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Article: `Kaki jab' signs up for needle exchange
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- April 5, 2006
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Jonathan Chen
New Straits Times
04-05-2006
`Kaki jab' signs up for needle exchange
Byline: Jonathan Chen
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
PENANG: Mat (not his real name) has been dropping in at a drug rehabilitation centre in Penang for the past month to pick up free needles and enjoy a hot meal.
The 42-year-old intravenous drug user has signed up for the HIV/ AIDS "harm reduction" programme aimed at preventing the spread of the virus by exchanging syringes, distributing condoms and offering Methadone Maintenance Therapy (MMT).
Until the needle exchange, Mat had lost track of the many people he had shared his needles with. Now, he says, he is not sharing needles any more.
"I think this needle ...