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180 Delegación del Gobierno para el Plan Nacional sobre Drogas, supra, note 155 at 58.
181 Ministerio Del Interior/Ministerio De Sanidad y Consumo, supra, note 156 at 5.
182 Ibid at 6.
183 Ibid at 6-7.
184 Sanz Sanz et al, supra, note 151.
185 J Sanz Sanz, P Hernando Briongos, JA López Blanco. Syringe-exchange programmes in Spanish prisons. In Connections:The
Newsletter of the European Network Drug Services in Prison & Central and Eastern European Network of Drug Services in Prison 2003; 13:
9-12.
186 Ministerio Del Interior/Ministerio De Sanidad y Consumo, supra, note 156 at 11.
187 Ibid at 16-17.
188 Ibid at 11.
189 Ibid at 14.
190 Recomendaciones sobre los Programas de Intercombio de Jeringuillas (PIJ). Obtained from the Prisión Soto de Real, Madrid. Copy on
file.
191 Ministerio Del Interior/Ministerio De Sanidad y Consumo, supra, note 156 at 10.
192 Ibid.
193 Ibid at 12.
194 Information on the Bilbao evaluation is summarized from Menoyo et al, supra, note 176.
195 Spanish Focal Point, supra, note 4 at 60.
196 Ministerio Del Interior/Ministerio De Sanidad y Consumo, supra, note 156 at 5.
197 Sanz Sanz et al, supra, note 185. Officials from the Spanish prison service and the National Plan on Drugs interviewed for the
preparation of this report also confirmed that there have been no instances of program syringes being misused or used as
weapons.
198 Sanz Sanz, supra, note 151.
199 Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and World Health Organization (UNAIDS/WHO). Republic of Moldova:
Epidemiological Fact Sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections – 2002 Update at 2, 6.
200 Figure provided by Health Reform in Prisons, November 2002.
201 There are 20 prisons in Moldova incarcerating approximately 10,500 people.
202 Figures provided by Health Reform in Prisons, November 2002.
203 The numbers in this column represent known HIV/AIDS cases identified at any point during the calendar year.The number of
HIV/AIDS cases during the year was not necessarily constant, given the turnover in the prison population, and accounting for
deaths.
204 For more information about the Open Society Institute and its International Harm Reduction Development Program, see
www.soros.org/initiatives/ihrd.
205 Figures provided by Health Reform in Prisons, November 2002.
206 Much of the information on the two Moldovan projects comes from conference presentations by Dr Larisa Pintelli and Dr
Nicolae Bodrug of Health Reform in Prisons. International Harm Reduction Development Prison Grantees Conference, Chisinau,
Moldova, May 2002.
207 N Bodrug.A pilot project breaks down resistance. In Harm Reduction News: Newsletter of the International Harm Reduction
Development Program of the Open Society Institute 2002; 3(2).
208 Dr Larisa Pintelli of Health Reform in Prisons, Moldova. Private correspondence dated 13 May 2003.
209 Dr Larisa Pintelli of Health Reform in Prisons, Moldova. Conference presentation, November 2002, and private correspondence
dated 13 May 2003.
210 Pintelli, private correspondence dated 19 May 2002.
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