Sentences with phrase «needle exchange which»
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.»
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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.
The panel's second main source was a study in Tacoma, Washington, which compared rates of viral infection among intravenous drug users attending a needle exchange with those of people visiting an HIV testing centre and a methadone programme.
There has been a needle exchange in Norfolk for four years, Sheppard says, but «There is no indication that it is a factor which has increased the number of addicts.»
«I live a block away from the needle exchange,» says Nancy Sosman, who is trying to shut down the Lower East Side center, which hands out syringes to 9000 registered clients.
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.
Though a physician had offered to restore her sight with his needle treatment, Hetephras was content to view the world through the tawny clouds with which the gods had afflicted her; in exchange they had endowed her other senses with greater clarity.