In March 2018, Mainline, SCDI and Aidsfonds joined forces to assess the current state of methamphetamine use in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Through this situational assessment, we gained great insights on the diverse groups of people who use…

Mainline Sober factsThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of seventeen interrelated goals and 169 corresponding targets set out by the UN at the end of 2015. Harm reduction is not among those goals. But not to worry: this…

Heroin use has increased enormously in Tanzania and other East African countries in recent years. All along the trafficking routes from Afghanistan to the Western world, the overseas supply of heroin is high. On the ground level, people cope with…

Harm reduction programmes are under constant financial and political pressure in many countries. 

HOW ADDRESSING PLEASURE CAN HELP PEOPLE WHO USE STEROIDSThe harm reduction field understands how important it is to address the pleasurable effects of substances when providing people with information and trying to connect with them. 

Since 2016, Mainline has been organising meetings for gay men participating in chemsex, and for those who decided to step out of the chemsex scene. The meetings take place in a safe and unrestrained setting, where men can share their…

In November, Mainliner Muna went on an outreach with the extended outreach team of MEWA – an NGO in Mombasa, Kenya. 

Mainline’s Nick Veldwijk stayed in Indonesia for two months. In his vlog-series, he shares his experiences of working abroad and speaks about harm reduction for those who use meth in Indonesia, Mainlines partnerships in Indonesia and about reaching hard-to-reach groups…

Mainline was in Bucharest at the European Harm Reduction Conference on 21-23 November. Our chemsex team talked about the use of chems (drugs) in a sexual setting.