How much does needle exchange cost?
According to King County in Seattle Washington, Combined total cost for needle exchange programs in Seattle-King County in 2001 is $775,000. This compares with $120,000 to $150,000 in medical costs to care for just one person with AIDS from the time of infection to death. By preventing infections in just five people per year, the needle exchange more than pays for itself. By preventing HIV infections in just 1% of the injection drug users in King County, the program saves over $18 million in AIDS-related medical costs. In this light, the exchange provides both a public health and an economic benefit to the residents of Seattle and King County. How much misery and wrongful deaths do we have to watch because the current president of the US, and his administration just doesn t care about people. What George Bush doesn t think about is the misery a person has to go through when they have AIDS in the end. I wish he would be taken on a forced vacation to a hospital where people are in the la
