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Syringe Exchange

A Crucial Step for Advancing HIV/AIDS Prevention

Kevin Robert Frost | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Politics, Congress, Prevention, Kevin Robert Frost, National AIDS Strategy, Appropriations, Syringe Exchange, Amfar, Politics News
Kevin Robert Frost

With more flexibility to use federal funds for evidence-based programs, including syringe exchange programs, local governments and agencies will be better equipped to combat HIV transmission in their communities.

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House Committee Zeroes Out Traditional Sources of Ab-Only Funding, Removes Ban on Syringe Exchange

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Teen Pregnancy, Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Contraception, Abstinence Education, Syringe Exchange, Abstinence Only, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Politics News
Jodi Jacobson

Needle-exchange programs were banned for many years solely due to ideological opposition and false charges that such programs encouraged further drug use.

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New York Midnight Heroes

The Huffington Post | Stephanie Harnett | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Community Service, Hiv, New York, All for Good, South Bronx, Lower Manhattan, Syringe Exchange, Volunteering, Service, Health, Volunteer, Needle Exchange, Diabetes, Hepatitis C, Healthcare, New York Harm Reduction Educators, Living News

Terrell Jones can't be tired. It's midnight on a Saturday, but he must wipe the sleep out of his eyes because his night is just beginning. Jones is ...

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USA Fumbles UN Drug Policy in Vienna

Allan Clear | Posted 04.11.2009 | World

Read More: Needle Exchange, United Nations, Harm Reduction, Obama Administration, Drugs, Syringe Exchange, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, World News
Allan Clear

Will this be the year that member states will move towards a public health and human rights approach to drug policy? The signs have not been good.

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Obama's Choice: Sane U.N. Drug Policy or the Same Old Failed War-on-Drugs Routine?

Allan Clear | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Harm Reduction, Drugs, Syringe Exchange, Obama, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, United Nations, World News
Allan Clear

By making drug use as dangerous as possible, the US has facilitated the spread of HIV and hepatitis, and has created a prison system unlike anything since the Soviet gulags.

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New Bill Would Allow Federal Funds for Syringe Exchange

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 02.07.2009 | Living

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Syringe Exchange, Hiv, Prevention, Aids, Pepfar, Jose Serrano, Needle Exchange, Health, Public Health, Living News
Jodi Jacobson

Syringe exchange and other tales of corrupted policy are the neglected underbelly of the global AIDS success story of the Bush Administration, undermining efforts to prevent new infections.

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