Syringe-exchange programs in the United States: Where are we now?

AIDS and Public Policy Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 144-147

  Paone, Denise ^a   Des Jarlais, Don ^a,b   Clark, Jessica ^a   Shi, Qiuhu ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; NEEDLE-EXCHANGE PROGRAMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030469527     PISSN: 08873852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. CDC, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report 7, no. 2, (1996).
2. D.C. Des Jarlais, Current Findings in Syringe Exchange Research (Report prepared for the Task Force to Review Services for Drug Misusers, United Kingdom Department of Health, 1994.)
3. U.S. Congress Department of Labor, Health, and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993, October 6, Public Law 102-394, 106 Stat. 1827, Section 514.
4. P. Lurie et al., The Public Health Impact of Needle Exchange Programs in the United States and Abroad, vol. 1 (San Francisco, Calif.: University of California, October 1993).
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. S.D. Holmberg, "The Estimated Prevalence and Incidence of HIV in 96 Large US Metropolitan Areas," American Journal of Public Health 86 (1996): 642-51.
9. National Commission on AIDS, Report: The Twin Epidemics of Substance Use and HIV (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991); U.S. General Accounting Office, Needle Exchange Programs: Research Suggests Promise as an AIDS Prevention Strategy, a report to the Chairman, Select Committee in Narcotics Abuse and Control, House of Representatives (Washington, D.C.: U.S. House of Representatives, 1993); National Academy of Sciences, Report from Panel on Needle Exchange and Bleach Distribution Programs (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1994); Office of Technology Assessment (hereafter, OTA), The Effectiveness of AIDS Prevention Efforts (Washington, D.C.: OTA, 1995); D.C. Des Jarlais and S.R. Friedman, "AIDS and Legal Access to Sterile Injection Equipment," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 521 (1992): 42-65; G.V. Stimson, "Syringe-Exchange Programmes for Injecting Drug Users," AIDS 3 (1989) 253-60.
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13. National Commission on AIDS, Report: The Twin Epidemics of Substance Use and HIV (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991); U.S. General Accounting Office, Needle Exchange Programs: Research Suggests Promise as an AIDS Prevention Strategy, a report to the Chairman, Select Committee in Narcotics Abuse and Control, House of Representatives (Washington, D.C.: U.S. House of Representatives, 1993); National Academy of Sciences, Report from Panel on Needle Exchange and Bleach Distribution Programs (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1994); Office of Technology Assessment (hereafter, OTA), The Effectiveness of AIDS Prevention Efforts (Washington, D.C.: OTA, 1995); D.C. Des Jarlais and S.R. Friedman, "AIDS and Legal Access to Sterile Injection Equipment," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 521 (1992): 42-65; G.V. Stimson, "Syringe-Exchange Programmes for Injecting Drug Users," AIDS 3 (1989) 253-60.
14. National Commission on AIDS, Report: The Twin Epidemics of Substance Use and HIV (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991); U.S. General Accounting Office, Needle Exchange Programs: Research Suggests Promise as an AIDS Prevention Strategy, a report to the Chairman, Select Committee in Narcotics Abuse and Control, House of Representatives (Washington, D.C.: U.S. House of Representatives, 1993); National Academy of Sciences, Report from Panel on Needle Exchange and Bleach Distribution Programs (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1994); Office of Technology Assessment (hereafter, OTA), The Effectiveness of AIDS Prevention Efforts (Washington, D.C.: OTA, 1995); D.C. Des Jarlais and S.R. Friedman, "AIDS and Legal Access to Sterile Injection Equipment," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 521 (1992): 42-65; G.V. Stimson, "Syringe-Exchange Programmes for Injecting Drug Users," AIDS 3 (1989) 253-60.