If someone then tries to reuse it, it locks and breaks afterwards.

So we need a better product. And we need better information.

UNICEF continued to support safe injection practices through injection safety training and the exclusive use of auto disable (AD) syringes with injectable vaccines.

I'll give you one, a syringe.

And that will stop reusing a syringe 20 or 30 times.

Syringe

Syringe, please.

Here's your syringe

And it costs the same as a normal syringe.

Are the hypodermics disinfected?

Instruments and equipment using radioactive substances, etc.

And you'll see, just now, a nurse coming back to the tray, which is their sort of modular station, and dropping the syringe she's just used back in the tray for it to be picked up and used again.

Research has shown that with the increased awareness of health risks associated with injecting drug use, such as HIV or hepatitis, some injectors have switched to non injecting use of heroin.

In most cases, they are injecting drug users.

Injecting drug use practice is not limited to intravenous injecting, but also include intramuscular or subcutaneous injecting.

The authorization or legalization and promotion of needle and syringe exchange programmes

So, it's a normal looking syringe.

Access to needle and syringe programmes

You load it up in the normal way. This is made on existing equipment in 14 factories that we license.

The reuse of syringes now exceeds that and kills 1.3 million people a year.

In many cases, use of contaminated drug injecting equipment was the main route of transmission of HIV, as well as hepatitis.

Then I got a syringe with the stuff that's needed.

So recycling and reuse are the major issues here.

And that job is that they go around and pick up syringes from the back of hospitals, wash them, and in the course of this, obviously picking them up they injure themselves.

You gotta carry the bottle, you gotta carry the syringe.

Reuse of syringes, all too common in under funded clinics, kills 1.3 million each year. Marc Koska clues us in to this devastating global problem with facts, photos and hidden camera footage. He shares his solution a low cost syringe that can't be used twice.

Marc Koska 1.3m reasons to re invent the syringe

(a) The abuse of drugs, particularly intravenous abuse, within prisons.

We're actually injecting contrast into the organ.

In China, recycling is a major issue.

That bottle of alcohol and the broken syringe.

You get it, either in pill form or you get it as an injection you have to take it every day to maintain your blood sugar levels.

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B. Drug abuse by injection 18 25 7

The risk of contracting infections like hepatitis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) because of sharing of injecting equipment is well known.

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This young girl and her friend that I met in an orphanage in Delhi were HIV positive from a syringe.

And they are collected en mass you can see the scale of it here and sorted out, by hand, back into the right sizes, and then put back out on the street.

The Committee had focused on exposures from natural sources of radiation, exposures from man made sources of radiation, medical radiation exposures, the production and use of radio isotopes, nuclear power production, occupational radiation exposures, nuclear weapons testing and accidents.

Regarding drug abuse, UNODC will aim to significantly increase and improve overall awareness of and service provision to IDUs, especially those living in countries where the use of contaminated injection equipment is or could become a major route of HIV transmission.

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(g) They offer versatile routes of application, because they can be ingested orally, sniffed, inhaled or injected

(b) The manufacture, procurement, storage, transfer or use of nuclear or other hazardous radioactive material or special devices (nuclear explosive or radiation dispersal) for the purpose of

3. Countries and territories reporting injecting drug use and human immuno deficiency virus among injecting drug users 10

Some 72 UNICEF assisted countries are now exclusively using AD syringes for routine immunization, compared to 45 in 2002.