Abstract
Abstract The spread of AIDS has led to a proliferation in the number of schemes relating to harm prevention. Needle exchange programmes are among the most controversial of such measures. They aim to provide the drug user with clean needles, syringes and other injecting equipment. Such schemes present some potentially very difficult legal problems not least in the area of client confidentiality. This paper examines the obligation of confidentiality arising in the operation of the Needle Exchange the situations in which such confidentiality may be broken and the legal consequences should that breach occur to the needle exchange worker, the drug user and other persons such as the drug user's sexual partner.
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