Butabika Takes Over Drug Injection Treatment As NGO Funding Dries Up

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -- Butabika National Referral Mental Hospital has taken over a critical addiction treatment programme for people who inject drugs, following the withdrawal of donor funding that had sustained it since 2020, raising concerns about continuity of care for hundreds of patients. The treatment, known as Medically Assisted Therapy (MAT) or Opioid Agonist Therapy, uses medicines such as methadone and buprenorphine to manage addiction among injection drug users. It had been implemented by Reach Out Mbuya (ROM) with