South Australian Voice in IV Education
Street Address
64 Fullarton Rd
Norwood SA
Australia
Postal Address
PO Box 907
Kent Town SA 5071
Australia
Telephone
08 8334 1699
Facsimile
08 8363 1046
Website
http://www.acsa.org.au/savive.html
Email
savive@savive.org.au
SAVIVE is a program of the AIDS Council of SA and is founded on the principles of peer education and community development. SAVIVE’s primary target is the injecting community and our motto is By Users For Users. SAVIVE recognises and acknowledges the expertise and experience of people who inject drugs as a vital component of the program - users are involved in the co-ordination of the program, and the provision of services, at all levels.
SAVIVE provides injecting equipment, information, advocacy, referrals and support to injectors. We also provide users’ perspectives into the development of strategies, policies and services that affect people who inject drugs and provide education to the wider community.
Resources
- Veintenance (in collaboration with Drug and Alcohol Services Council): A small sized booklet about caring for veins and injection sites. Veintenance is a comprehensive resource covering a range of vein-care related issues.
- Vein Care (in collaboration with Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council): Less ‘text heavy’ than Veintenance, it is a foldout resource about vein care, reducing vein damage and finding veins. Vein Care is aimed at local Indigenous injectors and includes some commonly used words in one of the Indigenous languages.
- Pure-S: The magazine of the SA injecting community, produced by SAVIVE, comes out about 2-3 times a year. Look out for the new edition of Pure-S (winter 2004) in early June.
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