Syracuse, NY -- Outreach workers who work Syracuse’s streets trying to stop the spread of HIV and other diseases want to add a new weapon to their arsenal: free syringes for drug addicts. AIDS ...

The California Legislature has offered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger an opportunity to save thousands of lives and millions of health-care dollars at almost no cost to state government. SB1159, passed ...

The World Health Organization has launched a new policy on injection safety, which highlights the value of using devices protecting healthcare providers from accidental needle sticks and patients from ...

More than a quarter of AIDS cases in the U.S. among people age 13 or older are directly linked to injection drug use. 3 When mother-to-child HIV transmission is taken into account, roughly 35 percent ...

Public health experts and injection drug users in California consistently stated that syringe exchange programs are a necessary but insufficient component of a comprehensive HIV prevention strategy ...

The Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC), a national health and human rights advocacy group working to reduce drug-related harm, calls on Congress and the Administration to take action on World AIDS Day, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LAS VEGAS — A clinic in Nevada set up a new ...