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| | The Body: HIV Down Among IV-Drug Users |
 | | Last April, President Clinton overrode the advice of his own secretary of health, as well as findings from numerous scientific studies showing that syringe exchange slows the spread of HIV without increasing drug abuse, and refused to approve federal funding for such programs, which currently operate on shoestring budgets underwritten by state and private money. |
 | | Similarly, Des Jarlais found that the proportion of the city's drug users who are HIV-positive had fallen from 44 percent in 1991 to 28 percent in 1996. |
 | | Des Jarlais found that new infections had dropped from a high of about 13 per 100 PYAR during the early, explosive phase of the epidemic, to 4.4 during the epidemic's relatively stable period of the late 1980s and early 1990s, to less than 2 in 1996, the most recent year for which data is available. |
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