Sentences with phrase «supported needle exchanges»

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.