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27 AIDS Activists Arrested on Capitol Hill

HeadlineJul 10, 2009

In Washington, twenty-seven 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 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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