Australia leads the world in community-based needle programs. Yet they’re not used in prisons – which are hotspots for ...

“I started spending my own money on it and that's how I got here.” He takes part in the needle exchange. Dipolelo Lekota is one of the few female drug users at the site. The 30-year-old said ...

In the project backed by the University of Pretoria and the Tshwane municipality, they offer the chance to exchange needles for new, sterile ones. Needle exchange is not a new idea globally ...

In the project backed by the University of Pretoria and the Tshwane municipality, they offer the chance to exchange needles for new, sterile ones. Needle exchange is not a new idea globally ...

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) REMOVES INCORRECT IDENTIFICATION OF SUBJECT - A vagrant drug addict with a cane limps while walking to a syringe exchange program tent for medical help, on the outskirts of ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad Needle exchange is not a new idea globally, but such efforts have been jolted by the Trump administration’s decision to kill 83% of U.S. Agency for ...