The Elton John AIDS Foundation’s newest grantee spotlight highlights the work of the Foundation’s Syringe Access Fund grantees and the important issue of syringe exchange as a means of preventing HIV transmission among injection drug users.
More than 4,000 people become newly infected with HIV every year in the U.S. because of unsafe injection drug use. This accounts for nearly one in 10 new HIV infections. In a country as wealthy as the United States, these poor health statistics are entirely preventable, and thus remain entirely unacceptable.
Read the grantee spotlight on syringe exchange programs here.
