Services based on Science & COMPASSION
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TB HIV Care is concerned about the health and well-being of all South Africans. Collectively we look to science, evidence and data to ensure that services are effective, appropriate, sustainable and acceptable. It is our individual and institutional compassion that informs the way in which we deliver these interventions and ensure they are relevant and of benefit to people who access our services.
Since 1929 TB HIV Care has been there for marginalised communities. TB HIV Care is there for people who use drugs (PWUD) and people who inject drugs (PWID). |
The intervention that receives the most criticism from often well-meaning people is the syringe services programme. As an organisation we understand the concerns of the community and have evaluated the options and evidence carefully, and like many international and local experts we have concluded that we have an obligation to provide needle and syringe services to people who inject drugs. It is the scientific and compassionate choice to make in an environment where people who inject drugs are criminalised, marginalised, vunerable to HIV and other diseases, and are unable to, or prevented from, accessing appropriate services.
The provision of access to sterile injection equipment for injecting drug users and the encouragement of its use are essential components of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes, and should be seen as a part of overall comprehensive strategies to reduce the demand for illicit drugs.
World Health Organisation:
Effectiveness of sterile needle and syringe programming in reducing HIV/AIDS among IDUs
Evidence for action technical paper and policy brief
Effectiveness of sterile needle and syringe programming in reducing HIV/AIDS among IDUs
Evidence for action technical paper and policy brief
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Health-E News talks to the Step Up Project in Pretoria about their HIV prevention services for people who inject drugs. Read more by clicking on the Health-E News logo:
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STERILE INJECTING EQUIPMENT FOR people who inject drugs?
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Listen to why it is essential to provide people who inject drugs with sterile injecting equipment. Click on the 702 link
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Reports on TB HIV Care Consultations
Background & Rational
Consultations with pWUD
Injecting equipment
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Engagement 2014-March 2017
Human Rights
consulting law enforcement |
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