Why isn’t this happening here in Lancaster?

Editor: The following is a monthly report from a syringe exchange for a comparable metropolitan area.  Lancaser General Hospital refuses to help support a syringe exchange here in Lancaster, despite an offer by the Urban League to be the operator.

September 2011 Monthly Report

Twenty-siv participants were tested for HIV in September.

September 2011 Report

Total contacts: 381

Total IDU contats: 321

Total unduplicated IDU contacts: 268

Syringes: 3320

Condoms distributed: Male- 2208, Female-68, Dental Dams-61 Finger Cots-60

Demographics of unduplicated IDU contacts:

African American male: 47

White Male: 43

Latino: 68

African American female: 28

White female: 44

Latina: 38

We completed 335 referrals for various services.

This month, as a result of our 116 total D&A referrals, ten 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.

 

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