Campaign by the Macedonian Network for Damage Alleviation Condemnations overdose The Macedonian Network for Damage Alleviation (MNDA), a network of 15 non-governmental organizations and several experts, from the end of October to 8 November will implement a campaign for alleviation of discrimination against drug users and their families, under the motto “Condemnations overdose”. The goal of the campaign is new centers to be opened for treatment of addictions in Skopje. “Funds have been provided (from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria) for opening three new treatment centers, but the action has been stagnating for three years”, says Keti Todorova, executive manager of the NGO “Trust” and a member of “MNDA”. She adds that unless the centers are opened by March next year, the Government of the Republic of Macedonia is to return the funds. According to the results of the latest research carried out by MCIC, drug users are the most marginalized and the most discriminated group towards which 92.8% of the respondents have expressed intolerance. Vlatko Dekov from the non-governmental organization HOPS, a member of MNDA, says that the program of substitute treatment in the only center in Kisela Voda does not meet the criteria and it has been closed for new patients for several years. “According to the HOPS data, in 2006 out of 101 persons motivated for treatment, only 18 were admitted, for the rest there was not any place, and out of them 28 people died in the course of 2006 and 2007”, says Dekov. Several tribunes will be organized within the campaign with participation of domestic and foreign experts in order to emphasize the need for urgent opening of treatment centers and this issue to be solved.   MIA