Needle Exchanges

Needle exchanges. A public health success story? A political battleground? Or a bit of both. This week Sarah and Jess are travelling back to the 1980s to explore how a radical idea born during the HIV crisis helped save thousands of lives and shaped the UK's approach to harm reduction.Sources history of needle sharing and the development of needle and syringe programmesSyringe-exchange-has-it-worked.pdf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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