Community in a Time of Crisis: Yale, New Haven, and HIV/AIDS, 1981-1996

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Materials related to the needle exchange program, including image of van and tracking log with participants’ pseudonyms, early 1990s

In his scrapbook, Ed Kaplan collected ephemera related to Needle Exchange. Here, documents emphasize that the Needle Exchange program was Free, Legal, and Anonymous. The Needle Exchange van was decorated with an artistic mural. Needle Exchange participants used pseudonyms such as "Street cat," "Jazz," "Attica," "Blue Thunder," "downtown," and "tired."

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Materials related to the needle exchange program, including image of van and tracking log with participants’ pseudonyms, early 1990s