Injecting drug use among gay and bisexual men in New Zealand: Findings from national human immunodeficiency virus epidemiological and behavioural surveillance

Overview of attention for article published in Drug & Alcohol Review, February 2020

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What to know about needle exchange programs and HIV

Medical News Today, 29 Oct 2021

People who inject drugs risk contracting and transmitting bloodborne infections such as HIV, which can transmit through needle…

New Zealand needle exchange programmes keeps HIV rates low

Medical Brief, 04 Mar 2020

Sustained, extremely low levels of HIV transmission among people who inject drugs, including gay and bisexual men, reflect the…

New Zealand's needle exchanges helped reduced HIV transmissions

MedicalXpress, 27 Feb 2020

Credit: Joe Mabel, Wikimedia CC New Zealand has avoided the high HIV rates seen among high-risk groups in other countries, a…

Needle exchange helped NZ avoid high rates of HIV

RNZ, 27 Feb 2020

Navigation for News Categories The introduction of New Zealand's world-first needle exchange programme 30 years ago has helped…

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