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Figure HSR-3. Syringes distributed through specialised programmes per estimated IDU in 2008 or more recent year

Notes:

Syringes provided through fixed and mobile NSP points in the community and in prisons: at specialist drugs agencies, including through outreach work and peer-distribution, through vending machines and pharmacy-based NSP points.

(1) Data on the number of syringes in Estonia are a mimimum estimate.

(2) Data on number of syringes in Norway are based on reports from 11 opf 26 municipalities.

Sources:

Standard tables on 'syringe availability' (ST10) submitted by NFPs in 2004, 2006 and 2008.

Reitox National Reports, 2009.

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