Sentences with phrase «as needle exchanges»

And as the Salvation Army does not engage in harm reduction programs, such as needle exchanges or supervised injection, drug use, drug dealing, and alcohol consumption in public spaces can be expected to increase.

Solid scientific evidence has shown that strategies such as needle exchange can powerfully slow the spread, says epidemiologist Kevin De Cock, who heads the HIV / AIDS program for the World Health Organization, which co-authored the report.

Not exact matches

In contrast, some 40 per cent of drug users are infected in some other European capitals, such as Paris, where governments have not supported needle exchanges.

Politicians who have opposed needle exchanges, such as Jesse Helms, the hardline Republican Senator from North Carolina, now refuse to comment.

Swati Khurana has been working with her grandmothers for years, contributing and exchanging ideas and techniques in an ongoing, intergenerational embroidery project, or as the artist puts it, «conversing on fabric through needle - and - thread.»

If I attempt to put myself in the position of a robot from Mars who doesn't know anything about the climate change debate except that it seems important to humans, I don't believe I could conclude that anyone was «taken to the cleaners» in this exchange (assuming a robot from Mars knows what that expression means:) I think I'd have to conclude that both participants were framing the issue in different ways and so there wasn't a meeting of minds, nor any change of the needle by either one on the attitudes of the other, nor likely much to help inform locals who were just as mystified by the debate as I was.

She is particularly interested in supporting marginalized community members in challenging abuses of authority, and she moonlights as an outreach worker for a needle exchange.

Some of my earliest memories visiting family in hospital and prison left an indelible mark, as did my early 1990s work in needle and syringe exchanges.