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New Medication Assisted Treatment Center Opens in Tanzania

Details: Created on Sep 18, 2012

U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania, Alfonso E. Lenhardt, (left), and Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Hon. Dr. Hussein Mwinyi, (right), cutting a ribbon to mark the formal launch of the second Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Clinic at Mwananyamala Regional Hospital, Kinondoni District, Dar es Salaam recently

Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation helps launch new medication assisted treatment center for people who inject drugs in Tanzania. Pangaea’s Barrot Lambdin and consultant expert Doug Bruce support the Drug Control Commission of Tanzania in scaling up comprehensive drug use and HIV programs, with the launch of a second methadone clinic at Mwananyamala Regional Hospital. For more information about this project and our work in Tanzania, please contact Barrot Lambdin at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The launch has so far been covered in the following articles/blogs:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201209100039.html

http://tzdailyeye.jibostudios.com/?p=73425

http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=45585

http://kenyadailyeye.jibostudios.com/?p=37307

http://issamichuzi.blogspot.com/2012/09/official-launch-of-second-medication.html