First Methadone Maitenance Program Opens in Tanzania

"With the help of the American government, the first methadone maintenance program in sub-Saharan Africa opened this month in a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania."
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     Along with other reasons for the high rate of HIV and AIDS in Africa, here are a lot of people using serious drugs. "Tanzania now has an estimated 25,000 drug injectors, 40 percent of them infected with H.I.V., according to the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, a San Francisco-based group that is advising the Tanzanian government on the program." There is now a program opening in Tanzania that will hopefully help with this problem.