LEAHN Co-ordinator, Greg Denham visited senior police and UN officials in Tanzania in April 2014 along with national LEAHN Country Focal Point Inspector Abdallah Said Kirungu. The meetings were focused on discussions about the important role that police play in facilitating access to harm reduction services.
Meeting with UNAIDS representatives: Patrick Brenny UNAIDS Country Director and Denis Haveaux Strategic Intervention Advisor
Meeting with Police Command members of Tanzania Police at Police Headquaters
Meeting with Senior Assistant Commissioner Serecky Msaya Police Medical Unit
Inspector Kirungu took Greg on a tour of a methadone clinic in Dar es Salaam run by the inspiring Dr Jessie Mbwambo and her staff at the Muhibili Hospital.
Greg also visited the Mdm Needle and Syringe Program in Dar es Salaam with Insp Abdallah Tanzania CFP and talked with staff about their harm reduction services. Greg also met with representatives from Tanpud Tanzania.
It was a very important and fruitful visit and indeed Mr Greg has played a significant role to motivate harm reduction program in Tanzania by bringing together various stakeholders to have collaboration respond.
Its amazing tour we are together in this program to combat harm reduction
I’m support the idea and task done of harm reduction by the LEAHN here in Tanzania but the problem is in the whole country and the LEAHN is so much work in Dar es salaam! So I beg you to open offices here in zanzibar and help zanzibaris on prevention on HIV and drugs abuse.
thanks.
Thanks for your comment. LEAHN certainly hopes to support harm reduction in Zanzibar. Please send an email to Greg Denham and discuss a plan of how to improve things. Email leahn@leahn.org Best regards.
Hello everyone – thanks for these great comments – please email if you want me to contact me direct – learn@leahn.org – Greg Denham
Keep on working, great job!
If you read H-J Chang (I don’t necessarily agree with all his ponits), Africa suffered developed wise more from neo-liberal policies than by their own economic faults or by colonialism. Yes all aid in some sense is self-serving but give the history of aid from Western nations, why would one want to continue receiving that form of aid?I’m talking China’s cautious move into the global system. Western policies along with the aid provided push African (and other developing countries) straight into the global world as if it can happen overnight. Granted Chinese aid is not the cure but the Chinese economic model never dashed straight into the global economy. It’s what Chang calls the industrialised world Kicking away the ladder (his 2003 book) OECD countries took time to develop and used a mixture of protectionist and open-market policies. Today, they assume that for countries to develop, they should expose themselves straight to globalisation.Give the failures of privitisation, liberalisation and Good Governance and other policies coming in with aid from Western bilateral institions and International Organisations, Chinese assistance is the least worst alternative.