hiv treatment

Lifting ban on federal funding of syringe programs would save many lives and tax dollars

Dr. Ruth H. Singer, a retired physician who was a state health administrator and later worked in AIDS and HIV treatment at Chase Brexton Health Services, died of pancreatic cancer May 27 at her North Baltimore home. She was 69.

In a meeting that drew a standing-room-only crowd to its chambers, the Anne Arundel County Council voted Tuesday to support a recommendation by State Department of Health and Human Hygiene Secretary Joshua M. Sharfstein to remove the county's health officer, Angela S. Wakhweya.

A Doctors Without Borders physician describes the good American anti-AIDS programs are doing, and the risks posed by 'supercommittee' cuts.