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Obama Budget Retains Needle Exchange Ban, Leaving Drug Users and Others at Risk

By Paola Barahona, Physicians for Human Rights

May 18, 2009 - 8:00am

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President Obama has repeatedly expressed his support for lifting the ban on federal funding of needle exchange programs. So why it is still in his 2010 budget?

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Multi-Level Barriers to Effective HIV and TB Treatment for IDUs

By Andrea Weddle, HIV Medicine Association

August 11, 2008 - 8:26am

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Twenty-five percent of IDUs reside in Eastern Europe and largely account for the rise in TB and HIV in the countries of the former Soviet Union.

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