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December 2021 Newsletter

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Mayor de Blasio Announces Nation’s First Overdose Prevention Center Services to Open in NYC

 

New York City will become the first U.S. city to open authorized overdose prevention centers (OPCs), i.e., safe places where people who use drugs can receive medical care and be connected to treatment and social services. Several years ago, the NYC Health Department released “Overdose Prevention in New York City: Supervised Injection as a Strategy to Reduce Opioid Overdose and Public Injection,” a feasibility study that found that establishing four OPCs could avert up to 130 overdoses and save up to $7 million in public health care costs annually. NYC’s first OPCs will open in existing spaces of the Washington Heights Corner Project and the NY Harm Reduction Educators.

The Mayor’s press release announcing the OPCs is available here, and New York Times coverage of the announcement is here.

World Hepatitis Summit Call for Abstracts


The theme of the World Hepatitis Summit 2022 is “Achieving the elimination of viral hepatitis within evolving health systems”. The World Hepatitis Summit 2022 is co-sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO). Successful authors will be contacted in January 2022 for presentation.

Abstract Deadline December 14, 2021. Click here for more information. 
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New York City Health Department Hepatitis A, B and C in NYC
2020 Annual Report

 
The latest surveillance and programmatic data on viral hepatitis in NYC. Use these data to inform hepatitis intervention planning, apply for funding, and educate providers and patients!
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