Background

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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

• Local solutions for local problems
• Sensitivity to local setting
• Involvement of local community
• Creating synergy
• Stimulating a sensible drug policy
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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