"AIDSWEEK: Care"

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"AIDSWEEK: Care"

San Francisco Examiner (12/25/88), P. A6
Hilton, Bruce

In an editorial in Annals of Internal Medicine, the developers of aerosol pentamidine said the drug should be used only to prevent pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). People with AIDS who develop the disease should use system-wide treatments, they said. A new 12-bed unit for HIV-infected persons opened at Mt. Zion Hospital. The unit makes use of a team approach that involves professionals, volunteers, and loved ones in the patient's care. Citing evidence that early treatment with AZT and aerosol pentamidine may slow the development of AIDS-related diseases, a Los Angeles County advisory committee recommended making the drugs available to people with AIDS at county facilities. The Robert Woods Johnson gave San Francisco's Project Open Hand--which delivers 1000 meals a day to people with AIDS--$447,554 over two years to conduct the first nutritional research program for people with AIDS.
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