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Last updated: 10 March 2025

1.1 People who use drugs, HIV and viral hepatitis 

• There are an estimated 30,000 people who inject drugs in the country

• HIV prevalence among people who inject drugs is 24%.

• Hepatitis B prevalence among people who inject drugs is 3.2%.

1.2 HIV prevention and treatment and harm reduction  

• National coverage of HIV prevention programs for people who inject drugs is 37.7%.

• The ART coverage for people who inject drugs living with HIV is only 4%.

• 48% of people who inject drugs had HIV testing and aware of their HIV status in 2019.

• The is explicit supportive reference to harm reduction in national policy documents.

• A total of 32 drop-in centres that provide HIV services to over 20,000 key populations living with HIV on ART in 7 out of 10 provinces have been shut down.  

• HIV services are at a complete standstill in the six districts of the Northern Province, where Right to Health is the only USG implementing partner.