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Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Research Open Access Pharmacy-based needle exchange in New Zealand: a review of services 1 2 3 4 Janie Sheridan* , Charles Henderson , Nicola Greenhill and Andrew Smith Address: 1School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, 85 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand, 2National Manager, Needle Exchange Programme New Zealand, 172 Manchester Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, 3Pharmacy Department, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK and 4Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, UK Email: Janie Sheridan* - j.sheridan@auckland.ac.nz; Charles Henderson - charles@needle.co.nz; Nicola Greenhill - nicolagreenhill@; Andrew Smith - andrew_smith6015@ * Corresponding author Published: 12 July 2005 Received: 17 January 2005 Accepted: 12 July 2005 Harm Reduction Journal 2005, 2:10 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-2-10 This article is available from: /content/2/1/10 © 2005 Sheridan et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Background: New Zealand has been offering needle exchange services since 1987. Over 170 community pharmacies are involved in the provision of this service. However, no recent detailed review of New Zealands pharmacy-based needle exchange has been pu