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AB 110, authored by Assemblyman John Laird and co-sponsored by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, would assist syringe exchange programs by permitting the use of state HIV prevention funds to purchase syringes.  Current DHS policy allows state HIV prevention and education funds to be used for costs associated with authorized needle exchange programs, except for the purchase of sterile hypodermic needles and syringes. Meanwhile, non-governmental sources of funding for the purchase of sterile needles and syringes have been decreasing. This has led to hardship for smaller syringe exchange programs and threatened their ability to provide the very tool that is needed to protect the health of injection drug users at risk for HIV infection. 

Please write Governor Schwarzenegger TODAY to ask him to sign this very important bill!

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