The Pharmacy Needle and Syringe Program (PNSP)
Information for Consumers
The Queensland Needle and Syringe Program aims to reduce the incidence of blood-borne viruses and injecting related injuries and diseases. The program supplies sterile injecting equipment to people who inject drugs (PWID) with the aim of ensuring PWID do not re-use and share needles, thus decreasing injection-related harms and reducing the spread of blood-borne viruses within the wider community.1
The PNSP is funded by the Communicable Diseases Branch of Queensland Health and administered by The Pharmacy Guild of Australia, Queensland Branch.
PNSP app available to download
This FREE app allows clients to search for public and pharmacy NSPs across Queensland. It also contains useful information about safe injecting practices, blood borne viruses and overdose.
Find Participating Pharmacies
Locate a pharmacy near you which participates in the PNSP, where you can safely dispose of sharps and access sterile injecting equipment.
Safer Injecting Practices
Safe injecting practices can minimise the transmission of blood borne viruses and injection-related injuries.
Blood Borne Viruses
Blood-borne viruses (BBVs) include hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and the human immune-deficiency virus (HIV).
Page last updated on: 12 October 2023