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Welcome to the Fourteen MENAHRA Newsletter |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
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MENAHRA team is kindly inviting you to read and to forward MENAHRA's Fourteen newsletter.
The new Middle East and North Africa Harm Reduction Network was established in June 2007 in order to strengthen harm reduction capacities, policies and interventions across all 22 countries in the region.
The Network consists of a central Secretariat (in Lebanon) and three sub-regional harm reduction ‘Knowledge Hubs’ (in Iran, Lebanon and Morocco).
This newsletter is pleased to feature a number of articles relevant to harm reduction from the MENA region and around the world:
To read the newsletter click here.
Best Regards
MENAHRA Team
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 July 2010 )
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Consultation on Universal Access in Dubai, UAE from 28-29 June 2010 |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
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Dear Colleagues, UNAIDS Regional Support Team for the Middle East and North Africa would like to thank you for your involvement and engagement in the “Policy Dialogue Towards Universal Access; Achievements, Challenges and Needed Action” which took place in Dubai on 28 and 29 of June 2010. Your participation and engagement in the conference added to its importance and helped in raising awareness in the region towards alleviating the burden of the epidemic. Your strong involvement in the conference confirmed your commitment to support the AIDS response in the region. The meeting resulted in several recommendations that were articulated under the attached “Regional Consensus Statement”. UNAIDS welcomes your and all other concerned partners support in operationalisation of the recommendations in a work plan. We at UNAIDS look forward to a sustained collaboration with you for scaling up the agenda of health and development in the Middle East and North Africa region. Hind Khatib-Othman Director, Regional Support Team for Middle East and North Africa More info here. |
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MENAHRA’s participation at the Regional HIV Knowledge Hubs – XVIII International AIDS Conference |
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Monday, 26 July 2010 |
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Since 2003 a number of regional HIV knowledge Hubs was established. Regional HIV Knowledge Hubs are institutions that demonstrated excellence in HIV surveillance, HIV prevention, AIDS treatment & care for Harm reduction and collaborate closely with WHO, the German Back-up Initiative (GTZ) and other development partners and donors. They support national and regional capacity development for comprehensive health sector responses to HIV and AIDS.
A number of Knowledge Hubs coming from different regions and sub-regions of Europe, Africa and MENA will be represented at the Regional HIV Knowledge Hubs Pavilion (Hall B. D483)
MENAHRA, the only one from the MENA region among others, will be represented by its Director M. Elie Aaraj in the Pavilion. M. Aaraj will do a presentation of MENAHRA’s Networks and the Three Knowledge Hubs achievements and future projects. Also, he will give the opportunity to the audience to discuss the first Harm Reduction initiative in the MENA region (MENAHRA) that was launched by WHO and IHRA and supported financially by Drosos. |
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Harm Reduction 2011 Conference in Beirut |
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 |
IHRA's 22nd Annual International Conference 2011 will take place in Beirut, Lebanon April 3-7, 2011.
Since 1990, these events have become the key forum for the dissemination of harm reduction ideas and practice, and have helped to put harm reduction on the map and to coordinate advances, innovations, evidence and advocacy in this field. Each year, delegates include frontline workers, researchers, policy makers, members of governments, officials from law enforcement agencies and the judiciary, criminal justice workers, UN officials, members of national and international NGO’s and members of international and national drug user organisations.
IHRA will be updating this section – eventually uploading photos, programmes, reviews and information from all of the previous conferences.
Read more about IHRA’s Conference at: http://www.ihra.net/conference |
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