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EDITORS FOR THIS ISSUE NEWS EDITOR: Maggie S. Tucker '93 NIGHT EDITORS: Julian E. Barnes '93 John A. Cloud '93 Gady A. Epstein '94 Alessandra M. Galloni '95 Joseph M. Mathews '95 Ivan Oransky '94 Philip P. Pan '93 Ira E. Stoll '94 Maggie S. Tucker '93 ARTS EDITOR: P. Gregory Maravilla '93 SPORTS EDITOR: Ted G. Rose '94 DESIGN EDITOR: Nancy e. Greene '95 BUSINESS EDITOR: Nelson E. Famadas...
Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 could not be reached for comment. But according to Dr. Paul R. Epstein, M.D., chair of the Cambridge AIDS Task Force and instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, the task force was discussing a Cambridge needle exchange program for months...
...willing to do everything we can to stop the spread of AIDS," Epstein said. "It is more and more the consensus that needle exchange programs are an important part of the effort to stop the transmission of AIDS...
Cambridge has the third highest number of AIDS cases in the Commonwealth, behind Boston and Springfield. Roughly half of the people treated for AIDS or HIV at the Cambridge Hospital have been infected by IV drug use, Epstein said. Epstein stressed that the key to the program is that it is "an entree for help for substance abuse...
...exploring it, reviewing the actions of other communities...but if there is a lot of bad feeling in the community, we are not going to do it," Epstein said...