AIDS Action Alliance Syringe Exchange Conference Report
Dublin Core
Title
AIDS Action Alliance Syringe Exchange Conference Report
Subject
AIDS (Disease)
HIV (Viruses)
HIV/AIDS
Drug abuse
Drug users (LGBTQ)
Syringes
Sexual behaviour
AIDS organisations
Description
Report for AIDS Action Alliance Syringe Exchange Conference dated February 1989.
1st page: Contents. Rubber stamped with an address: AIDS Action Alliance, 13 Chirstchurch Place, Dublin 8.
2nd page: Script 1. Speaker: Martin Donoghue.
3rd page is entitled "Syringe Exchange: Implementation and Impact on HIV Risk Behaviour of Injecting Drug Users in England and Scotland" by M C Donoghue BA (Hons), Monitoring Research Group, University Research Group, University of London Goldsmith College, London SE14 6NW. States that this paper was prepared for AIDS Action Alliance Information Seminar, dated Saturday 18 February 1989 and addressed Dubiln, Eire. Introduction.
4th page: Background to syringe exchange.
5th page: What is syringe exchange?
6th page: How do syringe schemes operate?
7th page: How do syringe schemes operate? continued.
8th: How do we know if syringe exchange schemes work? Do exchange schemes work?
9th page: Criteria for success. Establishing syringe exchange.
10th page: Establishing syringe exchange continued. Reaching clients.
11th page: Retaining clients.
12th page: Retaining clients continued. Evidence of change in risk behaviour.
13th page: Evidence of change in risk behaviour continued.
14th page: Individual changes in needle and syringe sharing. Reasons for sharing injecting equipment.
15th page: Reasons for sharing injecting equipment continued.
16th page: Sexual behaviour.
17th page: Sexual behaviour continued. Summary and conclusions.
18th page: Summary and conclusions continued.
19th to 21st page: Includes 3 pages of a paper by syringe exchange by Gerry Stimson, Kate Dolan, Martin Donoghue and Lindsey Alldritt.
22nd page: Script 2. Speaker: Nicola Woodward.
23rd page: Nicola Woodward. General. Needle Exchange. Cleveland Street Average Monthly Statistics for 1988.
24th page: Things to consider when setting up a Needle Exchange Project. Important to involve the police in discussions about setting.
25th page: Cleveland Street: A source of service, information and referral.
What services may we provide in a Needle Exchange Project? Factors that may influence the return of injecting equipment.
26th page: ... continued.
27th page: Script 3. Speaker: Geraldine Mulleady.
28th to 37th page is a xerox of Chapter 8 entitled "Drug Abuse and HIV" from the book entitled "Counselling in HIV Infection and AIDS" (pages 131-140).
38th page: Script 4. Speaker: Michael Collins.
39th to 41st page: Michael Collins - Stockwell Community CDP Report.
42nd to 46th page: The Stockwell Project Needle Exchange. States in handwriting that it was compiled by Stockwell Staff.
47th to 48th page: Drug Advisory Committee. Report given verbally 4th May, 1988. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (A.C.M.D). Report March 1988 "AIDS and Drugs Misuse".
49th page: Script 5. A Personal Viewpoint: Antoinette.
50th to 55th page: Evaluation. Results/Feedback from Conference Evaluation forms.
56th page: Hero Comix Group. Andrea and Lisa.
57th page: Andrea and Lisa's Safer Sex Quiz
58th page: Blank
59th page: Back page.
1st page: Contents. Rubber stamped with an address: AIDS Action Alliance, 13 Chirstchurch Place, Dublin 8.
2nd page: Script 1. Speaker: Martin Donoghue.
3rd page is entitled "Syringe Exchange: Implementation and Impact on HIV Risk Behaviour of Injecting Drug Users in England and Scotland" by M C Donoghue BA (Hons), Monitoring Research Group, University Research Group, University of London Goldsmith College, London SE14 6NW. States that this paper was prepared for AIDS Action Alliance Information Seminar, dated Saturday 18 February 1989 and addressed Dubiln, Eire. Introduction.
4th page: Background to syringe exchange.
5th page: What is syringe exchange?
6th page: How do syringe schemes operate?
7th page: How do syringe schemes operate? continued.
8th: How do we know if syringe exchange schemes work? Do exchange schemes work?
9th page: Criteria for success. Establishing syringe exchange.
10th page: Establishing syringe exchange continued. Reaching clients.
11th page: Retaining clients.
12th page: Retaining clients continued. Evidence of change in risk behaviour.
13th page: Evidence of change in risk behaviour continued.
14th page: Individual changes in needle and syringe sharing. Reasons for sharing injecting equipment.
15th page: Reasons for sharing injecting equipment continued.
16th page: Sexual behaviour.
17th page: Sexual behaviour continued. Summary and conclusions.
18th page: Summary and conclusions continued.
19th to 21st page: Includes 3 pages of a paper by syringe exchange by Gerry Stimson, Kate Dolan, Martin Donoghue and Lindsey Alldritt.
22nd page: Script 2. Speaker: Nicola Woodward.
23rd page: Nicola Woodward. General. Needle Exchange. Cleveland Street Average Monthly Statistics for 1988.
24th page: Things to consider when setting up a Needle Exchange Project. Important to involve the police in discussions about setting.
25th page: Cleveland Street: A source of service, information and referral.
What services may we provide in a Needle Exchange Project? Factors that may influence the return of injecting equipment.
26th page: ... continued.
27th page: Script 3. Speaker: Geraldine Mulleady.
28th to 37th page is a xerox of Chapter 8 entitled "Drug Abuse and HIV" from the book entitled "Counselling in HIV Infection and AIDS" (pages 131-140).
38th page: Script 4. Speaker: Michael Collins.
39th to 41st page: Michael Collins - Stockwell Community CDP Report.
42nd to 46th page: The Stockwell Project Needle Exchange. States in handwriting that it was compiled by Stockwell Staff.
47th to 48th page: Drug Advisory Committee. Report given verbally 4th May, 1988. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (A.C.M.D). Report March 1988 "AIDS and Drugs Misuse".
49th page: Script 5. A Personal Viewpoint: Antoinette.
50th to 55th page: Evaluation. Results/Feedback from Conference Evaluation forms.
56th page: Hero Comix Group. Andrea and Lisa.
57th page: Andrea and Lisa's Safer Sex Quiz
58th page: Blank
59th page: Back page.
Creator
AIDS Action Alliance
Source
Arthur Leahy Collection
Date
1989-02
Rights
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Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
report
Text
Identifier
2017.21.5.1.594
Coverage
1989
Dublin 8
Collection
Citation
AIDS Action Alliance, “AIDS Action Alliance Syringe Exchange Conference Report,” Cork LGBT Archive, accessed April 27, 2024, https://corklgbtarchive.com/items/show/862.