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Many experts believe providing sterile needles to addicts would be one of the most effective ways of slowing the AIDS epidemic. That kind of program has shown promise in other countries, but in the U.S. such efforts are limited to a few locally funded experiments. The Bush Administration refuses to...
Helms and other like-minded politicians are also hostile to efforts to educate people, particularly young people, about safe-sex practices. Most teens are not likely to be exposed to the AIDS virus, but those who become sexually active at an early age, particularly in poor communities where drug use...
"Every organization or country that indicatesit is boycotting meetings here because of the[Helms] bill makes it increasingly difficult forus not to change what we have in place right now,"Rowland said.
Having met with little support from the WhiteHouse, Harvard lobbyists "have been focusing on alegislative remedy" to the Helms Amendment, saidParker Coddington, director of governmentalrelations. The University's main ally on CapitolHill has been Rep. J. Roy Howland (D-Ga.), who hasintroduced legislation that would give Sullivanthe ability to remove...
Although a repeal of the law--which was sponsored by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.)--is unlikely, AIDS Institutes affiliates said Harvard's withdrawal from the conference would be an important symbolic gesture.