 So we'll spend the remaining of the opening ceremony with our awards ceremony process. I'm going to go a little off track to start with because we have a rather unique and special situation. When we last gathered together in Portugal in 2019, the winner of the Carol and Travis Jenkins Awards was André Jaravoy. The award was accepted by André's colleagues because André had been detained while carrying out harm reduction services, HIV prevention and monitoring for the Ukrainian Alliance for Public Health in the occupied Luhans People's Republic. André had travelled to the regions previously, but at that time he was travelling with his OIT, his opiate agonist therapy medicine and it was seized. And the Luhans People's Ministry of State Security decided he was guilty of large-scale drug trafficking. This is medicine he was carrying with him. It was a month before André was able to access a lawyer. And then finally, after much work, at the end of 2019, after 489 days in detention, André was released as part of a prison exchange. So we asked André to join us here in Melbourne at HR 23, so he could see what his work meant to us, so we could stand with him, so we could hear his story directly from him. So I invite André to the stage. Hello, dear friends. I would like to thank you for the invitation and say I am very proud to be the recipient of prestigious Carol and Travis Jenkins Award. Back in 2019, when I found that the harm reduction international gave me this award, at the time when I was transferred to a local prison in the occupied Eastern Ukraine after being tortured in a basement. The news about the award not only lifted my spirit, but also gave me confidence that everything will end well. Because I know I am not left behind by others. Presently my homeland, Ukraine, is brutally attacked by Russian Federation and in a state of war. Russia is bombing our cities and killing civilians. Therefore, your support is very important for us, both of us, for Ukraine and for people who use drugs. Many of our brothers and sisters who use drugs died at the front lines defending Ukraine. At the same time many of our brothers and sisters in Eastern Europe and Central Asia continue to die because of the repressive drug policies of the governments of our countries. I would like to convey to you messages from the Russian network of people who use drugs and put and the national network of people who use drugs in Ukraine, Volna. First, we need continued international funding to solve our problems. But our community needs direct funding. We want mediators that manage our funding would listen to us and effectively support us, not manage us. Second, more of us receive opioid agonist therapy and other harm reduction services. But we don't receive good quality drugs for it. Too often medical professionals don't treat us as human beings. Third, we constantly hear our officials saying that our countries are moving towards civilized Europe. But the reality is that our governments pass laws that restrict our rights and marginalize us. Fourth, we very need devices and services for the checking the composition of those substances that we are forced to buy on the black market. Drug checking is a matter of life and death. If we serious with the prevention of the overdose epidemic, we need those small devices and services. Last, we are ready to act, we are ready to tell the truth what is happening on the ground. We appeal to all of you, dear experts present here. We need your knowledge, your experience and your contacts. Please help us. Don't give up on us, stay close. Thank you. Glory to Ukraine! Thank you so much, Andrea. It's an honor to have you with us and I know it's a long, long journey.