Traduction de «sterile injection equipment » (Anglais → Français) :

sterile injection material (1) | sterile injection equipment (2)

provision of injection equipment (1) | provision of sterile injection equipment (2)

heparin lock [ sterile injection cap ]

fuel injection equipment

injecting device [ injection equipment | dealers' works ]

Design and performance criteria for aviation fuel additive injection equipment

prepare dental instrument for sterilization | prepare dental instruments for sterilisation | prepare dental instruments for sterilization | transport, clean and sterilise dental equipment

There has been increasing evidence of high-risk behaviours in prisons, particularly evidence that prisoners inject and use unclean materials because they do not have access to sterile injection equipment in prisons.

Although there is a wide range of models, it is generally recognized that the service offers the following benefits: it reaches the most marginalized, high-risk people; it helps prevent overdoses and related deaths; it acts as a protective factor by providing sterile injection equipment and a safe place to inject and teaching safer injection practices, thereby helping to reduce the HIV and hepatitis C epidemics; it does not promote initiation into injection, as some members opposite claim; it helps stabilize the health status of users by providing other services such as HIV and hepatitis C screening, vaccination, primary care and ref ...[+++]erral to detox, addiction treatment and substitution programs; it relieves pressure on emergency services including ambulance transportation and hospitals by promoting on-site overdose management; lastly, it alleviates the negative impacts on public order by reducing drug use in public places as well as associated nuisances such as discarded syringes; it does not increase drug-related crime.

Correct and consistent use of condoms remains the most effective means of HIV prevention through sexual transmission, and provision of sterile needles and injecting equipment and substitution treatment are the most effective means of HIV prevention through injecting drug use.

The report also reviews Canadian and international law and argues that prison systems are failing to meet their legal and moral responsibility, because they are clearly not doing all they could to protect the health of inmates: measures that have been successfully undertaken outside prison with government funding and support, such as making sterile injection equipment and methadone maintenance available to injection-drug users, are not being undertaken in the vast majority of prisons, although some prisons, such as those in Switzerland, have shown that they can be introduced successfully, and receive support from prisoners, staff, prison ...[+++] administrators, politicians and the public.