Stephen Joseph: AIDS and the Needle Exchange

Stephen Joseph was commissioner of health of New York City from 1986-1990. Already considered one of the most challenging public health jobs in the United States, Joseph took the position when New York City was at the epicenter of the AIDS crisis. While Joseph was supported by the Koch Administration, he faced opposition from the public and activists over issues such as disease reporting, contract tracing, education, and the needle exchange. In this podcast, Joseph discusses his support of the needle exchange as a means to stem the spread of AIDS amongst intravenous drug users and the subsequent public resistance to the program. ​ This oral history with Dr. Joseph was conducted by students at LaGuardia Community College as a part of the Koch Scholars program run by the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives. You can read the transcript in its entirety here:

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Stephen Joseph: AIDS and the Needle Exchange is an episode from LaGuardia and Wagner Archives at LaGuardia Community College/ CUNY by Marian Clarke.

This episode is 9:45 long.

This episode was published on Nov 28, 2016.

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