Related Links
- Principles of Harm Reduction
- The Risk
- Prevention
- Needle Exchange
- Methadone Maintenance
- Street Outreach
- Hepatitis C
- Drouillard Road Clinic
Updated:
As this is the NEW website for the AIDS Committee of Windsor, AIDS Support Chatham-Kent, and the Drouillard Road Clinic, everything is new and in the process of being updated. If by chance there is anything wrong with the information, feel free to contact us.
Harm Reduction
Prevention
There are many ways you can protect yourself from getting HIV when using needles. You can exchange your needles for clean ones for free at the AIDS Committee through our Needle Exchange program, or you can clean your needles.
How to Clean Your Needles
Step 1: Clean Water
| Fill syringe to the top and empty it at least 3 times. Shaking and tapping the syringe when it’s full of bleach or water is good |
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Step 2: Straight Bleach
| Fill syringe to the top and empty it at least 3 times. The longer the bleach or water is in the syringe to the top, the better. Leave the bleach in the syringe and count slowly to 30. When bleach is used, water must be used before injecting. |
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Step 3: Clean Water
| Fill syringe to the top and empty it at least 3 times. Don’t share cotton, cookers, water or other equipment or drug mixtures. |
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