With the support of the Global Partnership on Drug Policies and Development (GPDPD), a project implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, a team of three Mainline researchers conduct a study into effective harm reduction interventions for stimulant…

Thousands of heroin users have switched to crystal meth (locally referred to as Shabu) in Indonesia. During a stakeholders’ meeting in Jakarta on 12 September 2017, researchers of three different studies presented their preliminary findings related to recent developments around…

Ms Diana Mochache is a magistrate at Shanzu law court in Mombasa, Kenya. She offers people who use drugs (PWUD) an alternative to jail for drug-related crimes. For instance, instead of 6 months in prison for petty crime, she refers…

Early September, Mainline trained the outreach team at Karisma Foundation in Jakarta. Since 2016, Karisma pioneers outreach work for people who use crystal meth, referred to as shabu in street-slang. 

In his blog, Mainline’s Nick Veldwijk talks about his day during a recent trip he made to Nepal. The blog shows how diverse Mainlines’ work towards improving the health and lives of People Who Use Drugs is.

In April 2017, 11 people from 5 countries came to Cape Town, South Africa. The time had finally come to start the highly anticipated training of trainers (ToT) programme. The two year programme kicked-off with a workshop to learn the…

Recently, TB/HIV Care Association, one of Mainline’s South-African partners, released an annual report on human rights violations among people who use drugs. 

At the 25th International Harm Reduction Conference, Mainline organised a packed side event called ‘Future Proofing Harm Reduction’, together with AFEW, AidsFonds, INPUD and others. The rationale behind the side event was the need we see to promote harm reduction…

The first annual Learning Academy took place in Nairobi, Kenya where 27 partner representatives from 12 countries linked and learned about community empowerment and the meaningful involvement of key populations: Nothing about us, without us!