Needle Exchange: Articles: Overview
 HIV Prevention for People Who Inject Drugs: Time for a Global Change (Spring 2011)
The Vienna Declaration calls for an end to the "War on Drugs" and for policies based on scientific evidence. So what does the research tell us about preventing HIV among people who inject drugs?
In Prevention in Focus: Spotlight on Programming and Research, from Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
- Do Needle-Exchange Programs Really Work? (March 16, 2010)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- New Era for Syringe Exchange Programs! No More Abstinence-Only Education!: A Blog Entry by Bonnie Goldman (July 29, 2009)
From TheBody.com
- Speak Out Against the Syringe Funding Ban! (May 12, 2009)
From Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
- Syringe Exchange: An Effective Tool in the Fight Against HIV and Drug Abuse (PDF) (2009)
From Gay Men's Health Crisis
- Needle Exchange Questions and Answers (September 10, 2008)
From San Francisco AIDS Foundation
- Access to Sterile Syringes (December 2005)
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From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Syringe Disposal (December 2005)
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From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Pharmacy Sales of Sterile Syringes (December 2005)
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From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Physician Prescription of Sterile Syringes to Injection Drug Users (December 2005)
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From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- State and Local Policies Regarding IDUs' Access to Sterile Syringes (December 2005)
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From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Ordinary Strangers: The Faces of Needle Exchange (July/August 2005)
Before he took over his organization's needle-exchange program, Derek Worley was skeptical; as he got to know his clients, though, he began to realize why such programs are so important.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- The Silver Van: Talking to People in Chicago's Blood Alley (July/August 2005)
A reporter spends a day at a mobile harm reduction center, where injection drug users can find clean needles and other health aid.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Preventing Blood-Borne Infections Through Pharmacy Syringe Sales and Safe Community Syringe Disposal (PDF) (November/December 2002)
Full issue devoted to syringe access issues.
In Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association
- Health Emergency 2003 (November 2002)
Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. Surgeon General, on needle exchange.
In GMHC Treatment Issues, from Gay Men's Health Crisis
- AIDS and Drugs: Twin Epidemics (2002)
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From AIDS Action Council
- Lesson for AIDS Fighters: Syringe Swaps Work (October 2001)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- State Approaches to Expanded Access to Sterile Syringes Through Pharmacies (August 2001)
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From amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
- Study Shows Injection Drug Users at Needle Exchange Program Share Few Syringes -- And Those Who Do, Share With Friends (July 2001)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- Policy Facts: Needle Exchange Facts (June 2001)
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From AIDS Action Council
- Physician Prescribing of Sterile Injection Equipment to Prevent HIV Infection: Time for Action (August 1, 2000)
In Annals of Internal Medicine
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