National Minority AIDS Council Building Healthier Communities
Building Leadership in Communities of Color to Address HIV/AIDS
Community AIDS Hepatitis Prevention Act
Community AIDS Hepatitis Prevention Act
On Wednesday, July 30th, Representative
Jose Serrano (D-NY) introduced the Community AIDS and Hepatitis Prevention
Act, a bill which, if passed, will remove all legal barriers to
States and local jurisdictions to spend federal funding that they receive for
prevention of diseases directly on syringe exchange. Syringe exchanges are a
method of HIV prevention which helps intravenous drug users attain clean
syringes in order to prevent sharing syringes that are potentially infected with
HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis and other bloodborne diseases. A letter with 147 local
and national, community, substance abuse, viral hepatitis, HIV, syringe
exchange, and public health organizations, including the National Minority
AIDS Council, was also
released in support of the bill. Click here to
read the letter.
Other organizations response to the bill:
Other organizations response to the bill: