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San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, December 15, 1993
Citing the high rate of HIV infection among drug users, county health officials have asked supervisors to declare a public health emergency and set up a needle exchange program. Governor Wilson has twice vetoed legislation that would have allowed needle exchanges, although San Francisco and Marin County have established clandestine exchange programs.
Black intravenous drug users in western Contra Costa County have the highest rate of HIV infection in the state, according to health officials, who say that the only way the spread of AIDS can be slowed is through the needle exchange program.
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