{"id":13449,"date":"2016-02-03T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=13449"},"modified":"2024-07-23T08:58:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T12:58:21","slug":"on-point-recommendations-for-prison-based-needle-and-syringe-programs-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/on-point-recommendations-for-prison-based-needle-and-syringe-programs-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"On Point: Recommendations for Prison-Based Needle and Syringe Programs in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/PNSP_Report_Final_LowRes_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14874 alignright\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/PNSP_Report_Final_LowRes_cover.jpg\" alt=\"On Point: Recommendations for Prison-Based Needle and Syringe Programs in Canada\" width=\"255\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/PNSP_Report_Final_LowRes_cover.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/PNSP_Report_Final_LowRes_cover-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>This report is the culmination of a multi-phase, multi-year undertaking that involved broad consultation\u00a0and primary research to create recommendations for implementing prison-based needle and syringe programs (PNSPs),\u00a0which provide sterile injection equipment to prisoners who inject drugs and help prevent the spread of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV), in Canadian federal prisons.<\/p>\n<p>The report highlights three phases of the research project \u2014 a stakeholder meeting (phase 1), prison site visits in Switzerland (phase 2), and a community-based research project (phase 3) \u2014 and concludes with six recommendations on how PNSPs can and should be implemented in Canadian prisons without delay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News release<\/strong>: <a href=\"..\/six-ways-canada-can-adopt-prison-based-needle-and-syringe-programs-now-report\">Six Ways Canada Can Adopt Prison-Based Needle and Syringe Programs Now: Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"On Point: Recommendations for Prison-Based Needle and Syringe Programs in Canada\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/13446\/?tmstv=1775428121\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13947,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[201,155],"publication_type":[179],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-13449","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication_topics-hepatitis-c","publication_topics-prisons","publication_type-reports","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/13449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/13449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24286,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/13449\/revisions\/24286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=13449"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=13449"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=13449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}