Mainline International facilitated a knowledge exchange - a South-South exchange - visit between their East African partners in the first week of November: From Mukikute in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to MEWA in Mombasa, Kenya.

As Vietnam is working towards creating a new drug law, it is of the utmost importance to ensure the inclusion of a human rights and public health perspective. Two major advocacy events took place in Vietnam in October. Mainline's Nick…

Victor Everhardt has said his goodbyes as chairman of Mainlines board. Victor is installed as Alderman to the City of Amsterdam and cannot combine this with his position at Mainline. 

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.