After a two-year hiatus, we are thrilled to once again connect Australia’s Needle and Syringe Program frontline workers.
For a long time, the Anex Bulletin was an essential information resource for NSP staff and a forum ...
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Needle and Syringe Program workers should be proud of helping to address and reduce harm associated with injecting drug use, says the federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, Ms Sussan Ley. Her message to ...
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The evidence is overwhelming that NSPs save lives and money, and reduce the health risks associated with sharing, says the Shadow Minister for Health and Medicare, Ms Catherine King.
“In the decade to 2010, NSPs are ...
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By Gideon Warhaft
New direct-acting antiviral treatments for hepatitis C are a game-changer. What part can NSPs play in the roll-out? And is complacency now likely to become a big issue?
It was no surprise only a ...
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Pam’s story
In the year since she completed treatment to clear her system of the hepatitis C virus, Pam says the most significant changes have been psychological. “I had no future,” she says. “And now I ...
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Needle-sharing is the most efficient way to transmit a blood-borne virus, says Gabrielle Bennett, the Victorian Viral Hepatitis Educator at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne.
That is why the bulk of newly diagnosed hepatitis C cases ...
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Needle and Syringe Programs are expected to encounter more frustrated clients and a real threat to the program’s success in preventing unsafe injecting practices.
Introduced in April, the South Korean-made Terumo equipment caused a storm of ...
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When workers at Bunbury’s Needle and Syringe Exchange Program (NSEP) heard about an East Coast idea for a postal order service, they knew it had great potential. After all, they’d been doing it successfully in ...
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The syringe was invented to get drugs into the body quickly and that is the primary attraction for people who use them, says Dr Matthew Frei.
“There is no more effective way of administering a drug ...
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Hope for NSPs and naloxone in fighting overdose deaths Needle and Syringe Program workers, doctors and the families and friends of people using opioids need more information and support about naloxone to help stem the ...
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Services such as Needle and Syringe Programs need priority to help meet national prevention and treatment targets, says a new report.
The National Blood-borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections Surveillance and Monitoring Report, 2015, produced by ...
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The Kremlin is continuing to reject preventative approaches to curb Russia’s spiralling HIV epidemic. According to the Canadian Medical Association Journal, there were 93,000 new HIV cases in Russia in 2015, with most new infections ...
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