Articles tagged as: HIV outbreak
January 18, 2022
Former Surgeon General says all the ingredients exist for another HIV outbreak in Scott County
Dr. Jerome Adams says he is concerned about the potential for another HIV outbreak in southeast Indiana now that Scott County has closed its needle exchange.
Read MoreJune 3, 2021
Scott County Commissioners Vote To End Groundbreaking Needle Exchange
Scott County's needle exchange program has been credited with slowing the severe HIV outbreak that rocked the rural county in 2015, and is now seen as the national benchmark for how similar programs should operate. It will stop operating Jan. 1, 2022.
Read MoreMay 6, 2021
Credited With Slowing The HIV Outbreak, Scott County's Needle Exchange Now In Jeopardy
Syringe service programs, also called needle exchanges, provide intravenous drug users with clean needles and a place to dispose of used ones.
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2019
Report Highlights Scott County Success Fighting HIV Epidemic
In 2015, Scott County experienced an HIV outbreak fueled by the injection of opioids. Since then the county has been able to reduce the number of new cases.
Read MoreSeptember 18, 2018
Early Intervention In Scott Co. HIV Outbreak Could Have Drastically Reduced Infections
A new study looked at whether or not early intervention would have changed the dynamics of the outbreak. Researchers hope it illustrates a valuable lesson for communities in the future.
Read MoreJanuary 25, 2018
Viral Maps Show Exactly How Scott County's HIV Outbreak Spread
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used a novel disease-mapping method to study how the 2015 HIV outbreak was transmitted.
Read MoreOctober 31, 2017
Scott Co. Doctor: Syringe Exchanges Shouldn't Be Politicized
Scott County opened the state's first syringe exchange program in 2015 after then-Governor Mike Pence declared a public health emergency.
Read MoreApril 20, 2016
Scott County Asking State To Continue Needle Exchange
People packed into a small meeting room Wednesday as the Scott County Commissioners considered whether to approve the health board's request to continue the program.
Read MoreApril 5, 2016
A Year After Indiana's Historic HIV Outbreak, Addiction Treatment Lags
Since the beginning of last year, only 69 Scott County residents have gone into the inpatient rehab program run by the community mental health center, and that includes the people who didn't finish.
Read MoreMarch 31, 2016
Inside A Small Brick House At The Heart Of Indiana's Opioid Crisis
Prescription painkiller abuse sparked an HIV outbreak in rural Indiana. Kelly McEvers takes NPR's new podcast, Embedded, inside the home where IV drug users meet.
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