Sentences with phrase «syringe program»

Mrs Weston now manages the needle syringe program and is the administration receptionist at the Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service in Canberra, and is a board member of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker Association.

Weston says his mother, who now manages the needle syringe program at the Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service, has taught him courage, strength, persistence and determination.

The three regions worldwide with the highest populations of people who inject drugs, east and south - east Asia, Eastern Europe and North America, all had poor provision of needle syringe programs and opioid substitution therapy.

Yet despite evidence that needle and syringe programs (NSP) and opioid substitution therapy (OST) reduce HIV and HCV infections, they are still not being implemented in many places, and few people can access them in many countries, the authors found.

Just over half (52 per cent) of the countries with evidence of injecting drug use had needle syringe programs and medical treatment to encourage reductions in injecting — opioid substitution therapy — was available in less than half of all countries identified (48 per cent).

«Sticking Points: Barriers to Access to Needle and Syringe Programs in Canada» (2007) Canadian HIV / AIDS Legal Network.

Megan began working in needle and syringe programs and running blood - borne virus education projects on the Gold Coast in the early 1990s, including in correctional centres.

Not exact matches

The budget also removed the requirement for individuals in correctional facilities to give written consent for HIV testing, encouraged high - risk populations to use condoms by prohibiting prosecutors from using them as evidence in prostitution cases, and made it legal to possess syringes obtained through a syringe access program.

Through the Erie County Expanded Syringe Access Program (ESAP), the Erie County Department of Health, along with representatives from the fields of Diabetes, HIV / AIDS, business, sanitation, law enforcement, pharmacy, spiritual, government, medicine and lay persons, created a partnership to safely dispose of used needles, syringes & lancets free of charge.

The Sheriff's Office, in conjunction with the Erie County Health Department, started the program in 2013 with thirteen medication and syringe locations with kiosks.

Legislator Ted Morton said, «Thank you to Sheriff Howard and the administration for working to provide this safe, convenient program to dispose of unwanted medications and syringes.

Holcomb also discussed pre-k funding, workforce development and opioid abuse and whether there was some tension with Attorney General Curtis Hill, whose opposes expanding the state's syringe exchange program.

«The Hamburg site now becomes our 13th dual kiosk location for the Expanded Syringe Access Program («ESAP»)» states Dr. Gale Burstein, Erie County Commissioner of Health («ECDOH»).

More than 460 agencies statewide are participating in the Check & Inject NY training program to use syringes rather than the EpiPens.

She noted VOCAL - NY runs a syringe exchange program and that the group has been publicly running a campaign to bring the sites to the city for about four years.

«They're intended to be co-located with existing syringe exchange programs and other programs that are already engaging with the population of people who use drugs,» Moore said.

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

In addition, the Erie County Department of Health provides a needle access program, the Expanded Syringe Access and Disposal Project of Western New York («ESAP»), to help prevent the spread of blood - borne illnesses, such as Hepatitis C and the HIV virus, among injection drug users who would otherwise reuse or share needles.

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The SHARPS Disposal Program is an environmentally responsible method to dispose of unwanted needles, lancets and syringes, which are a potential danger to sanitation workers and the environment when disposed of improperly.

«No matter how uncomfortable syringe service programs make us, they are proven to save lives, both by preventing the spread of diseases like HIV and hepatitis C, and by connecting people to treatment that can put them on a path to recovery,» he wrote.

The researchers — Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and Biomedical Engineering (BME) Associate Professor Adam Feinberg, BME postdoctoral fellow TJ Hinton, and Kira Pusch, a recent graduate of the MSE undergraduate program — recently published a paper in the journal HardwareX that contains complete instructions for printing and installing the syringe - based, large volume extruder (LVE) to modify any typical, commercial plastic printer.

A WHO spokesperson says that problem has been solved by using syringes stored in China and Denmark for polio vaccination programs.

Among its assorted recommendations — from supporting state syringe exchange programs to increasing federal funding for neurobiology research — the panel suggests that FDA dramatically expand the types of evidence it requires from companies to show that an opioid is safe and effective, both before and after it gets market approval.

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