Transcript History - Quest for Quality BV

Background
• History of Military dictatorship followed by
centralized democracy
• Now process of decentralization and
involvement of civil society
• Growing drug and Aids related problems
• Potential of human capital, but still too many ad
hoc interventions
• Interest in European way of handling the
drug/Aids issue (versus American influence)
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Philosophy
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Sensitivity to local setting
Involvement of local community
Creating synergy
Stimulating a sensible drug policy
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drug prevention
abstinent oriented treatment
harm reduction interventions
supply reduction with a humane face
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Organizations involved
• International Harm Reduction Association
(IHRA)
• RELARD (Latin American Harm Reduction
Network)
• REDUC (Brazilian Harm Reduction Network)
• URB-AL
• UNAIDS
• PROAD- Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Quest for Quality Amsterdam, NL
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Procedure
• Orientation visit to 7 cities (1999)
– Meetings with key-persons and institutes
– Local proposals based on ‘mother plan’
– Assessment proposals by international group
• Pilot phase in 3 cities (2000)
– 3-day seminar
– Follow-up meeting
• Evaluation (end 2000)
• If successful: continuation
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History
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Founding of RELARD (Feb. 1998)
HR Conference São Paulo (March 1998)
Meeting in Buenos Aires (Oct. 1998)
Meeting in São Paulo and founding of Brazilian
Harm Reduction Network - REDUC (Oct 1998)
• International Group (early 1999)
• First draft ‘mother plan’ (Feb. 1999)
• support from UNAIDS/Relard (March 1999)
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Cities visited
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Rosario, Argentina (June 1999)
Santiago, Chile (June 1999)
La Paz, Bolivia (August 1999)
São Luis, Brazil (August 1999)
Montevideo, Uruguay (October 1999)
Curitiba, Brazil (October 1999)
Recife, Brazil (October 1999)
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Proposals
• By December 1st, 1999, all seven cities
had submitted a proposal to the
international group.
• The proposals were assessed and rated.
• Three cities were chosen for the pilot
phase:
– Curitiba
– Santiago
– Recife
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Seminars
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Curitiba: March 2000
Santiago de Chile: June 2000
Recife: September 2000
Evaluation: in Rio de Janeiro in
November 2000
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Update
For the latest information check the
website:
www.latseminar.org
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