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SafePoint is a charitable organisation founded with the sole purpose of educating un-informed public on the dangers of receiving unsafe injections. Syringe re-use is the main source of cross-infection in the developing world, infecting innocent people with blood borne diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis B and C. A syringe is re-used on average 4 times in the developing world, making a trip to your local doctor or healthcare worker a game of Russian roulette.

Our mission is to inform the public but also to lobby at ministerial level for a change in legislation, urging governments to adopt a safe injection policy. Such policy has led to the implementation of auto disable syringes, which eradicates the possibility of syringe re-use and saves millions of lives in the process.

Putting safe injection policy in place and enforcing it, also eliminates the huge financial burden of caring for those infected, not only in terms of hospitalisation and nursing, but in the procurement of medication and long term treatment of patients.

Please donate to Safepoint
http://www.justgiving.com/TheClimb-Tanzania2010




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