Proceedings--Workshop on Needle Exchange and Bleach Distribution Programs (1994) / Chapter Skim
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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
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Needle exchange programs, in which used needles and syringes are exchanged for new, sterile ones, are widely used in Europe and Australia as part of public health efforts to reduce the spread of HIV and other needIe-borne infections among drug users and their sexual partners. Programs that distribute household bleach to injecting drug users so they can disinfect shared injection equipment have also been established abroad.
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In addition, findings were presented from a U.S. General Accounting Office evaluation of research results from nine needle exchange study projects, all but one of which involved needle exchange programs outside the United States.
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Frey, and B Ward 1991 AIDS cases associated with injection drug use, United States 1991.
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