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Needle-Exchange Programs

"Needle-Exchange Programs" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Organized services for exchange of sterile needles and syringes used for injections as a potential means of reducing the transmission of infectious diseases.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Needle-Exchange Programs" by people in this website by year, and whether "Needle-Exchange Programs" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2001
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