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Ho's & Hypes Vol.2, No. 1

Publication type: 
Newsletter
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Agency: 
Street Outreach Services, AIDS Vancouver Island
Date: 
1999-01
Pages: 
20
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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 is about the support work that SOS does; Dear Kate writes about necrotizing fasciitis (flesh eating disease); "Gittin' Mad: A Prison Hep C Story" by Mike; a story about addiction by Domestic Junkie; Megan's My Opinion column is about bad dates; safety tips for sex trade work; info on what to do if someone is ODing; crazy-ass crossword puzzle; two pages of poems by various authors; "The Mystery of A.W.: Is He Alive or Dead?" by RJ McGillivray; 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