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He was then drug-addicted. he became one of the leading humanitarians of the aids and equal rights movement. >> the scene has changed. the prospects are great. we have this disease by the scruff of the neck now. we've made so many medical advances towards the disease, but some people are being left behind. the drug users, the prostitutes, people in prison, we need needle exchange programs and also, people are still ashamed to say they're hiv positive. the only way we're going to sort this out is by being more loving toward each other. a lot of people i think might be put off by the word love. ...

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>> at outside-in, over 250,000 needles were exchanged in 1999. outside-in is one of four city agencies that offer services to the city's homeless youth population. kathy oliver is the director. >> in 1989, we started one of the first needle exchange programs in the country. actually, bottom line it comes down to the fact that drug users who are not in treatment who are active users are pretty expendable in this society. >> for a long time i thought i had aids. i didn't care. i was using needles after friends of mine that had like hep-c. >> reporter: in 1999, the rate of hiv among homeless yout...

and lost half his weigbody weign the process. anderson cooper continued to press former massachusetts governor mitt romney on his state mandated health care law. >> i was in interviews in this debate stage with you four years ago, asked about the massachusetts plan. was it something i would impose on the nation. and the answer is absolutely not. it was something crafted for a state. and i've said time and again, obama care is bad news. it is unconstitutional. it costs way too much money, a trillion dollars and if i'm president of the united states, i will repeal it for the american...

On monday the mayor of washington, d.c. was handcuffed and carried away by police. today he fareses a misdemeanor charge of unlawful assembly. he was part of the group you're seeing protesting the last-minute budget deal struck by congress over the weekend. it does not allow d.c. to spend money on abortions for women and does not allow them to spend their own taxpayer money for needle exchange programs to stop the spread of hiv. eleanor holmes-norton serves as washington, d.c.'s nonvoting congresswoman and she is outraged too. >> the district of columbia told the congress to go straight to hel...