You want people to use clean needles and junkies want to use clean needles.

Oh yeah, by sharing needles.

Are you carrying clean needles?

Compass needles point to the north.

And what sharps means is needles, things that stick.

I mean, nearly 100 percent. Yeah, by sharing needles.

We're smackheads we know where to get clean needles.

So, suddenly it becomes perfectly rational to share needles.

This is a climb in the Needles, again in California.

And I took out a centrifuge and dry ice and needles and tubes.

No, no. We share needles because we don't want to go to jail.

And the man said, Really? And he showed him a dish full of needles.

So we could make this problem go away simply by making clean needles universally available and taking away the fear of arrest.

Because we know we see needles, but people aren't familiar with the eye of a needle apart from putting a thread through it.

And Maitreya says, I was with you. Who do you think was making needles and making nests and dripping on rocks for you, mister dense?

We knew it had to be something which had no needles, no pricking, so it would have adoption, it would not have medical waste, all those problems.

Concerned also that risk taking behaviour, including injecting drug use and sharing of needles, is a significant route for the transmission of HIV AIDS and other blood borne diseases,

Who could whisk away the thought of the one unlikely mouse padding along a cold water pipe behind the floral wallpaper, gripping a single wooden match between the needles of his teeth?

My team at Biosense, a startup I co founded with my doctor and engineer friends, has built a technology called ToucHB, which can do blood testing of hemoglobin without pricks, without needles.

Concerned that risk taking behaviour, including injecting drug use and sharing of needles, syringes and other infected equipment, is a significant route for the transmission of HIV AIDS and other blood borne diseases,

So no surprises then that the proportion that actually used clean needles every time they injected in the last week is just about one in 10, and the other nine in 10 are sharing.

Both countries have epidemics driven by injecting drug users (IDUs) who share needles and syringes, the most efficient way to transmit HIV. Yet proven methods exist to slow the spread of HIV by IDUs.

Concerned also that risk taking behaviour, which can be increased by continued drug use, including injecting drug use and sharing of needles, is a significant route for the transmission of HIV AIDS and other blood borne diseases,

Concerned also that risk taking behaviour, which can be increased by continued drug use, including injecting drug use and sharing of needles, is a significant route for the transmission of HIV AIDS and other blood borne diseases,

We've talked a lot about compassion the last couple of days, and what's happening really is that people are unable quite to bring themselves to put in good sexual and reproductive health services for sex workers, unable quite to be giving out needles to junkies.

The Liu family is one of thousands of poor farming families in China s interior who contracted HIV through contaminated blood donations during the 1990 s, when under regulated for profit blood banking companies reused needles and transferred blood from infected donors to clean donors after extracting the plasma.

But those ways of being rational are not independent of one another, so it's rational for a drug injector to share needles because of a stupid decision that's made by a politician, and it's rational for a politician to make that stupid decision because they're responding to what they think the voters want.

As a consequence, adolescent reproductive health problems prove more complicated as can be seen from the 30 new cases of AIDS reported from April to June 2003. Of the lot, 56.66 percent were caused by the use of contaminated needles, with those aged 20 29 years having the highest percentage of cases (53.33 percent).