Open AccessNew treatment gives hope to East Africa’s drug users
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
bulletin of the world health organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.459
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1564-0604
pISSN - 0042-9686
DOI - 10.2471/blt.13.030213
Subject(s) - tanzania , battle , heroin , methadone , medicine , mainland china , mainland , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , addiction , geography , environmental health , virology , drug , psychiatry , china , archaeology , environmental planning
The United Republic of Tanzania is the first mainland sub-Saharan country to launch a national methadone programme as part of its battle to fight the twin epidemics of heroin addiction and HIV infection. Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala reports.