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  Setting the scene: assessing and planning with harm reduction partners

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2013

  Community Action on Harm Reduction (CAHR) is an project spanning China, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Malaysia that aims to expand coverage to more than 230,000 people who inject drugs, their partners and children, with a wide range of services (HIV prevention, treatment and care, sexual and reproductive health and other services) by 2014.
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  The rise of injecting drug use in East Africa: a case study from Kenya

  Harm Reduction Journal, 2005

  This article, from the Harm Reduction Journal, examines the nature of heroin injecting drug users (IDUs) in Malindi, Kenya. Heroin is widely available in Kenya and there is a growing number of heroin users in the region. The study estimates that there were 600 heroin users in Malindi in 2000. Approximately half of these users were thought to take the drug by injecting it.