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Article: Disgraceful display of political pandering

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August 12, 1997
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Public health and politics make for poor companions. Yet City of Milwaukee officials, including some short-sighted aldermen and the mayor, are letting political considerations distort discussion of city funding for a program that has slowed the spread of AIDS.

Like similar programs around the country, the needle exchange operated here by theAIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin encourages injectable drug users who account for about 25% of new AIDS infections to trade in their contaminated needles for clean ones. This not only reduces the incidence of AIDS among IV drug users, by reducing needle-sharing, but also protects their sex partners,

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