Final programme

ENGLISH / RUSSIAN
 

Thursday 29 October 2009

09.45 - 10.15

 

 

Plenary room (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Official opening of the conference by:

  • Dr Trinidad Jiménez Garcia, Minister of Health and Social Policy, Spain
  • Mr Antonio Camacho Vizcaíno, Secretary of Estate for Security. Ministry of Home Affairs, Spain
  • Jose Martinez Olmos, Health General Secretary, Ministry of Health and Social Policy, Spain.
  • Ms Mercedes Gallizo Llamas, Secretary General of the Penitentiary Department, Spain
  • Dr Srdan Matic, Unit Head, WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Dr Fabienne Hariga, Global Focal Point for HIV in prison settings, United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime

10.15 – 11.30

 

 

Plenary room (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Keynote session:“Key challenges in communicable diseases in prison”

Chair: Dr Andrew Fraser, Co-director WHO Collaborating Centre for prison and health, United Kingdom and Director of Health and Care, Scottish Prison Service.

Speakers:

  • Ms Annette Verster MA, Focal Point for harm reduction in IDUs and prisons, Department of HIV/AIDS, WHO Headquarters: 

“Drug use, HIV and HCV in the prison setting –evidence for action”

  • Dr José Manuel Arroyo Cobo, Deputy director-general of Spanish Prisons, responsible for Prison Health:

“Communicable diseases in Spanish prisons”

  • Dr Albina Stepanova Kuznetsova, First Deputy Head Medical Department of Federal Penitentiary Service, Russian Federation:

“Communicable diseases in penitentiary institutions of the Russian Federation”

  • Dr Fabienne Hariga, Global Focal Point for HIV in prison settings, UNODC

“ HIV in prison settings: A framework for an effective national response”

 

11.30 – 12.00

COFFEE BREAK

12.00 – 13.15

 

 

Plenary room (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Panel discussion
“Leaving prison - keeping safe. Reducing post-release deaths”

Chair: Dr Lars Moller, WHO Regional Office for Europe

Panel members:

  • Ms Isabelle Giraudon, EMCDDA
  • Dr Michael Farrell, Reader in Addiction Psychiatry, Kings College, London
  • Prof. Morag McDonald, Birmingham University and Editor of International Journal of Prisoner Health
  • Dr Michael Levy, Director, Correctional Health Program, ACT Australia
  • Dr Albert Giménez, Director of the AIDS Prevention and Healthcare Programme in the Autonomous Region of Cataluña, Spain
  • Spanish (ex-) prisoner

 

Room 1 (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Workshop by AFEW
“The role of NGO’s in tackling communicable diseases in prison”

Co-Chairs: Mikhail Volik, Aids Foundation East West & Alla Kuznetzova, the Penitentiary System in the Russian Federation

Speakers:

  • Abstract 29: Natalia Moyseeva, AFEW:

“Institutionalization of Major Communicable Disease Control and Prevention”

  • Abstract 1: Pintilei Larisa, NGO Innovative Projects in Prisons, Moldova:

“Nine years of harm reduction in prisons in Moldova - Successes and challenges”

  • Abstract 38: Natalia Veznina, AFEW:
"Health Promotion in Prisons: Programme Implementation in Four Countries, Central Asia”
  • Abstract 88: Oksana Katkalova, Ministry of Justice, Kyrgyzstan:
"The control of HIV-infection in Prisons of Kyrgyzstan”


 

Room 2 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Spanish (translation into English, not simultaneous)
Theme:
“Diverse issues”

Chair: Pilar Gomez Pintado, Head of Health Protection Service. Ministry of Interior – General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions, Spain

Speakers:

  • Abstract 111: Enrique Acin, Secretariat-General for Penitentiary Institutions, Spain:

“Resultados obtenidos en la prevención de la transmisión del VIH y del VHC por los programas de reducción de daños en las prisiones españolas”

  • Abstract 19: Claudio Pelaez, Central Services of the Extremadura Health Service:

“Telemedicine in an imprisonment center, a necessary practice”

  • Abstract 25: Julio Garcia, SESP President:

“Prevalencia de fibrosis hepática significativa (FHS), según los índices APRI y FORNS, en pacientes coinfectados por VHC y VIH en los centros penitenciarios”

 

Room 3 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Theme:
“Health Promotion”

Chair: Fabienne Hariga, UNODC

Speakers:

  • Abstract 52: Leanna Knox-Kinsman, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, Canada:

“Health promotion approaches to prevent infectious diseases in Correctional Service Canada.”

  • Abstract 35: Michelle Baybutt, Healthy Settings Development Unit, University of Central Lancs, UK:

“Tackling Blood-borne Viruses in Prisons in England & Wales: An Evaluation of the Department of Health’s Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Policies and Programme Initiatives”

  • Abstract 40: Monique Eijkenboom, Agency for Correctional Institutions, the Netherlands:

“Guidelines: technical hygiene care in prisons”

  • Abstract 135: Martín Edgardo Vázquez Acuña, Judge, Scientific Advisory Committee on Drugs of the Chief of Gabinet of Ministers, Argentina:

“The Porto Declaration”

 

Room 4 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Theme:
“HIV and Drugs Treatment and Care”

Chair: Max Rutherford, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health

Speakers:

  • Abstract 106: Binija Dhital Goperma, UNODC, India:

“HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment for Female Prisoners in Nepal”

  • Abstract 113: Dulce Alexandre Aparicio Feder, British Columbia Women’s Hospital, Canada:

“Initiation of an Outreach Program at Alouette Correctional Centre for Women: A Multidisciplinary Collaborative Approach to HIV Care”

  • Abstract 24: Katja Thane, Centre for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research, Germany:

“Health care needs of drug using female prisoners”

13.15 – 14.45

LUNCH BREAK AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS

14.45 – 16.05

 

 

Plenary room (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Session by Revista Española de Sanidad (Spanish journal)
The Spanish Prison Health Care Society and their role in prison health care quality improvement

Chair: Dr Pablo Sainz de la Hoya, medical doctor Allicante prison, Spain.

Speakers:

  • Dr Julio Garcia Guerrero, SESP President:

Spanish Society of Penitentiary Health: a force for creativity and innovation in prisons

  • Dr Andrés Marco Mouriño, Director of the Spanish Journal of Prison Health (RESP):

The Revista Española de Sanidad Pentienciaria (RESP), over ten years of scientific research in Prison Health

  • Dr Santiago Moreno Guillén, Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases in Ramon y Cajal Hospital in Madrid:

Spanish Society of Penitentiary Health: steps towards equivalent high quality healthcare provision in prisons

 

Room 1 (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Workshop by EMCDDA
“Assessing the need for drug use-related health services in prisons and monitoring service provision”

Co-chairs: Dagmar Hedrich, EMCDDA and Chloé Carpentier, EMCDDA

Speakers:

  • Sara van Malderen, Prison Health Service, DG-EPI, Federal Department of Justice, Belgium:

“Monitoring drug use and related problems in prison as a tool for policy making: difficulties and challenges for policy planners”

  • Abstract 95: Heino Stöver, Fachhoch schule Frankfurt, Germany & Laurent Michel, Centre de Traitement des Addictions, Hôpital E ROUX-APHP, Limeil-Brévannes, France:

“The potential role of prison physicians in monitoring prisoner health at EU level”

  • Abstract 72: Sue Clements, Head of Healthcare HMP Brixton & Marcus Taylor Care, UK Ltd. & Loraine Rossati, NHS Lambeth, UK:

“Measuring complexity: The challenges of developing information management and technology systems that tell us what we need to know”

  • Abstract 48: Caren Weilandt, Scientific Institute of the German Medical Association, Germany & Robert B Greifinger, City University of New York, USA:

“A Step-by-Step HIV situation and Needs Assessment Tool for Prison Systems”

 

Room 2 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Theme:
“Screening, testing and treatment of Hepatitis C in prisons”

Abstract 4:
Chair: Andrew Fraser, Scottish Prison Service

Speakers:

  • Gerda vant Hoff & Ms Monique Eijkenboom, National Agency for Correctional Institutions, the Netherlands
  • Stephen Heller-Murphy, Scottish Prison Service, Scotland
  • Sven Todts, Belgium Prison Service, Belgium
  • Paul Hayton & Eamonn O’moore, Prison Health, Department of Health, United Kingdom

Co-reporter:

  • Mikhail Volik, Aids Foundation East West

 

Room 3 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Theme:
Womens health in Prison

Chair: Alex Gatherer, Temporary Adviser WHO Health in Prisons Project

Speakers:

  • Abstract 134: Brenda van den Bergh, WHO Regional Office for Europe:

WHO/UNODC Declaration on women?s health in prison

  • Abstract 65: Diana Hatton, San Diego University, CA,USA:

The effects of managed care practices on the diagnosis and management of communicable diseases: perspectives from US women prisoners

  • Abstract 78: Anastasia Fisher, San Francisco State University, USA:

Women prisoners accounts of provider-patient relationships: a challenge to implementation of infection control and prevention in US jails and prisons

  • Natalia Kalashnyk, State Department on Enforcement of Sentences, Ukraine:

Female prisoners in Ukraine

 

Room 4 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Theme: 
Prision health monitoring, research and policy development"

Chair: Anke van Dam, Aids Foundation East West

Speakers:

  • Abstract 129: Patrick Kirwan, Health Protection Agency, England, UK:

Hepatitits B and C Testing in English Prisons Between 2005 and 2008

  • Abstract 120: Cinzia Brentari, University of Kent, England:

The experience of the CONNECTIONS project: joining research, dissemination of evidence, advocacy and training to work towards the introduction of appropriate policies and services for providing care to drug users in the criminal justice system

  • Abstract 60: Fariba Farid, Iran Prisons Organitzation:

The challenges of prison health monitoring and data collection: A Survey of 5-year Trend of TB in Prisons of I.R. Iran (2004-2008)

  • Absract 41: Patrick Kirwan, Health Protection Agency Centre, England, UK:

National Survey of Tattooing in English Prison Establishments

16.05 – 16.15

Short break to change rooms

16.15 – 17.15

 

 

Plenary room (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Debate on Statement:
“Needle exchange in prisons is essential to successful harm reduction”

Chair: Dr Daniel Zulaika, Coordinator of the Plan of AIDS Prevention and Control, Basque Health Department

4 key experts opinions on the statement:

  • Dr Eamonn O’moore, Department of Health, UK
  • Dr Anke van Dam, Deputy Director AFEW
  • Dr Rick Lines, International Harm Reduction Association
  • Dr Julián Sanz Sanz, Head of the Drug Division of the Secretary General of Penitentiary Institutions, Spain

 

Room 1 (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Workshop by Birmingham University
“Using radio for health promotion in prisons”

Chair: Morag MacDonald, University of Central England and Editor of Journal of Prisoner Health

Speakers:

  • Matt Grimes, Lecture in Media and Community Radio Activist, Birmingham City University
  • David Kane, Senior Researcher, Birmingham City University
  • Andrew Wikie, UK Prison Radio Association.

 

Room 2 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Theme:
“Infectious diseases”

Chair: Dato Chorgoliani, KNCV TB Foundation

Speakers:

  • Abstract 57: Laurent Gétaz, Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland:

“Chickenpox in a Swiss Prison: evaluation of susceptibility to chickenpox, post-exposure vaccination and implementation of other control measures”

  • Abstract 75: Geta Cucu, Romanian Administration of Penitentiaries:

“HIV prevention services for injecting drug users (IDUs) in Romanian penitentiaries”

  • Abstract 79: Denise Tomasini-Joshi, Open society Justice Initiative, New York, USA:

The use of Pretrial Release Mechanisms as a tool to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in prison”

 

Room 3 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Theme:
“Drug dependent prisoners: treatments and challenges”

Chair: Masoud Dara, KNCV TB Foundation

Speakers:

  • Abstract 32: Michael Levy, ACT Correction Health Programme, Canberra, Australia:

“Predictors of HCV incidence in IDU prison inmates”

  • Abstract 34: KhatuneTodadze, Research Institute on Addiction, Georgia:

“Implementation of Pilot OST Programme in Prisons in Georgia”

  • Abstract 2: Abdul Rani Kamarudin, International Islamic University, Malaysia:

“Treatment and rehabilitation of drug dependants in Malaysia: the crossroad between the penal and the legitimacy of the medical cum harm reduction approach under Islamic law”

 

Room 4 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Spanish (translation into English, not simultaneous)
Theme:
“Diverse issues”

Chair: Fabio Sternberg, MD Spanish Prisons.

  • Abstract 76: Pilar Gómez-Pintado Secretariat-General for Penitentiary Institutions. Spain.

“Registro de Casos de Tuberculosis (RCTB) en Instituciones Penitenciarias (IIPP)”

  • Abstract 126: Neus Domènech. Penitentiary Center Brians. Catalonia. Spain:

“Valoración de la aceptación de los internos y los profesionales del Centro Penitenciario Brians 2 sobre la implantación del Programa de Intercambio de Jeringuillas (PIJ)”

  • Abstract 121: J. Bustamante. Penitentiary Center Villabona. Asturias, Spain:

“El taller de educación para la salud de la Unidad Terapéutica y Educativa de Villabona”

17:15

 

 

End of conference day 1

20:00

CONFERENCE DINNER

Restaurant Palacio del Negralejo
Ctra. Mejorada - San Fernando Km. 3, Madrid

Including: Keynota speech by Dr Marc
Danzon, Regional Director, WHO Regional
Office for Europe

   

Friday 30 October 2009

09.30 – 10.30

 

 

Plenary room (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Plenary session:
“Prisons, Harm Reduction  and Human Rights”

Chair: Dr Robert B. Greifinger, Physician Consultant, City University of New York, USA

Speakers:

  • • Mrs Sandra Elisabeth Roelofs, First Lady of Georgia, CCM Chairperson, Stop TB Ambassador:

“Prisons, human rights and the need for harm reduction”

  • Dr Ralf Jürgens, Consultant, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Dr Joanne Csete, Associate Professor Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health:

“Health and Human rights in pre-trial detention”

10.30 – 11.30

 

 

Plenary room (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Workshop by UNODC/WHO
“Access to HIV testing and counselling in prison settings”

Co-chairs: Dr Fabienne Hariga, Global Focal Point for HIV in prison settings, UNODC and Ms Annette Verster, Focal Point for harm reduction in IDUs and prisons, Department of HIV/AIDS, WHO Headquarters

Speakers:

  • Dr Ralf Jürgens, Consultant, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network:

The UNODC/WHO Policy Brief on HIV testing and counselling in prisons and other closed settings

  • Dr Olga Muñoz Castejón, Manager of Sanitary Information Service. Public Health Department of Penitentiary Institutions:

"Increasing access to HIV testing & counselling, as one component of efforts to increase access to HIV prevention and treatment: The experience of the Spanish prison system"

  • Ms Angeline Kauraisa, Head of Nursing Services, Namibian Prison Services, Namibia:

Rapid HIV counselling and testing in Namibian prisons for prison staff and prisoners

 

Room 1 (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Workshop by Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
“Implementing the Trencin Statement on Prisons and Mental Health: Progress and Challenges”

Chair: Max Rutherford, Prisons and Criminal Justice Programme, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, UK

Expert panel:

  • Sean Duggan, Director of Prisons and Criminal Justice, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, UK
  • Gerda van ‘t Hoff, National Agency for Correctional Institutions, the Netherlands
  • Dr José Manual Arroyo Cobo, Deputy Director-General of Spanish Prisons - responsible for Prison Health, Spain

 

Room 2 (English or Spanish)

 

Workshop by Council of Europe, Pompidou Group
“The need for through care”

Chair: Andrej Kastelic, Centre for Treatment of Drug Addiction, Slovenia

Speakers:

  • Dragan Milkov, Prison Service, Ministry of Justice, Serbia
  • Abstract 30: Suzi Lyons, Health Research Board, Ireland:

“Drug-related deaths among recently released prisoners in Ireland, 1998 to 2005”

 

Room 3 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Theme:
“Drugs and infectious diseases”

Chair: David Kane, Birmingham City University, UK

Speakers:

  • Abstract 86: Saliya Karymbaeva, WHO Country Office Kyrgyzstan:

“Prevalence of Hepatitis and Syphilis among HIV patients in prisons of Kyrgyzstan”

  • Abstract 100: Jürgen Noeske, German Technical Cooperation, Cameroon:

“Blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections among prison entrants in Cameroon”

  • Abstract 133: David Marteau, Offender Health, Department of Health, UK:

“Drug treatment in the prison setting - results from a literature review of the English language evidence base”

 

Room 4 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Theme:
“Substitution treatment”

Chair: Francisco Vargas Marcos. Assistant in the General Directorate of Public and Foreign Health

Speakers:

  • Abstract 62: Saman Zamani, Kyoto University, Japan:

“Changes in the pattern of illicit drug use and related harms among prisoners after the introduction of methadone maintenance treatment in a prison in Iran”

  • Abstract 112: Jeroen Wisselink, IVZ, the Netherlands:

The Dutch Solution to improve continuity of (methadone) treatment”

  • Abstract 96: Heino Stover, University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany:

“Substitution Treatment and HCV/HIV infection in German prisons”

11.30 – 12.00

COFFEE BREAK

12.00 – 13.15

 

 

Plenary room (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

12.00 – 12.45
“Complex and co-morbid health needs in prisons, and the complexity of health inspection”

Chair: Mr Sean Duggan, Director of Prisons and Criminal Justice, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, UK

Speaker:

  • Elizabeth Tysoe, Head of Health Inspection, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons, England, UK

12.45 – 13.15“Health Promotion and Prisons”

Chair: Mr Paul Hayton, Deputy Director WHO Collaborating Centre for prison and health, Department of Health, UK

Speaker:

  • Dr Enrique Acín García, Ministry of Interior - General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions - Head of Public Health Department

 

Room 1 (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Theme:
“Human Rights issues”

Chair: Raul de la Torre, organization, Spain

Speakers:

  • Abstract 119: Martín Edgardo Vázquez Acuña, Judge, Scientific Advisory Committee on Drugs of the Chief of Gabinet of Ministers, Argentina:

“Interventions on ethical and Human Rights issues addressed to the health care staff working in the prisons of Argentina in order to guarantee the bodily integrity and the Right to Health of the persons deprived of their liberty”

  • Abstract 127: Robert Cohen, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA:

“Mass Incarceration Is Not an Option – Why the United States Should Adopt the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture”

 

Room 2 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Theme:
“Needle and Syringe Exchange”

Chair: Dagmar Hedrich, EMCDDA

Speakers:

  • Abstract 10: Hans Wolff, Department of community medicine and primary care, Switzerland:

“Syringe exchange for intravenous drug users in prison”

  • Abstract 39: Dr Karen Klau, Federal Office of Public Health:

“Fifteen years after Hindelbank: The BIG project: an integrated approach to Swiss Prison Health”

  • Abstract 58: Mohammad Shahbazi, GFATM, Prisons, Iran:

“The First Evaluation of Needle and Syringe Exchange Program in Iranian Prisons”

  • Abstract 11: Catherine Ritter, University Center of Legal Medicine of Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland:

“Safe injecting facility in a prison: lessons learned from an abandoned project”

 

Room 3 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Theme:
“National reflections regarding communicable diseases in prison”

Chair: Olivia Castillo Soria. National AIDS Plan. General Directorate of Public and Foreign Health.

Speakers:

  • Abstract 73: Marc Lehmann, Ministry of Justice Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany:

“Overview of the situation of communicable diseases in German prisons following the Federalism reform of 2006”

  • Abstract 74: Vitomir Burek, University Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia:

“Viral Hepatitis C, B and HIV infection in Croatian prisons”

  • Abstract 23: Hans Wolff, Department of community medicine and primary care, Switzerland:

“Prevalence and risk factors for Chlamydia trachomatis infection among incarcerated men in a Swiss prison: a cross sectional study”

  • Abstract 117: Anna Mia Ekstrom, Prison and Probation Service, Sweden:

“The Swedish Prison Programme (SHP): A sentinel study among IDUs in Swedish remand prison on risk behaviors and prevalence of HIV and hepatitis“

 

Room 4 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Theme:
“Training, e-learning and health system coordination”

Chair: Pilar Campos Esteban. Sub-Directorate of Health Promotion and Epidemiology , General Directorate of Public and Foreign Health.

Speakers:

  • Abstract 13: Nat Wright, NHS, Leeds, UK:

“The extension of a national training course on substance misuse to an international audience”

  • Abstract 104: Lucia Milhailescu, Romanian Administration of Penitentiaries Romania:

“Health education for TB prevention in prisons - introducing innovative interventions through e-Learning”

  • Abstract 130: Adrian Edgar, Medical Student, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada:

“Public Health and Populations Intermittently Experiencing Homelessness and Incarceration – Addressing Ineffective Health Systems and Collaborative Recommendations to Move Forward in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada”

  • Abstract 124: Dr Eamonn O’moore, Department of Health, UK:

“How prison healthcare services could be the best model for immigration removal centers: Experiences from a study of detainees in Oxfordshire”

13.15 - 14.45

LUNCH BREAK AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS

14:45 - 16.00

 

 

Plenary room (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Mini-symposium by KNCV:
"Tuberculosis Control in Prisons: New Tools and Modern approaches"

Chair: Dr Masoud Dara, Senior Consultant, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation

Speakers:

  • Dr Mercedes Diez, Head of Area of Epidemiology. National AIDS Plan Ministry Of Health and Social Policy, Spain:

"TB/HIV Control and Care in the Spanish Prisons"

  • Dr Pamela Nabeta, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND):

"Novel Tools for Rapid Molecular Diagnosis of Drug Resistant TB"

  • Dr Nino Museridze, Medical Department of Penitentiary System of Georgia:

"Prison Primary Health Care and TB Control in Georgia"

  • Dr Regina Fedosejeva, Ministry of Justice, Latvia:

"Tuberculosis (TB) and Multidrug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) Control in Latvian Prisons Co-operation with the Public Sector"

  • Dr Tatyana Toichkina, International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent, Russian Federation:

"IFRC Experience in Continuum of TB care in the Russian Federation"

 

Room 1 (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Russian language (with translation)Theme:
"Diverse issues"

Chair: Natalia Vezhnina, AFEW

Speakers:

  • Abstract 97: Aliaksei Kralko, Department of Corrections, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Belarus:

"Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in the penitentiary system of the Republic of Belarus"

  • Abstract 8: Birute Semenaite/ Vladas Kasperunas, Prison Department, Ministry of Justice, Lithuania:

"Survey of HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis epidemiology in prisons of Lithuania"

  • Abstract 90: Aleksandr Ditkovsky, Federal Correctional Services, Tver, Russia:

"Entertainment HIV and Health Education in Correctional Settings of Tver Region,Russia"

  • Abstract 68: Regina Fedosejeva, Prison Administration, Latvia:

"The Effects of the Global Economic and Financial Crisis on Prison Medicine in Latvia"

 

Room 2 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Theme:
"Health systems - prison health and public health"

Chair: Sheila McNerney, Co-ordinator Leeds Chlamydia Screening Programme, Directorate of Public Health, UK

Speakers:

  • Abstract 22: Ineke Baas, Mainline, the Netherlands:

"The added value of harm reduction strategies in prisons by independent NGOs"

  • Abstract 87: Kevin Moos, University of California, USA:

"The development and role of NGOs in the AIDS Pandemic: NGOs and Post-Release Care in San Fransisco"

  • Abstract 50: Valentin Simionov, Romanian Harm Reduction Network, Romania:

"Public-private partnership for HIV prevention in Romanian prisons"

  • Abstract 108: Suzanne Mbondi Mfondih, German Technical Cooperation, Cameroon:

"Integrating prison health in public health services: Tuberculosis and HIV/Aids prevention and care in prisons in Cameroon"

 

Room 3 (English or Spanish)

 

Abstract session
Theme:
"Issues related to HIV and drugs treatment and care"

Chair: Sean Duggan, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health

Speakers:

  • Abstract 128: John P May, Health through Walls, USA:

"HIV care and treatment in prisons of developing countries"

  • Abstract 5: Jennifer champion, Department of Public Health, Scotland:

"Impact of the Prison Environment on Methadone Maintenance Treatment"

  • Abstract 102: Julio García-Guerrero, Castellón I Penitentiary Center, Spain:

"Prevalence of symptoms related to central nervous system in HIV+ prisoners in Spain"

 

Room 4 (English or Spanish)

 

Workshop
"Pandemic flu and prisons"

Chair: Mary Piper, Offender Health, Department of Health, UK

Speakers:

  • Abstract 21: Lucie Poliquin, Correctional Services Canada:

"Challenges and opportunities for the Correctional Service of Canada in pandemic influenza planning: lessons learned from recent H1N1 response efforts"

  • Eamonn O Moore, Department of Health, UK:

"UK Flu planning"

  • Pilar Gomez Pintado, Ministry of Interior - General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions, Spain:

"Control and prevention of pandemic influenza in Spanish Prisons"

16:00 - 16:05

Short break to go to plenary room

16.05 -17.05

 

 

Plenary room (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Panel discussion:
“Prevention and treatment of communicable diseases in prison: what really works?”
- Discussion of Madrid Recommendation -

Chair: Dr Enrique Acín García, Ministry of Interior - General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions - Head of Public Health Department

Panel members:

  • Dr Andrej Kastelic, Centre for Treatment of Drug Addiction, Slovenia
  • Dr Rick Lines, International Harm Reduction Association
  • D. Manuel Becerril Polo, Governor of the Prison of Daroca, Spain
  • Dr Albina Stepanova Kuznetsova, First Deputy Head Medical Department of Federal Penitentiary Service, Russian Federation
  • Dr. Olivia Castillo Soria, Head of Prevention and Coordination. National AIDS Plan. Ministry of Health and Social Policies

17:05 - 17:15

 

 

Plenary room (English, Russian, Spanish)

 

Summing up and the way forward

Chair: Dr Srdan Matic, Unit Head, WHO Regional Office for Europe

Speakers in the Closing Ceremony:

  • Ildefonso Hernández Aguado. Public and Foreign Health General Director. Ministry of Health and Social Policy
  • Virgilio Valero Garcia. General Director of Penitentiary Institutions. Ministry of Home Affairs

17:15

End of conference

   

Saturday 31 October 2009

  Prison visits will take place.
   

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