http://www.harmreduction.org/ http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=729 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=729 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=714 <div class="text blurb">If most Americans knew, by simply removing a political plank in congressional appropriation bills, that we could reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS in the United States by up to one-third, they would run to their congressional representative's office and demand answers. </div> Thu, 07 Feb 2008 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=714 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=713 <div class="text blurb">Washington, D.C., which has the nation's highest HIV infection rate, can now use its own funds for needle exchange thanks to recent congressional action lifting a local ban. And New Jersey's first trial needle exchange program began in November in Atlantic City.</div> Thu, 07 Feb 2008 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=713 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=712 <div class="text blurb">The National Association of Colored People, the National Urban League, the National Minority AIDS Council, and the National African American Drug Policy Coalition, joined with the Harm Reduction Coalition to request that Congress remove the nearly 20 year old ban.</div> Thu, 07 Feb 2008 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=712 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=574 <div class="text blurb">This event is being organized by the Foundation for Research on STD's (FROSTD) and will feature presentations by NYC Vaccine Trials Awareness Unit, Project Achieve, and the AIDS Vaccine Coalition (AVAC). </div> http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=574 http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/HRC/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11133&t= <div class="text blurb">Support the JUSTICE Act. HRC strongly supports Congresswoman Lee’s “Justice for the Unprotected Against Sexually Transmitted Infections among the Confined and Exposed (JUSTICE) Act” to help stop the spread of HIV, viral hepatitis, and other sexually transmitted infections in prisons. Join us in showing your support by sending a letter to your representative. </div> http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/HRC/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11133&t= http://www.hivguidelines.org/GuideLine.aspx?pageID=262&guideLineID=78&vType=txt <div class="text blurb">Clinical guidelines from the NYDPH AIDS Institute & Johns Hopkins. "Clinicians should ensure that substance users are engaged in medical care regardless of whether or not they are actively using drugs."</div> http://www.hivguidelines.org/GuideLine.aspx?pageID=262&guideLineID=78&vType=txt