Table 2 |
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Needles distributed and recovered by all service providers in Victoria in 2008 and 2009. |
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2008 |
Distributed |
Recovered |
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April |
45,400 |
36,900 |
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May* May 31st was the closure |
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June |
24,700 |
13,400 |
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July |
33,400 |
24,000 |
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August |
36,500 |
19,700 |
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September |
34,213 |
27, 383* * |
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October |
29,805 |
12,617 |
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November |
34,405 |
23,914 |
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December |
26,494 |
18,743 |
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January, 2009 |
25,146 |
17,140 |
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February, 2009 |
26,100 |
27,200 |
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March, 2009 |
28,000 |
18,000 |
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April, 2009 |
33,035 |
23,064 |
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May, 2009 |
24,095 |
19,235 |
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TOTAL |
401,293 |
281,296 |
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* The data base for the NGO corrupted the data for May so the numbers are not available **Includes one client who returned 10,000 needles. |
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MacNeil and Pauly Harm Reduction Journal 2010 7:11 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-7-11 |
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