Exploring the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on syringe services programs in rural kentucky

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    In many jurisdictions in the USA, syringe services programs (SSPs) remained open during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide several life-sustaining and health protective services to PWID, including access to sterile injection equipment and overdose prevention resources. While SSPs have existed in the USA since the 1980s, the COVID-19 pandemic introduced new obstacles for program implementation given social distancing and other COVID-19 mitigation strategies, impacts on funding, and additional stresses on program operations and operators. This analysis aims to better understand how the COVID-19 pandemic affected SSP implementation and expansion . . .

     

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