Harm Reduction Outreach Needs to Get Comfortable With Booty-Bumping

Harm Reduction Outreach Needs to Get Comfortable With Booty-Bumping

A few years back I had an outreach-based job doing hepatitis C testing and treatment, with participants who were often in some form of chronic homelessness. Navigating someone all the way from getting tested to getting cured can take more than a year, depending on how chaotic their housing situation is, so you get pretty comfortable with each other. In my case I ended up talking to a lot of people who injected drugs about the circumstances under…