Sentences with phrase «of needle exchanges»

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

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.

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

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

«We weren't even aware of the needle exchange in the neighbourhood until we found people shooting up in vacant lots... in hallways and between cars.»

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

And spectacles like last night's three - hour test of human willpower only underscore a big problem: Traditional news outlets have made presidential debates — arguably our country's most important televised forum and exchange of ideas — into mind - numbingly boring talk - a-thons, where a bunch of rich, powerful people needle each other for hours about past career decisions while dodging any question of substance.

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 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»).

This transmission can come in the form of anal, vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated hypodermic needles, exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding, or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids.

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.

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.

«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.

And the policy appears to have worked: more than 200 needle exchanges are now operating in Britain and figures just published by the Public Health Laboratory Service suggest that only about 6 per cent of men and 7 per cent of women now injecting drugs in London are HIV - positive.

«That's awfully close to being a direct demonstration that the needle exchange reduces the incidence of a blood borne viral disease,» says Lincoln Moses, professor of statistics at Stanford University, who chaired the academy panel.

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.

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

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.

The panel's report concludes that American laws «unwittingly» contribute to the sharing of contaminated needles, and that «needle exchange programmes can be effective in preventing the spread of HIV and do not increase the use of illegal drugs».

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.

«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.

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.»

These found that over three months the proportion of needles infected with HIV that were returned to an exchange fell from 67 per cent to 42 per cent.

AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and is spread through the exchange of body fluids (sexual encounters, sharing needles, blood transfusions).

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.

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.»

Matthew Hickman, Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Bristol's School of Social and Community Medicine and lead author of the study, said: «Scaling up HCV treatment is critical to the prevention of HCV in the population to support and enhance traditional harm reduction measures — opiate substitution treatment and needle exchange.

Bravo to Blue Mountain Heart to Heart HIV / AIDS Support Services of Walla Walla for expanding its needle exchange program to Pasco.

Remember when we had a Vice President that we could be proud of instead of one known for sparking an HIV outbreak because he hates Planned Parenthood and needle exchanges?

Aside from detailing the day - to - day struggle with needle exchanges and the search for money and the trying effect it has on families, Heineman is concerned with showing the terrifying reality of addiction in addition to the all - consuming effect it has on the time in between each period of using.

On the right - hand side of the instrument cluster, the assist / charge meter indicates the status of the battery, and whether it is being used to assist the engine (a swing of the needle upwards), whether it is being charged up by the regenerative braking system (downward swing) or whether there is no engine - battery exchange.

I was drawn to a faint photocopy of a newspaper article featuring a young Zoe Leonard promoting a needle exchange.

Tacoma holds an important place in the history of the AIDS crisis: in 1988, Tacoma resident David Purchase launched the Point Defiance program, the first government - sanctioned needle - exchange program dedicated to reducing HIV transmission among intravenous drug users.

And I realized I had to do something 1983 Rammelzee vs K Rob «Beat Bop» 1984 First shows at Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun's Cable Gallery (artists of Wool's generation who begin showing same period include Philip Taaffe Jeff Koons Mike Kelley Cady Noland and James Nares 1984 produces first book photocopied edition of four: 93 Drawings of Beer on the Wall 1984 Warhol Rorschach paintings 1986 First pattern paintings 1987 Joins Luhring Augustine Gallery 1987 First word paintings 1988 Collaborative installation with Robert Gober one painting by Wool (Apocalypse Now) one sculpture by Gober (Three Urinals) one collaborative photograph (Untitled) and a mirror Gary Indiana contributes a short piece of fiction to the accompanying publication 1988 In Cologne sees show of Albert Oehlen's work meets Martin Kippenberger 1988 First European shows Cologne and Athens 1988 Collaborates with Richard Prince on two paintings: My Name and My Act 1989 Museum Group shows in Amsterdam Frankfurt am Main and Munich Whitney Biennial 1989 One year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 1989 Starts taking photographs 1989 Publishes Black Book an oversized collection of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies of photographs of black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa Texas

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.

Thus, many countries that have adopted age restrictions on their needle exchange programs and supervised injection facilities have seen predictably higher rates of infection and overdose among substance - using youth.

Local jurisdictions offer needle exchange programs to reduce the spread of AIDS and other infectious diseases; some offer supervised injection facilities to reduce the risk of overdose.

There were further angry exchanges about local government finance - and further attempts by the PM to needle Mr Corbyn about allegations of anti-Semitism in his party and the alleged persecution of «moderates».

The Scott County Board of Health met Thursday evening to discuss and vote on a request for a needle exchange program.

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.

People would get out of prison and come to the needle exchange, not to get injecting equipment but to be somewhere «safe».

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.