Tanzania: Breaking Up With Drug Addiction

[Citizen] "Now I think people are realising that I am a woman, not an animal," Magreth says, halfway laughing. She sits on the benches at Muhimbili Methadone Clinic with her face towards the clinic's yellow wall. Her arms are smooth and intact without syringe scars. They have changed. The veins on her arms used to be marked by sores from needles that led heroin into them. When she walked through her neighbourhood in Buguruni, Dar es Salaam, people would yell "Teja" (drug addict) after her. But when she passes by her
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news