Report from the Dogwood Center

HEALTH EMERGENCY 2001
THE SPREAD OF DRUG-RELATED AIDS AND HEPATITIS C AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS AND LATINOS

Dawn Day, PhD 
Foreword by Joycelyn Elders, MD, Former US Surgeon General

CONTENTS
1. Health Emergency: The Spread of AIDS Among African Americans Who Inject Drugs -- 4 pages
2. Health Emergency: The Spread of AIDS Among Latinos Who Inject Drugs -- 3 pages
3. A Neglected Opportunity: Drug Treatment is AIDS Prevention -- 2 pages
4.  The Scientific Evidence: Needle Exchange Programs Prevent HIV and Can Reduce Drug Use -- 3 pages
5. The Legality of Saving Lives -- 5 pages
6. Saving Lives and Saving Billions of Health Care Dollars -- 2 pages
7. Health Emergency: African American and Latina Women and Their Children -- 4 pages
8. Hepatitis C: A Sometimes Deadly Disease Where Sterile Needles Can Save Lives and Dollars -- 2 pages
9. Medical Treatment for AIDS is AIDS Prevention: African Americans and Latinos are Disadvantaged -- 2 pages
10. What Must Be Done -- 2 pages

Footnotes appear at the end of each section.