New York tries to curb AIDS by supplying addicts with needles. Some 10,000 drug addicts in the NL. have registered in treatment programs, allowing authorities to maintain regular contact.

“As a public health official, I don’t have the luxury to be a moralist.” So said an unapologetic New York State health commissioner David Axelrod last week after approving a New York City plan to fight AIDS by providing drug addicts with sterile needles. The controversial program, which could begin…

The Netherlands, which had 260 reported cases of AIDS as of April 1, began a government-sponsored “condom campaign” and continues to provide free sterilized needles to drug addicts.

“AIDS is surreptitiously spreading throughout our population, and yet we have no accurate measure of its scope. It is time we knew exactly what we are facing.”

With those words and after months of cautious deliberation and disagreement within his Administration, President Ronald Reagan finally unveiled a plan for combating…