Syringes discarded in public areas are assumed to have been used for intravenous drug use, thereby carrying a risk of bloodborne virus transmission including HIV. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill / The Irish TimesA small number of claims by Dublin City Council workers accidentally pricked by discarded syringes are being processed every year.
“Needles are like mines, they are out there, they are a threat,” said Mannix Flynn, an inner city councillor who said the city’s backstreets and other areas are often “awash with needles”. Mr Flynn, who had been a vocal opponent to a proposed injecting centre in the capital, said such a facility would not reduce discarded waste. “It absolutely would not,” he said. “What reduces the number of needles is rehab and detox.”
While treatment and vaccines have significantly reduced the threat from hepatitis infection, HIV could also be warded off successfully where patients receive fast Pep treatment, reducing the chance of infection by 99 per cent.
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