Dear Members,
Please find below the sixth newsletter from MENAHRA – the new Middle East and North Africa harm reduction network. The network was established in June 2007 in order to strengthen harm reduction capacity, policies and interventions across all 22 countries in the region. The network consists of a central secretariat (in Lebanon) and three sub-regional harm reduction ‘Knowledge Hubs’ (in Iran, Lebanon and Morocco).
This newsletter is pleased to feature a number of articles relevant to harm reduction, as well as testimony, reports and events from the MENA region and around the world:

• The Drug User between Marginalization and Judgment.
• The rise of harm reduction in the Islamic republic of Iran.
• Three million injecting drug users are HIV-positive files.
• Harm Reduction proposals approved for funding by MENAHRA.
• MENAHRA constitution.
• KH-Arrazi launches its website
• The first regional seminar on HR in Iran
• MENAHRA  announces call for proposal on harm reduction activities for the MENA region
• RANAA  Announcement
• IHRA's Harm reduction 2009
• Launching the National Program against Viral Hepatitis in Lebanon.