BACKGROUND Syringe-dispensing machines (SDM) provide syringes at any time even to hard-to-reach injecting drug users (IDUs). They represent an important harm reduction strategy in large populated urban areas such as Paris. We analyzed the performance of one of the world's largest SDM schemes based in Paris over 12 years to understand its efficiency and its limitations, to answer public and stak...

BACKGROUND Network analyses have been widely utilized to evaluate large datasets, but have not yet been used to explore factors associated with risk behaviours. In combination with traditional regression analysis, network analyses may provide useful information and highlight key factors for reducing needle sharing behaviours among people who inject drugs (PWID). METHODS Sociodemographic data,...

no difficulty was experienced in injecting the solution with a 10 c.c. glass serum syringe. The veins of the arm were constricted by a bandage or the hand of an assistant and the forearm massaged upwards until the veins became prominent. The needle was pushed into the vein and a little blood allowed to flow into the syringe to make certain that the needle was in the vein. After the solution had...

This is the first comprehensive international review of the evidence for needle syringe programmes. The major, and now overwhelmingly strong, finding is that needle syringe programmes reduce HIV transmission effectively, safely and cost effectively. The size of the benefit is substantial. There is compelling evidence that needle syringe programmes reduce HIV incidence and HIV prevalence by redu...

sterilisation there is a risk of infection. Diabetics commonly keep their syringes in spirit although similar practices have been abandoned in hospital, where sterile instruments are now stored dry. It would seem logical for diabetics to store their syringes-glass or plastic-in the same way. Thirty patients reported by Greenough et a13 used a single plastic syringe, stored dry in a domestic ref...

Purpose : Determination of the effectiveness using a vacuum fine-needle aspiration biopsy compared to biopsy. Material and methods An original experimental sample has been developed for performing Also in course study, an improvement device was carried out, associated with peculiarity high pressure (over –0.5 bar), consisting throwing cytological material from needle directly into lumen syringe...