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Breakthrough as Uganda announces harm reduction pilot

Breakthrough as Uganda announces harm reduction pilot

www. aidsalliance.org - "The Ugandan Ministry of Health has made a breakthrough decision to pilot needle and syringe programmes (NSP), led by the Uganda Harm Reduction Network (UHRN) and Community Health Alliance Uganda (CHAU).

The NSP programme will reach 250 people who inject drugs in four districts (Kampala, Mbarara, Mbale and Gulu). The pilot is being implemented by UHRN and will run until December 2018 as part of the Ugandan Global Fund programme, with a vision to scale up to more sites in Uganda." (Photo: Mobile testing campaign in rural community/AIDSVaccine/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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