Injecting drug use increases worldwide, but no increases in needle and syringe programmes

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Injecting drug use increases worldwide, but no increases in needle and syringe programmes

31 May 2017

By Susie McLean

Despite reports of expanding rates of injecting drug use in a new list of countries around the world, no new countries have established needle and syringe programmes in the last three years. This is one of the headline findings of an exhaustive review of the state of harm reduction services around the world conducted by international NGO Harm Reduction International, presented at the 25th International Harm Reduction Conference (HR17) in Montréal last week.

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