Many people with a Muslim background who use drugs still find it very important to respect the holy month of Ramadan. Mainlines local partners in South Africa and Kenya tried to support service users to fast.

With the needles and syringe programme in Durban closed by the local authorities since May 2018, the services in Port Elisabeth are also facing difficulties now. 

As of July 2019, Mainline’s chemsex-team offers one-on-one contact for gay- and bisexual men who do or have done chemsex. Participating in group meetings is also possible. Feel free to ‘drop in’ anytime between 19:00 and 22:00hrs.

A centre of excellence in Vietnam where you can directly learn from harm reduction experts, go into the field to experience the Vietnamese context and go home with more skills to support people who use crystal methamphetamine. That is what…

Mainline trainer Ferry was in Indonesia to train the Karisma (Jakarta) and the PKNM (Makassar) outreach teams. Together, we are working to find the most suitable ways to reach people who use stimulants and to reduce the harms that can…

Mainlines’ staff and partners from Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, Tanzania and South Africa attended this years’ International Harm Reduction Conference in Porto. Here is a short photo report.

By the end of the first phase of the Bridging the Gaps Programme in 2015, front line data confirmed that the number of people who inject drugs in Indonesia decreased. However, the use of methamphetamine was on the rise.

In some areas of Pakistan, receiving Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART) is quite difficult because of the size of the country and the limited number of facilities in the public health sector that provide ART. As a result, many people who inject…

Ahhh yes, GHB. Or for the scientists among us, Gamma hydroxybutyrate. The drug that, perhaps more than any other, divides opinion among us who use drugs ‘recreationally’. For some, it is an old friend who they couldn’t possibly party without.…