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Table 2 Needles distributed and recovered by all service providers 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	45,400	36,900
May* May 31st was the closure
June	24,700	13,400
July	33,400	24,000
August	36,500	19,700
September	34,213	27, 383* *
October	29,805	12,617
November	34,405	23,914
December	26,494	18,743
January, 2009	25,146	17,140
February, 2009	26,100	27,200
March, 2009	28,000	18,000
April, 2009	33,035	23,064
May, 2009	24,095	19,235
TOTAL	401,293	281,296

* The data base for the NGO corrupted the data for May so the numbers are not available
**Includes one client who returned 10,000 needles.

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