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In exchange, wider community steps in.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-DEC-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: In exchange, wider community steps in.(Health)(A coalition will financially oversee HIV Alliance's needle swap program)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard

Nita cares enough about her health to wear a helmet when she rides her bike around Eugene, and to turn on her headlamp when she rides at night.

And when she shoots up heroin, she is a strong proponent of safe injection habits. A needle is to be used once and disposed of, she said - "not something to be loaned or borrowed."

"I do not allow anyone to use another person's rig. It's not healthy," she said. "Even though you're a drug user, you have to learn to respect yourself."

Keeping Nita and the 10,000 other injection drug users in the community free from disease is the driving force behind HIV Alliance's six-year-old needle exchange program.

But alliance leaders decided last summer that they could no longer afford to fund the program, despite the good it does in preventing the spread of disease and in keeping dirty needles out of the streets and parks. In the months since, they've been working to find new sources of funding and to...

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