After more than a decade of living on the streets and using drugs, Koketso Mokubane has officially been clean for the past three years.
“By the time I joined the Cosap programme I had stopped seeking care from clinics or hospitals as I saw them as places of judgment,” he recalled.
Even though he is now a beneficiary of the Cosap programme and has turned his life around, experts warn that the sustainability of harm-reduction programmes is under threat due to stigma. Dr Andrew Scheibe, technical adviser to non-profit TB HIV Care, said in addition to stigma, confiscation of injecting equipment by the police and municipal law enforcement officers meant that even the drug users who are part of harm-reduction programmes were still at risk of infection.
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