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11-12-09 Press debate over methadone in prison in the UK
26-10-09 A strategy for combating HIV/AIDS in the EU and neighbouring countries 2009-2013
24-11-09 Policy brief and technical paper recommends that scaling up of HIV prevention must include prisons and other closed settings
Prison Heath Protection: gathering of experts at the WHO conference in Madrid (28-31 October)
29-09-09 What is Harm Reduction? A position statement from the International Harm Reduction Association

‘Drugs, Alcohol and Criminal Justice:

ethics, effectiveness and economics of interventions'
Friends House, London, UK -24-25 June 2010

Registration and abstracts submission now open >>>

Nominations Invited for Paolo Pertica Fellowship 2010

Nominations are now being invited for the 2010 Paolo Pertica Fellowship along with other IHRA Awards -all of which will be presented at Harm Reduction 2010: IHRA’s 21st International Conference.

The Paolo Pertica Fellowship was established in 2004 by the European Network of Drugs and Infections Prevention in Prisons (ENDIPP). The creation of ENDIPP stemmed from Paolo Pertica’s work with prisoners from a wide range of different nationalities incarcerated in London prisons.

11-12-09 Press debate over methadone in prison in the UK

http://www.ihrablog.net/2009/12/european-human-rights-monitors.html

24-11-09 Policy brief and technical paper recommends that scaling up of HIV prevention must include prisons and other closed settings

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have published a policy brief and technical paper on ‘HIV Testing and Counselling in Prisons and Other Closed Settings’. This paper emphasises the need for all stakeholders, including prison systems and other closed settings, to participate in the scaling up of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support as part of a comprehensive HIV programme, if universal access to HIV testing and counselling is to be achieved by 2010.

Prison Heath Protection: gathering of experts at the WHO conference in Madrid (28-31 October)

The annual conference of the WHO Health in Prison Project (HIPP), which gathers experts and practitioners on prison health from the wider European area took place in this year on the 28-31 October at the Ministry of Health and Social Policy in Madrid, Spain.

The conference was organized by HIPP in collaboration with a number of partner organisations from Spain and other EU countries.

The event was well attended by European policy makers, prison staff, criminal justice staff, health care staff, researchers, and NGO representatives who shared their national experiences and best practices. Main outcome of the conference is the Madrid Recommendation, recognising the urgent need in prisons for a set of measures, programmes and guidelines aiming to prevent and control major communicable diseases in prison.

More at http://www.euro.who.int/prisons