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Love Alliance

Burkina Faso, Burundi, Egypt, Kenya, Marocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe

Mainline is a partner in the Love Alliance programme. The Love Alliance brings together organisations led by communities most affected by HIV and AIDS.

From all over Africa, experts (GALZ, SANPUD, Sisonke), grant providers (UHAI, ISDAO, GNP+ and Arasa) have joined forces. Aidsfonds has the Dutch administrative leadership. The Love Alliance will work to improve the health and rights of sex workers, drug users, LGBTIQ + people and people living with HIV in Africa. Together we are working to significantly reduce HIV infections by lobbying, bringing communities together and raising awareness about rights and health in ten countries.



Harm reduction and drug policy database

The programme kicked-off in 2021 and runs up to and including 2026. In 2021 and 2022 Mainline partnered with SANPUD: the South African Network of People who Use Drugs. One of our key activities was to design a database with relevant information about drug use, harm reduction and drug policy in all the 10 Love Alliance priority countries. On the right you can find the country policy briefs that are based on this dataset. 


The database can be used by all Love Alliance grantees to advocate and can support fund raising activities.

Strategic partnership

In addition to the database, Mainline also developed elaborate blended learning courses: one on harm reduction and one on implementing community-led assessments. In 2023 we will work with three community partners from the drug field to assess a situation, monitor a service or understand the needs of a specific (sub-) group of people who use drugs. The community partner is in full control over each step of the process and Mainline offers support through its online learning platform and during live sessions in between each module. 


Country policy briefs


Burkina Faso policy brief

Burundi policy brief

Egypt policy brief

Kenya policy brief

Marocco policy brief

Mozambique policy brief

Nigeria policy brief

South Africa policy brief

Uganda policy brief

Zimbabwe policy brief













More information

Want to know more about this project? Contact us via info@mainline.nl.


Our current projects


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Women who use drugs

Nepal

Mainline was asked to review the current harm reduction programmes in Nepal from the perspective of women who inject drugs. Based on interviews with women we formulated recommendations to improve service delivery. 

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Services for Vulnerable Migrants who use Drugs in the EU

Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Greece, Germany, France

Several risk factors increase the vulnerability of (new) groups of migrants to engage in problematic drug use. These risk factors include traumatic experiences, disengagement with society, unemployment and poverty. Services and municipalities throughout the European Union are faced with the urgent challenge to address these migrants’ needs. 

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Love Alliance

Burkina Faso, Burundi, Egypt, Kenya, Marocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe

Mainline is a partner in the Love Alliance programme. The Love Alliance brings together organisations led by communities most affected by HIV and AIDS.

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Community consultations in Nepal

A round of community consultations by and for people who use drugs is currently being organised in Nepal. The goal is to identify key priorities that need to be taken up in the next Global Fund grant. Mainline offers technical support for this initiative.

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Stimulant Harm Reduction - Field Lab

Vietnam

In 2021 and 2022, SCDI in Vietnam and Mainline can continue to strengthen and expand the available harm reduction offer for people who use meth-amphetamines. After establishing the regional field lab in 2019 and 2020 we now have the opportunity to push this innovative initiative to the next level. One important element: to improve and expand the community mental health response. Moreover, the skills that were built in Hanoi's field lab are ready to be further disseminated across the South East Asian Region.

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Mindful Muscles

United Kingdom, Finland, Greece, Estonia, Serbia, Portugal, the Netherlands

Harm reduction approaches are rarely applied in a recreational sports setting. And why would we - sport equals health, right? Not always. Research shows that the use of performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) is quite common in various recreational sport scenes. And for those people who use frequently and in high doses, harm reduction can make a big difference.

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harm reduction for people who use crack cocaine

Brazil

Mainline is starting a two-year project in Recife, Brazil, together with LANPUD, and the Free School for Harm Reduction (ELRD). The project aims to expand harm reduction and HIV care and support for young people who use crack cocaine.

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Mainline - Technical Advice

Did Mainline become a supplier? Yes: a supplier of technical advice for the Global Fund. Harm reduction organisations and networks of people who use drugs across the world can now request a Mainline training or capacity building. Read more about how this works.

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Chemsex

Global

The use of drugs during sex is a growing worldwide phenomenon among men who have sex with men (MSM). Mainline has built a unique track record while working in the frontline of the Dutch 'chemsex' scene. Now, we also apply this expertise in an international context.

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Our finished projects

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Assessing the drug scene

Zimbabwe

Mainline have been asked to assess the drug scene in five provinces in Zimbabwe. A team of three researchers worked in close collaboration with the Zimbabwe Civil Liberties Drug Network throughout 2022. The goal: to gain an insight into which drugs are commonly used and to recommend health interventions.

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Gender-based violence

Kenya

Women who use drugs in Kenya face violence every day: At home. On the streets. By the police. In their communities. A unique study - conducted in Mombasa, Kenya - sheds light on the tough realities these women encounter. Urgent action is needed.

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Size estimation and service mapping: introducing harm reduction

Zambia

Harm reduction is new in Zambia. Mainline was asked to estimate how many people inject drugs in the country and to map the already existing harm reduction and HIV services for people who use drugs. Based on this information, we drafted practical service guidelines. In doing so, Mainline hopes to have contributed to the introduction of harm reduction in Zambia.  

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Prison Health

Indonesia

Prisons in Indonesia are overcrowded and health services are limited. Is quality prison health too expensive? Not according to findings from Atma Jaya University, who applied the method of 'economic modelling' to prison health services, including drug dependency programmes. The findings fed important advocacy messages to improve the prison system in 2021. Moreover, Atma Jaya - via a 2021 implementation study - succesfully introduced motivational interviewing into the prison setting: an evidence-based method to assist people who are dependent on drugs and would like to reduce or quit their drug use.

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Quality Harm Reduction

Iran

Iran is renowned for its harm reduction programme. It was one of the first countries in this geographical region to adopt a harm reduction approach. Government supports and funds the programme. But the drug scene in Iran has changed over the past 20 years. More people are using stimulant drugs and, due to economic circumstances, more people who use drugs have become homeless. Mainline sets out to see whether the current programme in Tehran still fits the needs of the local people who use drugs.

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Women Who Use Drugs & Peer Workers

South Africa

Women Who Use Drugs face additional problems compared to their male counterparts. The harm reduction field far too often neglects the needs of women. To some extent, the same is true for peer workers: incredibly valuable staff in any impactful service. How can local services make sure that peer workers are valued, supported and living up to their full potential? And how can access for women who use drugs be improved?

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