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Needle
Exchange:
House
passes
amendment
that
would
strip
Shalala
of
the
power
to
lift
the
ban
on
using
Federal
AIDS
funding
for
needle
exchange
9/12/97
On Thursday, September 11, an Amendment to H.R.2264 which strips the
authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to lift the ban
on the use of federal AIDS- prevention funding for needle exchange programs,
passed in a floor vote. The bill, which is the House version of the FY98
appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, will now go to conference. The Senate's appropriations bill
contains no such provision.
"It will get more difficult from here," said Keith Cylar,
Co-Executive Director of Housing Works, Inc., the largest minority-run
AIDS service agency in the country. "While they're playing politics
in there, people are contracting this virus and dying. We're going to need
to have a very strong showing at the demonstration in Washington on September
17 to let some people know that this is unacceptable."
For more information about the September 17 demonstration in Washington
DC, call Chris Lanier at (212) 213-6376, fax to (212) 213-6582, or email
to [email protected] or visit http://www.safeworks.org/savelivesnow/
on the web.
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Issue #11, 9/12/97
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