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Navigating the poverty of heroin addiction treatment and recovery opportunity in Kenya: Access work, self-care and rationed expectations

Tim RhodesCentre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK;Centre for Social Research in Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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James NdimbiiCommunity Action on Harm Reduction Project, Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya
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Andy GuiseCentre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Lucy CullenCentre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Sylvia AyonCommunity Action on Harm Reduction Project, Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya
Pages 867-880 | Received 30 Nov 2014, Accepted 23 Apr 2015, Published online: 19 Jun 2015

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Henry E. Chen. (2023) Smoking sugars in Wentworth, South Africa: drugs, masculinity, and ‘coloured’ identity. African Identities 21:2, pages 392-409.
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James Ndimbii, Andy Guise, Emmy Kageha Igonya, Frederick Owiti, Steffanie Strathdee & Tim Rhodes. (2021) Qualitative Analysis of Community Support to Methadone Access in Kenya. Substance Use & Misuse 56:9, pages 1312-1319.
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Andy Guise, Tim Rhodes, James Ndimbii, Sylvia Ayon & Obiora Nnaji. (2016) Access to HIV treatment and care for people who inject drugs in Kenya: a short report. AIDS Care 28:12, pages 1595-1599.
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Ediomo-Ubong Ekpo Nelson. (2020) The Socio-Spatial Contexts of HIV Risk for People Who Inject Drugs in Public Spaces in Nigeria. Contemporary Drug Problems 47:2, pages 103-117.
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Thu Trang Nguyen, Anh Ngoc Luong, Thi Tuyet Thanh Nham, Carole Chauvin, Jonathan Feelemyer, Nicolas Nagot, Don Des Jarlais, Minh Giang Le & Marie Jauffret-Roustide. (2019) Struggling to achieve a ‘normal life’: A qualitative study of Vietnamese methadone patients. International Journal of Drug Policy 68, pages 18-26.
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Andy Guise, James Ndimbii, Emmy Kageha Igonya, Frederick Owiti, Steffanie A Strathdee & Tim Rhodes. (2019) Integrated and differentiated methadone and HIV care for people who use drugs: a qualitative study in Kenya with implications for implementation science. Health Policy and Planning 34:2, pages 110-119.
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Ann E. Kurth, Peter Cherutich, Rosabelle Conover, Nok Chhun, R. Douglas Bruce & Barrot H. Lambdin. (2018) The Opioid Epidemic in Africa and Its Impact. Current Addiction Reports 5:4, pages 428-453.
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Tim Rhodes. (2018) The becoming of methadone in Kenya: How an intervention's implementation constitutes recovery potential. Social Science & Medicine 201, pages 71-79.
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Tim Rhodes & Reychad Abdool. (2016) Drug harms and drug policies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implementation science and HIV epidemics. International Journal of Drug Policy 30, pages 1-6.
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Sophia Zamudio-Haas, Bathsheba Mahenge, Haneefa Saleem, Jessie Mbwambo & Barrot H. Lambdin. (2016) Generating trust: Programmatic strategies to reach women who inject drugs with harm reduction services in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. International Journal of Drug Policy 30, pages 43-51.
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Tim Rhodes, Elizabeth F. Closson, Sara Paparini, Andy Guise & Steffanie Strathdee. (2016) Towards ?evidence-making intervention? approaches in the social science of implementation science: The making of methadone in East Africa. International Journal of Drug Policy 30, pages 17-26.
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T. Rhodes, A. Guise, J. Ndimbii, S. Strathdee, E. Ngugi, L. Platt, A. Kurth, C. Cleland & P. Vickerman. (2015) Is the promise of methadone Kenya's solution to managing HIV and addiction? A mixed-method mathematical modelling and qualitative study. BMJ Open 5:3, pages e007198-e007198.
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