Indiana HIV outbreak tops 100 cases: state health officials

[Angel4Truth]

Indiana HIV outbreak tops 100 cases: state health officials

- An HIV outbreak in southeastern Indiana related to intravenous prescription drug abuse has reached 106 confirmed and preliminary cases, state public health officials said on Friday.

As of Thursday there were 95 confirmed HIV cases and 11 preliminary cases from the outbreak in rural Scott County, some 30 miles north of Louisville, Kentucky, a state joint information center said.

Scott County has been the center of the outbreak, the biggest in the state's history.

A short-term state-authorized needle exchange program began on Saturday in Scott County to combat the outbreak. The program authorized by Governor Mike Pence expires on April 25, but may be extended if necessary.

Needle exchange programs provide drug users with sterile needles to try to prevent infections from spreading through the sharing of contaminated needles.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/indiana-hiv-outbreak-tops-100-cases-state-health-193004049.html

Do you agree or disagree with taxpayer funded needed exchange programs?

Why or why not?

 

[resodko]

i approve of them

use them to lure in addicts, then trap them and exterminate them :thumb:

 

[musterion]

If the money is going to be spent, don't encourage continued drug abuse, which is all this does. Offer a voluntary drying out period in a sanitarium of sorts. Try to fix the problem instead of making it "safer" to keep shooting up.

 

[elohiym]

Do you agree or disagree with taxpayer funded needed exchange programs?

Agree.

Why or why not?

It reduces infections, and it's inexpensive and easy to implement.

 

[elohiym]

Try to fix the problem instead of making it "safer" to keep shooting up.

Make it safer while you try and fix the problem.