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Opioid use disorder is fueling a rise in youth hepatitis C cases and a stabilization of a long decline in HIV among people who use drugs.

Baby boomers still make up the largest bloc of those with the virus, but youths’ injection drug use is sending their infection rates upward.

The Human Rights Campaign aims to expose the vice president’s alarming viewpoints, such as that condoms are “too modern” to fight STDs.

But promisingly, nationwide political support for providing injection drug users with clean needles to curb HIV and hepatitis C has risen.