West Virginia is facing its second large HIV outbreak in two years, and the federal government is in Charleston to help. But there’s a key difference between the tools that are available now, and the ones the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could use during Cabell County’s 2019 outbreak: new restrictions from both the capital city and the state on programs that distribute sterile syringes.
Robin Pollini, a professor at West Virginia University’s School of Medicine and School of Public Health, discusses harm reduction programs in this recent article about the outbreak in Charleston.