During three days, Recife was the center of the first international meeting to discuss harm reduction and alcohol use.

Representatives from Latin American countries, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, as well as guests from other countries such as Australia, Canada, the United States, Italy and Holland were participating in this event. The Conference provided good opportunities for exchanging knowledge and experiences, which support the developments of harm reduction based public policies on alcohol in countries of the participants involved. A total of 570 persons participated.

Besides policy makers, practitioners and researchers, representatives from a number of other groups were participating in the conference as well, such as prisoners, sex workers and native Indians (see picture)

 

 

 

 

A rehabilitation project for street children made video interviews during the conference (see picture)

 

Monica Gorgulho (left) and Ana Gloria Melcop (middle), announce the winners of the Alcohol and Harm Reduction Awards 2002

 

 

 

 

Antonio Nero (right) received the National Alcohol and Harm Reduction Award 2002.

Ewa Osiatynska (in the middle) received the International Alcohol and Harm Reduction Award 2002

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Conference proceedings are expected to be published before the end of 2002.

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