The Nation - News from Nov. 21, 1988
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The Legislative Task Force on AIDS in Texas, seeking to help prevent the spread of AIDS, has officially endorsed controversial plans to provide intravenous drug users with clean needles and sell condoms to state prison inmates. The proposal to identify intravenous drug users calls for the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse to use community outreach programs to provide needles and condoms and to encourage behavior changes to reduce the transmission of the AIDS virus. Another proposal would make condoms available to Texas Department of Corrections inmates at or about the bulk rate price of 5 cents each, said the Rev. Chris Steele, an Episcopal priest who heads the panel.
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