Oakland site
12:00-3PM every Sunday at Health Department, 3333 Forbes Avenue

We are located at the back of the Health Department building at 3333 Forbes Avenue in Oakland, between 5th and Forbes Avenue. Turn on Halket and then Euler Way. You can drive up the driveway and into the parking lot. We are the second door to the right.

At 1:30pm at Oakland site every Sunday, we offer an Overdose Prevention Class with Narcan distribution.

Hill District Van site
1:30-3:00PM every Wednesday afternoon at Centre and Elmore Streets
Look for unmarked white van

Needle exchange and case management services are offered at other times during the week by appointment. For needle exchange, call 412-247-3404 or 412-758-4257.

We offer Overdose Prevention and Response Trainings with Narcan distribution at 1:30pm every Sunday at the Oakland site.

The training includes information on how to prevent overdose, symptoms of overdose, how to do rescue breathing, what to expect if you call 911 and how to give someone Narcan. At the end of the training, a physician will review your medical history and provide Narcan to use in case of an overdose.

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• Prevention Point Pittsburgh was started in May of 1995, when two Pittsburgh AIDS activists set up a sterile needle program on their own, in the city's Hill District. Soliciting small donations to purchase supplies, a handful of volunteers began providing sterile syringes, alcohol wipes, condoms and biohazard containers to injection drug users.



• By 1997, Prevention Point Pittsburgh was thriving. Each week, at a row of card tables on a sidewalk in the Hill District, a growing number of volunteers provided supplies and referrals for medical care, drug treatment, and other human services. Used syringes were collected and safely disposed of. The exchange operated openly on the street and became widely known and respected among drug injectors, community members, public health and AIDS service organizations and police officers.



• In November of 2001 the Allegheny County Board of Health declared a public health emergency with regard to HIV and Hepatitis C, effectively making needle exchange legal in Allegheny County.



• On April 7th, 2002 Prevention Point began operating a legal, officially sanctioned syringe exchange program



• After 7 years of operating underground, Prevention Point Pittsburgh is now able to operate legally in Allegheny County. This has allowed for collaboration with other agencies to offer free, anonymous HIV testing and counseling at the site.



• Prevention Case Management services are also now available at the site, including harm reduction education on HIV and Hepatitis C prevention, overdose prevention as well as assistance with getting other types of services, such as mental health services, primary medical care, drug treatment, housing.



• Our new legal status enables us to do more effective outreach as well as collaborate more effectively with other service providers such as drug and alcohol treatment, medical care and mental health providers.



• We are working hard to build and expand Prevention Point's outreach and syringe distribution as well as community education and other services as well as advocating for change in policy toward syringe access on the local, state and national level



• Prevention Point Pittsburgh is a 5013c non-profit corporation. Our funding continues to come largely from private foundations and individual contributions. Local funders include the Maurice Falk Medical Fund, Three Rivers Community Foundation, Jewish Health Care Foundation, Staunton Farm Foundation and the Birmingham Foundation

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