"Tanzania has become one of the important crossroads of drug trafficking in Africa. Both hub and place of consumption, the country has more than 25 000 injecting drug users. A number constantly increasing in large cities where heroin injection is spreading, and with it the transmission of HIV and hepatitis.

The AIDS epidemic, in which MdM has worked for 18 years, now affects 6.5% of the Tanzanian population. It focuses primarily within risk groups including injecting drug users are a part. According to the survey conducted by MdM, 30% of men and 67% of women are injecting infected. Faced with...