This Vital Signs highlights the importance of expanding access to SSPs, which provide sterile needles and syringes and ideally offer many other comprehensive services to help improve the health of PWID and their communities, such as treatment for substance use disorder, HIV, and hepatitis testing and linkage to treatment, and safe disposal of used syringes.
Audiences:
At Risk Persons
General Public
Health Professionals
People who inject drugs
Publication Language:
English
Focus Area:
HIV and AIDS
Subjects:
AIDS
At Risk Persons
HIV
People who inject drugs
Program Development
Publication Date:
2016
Format:
Information Sheet
4 p.: col, ill., graphs.
Last Updated Date:
Publication ID:
328263