Sharing needles with other people has risks. When you use someone else’s needle to inject drugs, steroids, or other substances, you come in contact with their blood. Human immunodeficiency virus ...

Sister Ellen Dube assists Obed Ndwandwe, who is living with AIDS at his home in Hlabisa 400 kilometers (249 miles) north of Durban, South Africa, Thursday July 13, 2000.

Sharing needles How can people be infected by injections ? If people inject themselves (or someone injects them) with medicines or drugs using a needle or syringe which has been used by someone ...

Needle stick injuries are a reality for people who regularly use needles, like nurses and lab workers. It can also happen if you handle trash, even if it’s not medical waste. According to the ...

If you could severely mitigate the spread of the HIV, AIDS, and hepatitis C, would you? According to the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, injecting drug use accounts for 36 percent of AIDS cases ...

To really understand the difference in the impact of needle-borne HIV infections in the 1980s and the 2020s let's go back to 1984 when a high school student named Ryan White earned the unfortunate ...

A Long Island carjacker waving a hypodermic needle full of what he said was AIDS-infected blood threatened to jab a motorist unless she handed over the keys to her Chrysler, Nassau cops said. David… ...

Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell authorized the city's first needle exchange program in 1992 in an effort to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDs. New Philly Mayor Cherelle Parker plans to strip funding to ...

Health and resource organizations will host free testing events across locations in Dallas on Friday for National HIV Testing ...