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Most Democratic presidential candidates would support lifting a ban on federal funding for needle-exchange programs and replacing abstinence-only sex education with comprehensive HIV-prevention programs if
elected, according to a survey released ahead of World AIDS Day, the AP /
Sioux City Journal reports. The questions are:
· Do you support the Early Treatment for HIV Act (ETHA), which expands Medicaid for HIV-positive people who would otherwise need to become completely disabled in order to qualify for Medicaid-covered services?
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Do you support the replacement of funding for international and domestic "abstinence only" HIV-prevention programs with scientifically based, comprehensive, age-appropriate sexuality education programs?
· Do you support access to sterile syringes, as a means of protecting public health, by lifting the ban on federal funding for syringe exchange?
Among the Democratic candidates, Senator Joe Biden (Delaware), former Senator John Edwards (North Carolina), Senator Barack Obama (Illinois), and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson met the deadline for the survey
and all answered "yes" to the three questions. Answers from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (New York) were too late to be included in materials distributed by the coalition. However, her campaign "did respond 'yes' to
the questions" after the deadline, said Becky Johnson of the AIDS Project of Central Iowa .
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, both of whom are running for the Republican presidential nomination, declined to answer the questionnaire. The remaining
Republican and Democratic candidates did not respond. from TheBody.com
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