Needle Exchange (Timaru)
Health Services in Timaru
www.needle.co.nz
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A Birmingham Drive Middleton, Christchurch P O Box Christchurch New Zealand Phone Fax . The Needle Exchange Programme NEP consists of approximately 200 outlets around New Zealand that sell new needles and syringes to injecting drug users. Legalisation Needle Exchange was legalised in New Zealand through the introduction of the Health Needles and Syringes Regulations 1987 which decriminalised the sale of needles and syringes to people who inject drugs PWID provided their sale was part of the Needle Exchange Programme. However the regulations provide a defense against charges under the Misuse of Drugs Act. The New Zealand NEP was the first national Needle Exchange Programme in the world. In order to provide peer based educational support to the NEP a number of Drug User Groups were formed and contracted to provide complementary educational programmes.
The groups decided that they would also provide after hours needle exchange services at evenings and weekends to complement pharmacy outlets. Current issues in Needle Exchange Historically, because of the policy of charging for injection equipment, most PWIDs re use them many times and sales within the NEP remained at a consistently low level for many years. As in most westernised countries, prevalence of Hepatitis C infection amongst PWIDs is high in New Zealand with an estimated of current PWIDs already infected. Awareness within the drug using community of Hepatitis C infection levels has brought home to many PWIDs the dangers of reusing injection equipment.
As a result of this, needle exchange sales have grown more rapidly since 1994 as users move towards the single use of injection equipment. 9 of sales in 200. In 1996, less than 50 people who had confirmed HIV infections stated that they had a history of injecting drug use. New Zealand currently enjoys one of the the lowest rates of HIV infection amongst drug users in the OECD, at 0. 5 of injecting drug users infected. 1 Currently there are about 180 pharmacy and alternate based outlets and 21 peer based needle exchanges including mobile participating in the Programme. Since the advent of free one for one distribution in 2004, national distribution has effectively doubled from a little over 1 million
The groups decided that they would also provide after hours needle exchange services at evenings and weekends to complement pharmacy outlets. Current issues in Needle Exchange Historically, because of the policy of charging for injection equipment, most PWIDs re use them many times and sales within the NEP remained at a consistently low level for many years. As in most westernised countries, prevalence of Hepatitis C infection amongst PWIDs is high in New Zealand with an estimated of current PWIDs already infected. Awareness within the drug using community of Hepatitis C infection levels has brought home to many PWIDs the dangers of reusing injection equipment.
As a result of this, needle exchange sales have grown more rapidly since 1994 as users move towards the single use of injection equipment. 9 of sales in 200. In 1996, less than 50 people who had confirmed HIV infections stated that they had a history of injecting drug use. New Zealand currently enjoys one of the the lowest rates of HIV infection amongst drug users in the OECD, at 0. 5 of injecting drug users infected. 1 Currently there are about 180 pharmacy and alternate based outlets and 21 peer based needle exchanges including mobile participating in the Programme. Since the advent of free one for one distribution in 2004, national distribution has effectively doubled from a little over 1 million
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