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July 10, 2009

27 AIDS Activists Arrested on Capitol Hill
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In Washington, 27 AIDS activists were arrested inside the Capitol
Rotunda Thursday while protesting President Obama’s AIDS policies. The
activists decried the Obama administration’s failure to to lift the
federal ban on funding syringe exchange, to fully fund lifesaving global
AIDS programs, and to fully fund AIDS housing programs in this year’s
budget.



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