The international Wellbeing Economy – a Way to Sustainability in the HIV and AIDS Response seminar is streamed online Friday October 4, 2019 at 9-16 o’clock.
The seminar is organised by HIVFinland as an official side event of Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the EU.
Programme
9.30 Opening and Welcome – Sini Pasanen, Executive Director, Positiiviset, HivFinland
Veronika Honkasalo, PhD, Member of Parliament, Chair of Parliament’s Human Rights Group
10.00 Monitoring the HIV response in Europe and Central Asia: Are we on track to reach agreed targets?
Teymur Noori, Expert on monitoring an evaluation
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC
10.45 How to manage the HIV Epidemic in this corner of Europe
Mika Salminen, Professor, Director, Department for Health Security, National Institute for Health and Welfare
11.15 The three big barriers to wellbeing: Stigma, discrimination and criminalization of HIV non-disclosure, exposure and transmission
Ferenc Bagyinszky, HIV and Human Rights Activist
Project Coordinator at AIDS Action Europe
12.00 Lunch
AFTER LUNCH: https://youtu.be/2xB970KiIyc
13.00 Monitoring harm reduction in Europe: the civil society response
Alina Bocai, Steering Committee Chair, Correlation Program Director, ARAS
13.30 Respectful drug policies and decriminalization of drug use as harm reduction
Tuukka Tammi, Research Programme Director, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
14.00 HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections
Maximising testing opportunities through integrating services
Ben Collins, European Testing week, Chair and INTEGRATE Joint Action, Advisory Board Member
14:30 Coffee break
AFTER COFFEE BREAK:
https://youtu.be/-a6CKCFH4qU
15.00 Rights and health for migrant and mobile sex workers across Europe
Anastacia Ryan, an Advocate and Activist, Coordinator at Tampep, the European Network for the Promotion of Rights and Health among Migrant Sex Workers
15.30 Wellbeing and Dignity – 30 years fight against HIV and for people living with HIV
Nonni Mäkikärki, Chair, Positiiviset, HivFinland
16.00 End of seminar
