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Advocate: Prevent makeshift needle use
By The Canadian Press
Published: 07/15/2008

CANADA - The director of a national HIV/AIDS advocacy group says Ottawa needs to do more to prevent jail inmates from contracting diseases through drug use and tattooing.

Richard Elliot, executive director of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, said many inmates are drug users who often resort to makeshift needles made from things like ballpoint pens to inject themselves and pass around to other inmates. Read more.

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