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| Organizations and Resources |
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|  | Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
(CAPS) HIV prevention research center at the University of California San Francisco that offers fact sheets and research reports, including a fact sheet on needle exchange. |
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| | Drug Policy Alliance: Needle Exchange
Information from the leading drug policy organization. |
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| | Harm Reduction Coalition
Committed to reducing drug-related harm among individuals and communities by initiating and promoting local, regional, and national harm reduction education, interventions, and community organizing. |
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| | International Harm Reduction Development
(IHRD) A project of the Open Society Institute, IHRD's mission is to diminish the individual and social harms associated with drug use--particularly the risk of HIV infection--through innovative measures based on the philosophy of harm reduction. IHRD currently supports more than 180 projects in over 20 countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. |
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| | Needle Exchange
The Body's collection of articles on needle exchange from government and community newsletters. |
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| | North American Syringe Exchange Network
(NASEN) Organization dedicated to the creation, expansion, and continued existence of syringe exchange programs as a proven method of stopping the transmission of blood-borne pathogens in the injecting drug-using community. |
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| Needle Exchange Programs and Locations |
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| | Harm Reductions Resources (incl. Needle Exchange Programs) in the U. S. and Canada
Search tool from the Harm Reduction Coalition. |
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| | ANKORS
British Columbia, Canada. |
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| | Cambridge Cares About AIDS
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. |
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| | Chicago Recovery Alliance
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. |
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| | ENCORE
Rhode Island, U.S.A. |
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| | Ganslwirt
Vienna, Austria. Vienna's needle exchange program is named after the inn that used to be situated at the program's location. The Ganslwirt is a program of Verein Wiener Sozialprojekte, an organization that runs a continuum of social services for drug users in the city of Vienna. Other programs include Street Work, an outreach program; Check it! a research program on club drugs and marijuana offering harm reduction information and onsite analysis of substances to consumers; Fix und Fertig, a transitional work program for active drug users and those who are in recovery or long-term unemployed; and Betreutes Wohnen, a transitional housing program to help homeless or marginally housed drug users reintegrate into housing. Site in German. |
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| | HIV/AIDS Services, Inc.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A. |
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| | New York Harm Reduction Educators
New York City, New York, U.S.A. |
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| | New Zealand Needle Exchange Programme
Locations throughout New Zealand. |
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| | Outside In
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. |
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| | Positive Health Project
New York City, New York, U.S.A. |
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| | Prevention Point Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
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| | Prevention Point Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
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| | San Diego Clean Needle Exchange
San Diego, California, U.S.A. |
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| | San Francisco AIDS Foundation
San Francisco, California, U.S.A. |
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| | Seattle - King County
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. |
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| | Prevention Works
Washington, D.C., U.S.A. |
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| Supervised Injection Sites |
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| | Insite - Supervised Injection Site
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Insite is currently the only supervised injection site in North America. It is a research pilot program of Vancouver Coastal Health. Since opening its doors, Insite has been a safe, health-focused place where people can go to inject drugs and connect with health care professionals and addiction services. It is an integral part of Vancouver Coastal Health's continuum of care for people with addiction, mental illness and HIV/AIDS in the Vancouver metropolitan area.The impact of the supervised injection site on prevention, treatment, and crime is under study. |
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