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Head of Interational Relations Division

HR Management and International Relations Department

Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia

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From: Jan Hewitt <Jan.Hewitt@wiltonpark.org.uk>
Date: November 22, 2017 at 11:03:14 GMT
To: David Sergeenko <dsergeenko@moh.gov.ge>
Cc: Sopo Belkania <sbelkania@moh.gov.ge>, Julie Day <julie.day@wiltonpark.org.uk>
Subject: RE: INVITATION: Slowing the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) epidemic for people who inject drugs  26-28 February  Wilton Park WP1578

Dear David

 

Thank you for your reply and we hope your diary will be free to enable you to join us. I am attaching the registration details and if you are able to confirm please return the form to me together with a short bio that we may include in the event literature.

 

Please advise as soon as possible if you would require assistance with your flight and if you would need a visa for the UK. My colleague Julie Day, cc’d, will be dealing with the logistical arrangements for the event and would be able to help with this.

 

I look forward to hearing from you.

 

With my kind regards

Jan

 

From: David Sergeenko [mailto:dsergeenko@moh.gov.ge]
Sent: 22 November 2017 07:22
To: Jan Hewitt
Cc: Sopo Belkania
Subject: Re: INVITATION: Slowing the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) epidemic for people who inject drugs 26-28 February Wilton Park WP1578

 

Dear Jan

 

Thank you for your kind letter and invitation.

This would be great pleasure and honor for me to participate at such important meeting.

 I will do my best to fit schedule, but currently I can not be sure about because my schedule sometimes being very dynamic.

 About details please feel free to contact Mrs. Sopo Belkania - Head of International Relations Department sbelkania@moh.gov.ge

 

 Kind Regards

 David Sergeenko

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 21, 2017, at 13:19, Jan Hewitt <Jan.Hewitt@wiltonpark.org.uk> wrote:

Dear Mr Sergeenko

 

Wilton Park: Slowing the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) epidemic for people who inject drugs

Monday 26 – Wednesday 28 February 2018 | WP1578

 

I am writing on behalf of Robin Hart, Senior Programme Director, to invite you to contribute your expertise at the specially convened conference on Slowing the HIV and HCV epidemic for people who inject drugs, to be held from Monday 26 to Wednesday 28 February at Wiston House, Sussex, UK.

 

We very much hope that you will be able to speak at this meeting in Session 5 on ‘ How can shifts in fiscal policy drive PWIDs’ access to prevention, treatment and care?’ This session is scheduled for Tuesday 27 February at 1500.  

 

This meeting is organised in partnership with Gilead Sciences, and the Global Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) with Sir Richard Feachem. It forms part of Wilton Park’s series on global health policy issues, and follows our previous discussions on drugs policy. The meeting is being funded by Gilead Sciences.

 

The aim is to discuss how to slow the HIV and HCV epidemic amongst people who inject drugs (PWID), focusing on HIV and HCV prevention, treatment and care measures, bringing together senior stakeholders including policymakers, researchers, clinicians, advocates, implementers and industry representatives; 50 in total, from a wide range of countries.

 

Discussion will focus on sharing lessons from countries that have successfully carried out effective PWID programmes, identifying effective strategies to healthcare provision for PWID and developing a road-map of opportunities, milestones and actions in the lead-up to the High Level Meeting on the global drug problem taking place in March 2019 and the International AIDS Conference taking place in July 2019.

 

Please see the attached outline programme for further information about the scope and purpose of the meeting. We ask speakers to talk for 10 minutes initially – and hope you could outline the Global Fund’s approach to HIV and PWIDs.  Speakers then contribute to the round-table discussion. 

 

The Wilton Park style is for round-table highly participative discussion held off the record under the ‘Wilton Park Protocol’. Wilton Park is an Executive Agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office which convenes over 60 events a year on international policy challenges. Wiston House, the home of Wilton Park where the meeting will take place, is a 16th century house in the Sussex countryside, approximately 90 minutes journey from London and 45 minutes from Gatwick International Airport.

 

The meeting begins at 1500 on Monday 26 February, finishing at 1400 on Wednesday 28 February.

The full cost of participation, including two nights’ accommodation and meals will be covered by Wilton Park, funded by Gilead Sciences. The cost of a return economy airfare can also be covered if that is helpful.

By accepting Wilton Park’s invitation to attend this meeting, could you confirm that you have obtained any required consents from your employer, institution and/or professional association in order to accept the proposed hospitality arrangements.

 

We hope you can join us and look forward to an initial response by Friday 1 November (to jan.hewitt@wiltonpark.org.uk).

 

With kind regards

Jan Hewitt (Ms)
Event Coordinator

Wilton Park | Wiston House | Steyning | West Sussex | BN44 3DZ
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