Did You Know...?

For over 18 years the AIDS Committee of Windsor has served the Windsor and Essex counties with one of the most effective and far reaching Harm Reduction programs in Canada!

Since 1993, the AIDS Committee of Windsor has distributed more than 1.8 million clean needles with a phenomenal return rate of 99.02%!

This means that not only is the ACW helping to keep our community free of used needles, but according to Dr. Jeff Cohen at the HIV Care Clinic, “Windsor/Essex has one of the lowest HIV rates among People who use Drugs (PUDs) because of the needle exchange program run by the ACW.”

Rooted in the measures taken to reduce the spread of HIV among injection drug users in the 1980s, the most commonly accepted definition of harm reduction is "measures taken to address drug problems that are open to outcomes other than abstinence or cessation of use." - Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse.