idealistic way people look at addiction and treatment that intuitively some people may have a reaction to safe injection sites. but there is data they reduce hepatitis c transmission, hiv transmission, and they can help with overdoses. this is not a broad-sweeping plan. this isn t the only tool in the tool kit. if you look at addressing this problem on the demand side, you start with prevention, right, because before a problem starts you want to get to it before it becomes a big issue. and there will be another epidemic down the road. there are millions of kids in our schools now. we need more prevention services so there s not a future open yoild ep dem wick another substance. you have safe injection sites, treatment, other kinds of interventions to help people along their path, meaning multiple tools. safe injection sites can be helpful and lifesaving. it s not the only tool in the tool kit. people don t need to be overly alarmed about it. i want to talk about that fatality number,
“This decision strengthens the HIV response in Zimbabwe by reducing the stigma and discrimination that too often prevents vulnerable groups of people from receiving HIV prevention, care and treatment services.
The big-data era has arrived in HIV epidemiology, allowing researchers to better track viruses through communities and the effect of those viruses in communities.