To deal with the local AIDS epidemic, last year the Department of Health (DOH) began to put into effect a "harm reduction" strategy (an approach endorsed by the World Health Organization), with the hope that through the distribution of clean needles and syringes, the scope of infection through shared use of needles to inject drugs will be reduced.
針對國內愛滋疫情，衛生署自去年起開始實施 WHO 建議的「減害療法」，希望藉由乾淨針具的發放，減少因為毒品針具共用而引發的大規模感染。