09.30 - 10.00

Registration, coffee

10.00 - 10.20

Opening

Rinalds Muciņš, Deputy State Secretary, Ministry of Health

Cornelis Groeneveld, Counsellor/Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Main achievements of UNODC project in 2007 - 2008 - Signe Rotberga, UNODC Project Ofice for the Baltic States

Panel discussion: Current challenges and role of UNODC support for national response to HIV. Participants:

Merilin Maesalu, Ministry of Social Affairs, Estonia

Rinalds Muciņš, Ministry of Health, Latvia

Rima Vaitkienė, Ministry of Health, Lithuania

12.00 - 12:30

Coffee break

12:30 - 14:00

3 parallel sessions:

I. Improvement of HIV prevention and care in prisons (English - Russian)

Session Chair: Signe Rotberga, UNODC

Kristīne Ķipēna, Ministry of Justice, Latvia

Birutė Semėnaitė, Prison Department under the Ministry of Justice, Lithuania

Maret Miljan, Ministry of Justice, Estonia

II. Access to pharmacotherapy of opioid dependence (in English)

Session Chair: Inga Liepiņa, Ministry of Health, Latvia

Emilis Subata, Vilnius Centre for Addictive Disorders, Lithuania

Ave Talu, National Institute for Health Development, Estonia

Astrīda Stirna, Riga Centre of Psychiatry and Addiction Disorders, Latvia

III. Access to needle and syringe programmes in communities (in Russian)

Session Chair: Saulius Čaplinskas, Lithuanian AIDS Centre

Aljona Kurbatova, National Institute for Health Development, Estonia

Rimantas Šagždavičius, Drug Control Department, Lithuania

Inga Upmace, Public Health Agency, Latvia

14.00 - 15.00

Lunch

15.00 - 16.30

Main findings and recommendations of mid-term evaluation of UNODC project - Roger Drew, Health and Development Consultant, UK

Discussion in groups:

Prisons and other custodial settings (English - Russian translation)

Sustainability of project activities (in Russian)

Monitoring and evaluation (in English)

16.30 - 17:00

Coffee break

17.00 - 18.00

Presentation and discussion of group work

From 19.00

Dinner

09:00 - 11:00

Feedback from the sessions of Day 1

Prevalence of HIV and other infections and risk behaviour among injecting drug users in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia - Anda Karnīte, Public Health Agency, Latvia

Availability of syringes in pharmacies - Loreta Stonienė, Lithuanian AIDS Centre

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee break

Rapid assessment and response on drug use in Valmiera Prison - Leonora Bebere, Iļģuciems Prison, Latvia

Rapid assessment and response on drug use in Marijampole Correction House - Gintaras Kėžys, Marijampolė Correction House, Lithuania

Training needs on harm reduction for law enforcement professionals - Iveta Ķelle, Papardes Zieds, Latvia

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 16.00

Priorities for UNODC project in 2009 - 2010

Country work groups

Coffee break

Presentations from work groups

17.30 - 18.00

Wrap up and closure of the seminar