International Foundation (CIF)
16:35 - 16:42
Drug Use and Expected Challenges in MSM and Trans Communities
David Kakhaberi - Programme Coordinator - Equality Movement
16:42 - 16:50
Tbilisi Pride - A Dignity March for LGBTQI Rights
Giorgi Tabagari - Tbilisi Pride
16:50 - 17:00
Questions and Answers
Women who Use Drugs
16:35 - 16:45
Specific needs and tailored services for WUD
Ekaterine Gardaphkhadze - ‘Akeso’
16:35 - 16:45
Specific needs and tailored services for FSW
Nino Bolkvadze - ‘Women for Freedom’
16:45 - 17:00
Questions and Answers
16:00 - 17:30 Parallel Session 3: Specific Services and Human Rights
Day Two: 27 March, 2019
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09:00 - 10:00 Registration
Moderator: Salome Asatiani - Correspondent - Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty Georgian Service
10:00 - 10:10
Drug Policy in Georgia: Definition of Problems and review of developments and changes in Georgian Drug Legislation
Sopho Verdzeuli - Director of Democracy and Justice Programme - Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC)
10:10 - 10:20
Legislative Regulation of Cannabis in Georgia and Decisions of Constitutional Court
Vakhushti Menabde - Expert/Constitutionalist
10:20 - 10:30
Repressive Drug Policy in Georgia - Report by Human Rights Watch
Giorgi Gogia - Associate Director - Europe and Central Asia Division - Human Rights Watch
10:30 - 10:40
"Call for Global Decriminalization; Need of the moment"
Binod Gurung - Board Member - International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD)
10:40 - 10:50
Georgia on Drug Legislation and related challenges
Akaki Zoidze - Chairman - Health and Social Issues Committee - Parliament of Georgia
10:50 - 11:00
Vision and Plans of Ministry of Interior on Drug Legislation and related challenges
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia
10:50 - 11:00
A Public Health Approach to Drug Policy
Celine Grillon - Advocacy Adviser - Medecins Du Monde France
11:10 - 11:20
Voice of Georgia PUD Community
Lasha Abesadze - Georgian Network of People who Use Drugs (GeNPUD)
11:20 - 11:30
Call for Decriminalization
Beqa Tsikarishvili - White Noise Movement
11:30 - 12:00
Pane Discussion and Q&A
10:00 - 10:50 Plenary Session: Drug Policy
12:00 - 12:30 Break and Poster Tour
Moderator: Ganna Dovbakh - Executive Director - Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA)
12:30 - 12:40
Main Stages of Budget Development and State Funding of Healthcare Programmes in Georgia
Irina Javakhadze - Chief Specialist - Ministry of Finance of Georgia
12:40 - 12:50
The lost decade: Neglect for harm reduction funding and the health crisis among people who use drugs
Olga Szubert - Senior Policy Analyst - Harm Reduction International
12:50 - 13:00
Funding Opportunities for Harm Reduction and Cross - Cutting Fields with in European Union
Lali Chkhetia - Programme Officer Delegation of the European Union to Georgia
13:00 - 13:10
French 5% Initiative: Funding Policy and opportunities for local actors
Tiphaine Lucas - Attaché of International Cooperation - Embassy of France in Georgia
13:10 - 13:20
AHF Programme in Georgia: Opportunities for CSOs
Nia Khetaguri - Programme Manager - AIDS Health care Foundation (AHF)
13:10 - 13:20
CRG EECA Regional Platform - Technical Support Opportunities for CSOs and CBOs
Ganna Dovbakh - Executive Director - Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA)
13:30 - 14:00
Panel Discussion and Q&A
12:30 - 14:00 Plenary Session: Donors and Funding
Exhibition Booth 1: Drug Policy in Portugal
Exhibition Booth 2: Drug Policy in Netherlands
Exhibition Booth 3: Drug Policy in Switzerland
Exhibition Booth 4: Drug Policy in Czech Republic
Exhibition Booth 5: Cannabis related Policy in Colorado State, USA
14:00 - 15:30 Lunch and Exhibition Tour: Successful Drug Policies
Workshop 1: Transition and Sustainability; Moderator - Giorgi Gotsadze Curatio International Foundation (CIF)
Workshop 2: New Harm Reduction; Moderator -Irma Kirtadze- Addiction Research Center ‘Alternative Georgia’
Workshop 3: Drug Policy; Moderator -David Otiashvili - Addiction Research Center ‘Alternative Georgia’
15:30 - 17:00 Workshops
17:00 - 17:20
Workshops Results
Rapporteurs
17:20 - 17:30
Presentation of Conference Declaration
17:30 - 18:00
Closing Remarks -
MedecinsDuMonde
OpenSocietyGeorgiaFoundation
17:00 - 18:00 Closing Session