1.   Drug users are at risk when they share needles.

2.   Drug users need to know that sharing needles is high-risk behaviour.

3.   Drug users were warned about the dangers of sharing needles.

4.   In addition, IDUs often share needles with the same small cluster of people, keeping infection within a limited circle.

5.   Most of these people use intramuscular steroids, although only one admits to having shared needles at any time.

6.   The rest were mainly infected as a result of injecting drugs and sharing needles.

7.   We are getting the message across to drug users that sharing needles is a high-risk behaviour.

8.   If kids are jacking up and sharing needles, there is the added risk of them catching HIV or hepatitis.

9.   And they no longer share needles with each other.

10.   A shortage of syringes, public health officials say, led addicts to share needles.