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San Francisco Examiner - Wednesday, December 25, 1996
Lisa M. Krieger, Examiner Staff
Holidays can be stressful for people dealing with AIDS. Service agencies are often closed. Friends or caregivers may be out of town or unavailable.
Call (415) 434-AIDS in San Francisco or 1-800-273-AIDS in other parts of California.
Pair told to stay away
Michael Bellefountaine and Ronnie Burk of ACT UP / San Francisco have been ordered by the S.F. Superior Court to stay away from the entrance to the S.F. AIDS Foundation and remain 100 yards from foundation employees, events or programs.
Bellefountaine and Burk also were ordered not to:
*Follow, threaten, strike or make contact with foundation employees.
*Telephone or send messages to employees.
*Keep employees under surveillance.
*Block employee movements in public places.
The court action follows several disruptions of foundation-sponsored forums and fund-raisers by Burk and Bellefountaine.
Women, Children and HIV
*Women's AIDS Network is sponsoring "Young Women's Advocacy Training" Jan. 11 for those under age 24 to prepare for Youth Lobby Day in Sacramento on Jan. 15. Free child care and transportation. Call (415) 291-5454.
*The Children's HIV Mural, "The Ones We Love: We Remember," is featured on Balmy Alley between Folsom and Harrison streets. For information, call (415) 703-0685. The mural project brought together children who live with HIV, either through loss of a parent or their own illness.
News roundup
*The S.F. AIDS Foundation joined with ACT UP / Golden Gate to protest the cost of ritonavir (Norvir), the protease inhibitor drug manufactured by Abbott Labs, during a community forum on ritonavir last week. The retail cost of ritonavir is about $9,000 a year.
*The Macy's "Passport" fall fashion show raised $231,000 for 33 HIV-AIDS organizations, including nine in the Bay Area.
HIV symposium
The International AIDS Society will offer the symposium "Improving The Management of HIV Disease: Pathogenesis, antiretrovirals and other selected issues in HIV disease management" on April 15 in San Francisco. This full-day, advanced continuing medical education symposium is designed for doctors who care for people with HIV. Call (415) 675-7430.
Support and information
*A new Web site - HIVpositive.com - is a comprehensive resource covering a wide range of topics on HIV, from basic background data to later treatment.
*The Conant Foundation offers videotapes of recent community forums on new treatment information for people with HIV and their providers. A $5-per-tape donation is suggested.
Topics include: Dr. John Kaiser and "immune power" ; KS; CMV; nutrition; health insurance, and treatment with the experimental protease inhibitor nelfinair (Viracept). Call (415) 643-1822.
*The S.F. AIDS Foundation has a new English-Spanish HIV Resource Guide, offering information on more than 500 Bay Area HIV resources - such as food, financial benefits counseling, and support groups - free to nonprofit agencies and people with HIV. Call (415) 487-8022.
*Home Care Companions offers five days of practical skills training for those caring for people with AIDS on Jan. 8, 9, 10, 13 and 14 at Davies Medical Center. Register in advance, (415) 824-3269.
Challenge to funding
Angry community health outreach workers testified at a Health Commission meeting that HIV prevention funding awards by The City's AIDS office did not adequately serve the many diverse communities of San Francisco, especially youth, women, Asian-Pacific Islanders, Latinos and Native Americans.
They cite the 80 percent cutback of the Street Outreach Services Collaboration, which dispersed 16 HIV-education workers throughout The City.
The changes were part of a deliberate shift in focus within the AIDS Office from "outreach" services to so-called "in bring" services - in other words, bringing people to services, rather than services to people.
Events
*Project Inform town meeting to discuss "Introduction To HIV Treatment Options," 6:30 p.m. Jan. 8 at the Project Inform office, 1965 Market St., Suite 220, San Francisco. Call (415) 558-8669.
*A 12-week study session on "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying," Sunday evenings, Jan. 12 through April 6, at the Shambhala Center, 1630 Taraval St., San Francisco. Call (415) 522-7473.
* "Clinical Challenges in Protease Inhibitor Therapy," a meeting for HIV doctors, 5:30 p.m. Jan. 15, Mission Center Building, Room 125 (ground floor), 1855 Folsom St., San Francisco.
*The "People of Color Living with HIV" leadership forum, Jan. 23-26 in Riverside. Call the National Minority AIDS Council in Washington, D.C., at (202) 483-6622.
*National Institutes of Health "consensus development conference" Feb. 11-13 in Washington, D.C. It will be an effort to reach agreement among health exports about interventions to prevent HIV high-risk behavior. To date, there has been no agreement as to which interventions are most effective in different settings and populations. Call (301) 770-3153.
The toll
John J. Tally, a graduate of the UC-Berkeley and the University of San Francisco Law School who practiced general law in the Mission District . . . Jack Graham, who lived on Chicago's streets for more than two years, then lifted imself up, became executive director for Homeless on the Move for Equality and ran for the Illinois General Assembly on a platform of improving low-income housing, in Springfield, Ill.
. . . . . Date . . . . . reported / Cases / Deaths S.F.. . . 12 / 1 23,432 16,358 Calif.. . 12 / 1 96,690 63,063 U.S.. . . 12 / 1 548,102 343,000 WHO(rprtd) 12 / 1 8,400,000 -- Figures are cumulative since June 1981. To contribute to AIDSWEEK, call (415) 777-7867.
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