Word: shalala
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kessler said these studies have already proventhe success of needle exchange and Shalala needsto endorse them...
Needle exchange programs distribute clean needles to drug users to prevent addicts from passing AIDS through contaminated needles. National statistics, with which both Shalala and protesters agreed, show that every day 33 men, women and children get AIDS through the use of dirty needles...
Members of the AIDS Action Committee stood in arow, holding up signs reading "Shalala: Lift theBan" and "Clean Needles, Stop AIDS...
...While Shalala said she agrees that the use ofclean needles does reduce the spread AIDS, sheadded that she is constrained by tests thatCongress requires the new policy to pass beforeshe can pronounce needle exchanges safe...
...absolutely right that AIDS is now beingdriven by intravenous drug users," Shalala said."I believe that the research does indicate thatthe needle exchange does clearly reduce theincidence of AIDS...