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Table 1 Needles Distributed and Recovered by the NGO in Victoria in 2008 and 2009.

From: Impact: a case study examining the closure of a large urban fixed site needle exchange in Canada

2008

Distributed

Recovered

April

28,038

26,562

May* The closure was May 31.

n/a

n/a

June

16,700

7.500

July

25,000

19,000

August

27,000

10,700

September

24,473

21,647**

October

22,095

7,966

November

24,862

16,503

December

14,885

5,932

January, 2009

16,256

10,139

February, 2009

17,900

18,200

March, 2009

21,100

9,100

April, 2009

21,943

17,361

May, 2009

18,037

8,961

TOTAL

285,151

177,409

  1. *The data base of the NGO corrupted the data for May so the numbers are not available.
  2. ** This includes one client who brought in 10,000 needles.