Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: The syringe gap: an assessment of sterile syringe need and acquisition among syringe exchange program participants in New York City | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central 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 86 1477-7517-6-1 This article is available from http 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 http licenses by 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. Methods We surveyed a convenience sample of 478 injecting drug users in New York City at syringe exchange programs to determine whether program syringe coverage was adequate to support safer injecting practices in this group. Results Respondents reported injecting a median of 60 times per month visiting the syringe exchange program a median of 4 times per month and obtaining a median of l0 syringes per transaction more than one in four reported reusing syringes. .
