Sentences with phrase «needle exchange»

The academy's report has now added to the evidence in favour of needle exchanges.

Next on the list of opponents to American needle exchanges is the African - American community.

But if supporters of needle exchanges can not persuade national and state politicians to act, they are having more success on a local level.

The director also called for needle exchange programs, which have proven to slow the spread of communicable diseases.

«There is this gaping hole in the strategy for preventing the spread of HIV,» says Bob Hawkins, coordinator of the Cleveland Street Needle Exchange in central London.

Gebbie, who has been a public health official in Oregon and Washington state, and heads the Centers for Disease Control advisory committee on HIV prevention, supports needle exchange programmes, more explicit and targeted AIDS prevention campaigns, and reconsideration of the US immigration ban on people infected with HIV.

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.

Safer Consumption Spaces differ from needle exchanges «where clients generally visit briefly,» according to the article in the Journal of Drug Issues, and «allow for a more prolonged interaction» with health care staff.

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.

The problem is that federal funds can not be spent on distributing needles until President Bill Clinton's health officials acknowledge that needle exchanges reduce the spread of HIV and do not encourage drug use.

Price brings antiabortion views to the job, and a record of opposing needle exchange programs, although his wife Betty Price, a physician and a state representative in Georgia, has supported such programs and Price's former congressional district is plagued by heroin and opioid addiction.

In 2003, the San Francisco Department of Health tried distributing naloxone to drug users and their loved ones through needle exchange programs.

«The failure to implement needle exchange programmes is the worst thing that has ever happened in terms of the federal response to AIDS,» he says.

For instance, radiologists can encourage patients to use sterile needles, inform them about needle exchange programs and advise them to use alcohol at the injection site to avoid infections.

While politicians such as Helms oppose needle exchanges on ideological grounds, many people see the Clinton administration's position as purely self - serving.

Other harm reduction programs (like needle exchanges) would never say that the IV drug use is safe or necessary.

«The plan is not to create new facilities... it's to augment the services in existing needle exchange programs,» Levine said.

The other half is being earmarked to community organizations that will provide support to primary care physicians, offer expanded and rural access to opioid treatment and needle exchange services, and create a training program to assist victims of human sex trafficking who are controlled through opioid addiction.

Erie County Department of Health («ECDOH») manages a very active and successful needle exchange program through our Expanded Syringe Access Program («ESAP»).

The gallery operator collects clean needles free of charge at a Harlem needle exchange.

Kleber says he still dislikes needle exchanges, but, «you put aside your feelings and say, «What does the science show?»

Primm, an influential black doctor, accepts needle exchanges as «the lesser of two evils».

It is also important that the scale up of HCV treatment occurs in combination with traditional harm reduction measures — opiate substitution treatment and needle exchange which have previously also been shown to be highly cost effective.»

He joined ACT UP and co-founded New York City's first needle exchange program.

In 2011, it compelled the feds to allow the Insite needle exchange in Vancouver to keep operating, and stymied their plans for a national securities regulator.

Participants were recruited from primary care clinics, needle exchange sites, AIDS Saskatoon, and a free meal facility.

The Executive Order issued by the Governor authorizes the Scott County local officials to take the actions they deem necessary, including a targeted, short - term needle exchange program for the sole purpose of containing the epidemic.

In 1993, Lurie wrote a report for the US Centers for Disease Control assessing the public health impact of needle exchange programmes.

There are only 76 needle exchanges in the US — all set up with private money — serving perhaps 10 per cent of its estimated 1 to 2 million intravenous drug users.

He talks of STOP and SLOW, appreciating that both are necessary: STOP means «Save sex for marriage, Teach men to respect women, Offer treatment in churches, and Pledge yourself to one partner»; SLOW means «Supply condoms, Limit number of partners, Offer needle exchange, and Wait for sex until older.»

The Department of Health has supported the idea of needle exchanges for drug users in Britain since 1987 on the grounds that HIV is a greater potential threat to public health than hard drugs.

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.

Last month, the calls of activists and researchers who have lobbied the Clinton administration to support needle exchanges were repeated by a panel of eminent scientists brought together by the US National Academy of Sciences.

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

Composite and exclusive interventions through needle exchange were set up in select pockets across the country for regular and irregular users.

«We have had needle exchange programs for over 20 years, and we also have a very aggressive naloxone program.»

Adams is credited with convincing Pence to implement a needle exchange program that both men were originally skeptical of in order to tackle the prescription painkiller and heroin overdose crisis, which has hit Indiana particularly hard.

We always include poetry and a time called «Open Space» in which we slow down for prayer and other opportunities to actively engage the Gospel; writing in the community's Book of Thanks, writing prayers, making art or assembling bleach kits for the needle exchange in Denver.

A needle exchange that explicitly encouraged IV drug use is not what I would call harm reduction, or at least I would expect it not to.

Small - scale versions of this approach tend to target existing addicts and focus on teaching people to avoid overdose, needle exchanges and opioid substitutes.

So rather than the take home message of this research being:» «softly softly» cannabis scheme drove up hospital admissions for hard drugs», perhaps the headline should have been: «needle exchange programme does fantastic job of engaging marginalised drug users with health services.»

In the year of the Lambeth cannabis experiment, a needle exchange programme called Mainliners was also set up in the borough.

-- The budget includes language specifying that neither condoms nor hypodermic syringes obtained through the state's needle exchange programs could be used as evidence against someone in a criminal proceeding.

The outbreak reached such a scale that Pence, overcoming his personal opposition to needle exchanges, authorized an emergency clean needle program, and the state later reversed its ban on such programs.

Earlier this month, Adams highlighted the importance of needle exchanges and their role in helping people in Indiana.

Critics of the response, however, have said Pence was too slow to launch a needle exchange program, allowing the virus to spread to more people.

Needle exchanges have been shown to reduce the spread of infectious diseases.