EDITOR: Below is a report from a syringe exchange in a comparable sized Pennsylvania City. By spurning a proposal by the Urban League to operate an exchange, Lancaster General Health refused to help support a syringe exchange for here in Lancaster. Yet LGH, a public charity, paid its president $1,150,000 to take a year off to be a captain in the Navy! No one in Lancaster other than NewsLanc is in a position and has the courage to speak out against this unrepresentative, non-transparent, ethically compromised institution.
March 2012 Monthly Report
Twenty-three participants were tested for HIV in March.
Total contacts: 384
Total IDU contacts: 332
Total unduplicated IDU contacts: 279
Syringes: 3460
Condoms distributed: Male- 2128, Female-50, Dental Dams-38 Finger Cots-70
Demographics of unduplicated IDU contacts:
African American male: 44
White Male: 48
Latino: 70
African American female: 31
White female: 47
Latina: 39
We completed 274 referrals for various services.
This month, as a result of our 87 total D&A referrals, seven participants entered into drug treatment facilities. This indicates those of whom we are aware; there may be additional entries of which we are not aware.
