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NICE and ACMD guidance
In the spring of 2009 two important documents were published that support and reinforce needle and syringe programmes and the provision of injecting
equipment to prevent blood borne virus spread.
Both the NICE guidance and ACMD report recognised accidental sharing as a major issue in the transmission of blood borne viruses, and the importance of syringe identification as a key intervention to prevent it.
ACMD report:
"inadvertant sharing has prompted the design of syringes with coloured plungers, which are also recommended for use and distribution by nice"
To download the ACMD report: 'The Primary Prevention of Hepatitis C Among Injecting Drug Users', click here.
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NICE guidance:
'Meeting need'
"Recommendation 2:
Encourage syringe identification schemes (involving, for example, the use of coloured syringes)"
'Equipment and advice'
"Recommendation 4:
Encourage people who inject drugs to mark their syringes and other injecting equipment or to use easily identifiable equipment to prevent mix-ups."
To download the NICE guidance: 'Needle and syringe programmes: providing people who inject drugs with injecting equipment', click here.
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