09.00 - 09.30

Registration, coffee

09.30 - 10.00

Welcome and opening remarks

Laila Medin, Deputy State Secretary, Latvian Ministry of Justice

Visvaldis Puķīte, Director General, Latvian Prison Administration

Signe Rotberga, UNODC Regional Project Coordinator

Enabling environment for HIV prevention in prisons

"HIV and AIDS in places of detention: UNODC/WHO/UNAIDS toolkit for policymakers and prison officers" - Signe Rotberga, UNODC Regional Project Coordinator

"Education on HIV in prison - Director's perspective" - Valdis Bruners, Director of Šķirotava prison, Latvia

11.00 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00

HIV and drug education in prisons

"Education on reduction of health risks for drug users in Kaunas Remand Prison" - Arnoldas Pranevičius, Director, Kaunas Remand Prison, Lithuania

"Introduction of HIV education programmes in Latvian prisons" - Baiba Purvlīce, Association for Family Planning and Reproductive Health "Papardes Zieds", Latvia

Discussion

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 15.30

HIV and drug education in prisons (continued)

"Evaluation of health promotion programmes for incarcerated adolescents" - Natālija Praliča, Psychologist, Cēsis Correctional Institution for Juveniles, Latvia

"How to teach prisoners about safe sex and harm reduction?" - Stefa Kondrotiene, Director, Charity Fund "Garstyčios grūdas", Lithuania

Discussion

15.30 - 16:00

Coffee break

16.00 - 17.50

Peer education on HIV in prison

"Main concepts and organisational aspects of peer education" - John-Peter Kools, Expert from Trimbos Institute - Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction

"New peer education initiatives in Šķirotava prison" - Ilze Ušacka, Psychologist, Šķirotava prison, Latvia

AFEW film "Health Promotion in Russian Prisons. New approaches"

From 19.00

Networking dinner in Hotel Avalon

09:00 - 10:30

Methadone maintenance therapy in European prisons

"Methadone maintenance therapy and other health services for prisoners in Catalonia" - Maria Rosa Artigot Cánovas, Doctor, "La Model" prison, Spain

"Comprehensive drug dependence treatment services in Tartu prison" - Maret Miljan, Adviser, Ministry of Justice, Estonia

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee break

Methadone maintenance therapy and other services for drug dependent prisoners

"Support groups for drug  dependent and HIV-positive prisoners in Estonia" - Latsin Alijev and Krista Joost, NGO Convictus, Estonia

"Lessons learned from introduction of harm reduction services in Romanian prisons" - Geta Cucu, Medical Director of The National Administration of Penitentiaries, Romania and Mihai Corciova, HIV Adviser, UNODC office in Romania

Discussion

12.30 - 13.30

Lunch

13.30 - 15.00

Role of police services in supporting drug treatment

"Drug referral schemes in England and Russia" - Geoff Monaghan, Regional Drug and HIV/AIDS Expert, UNODC, Russia

"Continuation of methadone maintenance therapy and protection of the human rights in police arrest houses of Lithuania" - Kęstutis Petrauskas, Deputy Director of Health Care Service Division, Ministry of Interior, Lithuania

"Recent developments in provision of methadone maintenance therapy in arrest houses of Estonia" - Tarmo Pruuli, Adviser, Ministry of Interior, Estonia

Closing remarks

Jānis Bekmanis, Drug Control and Drug Prevention Coordination Council, Latvia