EUROPEAN COMMISSION
CONSUMERS, HEALTH, AGRICULTURE AND FOOD EXECUTIVE AGENCY
Health Unit
Luxembourg,
Health Unit/CML
Lisbon Addictions conference,
Lisbon, 23–25 September 2015
Panel discussion and workshop title: Improving health interventions to prevent, reduce
harm and treat addictive substance misuse, with the support of the EU Health and DPIP
Programme.
The aim of the meetings is to present and discuss progress and challenges in providing
health interventions such as prevention, harm reduction and treatment for addictive
substance-related problems, by sharing of good practices.
Objectives:
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To promote the new Health Programme 2014-2020
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To present the EU drugs strategy 2014-2020
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To disseminate the EU actions on addictive substance use including alcohol,
blood borne infections prevention, harm reduction funded under the Health and DPIP
Programmes 2008-2013
Chafea is invited to organise two lunch time sessions (23/09 and 24/09).
To ensure the participants presence during the lunch workshops, Chafea will offer a light
lunch, which will be served before, during and after the workshops.
Using the Health Programme stand exhibition space during coffee and lunch breaks,
Chafea will organise the World café of projects and distribute information materials
about the addiction to substance actions.
Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency, 2920 Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG - Tel. +352 43011
Office: DRB-A3/063 - Tel. direct line +352 4301-35356
http://ec.europa.eu/chafea/
cinthia.menel-lemos@ec.europa.eu
Panel discussion and workshop agenda
Wednesday 23/09/2015 - First lunch time session
12:30-13:30 EU actions aiming to prevent and reduce alcohol-related harm, including
policy development to reduce alcohol related harm – moderated by Chafea and SANTE
1.
Health Programme activities on Health determinants and addictive substance
use (SANTE C4) (10' ),
Actions presentations: addressing three core questions: what is the need your project
addresses? What is your approach and methodology? And what are your main
results/products to data and by the end of the project?
2.
RARHA - Joint Action on Reducing Alcohol Related Harm, Patrícia Pissarra,
Coordinator of the Joint Action, General Directorate on Addictive Behaviours and
Dependencies, Serviço de Intervenção nos Comportamentos Aditivos e nas
Dependências (SICAD) (PT) (10')
3.
BISTAIRS - Project on Good practice on brief interventions in the treatment
of alcohol use disorders in relevant settings,Bernd Schulte,
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf(DE) (10')
4.
Let it hAPYN! - Project on Empowering the Youth Sector with better
overview of evidence-based Alcohol intervention programmes", Jan Peloza,
Alcohol Policy Youth Network (APYN) (SI)(10)
Questions and Answer session- moderated by Chafea and SANTE C4 (20')
Thursday 24/09/2015: Second lunch time session:
12:30-13:30: EU Actions implemented with the aim to prevent blood borne infections
and reduce heal.th-related harm due to drug use, moderated by Quality Action
JA/Chafea, SANTE/JUST.
Expert panel discussion on common interventions for substance use prevention, harm
reduction and treatment, with participation of the DG SANTE, DG JUST and six projects
experts.
The experts will review achievements, debate the lessons learnt, and identify scope for
potential follow-up.
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Quality Action – Improving HIV prevention Joint Action– focus on prevention
with people who inject drugs (PWID), Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche
Aufklärung (Federal Centre for Health Education), (DE)
SIALON II - CAPACITY BUILDING IN COMBINING TARGETED
PREVENTION WITH MEANINGFUL HIV SURVEILLANCE AMONG MSM
– survey results on substance use and the sexual risk taking, Verona University
Hospital (IT)
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HA-REACT - Improvement of HIV and co-infection prevention and treatment in
priority regions and priority groups in the European Union, National Institute for
Health and Welfare (THL)
Debate, questions and Answer session, moderated by Quality Action
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List of expected participants
SANTE policy officer on substance use and HIV/AIDS and co-infections
1.
Attila Balogh(tbc)
2.
Matthias Schuppe (tbc)
DG JUST drug demand
3.
Elsa Maia (tbc)
Chafea Project officer(s)
5.
Cinthia Menel Lemos (tbc)
6.
Paola D Acapito (tbc)
EU network experts
1.
RARHA - Joint Action on Reducing Alcohol Related Harm - Serviço de
Intervenção nos Comportamentos Aditivos e nas Dependências (SICAD), (PT), Manuel
Cardoso, tbc
2.
Good practice on Brief interventions in the treatment of alcohol use
disorders in relevant settings, (BISTAIRS) – Bernd Schulte, Universitätsklinikum
Hamburg-Eppendorf (DE) (tbc)
3.
Empowering the Youth Sector with better overview of evidence-based Alcohol
intervention programmes"- (Let it hAPYN!) – Jan Peloza, Alcohol Policy Youth
Network (APYN) (SI) (tbc)
4.
SIALON II - CAPACITY BUILDING IN COMBINING TARGETED
PREVENTION WITH MEANINGFUL HIV SURVEILLANCE AMONG MSM –
survey results on substance use and the sexual risk taking, Massimo Mirandola, Verona
University Hospital (IT) (tbc)
5.
Quality Action – Improving HIV prevention Joint Action– focus on prevention
with people who inject drugs (PWID), Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung
(Federal Centre for Health Education), (DE) (tbc) – Matthias Wentzlaff-Eggebert,
6.
HA-REACT - Improvement of HIV and co-infection prevention and treatment in
priority regions and priority groups in the European Union, National Institute for Health
and Welfare (THL), Mila Salminen, (tbc)
Note: The expenses related to the EU actions experts funded under the Health
Programme, including the speakers’ registration fees, travel and accommodation
expenses for the conference duration will be covered by the Chafea Health dissemination
budget. The DPIP experts participation need to be confirmed by DG JUST, we are still
waiting the confirmation..
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Short description of the actions
1.
RARHA - Joint action on Reducing Alcohol Related Harm - Serviço de
Intervenção nos Comportamentos Aditivos e nas Dependências (SICAD), (PT), website:
http://www.rarha.eu/Pages/default.aspx
The RARHA Joint action is expected to boost the implementation of the EU alcohol
strategy by mobilising and supporting MS to cooperate to take forward work along the
five common priorities of the strategy: WP4 will strengthen the knowledge base by
improving access to EU-comparable data on alcohol consumption levels, patterns and
related harms; WP 5 and WP6 will foster the use of common and effective approaches to
inform and educate on alcohol related harm and appropriate drinking patterns which
contributes to the priorities to protect children, young people and the unborn child, to
reduce harm among adults and to reduce harm at the workplace and in road traffic.
2.
Good practice on brief interventions to address alcohol use disorders in primary
health care, workplace health services, (BISTAIRS) - Jens Reimer, Universitätsklinikum
Hamburg-Eppendorf(DE), website: http://www.bistairs.eu/
The project aims to foster the implementation of brief interventions (BI) in a range of
relevant settings (workplace health services, emergency care and social services) by
identifying, systematising and extending good practice of BI across the EU member
states. BI are regarded as one of the most important components to fill the gap between
primary prevention on alcohol and the treatment of alcohol dependence. As BI always
incorporate a screening dimension, they serve as a valuable tool to identify and reach
non-treatment seeking alcohol-dependent persons and are therefore an important
component for an adequate referral to treatment. By stimulating a widespread
implementation of these approaches (effective screening, BI and referral to treatment),
the project provides a substantial contribution to the EU strategy to reduce alcohol related
harm. The extension of BI in different settings will thereby increase the impact of
secondary alcohol prevention in the EU. In this scope, the project will improve the
cooperations of health and social services in the EU member states.
3.
Empowering the Youth Sector with better overview of evidence-based Alcohol
intervention programmes"- (Let it hAPYN!) – Jan Peloza, Alcohol Policy Youth
Network (SI),, website: http://www.apyn.org/news/let-it-hapyn-boost-your-project-ideanews
Let it hAPYN! project aims to better understand the harm caused by alcohol consumption
among organized (youth associations, national youth councils, student unions,
international YO) and non-organized youth (youth clubs, student unions, individuals).
Raise awareness among YO that alcohol is a harmful legal drug, stimulate the
initialization of new alcohol interventions programmes with the right stakeholders,
empower YO by giving them tools (different evidence-based methodologies) how to
work with alcohol intervention programmes.
4.
SIALON II - CAPACITY BUILDING IN COMBINING TARGETED
PREVENTION WITH MEANINGFUL HIV SURVEILLANCE AMONG MSM –
survey results on substance use and the sexual risk taking, Verona University Hospital
(IT) website: http://www.sialon.eu/
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SIALON project is aimed to carry out and promote combined and targeted prevention
complemented by a meaningful surveillance among MSM and develop capacity building
and know how through both training and coaching under the active supervision and in
collaboration with UNAIDS and WHO on: prevention needs assessment and prevention
actions, innovative surveillance methodologies for hard to reach populations like MSM
(time location sampling, respondent driven sampling, HIV and STI testing). The survey
results show that substance use during sexual intercourse is prevalent among MSM.
Injecting drugs contributes to HIV spread among MSM. Substance use and the high
sexual risk taking is frequent, with more than 50% of the MSM declaring to have used
drugs during last anal sex, with 40% of them have used condoms (GARPR 1.12).
5.
Quality Action – Improving HIV prevention Joint Action– focus on substance use
related prevention programmes, Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (Federal
Centre for Health Education), (DE) website: http://www.qualityaction.eu/tools.php
The quality Action integrates evidence-based quality assurance (QA) and quality
improvement (QI) practices into HIV prevention across Europe; build a network of
trained HIV prevention stakeholders to apply practical QA/QI tools to projects targeting
priority groups in demonstration pilots; and mainstream QA/QI into HIV prevention
through development and dissemination of an agreed charter of quality principles and
criteria as well as policy guidance. Quality Action key intermediate achievements are the
adaptation and production of five QI/QA tools (Succeed, QIP, PQD, PIQA and Schiff).
More than 100 projects/ programmes have registered for the practical application of
QA/QI tools. To increase the capacities for the application of the tools, Quality Action
have organised training workshops, and an e-learning tool which is practice-based
learning instrument using case studies. European-level training workshops have already
started, in Dublin, Barcelona, Ljubljana and Tallinn.
6.
HA-REACT - HIV and co-infection prevention and harm reduction Joint Action,
National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
The HA-REACT Joint Action aims to improve the response to HIV- and co-infection
risks. This will be achieved through the implementation of strategic actions to improve
early diagnosis of HIV and associated infections, scale-up Harm Reduction Interventions
(HRI), increase the access (availability and coverage) to harm reduction services and
continuity of care for drug users in prisons, improve the provision of integrated HIV,
HCV, TB and drug treatment services and support national and nongovernmental
programmes to develop sustainable, effective evidence-based approaches to meet the
needs of people who inject drugs (PWID).
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