HIT HOT TOPICS CONFERENCE 2018 LUTYENS CRYPT, LIVERPOOL 9 NOVEMBER
HIT Hot Topics Conference 2018
The greatest harm reduction conference in the UK
HIT Hot Topics is the UK’s greatest harm reduction conference, with a strong focus on providing practical take-away messages from some of the world’s most interesting speakers.
We will be launching the 2019 HIT Hot Topics Conference website very soon, but we are ready to announce our first speaker so why wait! We are very excited to announce that Sanho Tree will be speaking at this year's conference.
Drug law enforcement was bound to be at the top of the agenda for a conference that cares passionately about harm reduction. While drug use was ‘ubiquitous, right across the population’, drug law enforcement was ‘a tool for social control’, said Niamh Eastwood, executive director at Release. Furthermore, it had before a weapon against the poorest and most vulnerable, designed to ‘push people out there’.
Fiona Gilbertson Has over 25 years of advocacy experience in HIV and sex work, mainly in policy development and lobbying. She believes that the fundamental way to tackle stigma and discrimination is through policy change, people need rights not concessions.
For the first time this year we are going to be trying something new to help people connect during the conference. We’ll be having a ‘Connecting board’ to help people looking for help with projects or developing ideas.