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Abstract
Organized services for exchange of sterile needles and syringes used for injections as a potential means of reducing the transmission of infectious diseases.
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23 entry terms
- Needle-Exchange Program
- Syringe-Exchange Program
- Syringe-Exchange Programs
- Needle Exchange Program
- Needle Exchange Programs
- Program, Needle-Exchange
- Program, Syringe-Exchange
- Programs, Needle-Exchange
- Programs, Syringe-Exchange
- Syringe Exchange Program
- Syringe Exchange Programs
- Supervised Injecting Centers
- Supervised Injecting Facilities
- Supervised Injecting Facility
- Center, Supervised Injecting
- Centers, Supervised Injecting
- Facilities, Supervised Injecting
- Facility, Supervised Injecting
- Injecting Center, Supervised
- Injecting Centers, Supervised
- Injecting Facilities, Supervised
- Injecting Facility, Supervised
- Supervised Injecting Center
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11 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.
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Previous Indexing
- Needles (1985-1994)
- Substance Abuse, Intravenous (1990-1994)
- Syringes (1985-1994)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Needle-Exchange Programs. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018671. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018671
- Needle-Exchange Programs. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_and_syringe_programmes
- Needle-Exchange Programs. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1760326