1.   Congress has banned the use of federal funds for programs that distribute clean needles to drug users.

2.   He said that it was likely to rise more now that it was not only drug users who were contracting HIV.

3.   AIDS specialists are hoping to persuade the government to undertake a more aggressive anti-AIDS program, to provide sterilized needles to drug users and to crack down on prostitution.

4.   The Ecstasy cases were apparently intended to administer a kind of shock therapy to the public, especially to drug users.

5.   And one-third of intravenous drug users -- the most vulnerable population -- have the fatal virus, according to UN figures.