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This lecture is used in a course on HIV at the School of Nursing online lecture by Elizabeth Pisani, a British epidemiologist who wrote the book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS. She is a great speaker, and the folks in my HIV class loved it. She talks about the first needle exchange program in the world, which was--get this--started by Margaret Thatcher