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Needle and Syringe Program
The Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) operates from a variety of sites around Tasmania, hospitals, community health centres, pharmacies as well as dedicated sites that have been established and funded for the specific purpose of ensuring the availability of equipment and services to injecting drug users.
The NSP was initiated by the Tasmanian Government in 1993 under the HIV/AIDS Preventative Measures Act 1993.
The NSP is a key public health strategy, the objective of which is to minimise the transmission of HIV, Hepatitis C, and Hepatitis B and other drug related harms to injecting drug users and to the wider community.
The provision of sterile injecting equipment to injecting drug users reduces the incidence of people sharing or reusing injecting equipment