the syringe gap an assessment of sterile syringe need and acquisition among syringe exchange program participants in new york city注射器差距评估无菌注射器需要和采购注射器交流项目参与者在纽约市.pdfVIP

Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Research Open Access The syringe gap: an assessment of sterile syringe need and acquisition among syringe exchange program participants in New York City Daliah I Heller*, Denise Paone, Anne Siegler and Adam Karpati Address: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York City, New York, USA Email: Daliah I Heller* - dheller1@; Denise Paone - dpaone@; Anne Siegler - asiegler@; Adam Karpati - akarpati@ * Corresponding author Published: 12 January 2009 Received: 12 March 2008 Accepted: 12 January 2009 Harm Reduction Journal 2009, 6:1 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-6-1 This article is available from: /content/6/1/1 © 2009 Heller 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. Abstract Background: Programmatic data from New York City syringe exchange programs suggest that many clients visit the programs infrequently and take few syringes per transaction, while separate survey data from individuals using these programs indicate that frequent injecting – at least daily – is common. Together, these data suggest a possible syringe gap between the number of injections performed by users and the number of syringes they are receiving from programs for those injections. Met