Clean Needle Program
Needle & Syringe Program
NSP Peer Projects is part of the statewide needle and syringe program.
CNP Peer Projects is part of the statewide Clean Needle Program (CNP). There are many outlets participating in the CNP, making sterile injecting equipment and health information available to people who inject drugs throughout South Australia. CNPs have been instrumental in containing the threat of a major HIV epidemic in Australia and they continue to play an important role in preventing the further spread of hepatitis B and C.
Peer Education
Peer education is a public health strategy that has been demonstrated to be a successful means of supporting people who inject drugs to engage in safer injecting, in turn decreasing the transmission of blood-borne viruses and other injecting related harms.
By approaching illicit drug use as a health issue, not a moral issue, Clean Needle Programs aim to reduce a range of drug related harms. Clean Needle Programs help to:
NSP, making sterile injecting NSPs Needle and Syringe Programs aim to reduce a range of drug related harms. Needle and Syringe Programs help to:
• reduce blood-borne viruses amongst people who inject drugs and the wider community,
• increase illicit drug users’ access to health and drug treatment services,
• reduce risks associated with unsafe injecting practices, and
• improve the overall health and wellbeing of people who inject drugs.
Hepatitis SA
Ph 1800 437 222 or (08) 8362 8443 Fax (08) 8362 8559
3 Hackney Rd Hackney SA 5069 PO Box 782 Kent Town SA 5071 www.hepsa.asn.au
Peer education is effective because people learn best from others like themselves who share the same experiences or values and relate in similar ways. Because illicit drug users often distrust information on drug use coming from mainstream sources, they can best learn about ways of reducing risks from people with similar life experience.
Peer education is also successful at engaging marginalised groups of people who inject drugs such as sex workers, Aboriginal people, homeless people and young people who are at increased risk of injecting-related harms.
Last update: October 2024
Last update: September 2019 SA Health has contributed funds towards this Program.
CNP Peer Projects
NSP Peer Projects is a peer-based
CNP Peer Projects is a peer-based program of Hepatitis SA that aims to improve the health of people who inject drugs, their families and the wider community by providing injecting equipment, information and education to reduce harms associated with injecting.
Kaurna Country
Hepatitis SA NSP Peer Projects: More than a NSP
Hepatitis SA CNP Peer Projects: More than a CNP
The Hepatitis SA NSP Peer Projects employ people who have significant knowledge or experience of injecting as peer educators, who are placed at high volume NSP sites across Adelaide to provide the following services to NSP clients:
The Hepatitis SA CNP Peer Projects employ people who have significant knowledge or experience of injecting as peer educators, who are placed at high volume CNP sites across Adelaide to provide the following services to CNP clients:
• An extended range of sterile injecting equipment and disposal options
• An extended range of sterile injecting equipment and disposal options
• Sterile water, wheel filters, Sterifilt filters and tourniquets available in small amounts at no cost
• Including the following equipment on a cost recovery basis: sterile water, sterile filters, tourniquets.
• Peer education and support relating to injecting drug related harms, in particular to prevent blood-borne viruses such as HIV and viral hepatitis
• Peer education and support relating to injecting drug related harms, in particular to prevent blood-borne viruses such as HIV and viral hepatitis.
• Information and education on issues relating to injecting drug use and health
• Information and education on issues relating to injecting drug use and health
• Appropriate referrals in relation to health, social services and welfare, including drug treatment services
• Appropriate referrals in relation to health, social services and welfare, including drug treatment services
Fixed-site peer educators are located in the following NSP sites. Please call Hepatitis SA or visit www.hepsa.asn.au for days and times.
Fixed-site peer educators are located in the following CNP sites. Please call Hepatitis SA or visit www.hepsa.asn.au for days and times.
Noarlunga Health Village
Noarlunga Health Precinct
Alexander Kelly Drive
Alexander Kelly Drive
Noarlunga 5169
Noarlunga 5169
Ph: 8384 9661
Ph: 8384 9661
Wonggangga Turtpandi Aboriginal
Sessional Peers
Sessional Peers
Primary Health Care Services
Wonggangga Turtpandi Aboriginal
In addition to the fixed sites, the CNP Peer Projects has a Sessional Peer Education Project. Our sessional peer educators are placed on a regular day per week at high-volume CNP sites that engage our priority populations. This collaboration works effectively to enhance the CNP service at that site by adding an experienced and knowledgeable peer educator to interact with service users about harm reduction information and methods.
Primary Health Care Services
cnr Church and Dale Streets
cnr Church and Dale Streets
Port Adelaide 5015
Port Adelaide 5015
Ph: 8240 9613
Ph: 8240 9613
DASSA Northern Services
DASSA Northern Services
22 Langford Street
22 Langford Street
Elizabeth 5112
Elizabeth 5112
Ph: 7485 4625
Ph: 7485 4621
Sessional peer educators are located in the following CNP sites. Please call Hepatitis SA or visit www.hepsa.asn.au for days and times.
Uniting Communities
43 Franklin St, Adelaide (cnr Franklin & Pitt Streets)
In addition to the fixed sites, the NSP Peer Projects has a Sessional Peer Education Project. Our sessional peer educators are placed on a regular day per week at high-volume NSP sites that engage our priority populations. This collaboration works effectively to enhance the NSP service at that site by adding an experienced and knowledgeable peer educator to interact with service users about harm reduction information and methods. Sessional peer educators are located in the following NSP sites. Please call Hepatitis SA or visit www.hepsa.asn.au for days and times.
Adelaide 5000
Ph: 8202 5152
Uniting Communities
43 Franklin St, Adelaide (cnr Franklin & Pitt Streets)
Nunkuwarrin Yunti 182-190 Wakefield Street
Adelaide 5000 Ph: 8202 5152
Adelaide 5000 Ph: 8406 1600
Salvation Army Sobering Up Unit
Anglicare SA
62 Whitmore Square
91-93
Elizabeth Way
Adelaide 5000
Elizabeth 5112
Ph: 8212 2855
Ph: 8209 5422
Drug Arm
249 Diagonal Road
Warradale 5046
Ph: 82964 777
Kurlana Tampawardli Hendon
45 Tapleys Hill Rd
Hendon 5014
Ph: 8202 5610
