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In the last 10 years in Australia...

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31 million syringes handed out

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Preventing32, 050 new HIV infections

96, 667 new Hepatitis C infections

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producing savings of $1.28 billion in healthcare costs

For every dollar invested in NSPs, more

than four dollars were returned in saved healthcare costs

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If you include savings in lost productivity then 1 syringe handed out saves $27

Making dollars Making dollars and sense of and sense of needle syringe needle syringe programsprograms

Needle Syringe Programs: saving your money since 1984

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