SDF hosts free webinars that cover a variety of themes which aim to support those delivering services to people who use drugs.
Pre-registration is required for the webinars and numbers are limited so be sure to register early.
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Upcoming Webinars
Join Scottish Drugs Forum and Waverley Care this World AIDS Day for a series of two free webinars which explore international and Scottish approaches to addressing localised HIV outbreaks.
Since 2015, there has been an ongoing HIV outbreak amongst people who inject drugs in Glasgow. Although a redesign of testing and treatment delivery has made a significant impact on transmission, the outbreak remains ongoing with some spread beyond the original Glasgow city centre cluster.
As a result of this continued outbreak, both SDF and Waverley Care are welcoming panels of international and local speakers to their share knowledge about how they addressed local outbreaks, and how we can tackle Glasgow’s outbreak together.
The first webinar on Wednesday the 25th of November from 14:00 – 16:00 seeks to highlight and share international perspectives on tackling localised HIV outbreaks.
Speakers include:
– Marienalla Kloka, Advocacy Officer with PRAKSIS in Athens.
– Tony Duffin, CEO of the Ana Liffey Project in Dublin.
– Valentin Simionov, Programmes Coordinator, International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD)
Click here to register for the first webinar on international approaches
The second webinar on Wednesday the 2nd of December, seeks to highlight and share the local responses to Glasgow’s current HIV outbreak.
Speakers include:
– Lynsey Boyd, Sexual Health/HIV Outreach Nurse, Sandyford/Hunter Street Homeless Health Service
– Rebecca Blair, Advanced Clinical Pharmacist PHOENIx Team, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
– Collett O’Connor, Project Co-ordinator for the HIV Street Support Team, Waverley Care
– Colin Gibson, Blood Borne Virus Outreach Clinical Nurse Specialist – Glasgow Enhanced Care HIV Outreach (GECHO)
This event will be chaired by Fiona Gilbertson, Founder and Director of Recovering Justice.
Click here to register for this webinar on responses to the HIV outbreak in Glasgow
Previous Webinars
SDF webinars are recorded and posted on the SDF YouTube Channel after the event. See below for links to individual webinar recordings.
SDF and the Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce webinars on the use of illicit benzodiazepines – Oct 2020
The first webinar in a series of two, Benzos – What’s Happening? examined the evidence from drug testing and drug-related deaths and possible responses including drug checking and education.
The second webinar, Benzos – What can be done? launched the findings of a survey of clinicians and explored current prescribing of benzodiazepines alongside opioid substitution therapy and its role for reducing harm and fatal overdose.
SDF International Overdose Awareness Day Webinars – Aug 2020
SDF hosted two special webinars with international speakers to mark International Overdose Awareness Day 2020. The first webinar, Changing Drug Policy focused on networks of people who use drugs with speakers from Ukraine, Netherlands and Norway.
The second webinar, Dual Public Health Emergencies of Drug-related Deaths and COVID-19 also had an international focus, with speakers from Canada and Australia.
Sexual Health and Blood-Borne Viruses
SDF have hosted several webinars centered around sexual health and blood-borne viruses, you can watch these webinars by clicking on the relevant title
- Understanding risk behaviours and harms for people involved in chemsex, transactional sex or IPED use – Sep 2020
- Using prevention and harm reduction to ensure we hit Scotland’s hepatitis C elimination target – July 2020
- Interrupting Transmission; Drugs, HIV and COVID-19 – May 2020
COVID-19 Webinars
As part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, SDF has hosted a series of webinars that address crucial aspects of the support of people with drug problems and the delivery of effective services that provide treatment and support, reduce harm and protect people from COVID-19.
You can view previous SDF COVID-19 webinars on the SDF Youtube Channel, or you can click on one of the topics below.
- Drug and alcohol problems in remote and rural Scotland: Responding during COVID and beyond – Sep 2020
- Assertive outreach in Scotland during and after lockdown – July 2020
- SDF & Hepatitis Scotland: Using prevention and harm reduction to ensure we hit Scotland’s hepatitis C elimination target – July 2020
- Specific challenges for women who use drugs during COVID – July 2020
- The experience of people who use IPEDs during and after lockdown – July 2020
- Medically Assisted Treatment during COVID-19 and beyond – July 2020
- Developments for naloxone delivery during COVID-19 and beyond – June 2020
- ‘How’s your sites?’- Care of injection-related wounds in people who use drugs – June 2020
- Treatment and care for people with a stimulant problem under COVID-19 and beyond – June 2020
- Volunteering under COVID19 lockdown – supporting volunteers and expanding opportunities – June 2020
- Lessons learnt and challenges with easing lockdown: People with drug problems, Public Health & COVID-19 – May 2020
- Drug Treatment and Contingency Planning in Scottish Prisons under COVID-19 – May 2020
- Interrupting Transmission; Drugs, HIV and COVID-19 – May 2020
- Responding to mental health and isolation in the pandemic – May 2020
- Benzodiazepine use and prescribing during the pandemic – May 2020
- Working with people who use drugs and who are homeless – April 2020
- Delivering OST and contingency planning for pharmacy service reductions – April 2020