Interactive Program

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Program is subject to change without notice

Monday, October 13, 2025

	Track 1
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM	INHSU Policy Day 2025: Expanding Harm Reduction in Africa

	Track 1
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM	INHSU Policy Day 2025: Expanding Harm Reduction in Africa

	Track 1
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM	INHSU Policy Day 2025: Expanding Harm Reduction in Africa

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

	Track 1	Track 2
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM	INHSU 2025 Community Day
11:00 AM - 3:45 PM		EMCR Workshop
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Early-Mid Career Researchers (EMCR) & Community Networking Event
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM	Prisons Networking and Panel

	Track 1	Track 2
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM	INHSU 2025 Community Day
11:00 AM - 3:45 PM		EMCR Workshop
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Early-Mid Career Researchers (EMCR) & Community Networking Event
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM	Prisons Networking and Panel

	Track 1
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM	INHSU 2025 Community Day
11:00 AM - 3:45 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Early-Mid Career Researchers (EMCR) & Community Networking Event
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM	Prisons Networking and Panel

	Track 2
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
11:00 AM - 3:45 PM	EMCR Workshop
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Early-Mid Career Researchers (EMCR) & Community Networking Event
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM	Prisons Networking and Panel

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4	Track 5	Track 6
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM	Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:30 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Wednesday 15 October
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM	INHSU 2025 Nurse's Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM	Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony + Harm Reduction Plenaries
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM	Coffee Break			Scholarships Meetup
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM	Plenary 2: Plenary Abstracts + Drug Policy Reform Panel
12:45 PM - 1:25 PM					CATIE Canadian Networking Event
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	First Timers & New Members Meet Up		Lunch
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM	Concurrent 1A: Abstract Session - Hepatitis C Elimination and Harm Reduction in Prisons	Concurrent 1B: Abstract Session - Peer-Led Models of Care and Community Engagement	Concurrent 1C: Abstract Session - Trends and Prevention of Drug Related Deaths	Concurrent 1D: Advancing Policy Reform for People Who Use Drugs: Strategies and Opportunities in the Global South	Concurrent 1E: Practical Strategies for Collaborating with People Who Use Meth	Concurrent 1F: From Evidence to Access: Laying the Foundation for Long-Acting Depot Buprenorphine (LADB) in LMICs
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM	Poster Tour 01: From Fingerstick to Frontline: Testing and Diagnosis Innovations		Poster Tour 02: Pathways to Cure: Advancing Therapeutic Access and Outcomes		Poster Tour 03: Tools of Care: Harm Reduction in Action	Poster Viewing Session & Digital Posters
3:25 PM - 3:55 PM	Harm reduction in Latin America: a proposal for a human rights-based drug policy
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 2A: Insights into Harm Reduction Implementation in Africa	Concurrent 2B: Prison Health for People Who Use Drugs	Concurrent 2C: “It’s the first time anyone’s asked me what I want”: optimising NSP coverage by focusing on the values and preferences of people who inject drugs	Concurrent 2D: Bringing Care to the Margins: How Nurses are Revolutionizing Healthcare for People Who Use Drugs	Concurrent 2E: Worker Wellness During Times of Crisis
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM	INHSU 2025 GAM
5:45 PM - 7:30 PM				INHSU 2025 Welcome Reception

	Track 1	Track 2
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM	Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:30 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Wednesday 15 October
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM	INHSU 2025 Nurse's Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM	Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony + Harm Reduction Plenaries
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM	Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM	Plenary 2: Plenary Abstracts + Drug Policy Reform Panel
12:45 PM - 1:25 PM
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	First Timers & New Members Meet Up
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM	Concurrent 1A: Abstract Session - Hepatitis C Elimination and Harm Reduction in Prisons	Concurrent 1B: Abstract Session - Peer-Led Models of Care and Community Engagement
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM	Poster Tour 01: From Fingerstick to Frontline: Testing and Diagnosis Innovations
3:25 PM - 3:55 PM	Harm reduction in Latin America: a proposal for a human rights-based drug policy
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 2A: Insights into Harm Reduction Implementation in Africa	Concurrent 2B: Prison Health for People Who Use Drugs
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM	INHSU 2025 GAM
5:45 PM - 7:30 PM

	Track 3	Track 4
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM	Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:30 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Wednesday 15 October
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM	INHSU 2025 Nurse's Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM	Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony + Harm Reduction Plenaries
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM	Coffee Break	Scholarships Meetup
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM	Plenary 2: Plenary Abstracts + Drug Policy Reform Panel
12:45 PM - 1:25 PM
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Lunch
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM	Concurrent 1C: Abstract Session - Trends and Prevention of Drug Related Deaths	Concurrent 1D: Advancing Policy Reform for People Who Use Drugs: Strategies and Opportunities in the Global South
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM	Poster Tour 02: Pathways to Cure: Advancing Therapeutic Access and Outcomes
3:25 PM - 3:55 PM	Harm reduction in Latin America: a proposal for a human rights-based drug policy
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 2C: “It’s the first time anyone’s asked me what I want”: optimising NSP coverage by focusing on the values and preferences of people who inject drugs	Concurrent 2D: Bringing Care to the Margins: How Nurses are Revolutionizing Healthcare for People Who Use Drugs
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM	INHSU 2025 GAM
5:45 PM - 7:30 PM		INHSU 2025 Welcome Reception

	Track 5	Track 6
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM	Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:30 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Wednesday 15 October
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM	INHSU 2025 Nurse's Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM	Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony + Harm Reduction Plenaries
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM	Scholarships Meetup
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM	Plenary 2: Plenary Abstracts + Drug Policy Reform Panel
12:45 PM - 1:25 PM	CATIE Canadian Networking Event
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM	Concurrent 1E: Practical Strategies for Collaborating with People Who Use Meth	Concurrent 1F: From Evidence to Access: Laying the Foundation for Long-Acting Depot Buprenorphine (LADB) in LMICs
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM	Poster Tour 03: Tools of Care: Harm Reduction in Action	Poster Viewing Session & Digital Posters
3:25 PM - 3:55 PM	Harm reduction in Latin America: a proposal for a human rights-based drug policy
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 2E: Worker Wellness During Times of Crisis
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
5:45 PM - 7:30 PM	INHSU 2025 Welcome Reception

	Track 1
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM	Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:30 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Wednesday 15 October
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM	INHSU 2025 Nurse's Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM	Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony + Harm Reduction Plenaries
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM	Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM	Plenary 2: Plenary Abstracts + Drug Policy Reform Panel
12:45 PM - 1:25 PM
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	First Timers & New Members Meet Up
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM	Concurrent 1A: Abstract Session - Hepatitis C Elimination and Harm Reduction in Prisons
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM	Poster Tour 01: From Fingerstick to Frontline: Testing and Diagnosis Innovations
3:25 PM - 3:55 PM	Harm reduction in Latin America: a proposal for a human rights-based drug policy
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 2A: Insights into Harm Reduction Implementation in Africa
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM	INHSU 2025 GAM
5:45 PM - 7:30 PM

	Track 2
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM	Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:30 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Wednesday 15 October
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM	INHSU 2025 Nurse's Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM	Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony + Harm Reduction Plenaries
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM	Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM	Plenary 2: Plenary Abstracts + Drug Policy Reform Panel
12:45 PM - 1:25 PM
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	First Timers & New Members Meet Up
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM	Concurrent 1B: Abstract Session - Peer-Led Models of Care and Community Engagement
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM
3:25 PM - 3:55 PM	Harm reduction in Latin America: a proposal for a human rights-based drug policy
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 2B: Prison Health for People Who Use Drugs
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM	INHSU 2025 GAM
5:45 PM - 7:30 PM

	Track 3
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM	Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:30 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Wednesday 15 October
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM	INHSU 2025 Nurse's Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM	Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony + Harm Reduction Plenaries
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM	Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM	Plenary 2: Plenary Abstracts + Drug Policy Reform Panel
12:45 PM - 1:25 PM
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Lunch
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM	Concurrent 1C: Abstract Session - Trends and Prevention of Drug Related Deaths
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM	Poster Tour 02: Pathways to Cure: Advancing Therapeutic Access and Outcomes
3:25 PM - 3:55 PM	Harm reduction in Latin America: a proposal for a human rights-based drug policy
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 2C: “It’s the first time anyone’s asked me what I want”: optimising NSP coverage by focusing on the values and preferences of people who inject drugs
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM	INHSU 2025 GAM
5:45 PM - 7:30 PM

	Track 4
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM	Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:30 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Wednesday 15 October
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM	INHSU 2025 Nurse's Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM	Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony + Harm Reduction Plenaries
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM	Scholarships Meetup
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM	Plenary 2: Plenary Abstracts + Drug Policy Reform Panel
12:45 PM - 1:25 PM
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Lunch
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM	Concurrent 1D: Advancing Policy Reform for People Who Use Drugs: Strategies and Opportunities in the Global South
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM
3:25 PM - 3:55 PM	Harm reduction in Latin America: a proposal for a human rights-based drug policy
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 2D: Bringing Care to the Margins: How Nurses are Revolutionizing Healthcare for People Who Use Drugs
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
5:45 PM - 7:30 PM	INHSU 2025 Welcome Reception

	Track 5
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM	Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:30 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Wednesday 15 October
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM	INHSU 2025 Nurse's Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM	Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony + Harm Reduction Plenaries
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM	Scholarships Meetup
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM	Plenary 2: Plenary Abstracts + Drug Policy Reform Panel
12:45 PM - 1:25 PM	CATIE Canadian Networking Event
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM	Concurrent 1E: Practical Strategies for Collaborating with People Who Use Meth
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM	Poster Tour 03: Tools of Care: Harm Reduction in Action
3:25 PM - 3:55 PM	Harm reduction in Latin America: a proposal for a human rights-based drug policy
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 2E: Worker Wellness During Times of Crisis
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
5:45 PM - 7:30 PM	INHSU 2025 Welcome Reception

	Track 6
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM	Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:30 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Wednesday 15 October
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM	INHSU 2025 Nurse's Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM	Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony + Harm Reduction Plenaries
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM	Scholarships Meetup
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM	Plenary 2: Plenary Abstracts + Drug Policy Reform Panel
12:45 PM - 1:25 PM	CATIE Canadian Networking Event
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM	Concurrent 1F: From Evidence to Access: Laying the Foundation for Long-Acting Depot Buprenorphine (LADB) in LMICs
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM	Poster Viewing Session & Digital Posters
3:25 PM - 3:55 PM	Harm reduction in Latin America: a proposal for a human rights-based drug policy
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
5:45 PM - 7:30 PM	INHSU 2025 Welcome Reception

Thursday, October 16, 2025

	&#8203	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4	Track 5
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM	Registration Open
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	AbbVie Sponsored Symposium: A Crossroads in HCV Care for People Who Inject Drugs: The Holistic Impact of Test and Treat Versus Test and Wait
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Plenary 3: Gender Considerations in Health and Plenary Abstracts
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM	Coffee Break		AbbVie Discussion Space: How Do We Achieve HCV Elimination? Exploring Barriers and Strategies to Test-and-Treat
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Concurrent 3A: Surviving and thriving in a crisis: the impact of community advisory boards in peer-led responses, sharing experiences and interventions	Concurrent 3B: Hepatitis B in the African region: What is needed to expand access to care and what is the role of integration with harm reduction. hepatitis C. and HIV programs?	Concurrent 3C: Inside & Out: Nurse-Led Healthcare in Prisons and Post-Release	Concurrent 3D: The State of the Art in Stigma: Key Concepts, Measurement Issues and Evidence-Based Approaches to Reducing Stigma	Concurrent 3E: Integrating Mental Health, Harm Reduction and Hepatitis Care to Improve Outcomes
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Lunchtime Workshop: Research Collaboration and Engagement: A Solutions-Focused Workshop to Identify and Overcome Challenges in Research Implementation and Participation		Gilead Sponsored Symposium: Does gender impact awareness and care access? Women, stigma and blood-borne viruses
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 4A: Abstract Session - Innovations in HCV Prevention, Case Finding and Testing	Concurrent 4B: Abstract Session - Research on gender, health inequities, infectious disease, and harm reduction	Concurrent 4C: Abstract Session - Opioid Agonist Treatment and Safer Supply: Experiences, Outcomes, and Models	Concurrent 4D: Navigating the challenges of US funding cuts from diverse perspectives across the INHSU network	Concurrent 4E: Rewriting the Narrative: Language, Storytelling and Gender-Transformative Advocacy for Harm Reduction Programmes
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Thursday 16 October
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 5A: Making the Case: Financing and Sustaining Harm Reduction in a Changing Landscape	Concurrent 5B: Stimulant use disorders – new treatments and future directions	Concurrent 5C: Implementation Science to Improve Harm Reduction and HCV/HIV Models of Care for People Who Use Drugs	Concurrent 5D: Ethical storytelling: A co-created blueprint	Concurrent 5E: Connections to culture, wellness, social justice, hope, and healing: Why framing matters
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM	INHSU 2025 Conference Dinner

	&#8203	Track 2
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM	Registration Open
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	AbbVie Sponsored Symposium: A Crossroads in HCV Care for People Who Inject Drugs: The Holistic Impact of Test and Treat Versus Test and Wait
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Plenary 3: Gender Considerations in Health and Plenary Abstracts
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM	Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Concurrent 3A: Surviving and thriving in a crisis: the impact of community advisory boards in peer-led responses, sharing experiences and interventions	Concurrent 3B: Hepatitis B in the African region: What is needed to expand access to care and what is the role of integration with harm reduction. hepatitis C. and HIV programs?
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Lunchtime Workshop: Research Collaboration and Engagement: A Solutions-Focused Workshop to Identify and Overcome Challenges in Research Implementation and Participation
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 4A: Abstract Session - Innovations in HCV Prevention, Case Finding and Testing	Concurrent 4B: Abstract Session - Research on gender, health inequities, infectious disease, and harm reduction
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Thursday 16 October
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 5A: Making the Case: Financing and Sustaining Harm Reduction in a Changing Landscape	Concurrent 5B: Stimulant use disorders – new treatments and future directions
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM	INHSU 2025 Conference Dinner

	Track 3	Track 4
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM	Registration Open
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	AbbVie Sponsored Symposium: A Crossroads in HCV Care for People Who Inject Drugs: The Holistic Impact of Test and Treat Versus Test and Wait
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Plenary 3: Gender Considerations in Health and Plenary Abstracts
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM	AbbVie Discussion Space: How Do We Achieve HCV Elimination? Exploring Barriers and Strategies to Test-and-Treat
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Concurrent 3C: Inside & Out: Nurse-Led Healthcare in Prisons and Post-Release	Concurrent 3D: The State of the Art in Stigma: Key Concepts, Measurement Issues and Evidence-Based Approaches to Reducing Stigma
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Gilead Sponsored Symposium: Does gender impact awareness and care access? Women, stigma and blood-borne viruses
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 4C: Abstract Session - Opioid Agonist Treatment and Safer Supply: Experiences, Outcomes, and Models	Concurrent 4D: Navigating the challenges of US funding cuts from diverse perspectives across the INHSU network
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Thursday 16 October
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 5C: Implementation Science to Improve Harm Reduction and HCV/HIV Models of Care for People Who Use Drugs	Concurrent 5D: Ethical storytelling: A co-created blueprint
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM	INHSU 2025 Conference Dinner

	Track 5
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM	Registration Open
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	AbbVie Sponsored Symposium: A Crossroads in HCV Care for People Who Inject Drugs: The Holistic Impact of Test and Treat Versus Test and Wait
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Plenary 3: Gender Considerations in Health and Plenary Abstracts
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM	AbbVie Discussion Space: How Do We Achieve HCV Elimination? Exploring Barriers and Strategies to Test-and-Treat
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Concurrent 3E: Integrating Mental Health, Harm Reduction and Hepatitis Care to Improve Outcomes
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Gilead Sponsored Symposium: Does gender impact awareness and care access? Women, stigma and blood-borne viruses
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 4E: Rewriting the Narrative: Language, Storytelling and Gender-Transformative Advocacy for Harm Reduction Programmes
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Thursday 16 October
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 5E: Connections to culture, wellness, social justice, hope, and healing: Why framing matters
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM	INHSU 2025 Conference Dinner

	&#8203
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM	Registration Open
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	AbbVie Sponsored Symposium: A Crossroads in HCV Care for People Who Inject Drugs: The Holistic Impact of Test and Treat Versus Test and Wait
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Plenary 3: Gender Considerations in Health and Plenary Abstracts
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM	Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Concurrent 3A: Surviving and thriving in a crisis: the impact of community advisory boards in peer-led responses, sharing experiences and interventions
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Lunchtime Workshop: Research Collaboration and Engagement: A Solutions-Focused Workshop to Identify and Overcome Challenges in Research Implementation and Participation
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 4A: Abstract Session - Innovations in HCV Prevention, Case Finding and Testing
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Thursday 16 October
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 5A: Making the Case: Financing and Sustaining Harm Reduction in a Changing Landscape
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM	INHSU 2025 Conference Dinner

	Track 2
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM	Registration Open
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	AbbVie Sponsored Symposium: A Crossroads in HCV Care for People Who Inject Drugs: The Holistic Impact of Test and Treat Versus Test and Wait
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Plenary 3: Gender Considerations in Health and Plenary Abstracts
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM	Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Concurrent 3B: Hepatitis B in the African region: What is needed to expand access to care and what is the role of integration with harm reduction. hepatitis C. and HIV programs?
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Lunchtime Workshop: Research Collaboration and Engagement: A Solutions-Focused Workshop to Identify and Overcome Challenges in Research Implementation and Participation
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 4B: Abstract Session - Research on gender, health inequities, infectious disease, and harm reduction
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Thursday 16 October
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 5B: Stimulant use disorders – new treatments and future directions
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM	INHSU 2025 Conference Dinner

	Track 3
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM	Registration Open
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	AbbVie Sponsored Symposium: A Crossroads in HCV Care for People Who Inject Drugs: The Holistic Impact of Test and Treat Versus Test and Wait
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Plenary 3: Gender Considerations in Health and Plenary Abstracts
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM	AbbVie Discussion Space: How Do We Achieve HCV Elimination? Exploring Barriers and Strategies to Test-and-Treat
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Concurrent 3C: Inside & Out: Nurse-Led Healthcare in Prisons and Post-Release
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Gilead Sponsored Symposium: Does gender impact awareness and care access? Women, stigma and blood-borne viruses
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 4C: Abstract Session - Opioid Agonist Treatment and Safer Supply: Experiences, Outcomes, and Models
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Thursday 16 October
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 5C: Implementation Science to Improve Harm Reduction and HCV/HIV Models of Care for People Who Use Drugs
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM	INHSU 2025 Conference Dinner

	Track 4
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM	Registration Open
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	AbbVie Sponsored Symposium: A Crossroads in HCV Care for People Who Inject Drugs: The Holistic Impact of Test and Treat Versus Test and Wait
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Plenary 3: Gender Considerations in Health and Plenary Abstracts
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM	AbbVie Discussion Space: How Do We Achieve HCV Elimination? Exploring Barriers and Strategies to Test-and-Treat
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Concurrent 3D: The State of the Art in Stigma: Key Concepts, Measurement Issues and Evidence-Based Approaches to Reducing Stigma
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Gilead Sponsored Symposium: Does gender impact awareness and care access? Women, stigma and blood-borne viruses
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 4D: Navigating the challenges of US funding cuts from diverse perspectives across the INHSU network
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Thursday 16 October
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 5D: Ethical storytelling: A co-created blueprint
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM	INHSU 2025 Conference Dinner

	Track 5
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM	Registration Open
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	AbbVie Sponsored Symposium: A Crossroads in HCV Care for People Who Inject Drugs: The Holistic Impact of Test and Treat Versus Test and Wait
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Plenary 3: Gender Considerations in Health and Plenary Abstracts
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM	AbbVie Discussion Space: How Do We Achieve HCV Elimination? Exploring Barriers and Strategies to Test-and-Treat
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Concurrent 3E: Integrating Mental Health, Harm Reduction and Hepatitis Care to Improve Outcomes
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Gilead Sponsored Symposium: Does gender impact awareness and care access? Women, stigma and blood-borne viruses
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 4E: Rewriting the Narrative: Language, Storytelling and Gender-Transformative Advocacy for Harm Reduction Programmes
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Thursday 16 October
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Concurrent 5E: Connections to culture, wellness, social justice, hope, and healing: Why framing matters
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM	INHSU 2025 Conference Dinner

Friday, October 17, 2025

	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4	Track 5
7:45 AM - 9:00 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Friday 17 October
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM	Registration Open
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Plenary 4: Innovations in HCV and HIV Treatment + Plenary Abstracts
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM	Poster Tour 04: From Modelling to Micro-Elimination: Advancing HCV Models		Poster Tour 05: Bridging the Gaps: Increasing Access and Continuity of Care		Poster Tour 06: Overdose, Stigma, and Considerations for Harm Reduction
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM	Concurrent 6A: Abstract Session - Scaling Up Hepatitis C Treatment: What Works, What's Next	Concurrent 6B: Abstract Session - Integrated Care: From the Hospital to the Community	Concurrent 6C: Abstract Session - Policy and Partnerships	Concurrent 6D: Applying Implementation Science to Improve Care for People Who Use Drugs: Practical Tools, Frameworks, and Strategies	Concurrent 6E: Pins, Pipes and Paraphernalia: Community Preferences in the Selection of Low Dead Space Syringes and Needles and Other Harm Reduction Commodities
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 7A: Understanding and Responding to Synthetic Opioids	Concurrent 7B: Harm reduction in South Africa: getting to know our epidemic and ways to improve our responses	Concurrent 7C: Monitoring WHO HCV elimination targets – UK progress & implications for other settings	Concurrent 7D: The Foundations of Qualitative Research: A Workshop to Build Researcher and Community Capacity
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Plenary 5: Rapporteurs & Conference Closing

	Track 1	Track 2
7:45 AM - 9:00 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Friday 17 October
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM	Registration Open
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Plenary 4: Innovations in HCV and HIV Treatment + Plenary Abstracts
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM	Poster Tour 04: From Modelling to Micro-Elimination: Advancing HCV Models
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM	Concurrent 6A: Abstract Session - Scaling Up Hepatitis C Treatment: What Works, What's Next	Concurrent 6B: Abstract Session - Integrated Care: From the Hospital to the Community
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 7A: Understanding and Responding to Synthetic Opioids	Concurrent 7B: Harm reduction in South Africa: getting to know our epidemic and ways to improve our responses
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Plenary 5: Rapporteurs & Conference Closing

	Track 3	Track 4
7:45 AM - 9:00 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Friday 17 October
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM	Registration Open
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Plenary 4: Innovations in HCV and HIV Treatment + Plenary Abstracts
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM	Poster Tour 05: Bridging the Gaps: Increasing Access and Continuity of Care
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM	Concurrent 6C: Abstract Session - Policy and Partnerships	Concurrent 6D: Applying Implementation Science to Improve Care for People Who Use Drugs: Practical Tools, Frameworks, and Strategies
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 7C: Monitoring WHO HCV elimination targets – UK progress & implications for other settings	Concurrent 7D: The Foundations of Qualitative Research: A Workshop to Build Researcher and Community Capacity
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Plenary 5: Rapporteurs & Conference Closing

	Track 5
7:45 AM - 9:00 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Friday 17 October
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM	Registration Open
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Plenary 4: Innovations in HCV and HIV Treatment + Plenary Abstracts
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM	Poster Tour 06: Overdose, Stigma, and Considerations for Harm Reduction
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM	Concurrent 6E: Pins, Pipes and Paraphernalia: Community Preferences in the Selection of Low Dead Space Syringes and Needles and Other Harm Reduction Commodities
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Plenary 5: Rapporteurs & Conference Closing

	Track 1
7:45 AM - 9:00 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Friday 17 October
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM	Registration Open
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Plenary 4: Innovations in HCV and HIV Treatment + Plenary Abstracts
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM	Poster Tour 04: From Modelling to Micro-Elimination: Advancing HCV Models
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM	Concurrent 6A: Abstract Session - Scaling Up Hepatitis C Treatment: What Works, What's Next
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 7A: Understanding and Responding to Synthetic Opioids
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Plenary 5: Rapporteurs & Conference Closing

	Track 2
7:45 AM - 9:00 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Friday 17 October
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM	Registration Open
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Plenary 4: Innovations in HCV and HIV Treatment + Plenary Abstracts
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM	Concurrent 6B: Abstract Session - Integrated Care: From the Hospital to the Community
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 7B: Harm reduction in South Africa: getting to know our epidemic and ways to improve our responses
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Plenary 5: Rapporteurs & Conference Closing

	Track 3
7:45 AM - 9:00 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Friday 17 October
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM	Registration Open
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Plenary 4: Innovations in HCV and HIV Treatment + Plenary Abstracts
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM	Poster Tour 05: Bridging the Gaps: Increasing Access and Continuity of Care
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM	Concurrent 6C: Abstract Session - Policy and Partnerships
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 7C: Monitoring WHO HCV elimination targets – UK progress & implications for other settings
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Plenary 5: Rapporteurs & Conference Closing

	Track 4
7:45 AM - 9:00 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Friday 17 October
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM	Registration Open
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Plenary 4: Innovations in HCV and HIV Treatment + Plenary Abstracts
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM	Concurrent 6D: Applying Implementation Science to Improve Care for People Who Use Drugs: Practical Tools, Frameworks, and Strategies
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Concurrent 7D: The Foundations of Qualitative Research: A Workshop to Build Researcher and Community Capacity
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Plenary 5: Rapporteurs & Conference Closing

	Track 5
7:45 AM - 9:00 AM	TB HIV Care People Who Use Drugs Drop in Centre (DIC) Site Visit - Friday 17 October
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM	Registration Open
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Plenary 4: Innovations in HCV and HIV Treatment + Plenary Abstracts
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Coffee Break & Poster Tours
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM	Poster Tour 06: Overdose, Stigma, and Considerations for Harm Reduction
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM	Concurrent 6E: Pins, Pipes and Paraphernalia: Community Preferences in the Selection of Low Dead Space Syringes and Needles and Other Harm Reduction Commodities
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Plenary 5: Rapporteurs & Conference Closing

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