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Monday, 08 October 2012 Staff Author | Published in: World News ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, October 8, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- This panel of health and drug control officials from Tanzania will share the country's recent experience strengthening health services, including medication-assisted treatment, for people with drug dependencies and in the evolution of a policy framework and police practices that enable drug users to benefit from health services. Panelists will describe the policy and program-level decision-making and the various actors who enabled these changes to come about and will discuss lessons from this experience.
WHO:
? Dr Frank Masao, Director, Muhimbili Rehabiliation Centre for IDUs, Muhimbili National Hospital Dept. of Psychiatry, Dar es Salaam
? Dr Ayoub Magimba, Assistant Director, Non-Communicable Diseases, Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Tanzania Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
? Mr Yovin Ivo, Officer in Charge of Treatment and Rehabilitation, Drug Control Commission
? Mr Amani Msami, Officer in Charge of Education, Information and Statistics, Drug Control Commission
DATE: 10 October 2012
WHEN: 13:00 ? 15:00
WHERE: AUC HQ, New Building, New Conference Center, Multipurpose Hall.
For more information see: Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, ?Helping Tanzania Stop an HIV Epidemic Driven by Injection Drug Use?
RELATED MEDIA:
All Africa, ?Tanzania: Drug Abuse Therapy Bears Fruits?, 10 September 2012
The New York Times, ?Addiction: A First in Sub-Saharan Africa: Methadone Maintenance Program?, 21 February 2011

Source: http://www.ibotswana.co.bw/news/world/item/18429-african-union-commission-and-the-open-society-foundations-global-drug-policy-program-present-tanzania-%E2%80%93-recent-developments-in-drug-policy-and-health-services-for-people-who-use-drugs.html

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