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Anchorage Syringe Exchange
  • Provide access to sterile syringes also provide HIV Prevention, counseling testing, referrals to drug treatment.
  • Target IDU’s high-risk drug behaviors such as frequency of injection (often with the same needle), needle or syringe sharing, and use of unclean injection equipment.

 

How it works

  • Drop in Basis
  • Exchangers provided with harm reduction information
  • Supplies recorded
  • Baseline demographics recorded

Prevention & Education
  • All clients offered free HIV testing


All clients receive:
  • Referral to STD clinic
  • Referral to Methadone treatment facility
  • Condoms

Clients are offered :
  • Cookers & Cottons
  • Sharps containter
  • Tourniquets
  • Alcohol swabs