Needle sharing rife among Egypt's drug users

Different studies of sample groups show that 45-50 percent of drug users in Egypt share needles, he said.

“When the IDUs get the drugs, many of them do not wait to get a clean needle or syringe, so they grab the next available one they find,” Midhat Al-Arabi, head of a programme dealing with drug users at the Freedom Drug Rehabilitation Centre, a local NGO, told IRIN.

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