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The future
Expand the budget to provide more supplies and acupuncture services Provide HIV and HCV testing Expand our Peer Program Provide program participants with access to medical and drug treatment Provide program participants with access to housing and other important social services
Risk behaviors, HIV and HCV in our mountains
Rural IDU are in dire need of harm reduction services, to say the least. Our IDU inject at least 5 times a day in high risk environments such as “shooting galleries”. With 920 participants enrolled and injecting 5 times a day, we estimate at least 4,600 daily injections in this area. Because of our limited … Continue reading
Program Description/Activities
EPM is a harm reduction based mobile SEP that targets the Central Eastern Region of the island of Puerto Rico. Twice a week, every week, our mobile unit visits 4 rural municipalities: Cayey, Cidra, Comerío and Aguas Buenas. We have 2 part-time program staff and just recently added a “Drug Policy Liaison” and a Peer … Continue reading
Syringe exchange programs (SEP) are entailed in a project of distributing new/sterile needles to injection drug users (IDU) while removing and safely disposing of used and potentially disease-infected ones from our communities. These programs, originally created in Europe, emerged as a strategy to stop the spread of diseases such as HIV and HCV among IDU, … Continue reading
Exchange for Change: Saving lives in rural Puerto Rico
Exchange for Change: Saving lives in rural Puerto Rico. via Exchange for Change: Saving lives in rural Puerto Rico.
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