Female drug addicts in Tanzania

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Lina, who heads MDM Dar es Salaam's legal team, gives a workshop to women drug users on women’s rights and empowerment.
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Lina, who heads MDM Dar es Salaam’s legal team, gives a workshop to women drug users on women’s rights and empowerment.


  • Male drug users distribute heroin and marijuana in a drug den in Dar es Salaam.
  • A 45-year-old drug user poses for a picture on the porch of her house. The woman is also a sex worker and is addicted to smoking ‘Kokteli’s’ a mixture of cannabis, tobacco and heroin.
  • A drug user and sex worker poses for a picture in her home.
  • A 26-year-old injecting drug user and sex worker poses for a picture.
  • A sex worker addicted to smoking ‘Kokteli’s’, a mixture of cannabis, tobacco and heroin, poses for a picture in a Dar es Salaam neighbourhood.
  • For women drug users who have grown to feel more empowered, MDM holds ‘women’s night’ every Wednesday at the drop-in centre. About 600 women use the drop-in centre in a year.
  • A woman puts on her make-up on at the MDM drop-in centre.
  • An injecting drug user brings her baby to the MDM drop-In centre on a Wednesday night.
  • Lina, who heads MDM Dar es Salaam's legal team, gives a workshop to women drug users on women’s rights and empowerment.