The Mersey Model

The Mersey Model

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 1, 2021

Runtime

0h 7m

Original Title

The Mersey Model

Production Companies

Visual AIDS

Director

Danny Kilbride

Description

Danny Kilbride interviews Professor John Ashton, a public health official who helped institute the Mersey Model of Harm Reduction in Liverpool in 1986, the first government-funded needle exchange program in the UK. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2021 as part of ENDURING CARE, a program of seven new videos highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic.