Congress Looks to Lift Two-Decade Ban on Federal Needle Exchange Funds

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iStockphoto When the House of Representatives last week passed legislation lifting a 21-year-old prohibition on federal funding for needle exchange programs, some ban critics cheered the move as a long step toward curbing the spread of blood-borne diseases like HIV. Yet the proposal moving through Congress, according to many health and human rights advocates, has been diluted to the point that it wont help the same urban areas most afflicted by those illnesses. Its too restrictive,

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