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[412] THE NEED FOR SAFE INJECTION SITES AND PRESCRIBED DRUGS AS HARM REDUCTION MEASURES: PERCEPTIONS OF TORONTO INJECTION DRUG USERS (IDU)
Peggy Millson^1,3, Walter Cavalieri¹, Robert Bright¹, Carol Strike^1,2, Liviana Calzavara^1,3, Ted Myers^1,3
1HIV Social, Behavioural and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Toronto; ²Center for Addiction and Mental Health; ³Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

[413] ESTABLISHING SAFE INJECTION FACILITIES: LEGAL ISSUES IN THE CANADIAN CONTEXT
Ian Malkin¹, Richard Elliott², Jennifer Gold^3
1University of Melbourne (Faculty of Law); ²Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network; ³McGill University (Faculty of Law)

[414] SAFER INJECTION FACILITIES IN NORTH AMERICA: THEIR PLACE IN PUBLIC POLICY AND HEALTH INITIATIVES
RS Broadhead¹, T Kerr², JPC Grund³, FL Altice^4
1University of Connecticut; ²Department of Educational Psychology, University of Victoria; ³DV8 Research, Development & Training Institute, Frankfurt; ⁴Yale University School of Medicine

[415] MAXIMISING EFFICACY OF RESEARCH INVOLVING INJECTION DRUG USERS (IDU)
Darlène Palmer¹, Catherine Hankins^1,2, Marianne Tonnelier^3
1Direction de la Santé Publique Montréal-Centre; ²Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University; ³CACTUS-Montréal, Montreal, Quebec

[416] CANADA’S CONTINUING APARTHEID: THE HIV RISK PROFILES OF ABORIGINAL WOMEN WHO USE INJECTION DRUGS IN VANCOUVER’S DTES
PM Spittal^1,2, N Laliberte¹, R Brooks¹, W Small¹, MV O’Shaughnessy^1,3, MT Schechter^1,2
1British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS; ²Department of Health Care & Epidemiology; ³Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology; ⁴Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

[417] RESPONDING TO AN EMERGENCY: EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, AND COMMUNITY CARE BY A PEER-DRIVEN ORGANIZATION OF DRUG USERS
T Kerr¹, E Wood², D Douglas³, W Peaace³, A St Pierre^3
1Department of Educational Psychology; ²BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS; ³Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, Vancouver, British Columbia