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Newsbrief:
Needle
Exchange
Comes
to
Paraguay
5/28/04
A small Paraguayan city on
the border with Brazil is poised to operate the first needle exchange program
in that landlocked South American nation. The city council of Ypejhú
has approved a municipal ordinance dealing with injection drug users that
embraces the principles of harm reduction and explicitly calls for the
creation of a needle exchange program.
According to Paulo Paes of
Mescla Latina, a harm reduction group operating in Argentina, Bolivia,
Brazil, and Paraguay, municipal authorities responded to both harm reductionists
and government officials in approving the measure. "The law was approved
by means of an intervention by harm reductionists from [the bordering Brazilian
state of] Paraná, and secondly by representatives of the Paraguayan
Health Ministry, and is the first in the nation that calls for resources
to be made available for syringe exchange," he said.
The ordinance is designed
to reduce rates of HIV infection among drug users in the area. Article
8 of the municipal ordinance notes that "the free distribution of syringes
to injection drug users shall have total priority within the program."
Maybe the Paraguayans need
to send a delegation to New Jersey to explain to officials there how a
civilized society deals with the dirty needle problem.
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Issue #339, 5/28/04
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