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

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by Paola Barahona, Physicians for Human Rights

May 18, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

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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Roundup: HHS Regulation a 'Sneak Attack on Family Planning'

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by Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

September 24, 2008 - 10:27am (Print)

The LA Times calls HHS proposal a 'sneak attack on family planning'; HPV vaccine banned from Catholic school in UK; HIV rates among drug users worldwide rises; Wall Street takes welfare it begrudges to women; Why the election matters for reproductive rights; Jesuit priest embraces social support programs to reduce abortion; Remote control male birth control.
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Multi-Level Barriers to Effective HIV and TB Treatment for IDUs

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by Andrea Weddle, HIV Medicine Association

August 11, 2008 - 8:26am (Print)

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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