This report was prepared by Dawn Day, Director of the Dogwood Center, an independent research organization in Princeton, New Jersey.  Dr. Day is an activist scholar with 30 years of experience as a researcher and writer on social issues.  

This report is the fourth in a series detailing the impact of the injection-related AIDS epidemic on African Americans and Latinos.  Dawn Day has devoted much of the last few years to discussing the importance of needle access as HIV prevention in a variety of forums, including lectures, newspaper articles and television and radio appearances.

Dr. Day has reviewed grant proposals for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Day’s books dealing with racial discrimination include Adoption Agencies and the Adoption of Black Children (Lexington Books, 1979) and Protest, Politics and Prosperity: Black Americans in White Institutions, 1940-1975 (Pantheon, 1978; co-author).

As a Vice President at Response Analysis, in Princeton, New Jersey, Dr. Day led the team that provided the basic statistical data on American household energy consumption to the United States Department of Energy.  Her work on household energy consumption has also been funded by the Ford Foundation. 

Dawn Day was a member of a team funded by the Carnegie Corporation that analyzed changes in the lives of African Americans.  Holding both a PhD in sociology and an MSW in social work from the University of Michigan, she has taught at Brooklyn College and the University of Maryland.

Many thanks to Robert E. Field and the Drug Policy Foundation for supporting the preparation and distribution of this report and to Peter Gialloreto for doing the layout.

I am particularly grateful to my husband, Reuben Cohen, for his support in many ways.

This report is available on the web at www.dogwoodcenter.org.  Printed copies are also available from the Dogwood Center at P.O. Box 187, Princeton, NJ 08542. Tel:609-924-4797  Fax:609-252-1464 Email: dogwoodcenter@aol.com

Reproduction and distribution of this report is encouraged. 

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