Advocacy Officer for the Harm Reduction Program with Medecins du Monde (France) MdM in Kenya. She has worked with MdM for 4 years first as a training officer and currently as Advocacy Officer. Currently she is leading MdM’s Advocacy Strategy which is on Reform of Drug Policies to be more pro human rights/harm reduction; and availability of prevention, care of treatment of HCV among People Who Use Drugs. Academic background is: Bachelor of Education Arts and Masters of Arts (Sociology in Project Management and Community Development.

Happiness Madunda, Program officer at MUKIKUTE , a National Patient organization, based in Dar- es salaam Tanzania.Over the past 6 years I have been working in both areas of TB and Harm reduction programs supporting key and vulnerable population affected by drugs , HIV and Hipatitis. I have a Bachelor degree in Social Science which I got in 2009, at the Institute of Social Work Dar es Salaam, later on post graduated Course on International Community health at University of Oslo,Norway. Since 2012, I have been working in harm reduction program as a program coordinator. Our organization has been collaborating with Medicenes du Monde and Open Societies Foundation in supporting people who have been affected by drugs. Through this support , MUKIKUTE is running five low threshold drop in centre in three municipality of Dar es salaam including one of its kind women only centre at Buguruni in Ilala municiapal. In this centres MUKIKUTE providing intergrated TB/HIV and harm reduction among people who use drugs and female sex worker. As a program coordinator we are focusing much on service delivery on harm reduction among key affected groups, Capacity building on drugs,TB/HIV and harm reduction. MUKIKUTE is also bridging the gape between the key affected groups and the health systeam by facilitating refferals and linkages on TB/HIV, STI, farmily planning as well as Hipetitis. Since 2012 I have been cooordinating different program on key population including the new program of increase access to women who use drugs in Dar es salaam, Tanzania.

After the scientific series baccalaureate, he went to France to continue his studies in Management IT at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (CNAM). It was during his stay in France, particularly in Paris, that he had to use hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine. He had a long journey as a drug user, who brought him back to Africa where he thought he could escape from hard drugs, unfortunately for him, drugs were already too present in Dakar, and it was almost impossible for him to s 'escape. He thus continued to consume it. It was through a methadone treatment program, carried out at CEPIAD (Dakar Integrated Addiction Care Center) that he was co-opted. And after three months of inclusion, the center offered to join the Austrian team for field interventions. This opportunity allowed him to refer injecting drug users, but also to distribute harm reduction tools. Since 2014, when the center opened, he has acted as a peer relay to make the links between the CDI care structure and the CDIs themselves. It is during our interventions we do awareness activities on pathologies related to the environment of CDI; HCV, HBV, HIV, TB. You just have to remember that these pathologies are taken care of at Cepiad.

Fatma Jeneby is a clinical anesthetist with a background in psychology and political science, Fatma coordinates health, harm reduction and rights services for people who use drugs in coastal part of Kenya. Fatma is part of the team in Muslim Education and Welfare Association that has contributed in publication of various work of women who use drugs in Kenya (HIV and Sexual Reproductive Health Service (WHO case study 2014), The needs of female drug users in coastal region (Mainline 2016), Women and Harm Reduction (IDPC 2019), Developing integrated community-based HIV prevention, harm reduction, and sexual and reproductive health services for women who inject drugs (Reproductive health 2019). Fatma as a mentor, strongly advocates for Hepatitis B and C treatment with different government arms and work within the criminal justice system to cascade for non-custodial sentences for people who use drugs.