NEWSBRIEFS	TOPICS AIDS/Needle Exchange
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• December 1995
  • Health Emergency Report Released
     
• November 1995
  • Government Report Supports Lifting Ban on Federal Funding for Needle Exchange
     
• October 1995
  • Swiss Legalization Experiment Praised, Attacked
     
• April 1995
  • Needle Exchange Volunteers File Suit Against Alameda County

• March 1995
  • Drug Policy Foundation Releases Secret Internal Administration Reports on Needle Exchange
  • Legal Problems for Oakland's Needle Exchange Continue; Five Needle Exchange Workers Acquitted
  • CDC Report Finds Spread of AIDS Epidemic Increasingly Tied to Drug Addiction, Prompts Examination of Current AIDS Prevention Policies
     
• February 1995
  • Oakland City Council Members Volunteer Help, Offer Support to Needle Exchange Program
  • U.S. Conference of Mayors Reports on Needle Exchange Policy Implications and Pilot Programs
  • NIDA Publishes Research Monograph on HIV Risk Among Drug Users
  • Harm Reduction -- A Framework for Incorporating Science into Drug Policy, by Don C. Des Jarlais, M.D., reprinted from the American Journal of Public Health
     
• January 1995
  • Study Finds that HIV Prevention Programs for Injection Drug Users Must be Tailored to Local Needs
  • Study Finds Effectiveness of Needle Exchange Increases With Rapidity of Needle Turn-In
  • National Academy of Sciences Needle Exchange Study Announced
     
• August 1994
  • Maryland Citizens Support Clean Needle Exchange
  • Consumer Reports on AIDS and the Needle Exchange
     
• July 1994
  • Studies Find That Addicts Will Use Needle Exchange Programs
     
• July 1993
  • New Federal AIDS Program Coordinator Backs Needle Exchange
     
• June 1993
  • Burma's Ban on Condoms, Current Needle Ban, Pushed Up HIV Infection Rate
     
• April 1993
  • NIDA Warns That Bleach Fails to Kill HIV but Fails To Endorse Needle Exchange
  • Rangel Cites GAO Study in Criticism of Needle-Exchange
  • San Francisco Defies State, Backs Needle Exchange Program

• March 1993
  • AIDS Rate Plunges, Crime Drops After Scots Start Providing Oral Drugs
  • New York Needle Exchanges Proving Highly Successful in Reducing Needle Sharing

• February 1993
  • U.S. Deaths From AIDS to Double by 1995