http://www.harmreduction.org/ http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=960 <div class="text blurb">After 20 years, federal funding can finally be used to support syringe exchange activity. This was a long-fought and hard won battle, and the deepest gratitude goes out to all who have continued to do the work no matter what! The following links are a few articles of note on the policy change.</div> http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=960 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=924 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=924 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=904 <div class="text blurb">Title: To permit the use of Federal funds for syringe exchange programs for purposes of reducing the transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including HIV and viral hepatitis. </div> http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=904 http://www.harmreduction.org//downloads/Rice.pdf http://www.harmreduction.org//downloads/Rice.pdf http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=792 <div class="text blurb">The decision to lift the ban on federally funded syringe-exchange programs is gaining bipartisan momentum on Capitol Hill. This July, a new bill recommending lifting the ban is scheduled to hit Congress. Has the time finally arrived for evidence-based science to prevail over moral debates around the issue of providing clean syringes for safer injecting? </div> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=792 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=766 <div class="text blurb">HRC has a national campaign to end the 20 year ban on the use of federal funds for syringe exchange programs. Materials to support this effort are available here. </div> http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=766 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=473 <div class="text blurb">A series of reports authored and/or commissioned by the federal government and Congress, dating back to 1991, have unanimously endorsed syringe exchange programs as effective HIV prevention that does not increase drug use. </div> http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=473 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=471 <div class="text blurb">Harm Reduction Coalition operates syringe access expansion projects in New York and California. These projects provide technical assistance, training, and capacity building to help existing syringe exchange programs and expand access. </div> http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=471 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=405 <div class="text blurb">Syringe access programs are the most effective, evidence-based intervention for people who use drugs, their families, and communities. Seven federally funded research studies, and scores of scientific evidence confirm that syringe access programs are a valuable resource to prevent the spread of HIV, hepatitis C and other blood-borne diseases. Across the nation, people who inject drugs have reversed the course of the AIDS epidemic by using sterile syringes and harm reduction practices. (more)</div> http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=405 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=228 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=228 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=475 <div class="text blurb">This is an introduction to some of the research on syringe access for people who inject drugs. </div> http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=475