This first international review of the evidence that needle syringe programs reduce HIV
infection among injecting drug users found that conservative interpretation of the published …

Although a large body of international literature has found syringe exchange programmes
(SEPs) to be associated with reduced incidence of blood borne pathogens among injection …

This is the first comprehensive international review of the evidence for needle syringe
programmes. The major, and now overwhelmingly strong, finding is that needle syringe …

eedle exchange programs (NEPs) permit injection drug users (IDUs) to exchange potentially
contaminated syringes for sterile ones, with the aim of decreasing the circulation of …

During the mid to late 1990s, Vancouver, Canada experienced a rapid injection drug use-
related HIV epidemic, despite the presence of a well-established, high-volume, needle …

In light of the recent opioid crisis, many public health entities have called for an expansion in
syringe exchange programs (SEPs), which provide access to sterile syringes and facilitate …

Abstract Purpose To evaluate whether Kentucky counties that established a new syringe
services program realized a significant decline in the incidence rate of a set of infectious …

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection prevalence among young injection drug
users (IDUs) differs substantially between cities in the United States (US). METHODS …

The results show that syringe exchangers, compared to other persons with severe addiction
in Malmö, to a larger extent use amphetamine as their drug-of-choice, are older and inject …

Background Needle-syringe exchange programs (NSPs) have been substantially rolled-out
in China since 2002. Limited studies reported effectiveness of NSPs in a Chinese setting …