Needle and syringe programs in prison: it can be done
3 June 2013
As part of its planning activities for health advocay and harm reduction in prisons, AITQ has produced a DVD to educate managers and stakeholders because the use of drugs by injection is one of the main causes of the increase of blood-borne diseases in the middle of custody:
After describing the problems in detention facilities in Quebec, the video presents the views of areas of public health and public safety have to consider the introduction of a needle exchange programme in the prison of Champ-Dollon in Geneva, Switzerland. The 3.4% of inmates in provincial detention facilities in Quebec are infected with HIV and 18.5% by hepatitis C.
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