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Today's Globe: fighting HIV
For all the success medicine has achieved in treating HIV/AIDS, the United States still isn't doing enough to prevent new infections in the first place, a Globe editorial says. Public health officials have to work with one hand tied behind their backs because Congress has banned the use of federal funds for needle exchange programs.
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