Agency:
Street Outreach Services, AIDS Vancouver Island
Summary:
A quarterly zine produced for and by current or past drug users and sex trade workers with the goal of sharing information and building community among people who use Street Outreach Services (SOS), a program of AIDS Vancouver Island. This issue includes: Marty's Inside/Outside column about discrimination in elections for committee chairman at William Head Prison and fighting for a needle exchange program at William Head Prison; Dear Kate answers questions about cooking coke and heroin; an anonymous story about loneliness and getting clean; "At Peace with the Wolves" by Domestic Junkie; Megan's My Opinion column is about acknowledging the things she liked about sex trade work; info about people not responding to Hep A and B vaccines; Minneh Kamau's story of being an HIV+ refugee claimant on disability; two pages of poems by various authors; an update on the SOS needle exchange; letters to the editor; info about SOS programs; info about the acupuncture clinic; a list of the things street nurses do and the street nurse schedule; good numbers to know for all kinds of services.
Keywords:
AIDS service organization (ASO); harm reduction; injection drug use (IDU); HIV/AIDS; sex trade workers