Needle Exchange & HIV/AIDS in the U.S.
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 Research and Programming, 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)
[Archived Article]
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
- HIV Lives (Summer 1999)
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
- Renee Edgington and Matthew Francis (Spring 1999)
A rememberance, and issues surrounding needle exchange in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
- Syringe Exchange and Risk of Infection With Hepatitis B and C Viruses (February 4, 1999)
[Archived Article]
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Does Needle Exchange Work? Fact Sheet (December 1998)
From University of California Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
- Update: Syringe Exchange Programs -- United States, 1997 (August 14, 1998)
In Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- HIV Down Among IV-Drug Users (July 28, 1998)
[Archived Article]
Encouraging news argues for needle exchange.
In The Village Voice
- Senate Needle Exchange Vote Plays Shell Game With Children's Health (June 9, 1998)
From AIDS Action Council
- U.S. Won't Fund Needle Exchanges (April 20, 1998)
From Associated Press
- Time Is Now for Shalala to Make Determination on Syringe Exchange Programs (November 21, 1997)
From AIDS Action Council
- Statements/Resolutions/Policies on Increased Access to Clean Needles and Syringes (November 9, 1997)
[Archived Article]
From San Francisco AIDS Foundation
- Needle Exchange Questions and Answers (November 9, 1997)
From San Francisco AIDS Foundation
- Don't Know Why You Feds Say Goodbye to Needle Exchange (November 1997)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- AIDS Action Praises Miss America's Needle Conversion (October 9, 1997)
From AIDS Action Council
- AIDS Action Denounces House Passage of AIDS Acceleration Legislation (September 11, 1997)
From AIDS Action Council
- AIDS Action Encourages Allowing Medicine, Science to Lead Health Policy (August 20, 1997)
On syringe exchange programs.
From AIDS Action Council
- AIDS Action Calls on Shalala to Eliminate Federal Restrictions on Needle Exchange (June 24, 1997)
From AIDS Action Council
- Update on Syringe-Exchange Programs in the United States (June 20, 1997)
In Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- The Clinton Administration's Internal Reviews of Research on Needle Exchange Programs (March 7, 1995)
From Drug Policy Alliance
Puerto Rico
Vermont
Other U.S. States
- Colorado: Needle Exchange Considered in Larimer County (April 27, 2012)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Colorado: Needle Exchange Program in the Works for El Paso County's IV Drug Users (September 15, 2011)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- City of Flint, Mich., Changes Local Law to Allow Needle-Exchange Program to Continue (August 17, 2011)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Colorado Allows Counties to Create Programs: After 22 Years, Boulder County Needle Exchange Program Now Legal (May 11, 2011)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Colorado: Exchange of Heart (April 14, 2011)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Nevada: Proposal Makes Syringes Legal Without Prescription (April 12, 2011)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Proven Effective, Needle Exchange Banned in Florida (January 20, 2010)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Denver Post Examines Efforts to Establish Needle-Exchange Programs in Colorado (May 18, 2009)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Wisconsin: Needle-Exchange Worker Helps Heroin Users in Rock County (April 23, 2009)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Springfield, Mass., City Council Rejects Needle-Exchange Program (July 21, 2005)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Springfield, Mass., City Council to Consider Needle-Exchange Program Proposal (April 7, 2004)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Educational Materials Lacking for Illinois Needle Access Program (January 13, 2004)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- North Carolina: Greensboro News & Record Profiles North Carolina Needle Exchange Program (August 21, 2003)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Cutting Funds for Detroit's Life Points Program Will Doom Many to AIDS, Other Infections (May 20, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Illinois Nears Approval of Over-the-Counter Syringe Sales (May 14, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Illinois Senate OKs Needle Bill in Effort to Curb AIDS (March 25, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Massachusetts: Supreme Judicial Court OKs Programs' Needles (December 9, 2002)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Boston: Mayor Backs Hypodermic Sales Over the Counter (December 4, 2002)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Maine AIDS Group Gets Grant for Syringe Exchange (November 8, 2002)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Plan Restores Funding for Needle Exchange in Milwaukee (October 18, 2002)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Massachusetts Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Needle Exchanges (October 10, 2002)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Health District Takes Over From Volunteers in Bremerton, Washington (March 7, 2002)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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