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U.S. Repeals Funding Ban for Needle Exchanges

As my old professor said, “I heart Needle Exchange activists!” Late Wednesday, Congress and President Obama repealed a 21-year ban on federal funding being used for local needle exchange programs (giving clean needles to injection drug users to help prevent … Continue reading

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Aujourd’hui nous nous-rappelons la mort de Ndadaye

Today is a national holiday.  It is the day that Burundians remember the assassination of the first ever democratically elected president of Burundi– Melchoir Ndadaye.  It is also the day that people remember the beginning of the “crisis,” the word Burundians use to describe … Continue reading

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