library services

Learning centre and library services



SAPTA library is the only specialized addictions resource centre in the East African region

The Centre is a non-lending Library that promotes SAPTA programs of prevention and treatment of addictions though training, advocacy, and counseling

It has a variety of comprehensive and updated information material on alcohol and other drugs use, abuse and dependence and compiles direct evidence-based connection between substance use and addictive behaviors and the infection and development of HIV/AIDS

The Library provides equal opportunities to all its users: students, trainers, researchers and others.


Membership fee (in Kenya shilling):

  • Kshs 3,000 per annum
  • Kshs 2,000 for six months
  • Kshs 400 per month
  • Kshs 100 a day

Working hours:

  • Monday to Thursday: 8.30 am-5.00 pm
  • Friday: 8.30 am-4.00pm
  • Saturday: 9.00 am-4.00 pm




News/Featured Stories

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 SAPTA's Training program - 2012.   

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

pepfarSAPTA has received funding from PEPFAR to setup two IDU facilities in Nairobi.

 

SAPTA was accepted as a recipient of global fund round 10 to work with IDU ,sex workers and alcohol related problems.

Up Coming Events
      

     January intake :


Diploma in Addiction Counselling. 

Certificate in Addiction Counselling.

Special Information for…
E-Resources/Links
Converging Epidemics in Africa

  • Important Info About Converging Epidemics in Africa

    Rapid increases in substance abuse (including alcohol) and HIV infection can be conceptualized as separate but converging epidemics in a context of violence (wars, homicides and domestic abuse) and poverty...

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SAPTA E-Services in Africa

  • E-Forums and other E-services

    "Drugs, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of Addiction" was unveiled on 13 February 2007 by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the US National Institutes of Health.