By Tom Fondo
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Only my parents can explain the painful burden of my addiction. I graduated into alcoholism, smoked bhang and lastly I found myself into deep heroin addiction.I was introduced to drugs use by partner who became my husband and together we had three children. He later died, one of my close friend also died and I…
I am Tsumo Khalfan. I was trapped in drug menace for about 20 years, a habit that I adapted early in my high school education; in form three to be precise.I was lured into drugs by my peers. I struggled with addiction for 13 years but I was helped out by the late Murad Saad,…
#SupportDontPunish Advocating and sensitizing the community through the chiefs Baraza on issues regarding People Who Use and Inject Drugs. When it comes to people who use and inject drugs, we always find out ‘it is the most marginalized group of people from the community with very limited access to healthcare services, access to information and…
I am Waleed Yusuf popularly known as Adebayor, I started using drugs at the age of 14 when I was in class seven. I can openly say that my life has been in drugs and drugs have been everything for me, little did I know that I was digging my own grave. I have traveled…
By Taib Basheeib
Harm reduction can be defined as any effort that attempts to minimize the negative consequences associated with substance use (either to the individual, their families, their communities, or society as a whole) without requiring the cessation of such use. Harm reduction provides an alternative to the moralistic and medical models of drug and alcohol treatment,…
Providing the full range of HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment, care and support services for key populations through decentralized community-based outreach, outpatient drug treatment which improves access to health care services Reachout centre trust offers Psychosocial support sessions during outreaches and in DIC where counseling services are offered either individually or in a group with an…
People who inject drugs face a lot of discrimination and violation of their human rights by the community. Reachout Centre Trust is always on the front line in ensuring that their human rights are protected and respected despite of who they are, by engaging with the law enforcers to disseminate the importance of respect for…
Reachout Centre Trust is a Civil Society Organization founded in 2003; the main mandate is to offer prevention and intervention services for Key Populations through outreach services, counseling, advocacy, reintegration and treatment of drug abuse and HIV infections. Over the past few years, Reachout Centre Trust has maintained a good working relationship with the media fraternity in highlighting…
Harm reduction programs are often the one and only contact point of services for most of the marginalized group from the society one of them being people who use and inject drugs in accessing the healthcare service. Reachout Centre Trust provides harm reduction service which also include basic support as an essential link to other…
Provision of face masks and hand washing to people who use and inject drugs during outreaches and also at our Drop in Centre in order to curb further spread of the COVID-19 among the key population and the community in general. Before providing health care services to the PWUDS and PWIDs we ensure that COVID-19…
