| Presentation Dr. Ingrid van Beek - Sex and Drugs in Sydney's Kings Cross" Join us for an evening with keynote speaker Dr Ingrid van Beek AM - a public health and addiction medicine physician who was the longstanding Director of the Kirketon Road Centre (KRC) until 2017. Located in Sydney's Kings Cross, KRC has the responsibility for the prevention of HIV and other transmissible infections among sex workers and people who inject drugs. She was also the founding medical director of Australia's first 'medically supervised injecting centre', which commenced in Kings Cross in 2001. Ingrid will provide a perspective on how public health and public order issues associated with Sydney's epicentre of sex and drugs were approached from the late 1980s until the present time. She will also... |
