Please find below the ninth 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 reports and events from the MENA region and around the world:

• MENAHRA is Organizing its FIRST REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON HARM REDUCTION
• نحو مسؤولية فعلية تجاه مدمني المخدرات في المغرب؟
• إعلان بيروت لحقوق المتعايشين مع فيروس نقص المناعة البشري/ السيدا في لبنان
• اطلاق جمعية "حياة ايجابية" ووثيقة حقوق المتعايشين مع "السيدا "
• UNODC-Lebanon Office Organizing an Awareness Drugs Campaign 25-27 June 2009
• “Opiate Substitution Therapy and Needle/Syringe Programs" –The sixth regional workshop organized by The Lebanese Knowledge Hub-SIDC
• EGYPT: Needle sharing rife among drug users
• طاولة مستديرة في الداخلية لقانون المخدرات :
  تراجع في الإنتاج... والمطلوب تفعيل التنسيق
• Opioid Substitution Therapy- Article written by EHRN -