1989

"Methadone Maintenance Programmes and AIDS": Lancet (12/30/89) Vol. 2, No. 8679, P. 1522; Serraino, Diego, and Franceschi, Silvia; The impact of methadone maintenance programs on the incidence of AIDS deserves further attention, write Italian epidemiologists Diego Serraino and Silvia Franceschi, who report on a study of the variations in numbers of AIDS cases among IV drug users in eight regions of northern Italy
"Nosocomial Epidemic of Active Tuberculosis Among HIV-Infected Patients": Lancet (12/30/89) Vol. 2, No. 8679, P. 1502; Di Perri, Giovanni, et al.; Giovanni Di Perri and colleagues of Verona, Italy report on a study of 18 HIV-infected patients who were exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in hospitals. Eight of the patients developed active tuberculosis. Active tuberculosis infection correlated with lower total lymphocyte an
"Methadone Maintenance Programmes and AIDS": Lancet (12/30/89) Vol. 2, No. 8679, P. 1522; Serraino, Diego, and Franceschi, Silvia; The impact of methadone maintenance programs on the incidence of AIDS deserves further attention, write Italian epidemiologists Diego Serraino and Silvia Franceschi, who report on a study of the variations in numbers of AIDS cases among IV drug users in eight regions of northern Italy
"Nosocomial Epidemic of Active Tuberculosis Among HIV-Infected Patients": Lancet (12/30/89) Vol. 2, No. 8679, P. 1502; Di Perri, Giovanni, et al.; Giovanni Di Perri and colleagues of Verona, Italy report on a study of 18 HIV-infected patients who were exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in hospitals. Eight of the patients developed active tuberculosis. Active tuberculosis infection correlated with lower total lymphocyte an
"Hank Cook: AIDS Activist": Washington Post (12/29/89), P. C4; The former president of the San Francisco AIDS Emergency Fund, Hank Cook, died of AIDS Dec. 27 at a hospice in San Francisco. Cook was 47 years old. Cook, who presided over the fund in 1987 and 1988, helped raise $1.5 million to pay bills, provide food, and give support to impoverished people withAIDS. Cook was als
"Health System Presents Stiff Choices for Dinkins": New York Times (12/29/89), P. B3; French, Howard W.; New York City Mayor-elect David N. Dinkins, who included improved medical care for people with AIDS among his campaign promises, now faces a need to make crucial cuts in the health budget as the city and state struggle to ease budget crises. There is no fat, says the city s Health and HospitalsCorp. s acting presid
"AIDS and Hispanic People: A Threat Ignored": New York Times (12/29/89), P. A1; Navarro, Mireya; The threat of AIDS among minority groups in inner cities has been apparent for years, but most Hispanics continue to ignore or deny the threat, health officials say. To reach Hispanic people with AIDS information, officials must overcome language barriers, the Roman Catholic Church s opposition to condoms and condemn
"Reporting the Results of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/29/89) Vol. 262, No. 24, P. 3435; Benenson, Abram S., et al.; Researchers from San Diego State University report that actual laboratory results of HIV testing from different California labs were erroneous, incomplete, contained misleading and confusing information, or compromised the value of the testing process and might have led to improper treatment. Using blind proficiency
"Reporting the Results of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/29/89) Vol. 262, No. 24, P. 3435; Benenson, Abram S., et al.; Researchers from San Diego State University report that actual laboratory results of HIV testing from different California labs were erroneous, incomplete, contained misleading and confusing information, or compromised the value of the testing process and might have led to improper treatment. Using blind proficiency
"State Creates 16 Centers for Anonymous AIDS Testing": Washington Post (Virginia Weekly) (12/28/89), P. 1; Evans,; The Virginia Department of Health has created 16 new anonymous AIDS testing sites throughout the state, following concern that new mandatory reporting requirements for AIDS might discourage some from getting AIDS tests. The Virginia General Assembly recently passed legislation requiring all physicians andhealth depar
"Epidemic Proportions": Washington Post (12/28/89), P. C4; Grant, Richard; Triangulation, by Jack Stephens, is a first novel about a thirtysomething AIDS researcher who lives in Baltimore, writes novelist Richard Grant. The title comes from the triangleNazis used to brand homosexuals, as well as from the method surveyors use to fix a position by referring to known reference points. The m
"Against the Odds, Paul Charlap Bets on an AIDS Drug Forsaken by": Wall Street Journal (12/28/89), P. B6; Koenig, Richard; Ampligen, a drug most AIDS researchers have dismissed, has new life thanks to a combative businessman. Paul A. Charlap,a 65-year-old semiretired former chairman of the office-copier firm Savin Corp., is now chief executive officer of HEM Research Inc., a closely-held Philadelpia company that holds certain rights to A
"Infants Tend to Die of AIDS More Quickly Than Adults": Washington Post (12/28/89), P. A8; A study of 172 children who developed AIDS shows that children who contract HIV infection while still in the womb succumb to AIDS far more quickly than adults who develop the disease. Gwendolyn Scott of the University of Miami School of Medicine heads the team of researchers, which reports on the study in the current
"Recovery of HIV at Autopsy": New England Journal of Medicine (12/28/89) Vol. 321, No. 26, P. 1833; Henry, Keith, et al.; Health care workers may be at risk of HIV exposure from a patient s bodily fluids even 18 hours after death, report Keith Henry and colleagues from St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center in St. Paul, Minn., and the University of Minnesota. The medical literature has yet to address the viability of the virus after death in a
"Survival in Children with Perinatally Acquired Human Immunodeficiency" Virus Type 1 Infection: New England Journal of Medicine (12/28/89) Vol. 321, No. 26, P.1791; Scott, Gwendolyn B., et al.; Children with perinatally acquired HIV-1 infection have a very poor prognosis, most becoming symptomatic before one year of age, according to researchers Gwendolyn Scott and colleagues of the University of Miami School of Medicine. The researchers report that in a study of 172 children with perinatally-acquired AIDS,
"East Berlin Risks Grows": Nature (12/28/89) Vol. 342, No. 6252, P. 847; Dickman, Steven; In an effort to keep East Germans from bringing HIV back from their visits to West Berlin, public health officials from both Germanies are joining to begin an information and condom-distribution program. Niels Sonnichsen, an official at the East German Ministry of Health, recently visited an AIDS self-help group in W
"Recovery of HIV at Autopsy": New England Journal of Medicine (12/28/89) Vol. 321, No. 26, P. 1833; Henry, Keith, et al.; Health care workers may be at risk of HIV exposure from a patient s bodily fluids even 18 hours after death, report Keith Henry and colleagues from St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center in St. Paul, Minn., and the University of Minnesota. The medical literature has yet to address the viability of the virus after death in a
"Survival in Children with Perinatally Acquired Human Immunodeficiency" Virus Type 1 Infection: New England Journal of Medicine (12/28/89) Vol. 321, No. 26, P.1791; Scott, Gwendolyn B., et al.; Children with perinatally acquired HIV-1 infection have a very poor prognosis, most becoming symptomatic before one year of age, according to researchers Gwendolyn Scott and colleagues of the University of Miami School of Medicine. The researchers report that in a study of 172 children with perinatally-acquired AIDS,
"East Berlin Risks Grows": Nature (12/28/89) Vol. 342, No. 6252, P. 847; Dickman, Steven; In an effort to keep East Germans from bringing HIV back from their visits to West Berlin, public health officials from both Germanies are joining to begin an information and condom-distribution program. Niels Sonnichsen, an official at the East German Ministry of Health, recently visited an AIDS self-help group in W
"Publishers Ordered to Pay Damages for Showing AIDS Victim": Associated Press (12/27/89); Tokyo--The Osaka District Court has ordered two large publishers to pay $22,400 in damages for defaming Japan s first woman with AIDS. The two firms, Kobunsha Co. and Shinchosha, published pictures of the woman in their magazines, Kobunsha s Focus and Shinchosha s Flash. The publishers defamed the woman, who died Ja
"AIDS Commission Holds Session in Minnesota": United Press International (12/27/89); St. Paul, Minn.--The National AIDS Commission will heartestimony from the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the National Association of Counties, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and federal and state health officials when it holds a working group meeting in Minnesota Jan. 4-5. At the meeting, the group will t
"Court Halts Restoration of Family Planning Clinic Cuts": United Press International (12/27/89); Los Angeles--California s 2nd District Court of Appealshas temporarily suspended a San Luis Obispo judge s order to restore $24 million in state funding for family-planning clinics across the state. Republican Gov. George Deukmejian used his line-item veto power to drastically cut California s $36.2 million family-pl
"Lower Dose of AZT is Found Effective": New York Times (12/27/89), P. A19; Kolata, Gina; Data from two large federal studies have shown that lowdoses of AZT , the one approved drug for combating AIDS, are just as effective for many patients, and are less likely to cause the dangerous side effects higher doses may cause. But though thousands of
"Many HIV Babies Don't Get AIDS": Associated Press (12/26/89); Physicians have no way of telling which newborns of mothers with AIDS are actually infected with the HIV virus, and which are simply carrying their mothers antibodies, which begin to wear off about six months after birth, according to Dr. Ram Yogev, coordinator of the children s AIDS project at Children s Memorial Ho
"Prince George's County Syphilis Rate Epidemic": United Press International (12/26/89); Drugs, prostitution, bad personal hygiene, and a lack of knowledge are contributing to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in Prince Georges County, Md. I don t believe people really understand the significance of what can happen in the sexual encounters, as far as their own health, said Dr. Helen McAlliste
"AIDS Conference Planned": United Press International (12/26/89); Planners of an upcoming AIDS conference entitled Moving Forward: AIDS and the Church, Where Faith and Healing Meet, hope to dispell the idea promoted by some televalgelists and fundementalists that AIDS is a punishment from God. Rev. Howard Warren Jr., director of pastoral services at the Indianapolis-based Damien
"AIDS Program to Educate Health Professionals": United Press International (12/26/89); AIDS education is needed by everyone, including health professionals, and a major effort is underway in a 42-county areaof northeast Texas to provide AIDS information to doctors, nurses, social workers, counselors and other caregivers. The regional educational effort came about because AIDS is no longerjust an urban
"In Age of AIDS, Sex and Drugs Are Classroom Topics": New York Times (12/26/89), P. B1; Lee, Felicia R.; Since 1988, New York has been one of the 28 states thatrequire AIDS education for all students. In New York City, the nation s largest school system, the AIDS education program is nowgoing beyond the basic medical facts to try to get students to make some hard decisions about their lives: When will they have sex? Ho
"Fighting Prejudice Is Essential in AIDS War": Associated Press (12/25/89); Concern for patients rights is essential in the war against AIDS, says Dr. Jonathan Mann, director of the World Health Organization s AIDS program. Dr. Mann says that discriminatory laws which followed the initial panic of the early 1980s hindered efforts to to fight the disease, and have subsequently been repealed
"AIDS Activists Walk Out on Christmas Mass": United Press International (12/25/89); Hormell, Sharon; Eleven AIDS activists staged a silent protest during a Christmas midnight mass at a Roman Catholic cathedral in Los Angeles, walking out of the service as Archbishop Roger Mahoney delivered his sermon. Shortly after the midnight mass began, the11 demonstrators, protesting the church s rejection of the use ofcondoms t
"What's the Cure for Burnout?": Time (12/25/89) Vol. Vol. 134, No. 26, P. 68; Thompson, Dick; Budget and staff reductions, controversies over tests for drugs to combat AIDS, corrupt employees, and the Chilean grape incident have reduced the Federal Drug Administration s ( FDA ) effectiveness. Earlier in December, Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan said he and Pr
"In a Rage Over AIDS": Time (12/25/89) Vol. 134, No. 26, P. 33; Magnuson, Ed; A recent demonstration at St. Patrick s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York City in which police arrested 43 demonstrators is the latest and ugliest in an escalating series of skirmishes between the Roman Catholic Church and AIDS activists. Cardinal John O Connor, as an outspoken opponent of using condoms to preven
"A New Strain of Electronic Vandalism": Newsweek (12/25/89) Vol. 114, No. 26, P. 82; Last week, several thousand researchers, journalists, and AIDS activists who attended a conference in Sweden in 1988 were among the recipients of computer disks that allegedly carried health information...specially designed to help members of the public concerned about AIDS and me
"AIDSWEEK: Care": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (12/24/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; The San Francisco earthquake left all of the Bay Area s AIDS agencies severely short of money and volunteers. As a result of the quake, the need is greater, as are the number of groups requiring help. As donors consider holiday giving, agencies are encouraging people to consider gifts of time as well as money. As a
"AIDSWEEK: Research": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (12/24/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; The results of HIV tests are often inaccurate and confusing, according to a team of San Diego State researchers. In the Journal of the American Medical Association , the researchers report that when they sent the same three blood samples to 12 labs, half of them called an HIV-pos
"AIDSWEEK: British to Boycott S.F. Meeting": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (12/24/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; As several British groups announced their intention to boycott the international AIDS conference in San Francisco next June because of the U.S. government s restrictive immigration policy for HIV-infected travelers, the World Health Organization s AIDS director announced that many of the 35 countries that passed immig
"AIDSWEEK: Care": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (12/24/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; The San Francisco earthquake left all of the Bay Area s AIDS agencies severely short of money and volunteers. As a result of the quake, the need is greater, as are the number of groups requiring help. As donors consider holiday giving, agencies are encouraging people to consider gifts of time as well as money. As a
"AIDSWEEK: Research": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (12/24/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; The results of HIV tests are often inaccurate and confusing, according to a team of San Diego State researchers. In the Journal of the American Medical Association , the researchers report that when they sent the same three blood samples to 12 labs, half of them called an HIV-pos
"AIDSWEEK: British to Boycott S.F. Meeting": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (12/24/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; As several British groups announced their intention to boycott the international AIDS conference in San Francisco next June because of the U.S. government s restrictive immigration policy for HIV-infected travelers, the World Health Organization s AIDS director announced that many of the 35 countries that passed immig
"Future Mayor Condemned for AIDS-Phobic Remark": Gay Community News (12/23/89) Vol. 17, No. 23, P. 2; Briggs,; The mayor-elect of Salem, Mass., Neil J. Harrington, drew the wrath of AIDS activists and health officials for his remarks during a city council meeting Dec. 4. During discussion on whether to fund a part-time clerk in the health department to staff a tuberculosis clinic, Harrington learned that tuberculosiscases are
"The Slow Erosion of NIH": Journal of Commerce (12/22/89), P. 8A; Greenberg, Daniel S.; The National Institutes of Health (NIH), while still a great institution, is eroding through financial neglect and political battles, writes Daniel S. Greenberg, editor and publisher of Science + Government Report. NIH is still eminent in many fields of research, including AIDS, but a low salary and the odious litmu
"Scientists Find Gene That Triggers Formation of Different": Wall Street Journal (12/22/89), P. B3; Stipp, David; A team of researchers led by Nobel Laureate David Baltimore report that they have identified a gene that triggers the immune system s formation of different antibodies. At the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, Baltimore and his colleagues say they have identified a single genetic master switch, called recom
"More Zaire AIDS Cases Show Less Underreporting": New York Times (12/22/89), P. A9; Noble, Kenneth B.; In Zaire , a one-month jump in reported AIDS cases from 335 to 4,636 represents not an exponential increase in the numberof people with the disease, but a new willingness to treat AIDS as any other public-health menace, American and European researchers say. For the two years prec
"Compromise on AIDS Budget Cuts": Bay Area Reporter (12/21/89), P. 17/1; O'Neil, Cliff; A compromise on proposed 1991 budget cuts for the nation s AIDS programs, the National Institutes of Health, and FDA has been reached by Louis Sullivan, secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Office of Management and Budget. Following a heated dispute, AIDS programs were fun
"AIDS Commission Blasts Government's Inaction": Bay Area Reporter (12/21/89) Vol. 19, No. 51, P. 16/1; O'Neil,; A preliminary report was submitted to President Bush more than nine months early by the National Commission on AIDS, criticizing the government s failure to respond to the needs of Americans faced with HIV infection and the AIDS epidemic. The testimony we recently heard on health care and financing was so compelling
"Government Study Shows Failure of Bone Marrow Transplants in": Associated Press (12/21/89); Raeburn, Paul; New York--Bone marrow transplantation has thus far been a failure in treating people with AIDS, according to an unpublished government study of 16 people with the disease. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that a research team from Johns Hopkins University found that a combination of bone marrow transplant and
"Grandma's House II Opening is Delayed": Washington Post (12/21/89), P. DC12; Mitchell, Maureen; In Washington, D.C., the opening of a second home for infants with HIV infection and AIDS will take place in a few months instead of December. A spokesman for the Temporary Emergency Residential Resource Institute for Families in Crisis, the nonprofit agency that runs Grandma s House, said more funds are needed to op
"ddI Trials Recruiting": Bay Area Reporter (12/21/89) Vol. 19, No. 51, P. 20; Hafs, Etienne; The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has begun recruiting volunteers for a study of dideoxyinosine (ddI), a member of a promising group of anti-HIV drugs called nucleoside analogues. DDI does not affect already-infected cells, but inhibits HIV replication and reduces the rate at which cel
"Absence of Effect of Zidovudine on Replication of Hepatitis B Virus in" Patients with Chronic HIV and HBV Infection: New England Journal of Medicine (12/21/89) Vol. 321, No. 25, P. 1758; Marcellin, Patrick, et al.; AZT used alone appears to have no therapeutic value in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B, write Patrick Marcellin and fellow researchers at Hopital Beaujon, Clichy, France . The researchers report on a study of 15 men
"ddI Trials Recruiting": Bay Area Reporter (12/21/89) Vol. 19, No. 51, P. 20; Hafs, Etienne; The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has begun recruiting volunteers for a study of dideoxyinosine (ddI), a member of a promising group of anti-HIV drugs called nucleoside analogues. DDI does not affect already-infected cells, but inhibits HIV replication and reduces the rate at which cel
"Absence of Effect of Zidovudine on Replication of Hepatitis B Virus in" Patients with Chronic HIV and HBV Infection: New England Journal of Medicine (12/21/89) Vol. 321, No. 25, P. 1758; Marcellin, Patrick, et al.; AZT used alone appears to have no therapeutic value in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B, write Patrick Marcellin and fellow researchers at Hopital Beaujon, Clichy, France . The researchers report on a study of 15 men
"Disclosure Ordered in AIDS Case": Associated Press (12/20/89); Carson City--A Reno blood bank must partially disclose information on a donor whose blood transmitted HIV to a Bishop, Calif., man, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. United Blood Services (UBS) had argued that disclosure could curtail blood donations and lead to further requests for information and lawsuits.
"British Charities Plan Boycott of U.S. AIDS Conference": United Press International (12/20/89); Hall, John; London--A consortium of British charities has announced it will boycott next June s international AIDS conference in San Francisco to protest American visa requirements that discriminate against people with HIV infection. The British Red Cross, the International Planned Parenthood Foundation, Oxfam, and Save the Chil
"Discrimination Goes On": New York Times (12/20/89), P. A26; Cohen, Robert H.; In supporting contact tracing for HIV ( Dr. Joseph and AIDS Testing, editorial, Nov. 16), the New York Times apparently believes that discrimination is no longer a problem, writes Robert H. Cohen of San Francisco, who says he knows people who have lost jobs and homes and been unable to obtain insurance and medical an
"Parallel Track": New York Times (12/20/89), P. A26; Braff, Jeffrey; A front-page New York Times story on clinical trials of DDI (Nov. 21) prematurely condemned to failure a new parallel-track testing procedure, writes Jeffrey Braff, executive director of the Gay Men s Health Crisis. It is too early to tell whether or not making the drug available to people outside of the trials as t
"Clinical Trials of AIDS Drug Remain Crucial": New York Times (12/20/89), P. A26; Valentine, Fred T.; A Nov. 21 article in the New York Times describing clinical trials of dideoxyinosine (DDI) erred in reporting that individuals in the trials had an equal chance of receiving AZT or DDI, writes Fred T. Valentine, director of the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, Ne
"Experts Skeptical of Claim About AIDS Treatment": Washington Post (12/20/89), P. A4; Okie, Susan; AIDS experts are reserving judgement on the implications of a research team s claim that it eliminated HIV from the body of an infected patient using high doses of AZT , radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and bone marrow transportation. National Institute of A
"News In Brief: Utah": The Advocate (12/19/89) No. 540, P. 30; A Salt Lake City lawyer has asked the Utah state attorney general to investigate a secret state health department program that allegedly gave HIV antibody tests covertly to more than 24,000 newborn babies, abortion recipients, and hospital patients without authorization. Lawyer Carolyn Nichols said the secrecy of the
"Frontline Voices": The Advocate (12/19/89) No. 540, P. 62; Latzky, Eric; Eric Latzky, in a book review for The Advocate, calls Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS, edited by John Preston, valid and powerful . According to Latzkey, Preston makes a point that it is those who know most intimately what AIDSis about who are most qualified to talk about the epidemic. Personal Dispatche
"News in Brief: Idaho": The Advocate (12/19/89) No. 540, P. 29; A mistrial was declared in the trial of George Frank Lewis, the first person from Idaho to be charged with intentionally exposing someone to HIV. The judge in the trial cited intense media coverage of the case as grounds for the mistrial. Prosecutors will seek another trial, and a preliminarycourt date is set for Ja
"A Shake-Up for San Francisco Cops": The Advocate (12/19/89) No. 540, P. 22; Peterson, Robert W.; San Francisco Police Chief Frank Jordan has reassigned responsibility for crowd control from the department s tactical squad to its nine district administrators after admitting an inappropriate response by the tactical squad to an
"News in Brief: Iowa": Advocate (12/19/89) No. 540, P. 29; In Iowa, the state board of health has approved a new rule to allow doctors to notify the partners of HIV-positive individuals in some cases. The rule would allow a doctor to inform the partner of a patient who had tested antibody-positive only if the doctor believed the patient would not voluntarily notify unknowing
"Oklahoma Won't Try to Identify Secret Testees": Advocate (12/19/89) No. 540, P. 26; Peterson, Robert W.; In Oklahoma, health officials have decided not to use the state s Medicaid and AZT dispensation records to compile a list of all state residents who are HIV positive. Oklahoma Department of Health (ODH) officials sought the records to obtainthe names of pe
"What's to be Done with the Church?": Advocate (12/19/89) No. 540, P. 36; Helquist, Michael; Despite some exemplary programs of patient care and pastoral concern about discrimination, the Roman Catholic Church undermines all its best efforts by fighting safe-sex education, writes the Advocate s Michael Helquist. The Church s mixed-up sense of good intentions, Helquist writes, is evident in recent events, inc
"The Fatal Flaw of Sex-Positive Messages": Advocate (12/19/89) No. 540, P. 35; Walter, Dave; The disturbing news that gonorrhea cases have quadrupled in Seattle this year follows an earlier report that more gay men in San Francisco are practicing riskier sexual behavior, writes the Advocate s Dave Walter. William Whittington, a specialist in sexually transmitted diseases at the Centers for Disease Control, t
"Somber Pageant Focuses on AIDS Sufferers": New York Times (12/19/89), P. A24; In Los Angeles last Friday, community activists drew attention to a current problem with the help of a venerable Mexican tradition. Cara a Cara, an organization that helps Hispanic AIDS patients and educates the Spanish-speaking community about the disease, used the posada, a candlelight procession portraying Joseph
"Physicians Rid a Man's Body of AIDS Virus in Experiment": New York Times (12/19/89), P. A1; Kolata, Gina; Doctors at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore reported yesterday that they eradicated HIV from the body of a man who later died of cancer. The doctors combined a bone marrow transplant with administration of AZT to actually rid the man of th
"News in Brief: Texas": Advocate (12/19/89) No. 540, P. 30; Curtis Weeks, an HIV-positive inmate who was serving a two-year sentence for bank robbery, was sentenced in November to life in prison for attempted murder after he was convicted for spitting in a prison guard s face. Weeks had been scheduled for release Dec. 19, before the spitting incident.
"Transitions: Mike Richards": Advocate (12/19/89) No. 540, P. 31; Mike Richards, Dallas AIDS activist who became nationally known when he was named as a suspect in a 1988 Texas bank robbery, died Oct. 20 in Hawaii of AIDS-related complications. Police said Richards, 43, resembled a man who was videotaped robbing the bank, but Richards claimed he was in Hawaii with his parents at th
"News in Brief: Texas": Advocate (12/19/89) No. 540, P. 30; Curtis Weeks, an HIV-positive inmate who was serving a two-year sentence for bank robbery, was sentenced in November to life in prison for attempted murder after he was convicted for spitting in a prison guard s face. Weeks had been scheduled for release Dec. 19, before the spitting incident.
"Transitions: Mike Richards": Advocate (12/19/89) No. 540, P. 31; Mike Richards, Dallas AIDS activist who became nationally known when he was named as a suspect in a 1988 Texas bank robbery, died Oct. 20 in Hawaii of AIDS-related complications. Police said Richards, 43, resembled a man who was videotaped robbing the bank, but Richards claimed he was in Hawaii with his parents at th
"How Much is Too Much for Anti-AIDS Ads?": Associated Press (12/18/89); Geitner, Paul; New York--Public officials and advertising firms are having a difficult time developing public service messages that will reach groups at risk for AIDS without offending the public at large. One controversial ad, which has only aired on late-night cable TV in New York, ends with the message to rubber up for safety.
"Government OKs Marijuana Use for AIDS Patient": United Press International (12/18/89); Anderson, David E.; Washington--The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) last Wednesday issued permission to a 33-year-old Texan with AIDS to use marijuana to ease the nausea, vomiting, and pain caused by the disease and the drugs used to treat it. The man, identified only as Steve, will receive prescript
"Mayors Give AIDS Grants": United Press International (12/18/89); Washington--The U.S. Conference of Mayors Monday announced grants totalling $975,000 for AIDS prevention organizations that work with hard-to-reach groups such as Native Americans and recent Indochinese immigrants. The grants were the eighth round of funds awarded by the conference through the Centers for Disease Con
"San Antonio to Open First Licensed Home for Children with AIDS": United Press International (12/18/89); Haines, Rebecca; San Antonio--Officials said Monday that San Antonio will open its first licensed foster care home for children with HIV/AIDS this spring. The Sisters of Divine Providence, a local order of Roman Catholic nuns, will operate the home, which is scheduled to open March 1. Pediatricians from the University of Texas Healt
"Americans Awaken to the AIDS Crisis, 1985": Wall Street Journal (12/18/89), P. B1; America considered AIDS the gay plague until 1985, when Rock Hudson s death made AIDS a household word, according to an entry in the Wall Street Journal s Centennial Journal, which recounts major events in the paper s 100-year history. In 1983, the head of the U.S. Public Health Service said AIDS was no threat to t
"AIDS and Ostriches: Business is Not Facing Up to the Scourge": Barron's (12/18/89) Vol. 69, No. 51, P. 16; Feldschuh, Joseph; The AIDS epidemic is a brewing financial disaster far bigger than Hurricane Hugo or the San Francisco earthquake, writes Joseph Feldschuh, president of Daxor Corp. and a practicing cardiologist, medical researcher and teacher. However, says Feldschuh, instead of developing a national business strategy, companies seem
"AIDS and Ostriches: Business is Not Facing Up to the Scourge": Barron's (12/18/89) Vol. 69, No. 51, P. 16; Feldschuh, Joseph; The AIDS epidemic is a brewing financial disaster far bigger than Hurricane Hugo or the San Francisco earthquake, writes Joseph Feldschuh, president of Daxor Corp. and a practicing cardiologist, medical researcher and teacher. However, says Feldschuh, instead of developing a national business strategy, companies seem
"The AIDS Research Backlash": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (12/17/89), P. A1; The backlash against AIDS is growing as the epidemic enters its second decade and advocates for patients with other diseases say it is taking funds away from diabetes, heart disease, and other illnesses that kill more people. As the debate over equity rises, Congress, medical researchers, and health economists are al
"Student with AIDS Tells Classmates During Show-and-Tell": Associated Press (12/17/89); Atlanta--For show-and-tell, third-grader Brett Lykins told his Chattahoochee Elementary classmates he has AIDS. Parents and students knew a child at the school had AIDS, but Brett s identity had been kept secret from all but the school s principal and his teacher. I just went up and said I was the one, he said.
"Condom Jewelry Makes a Point for AIDS Alert": New York Times (12/17/89), P. 72; In Wellesley, Mass., AIDS Alert, a student organization dedicated to raising AIDS awareness, sells condom jewelry in the student center at Wellesley College. Stephanie Gertz, a senior from Boston and a psychology major, designed the jewelry and founded the organization. She fashions pins or earrings from condom pack
"Places for AIDS Patients Are Still Scarce": New York Times (12/17/89), P. E6; Lambert, Bruce; Nursing homes, hospices, group residences, apartments, home-care attendants, and adult day-care centers would cost less and be more comfortable for AIDS patients in between bouts of illness. However, efforts to free beds and shift AIDS patients to these types of care are encountering many obstacles and delays. Alter
"Antenatal Testing for Human Immunodeficiency Virus": The Lancet (12/16/89) Vol. II89, No. 8677, P. 1442; Davidson, C.; The results from the Royal College of Obstetricians andGynaecologists National Study of HIV Infection in Pregnancy indicate that selective antenatal testing should be established in areas where no testing is presently offered and that testing should possibly be offered to all pregnant women in high-prevalence areas.
"State Considers Autopsy AIDS Tests": Associated Press (12/16/89); Boston--In the wake of last week s decision by New York City health officials to test for HIV during autopsies, medical officials in Massachusetts are debating similar action. This is a serious disease, a lethal contagious diesease, and our hands are tied for investigation, reporting, and protecting those around us,
"Cuomo Sets AIDS Plan, Admitting it Falls Short": New York Times (12/16/89), P. B1; Lambert, Bruce; New York Gov. Mario Cuomo announced a five-year plan to fight AIDS yesterday. At the same time, however, he said the money is not available to fully fund the fight against the epidemic in the state. Cuomo said, I want to say as clearly as I can, I am not putting into this plan this year nearly enough money to meet
"Teaching the Teachers": Lancet (12/16/89) Vol. 2, No. 8677, P. 1467; Unmasking AIDS is a new video by the International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF) designed to overcome AIDS communication problems and make people change their sexual behavior. The video shows how group discussion, role play, drama, puppetry, and masks can overcome obstacles to change caused by difficulties wi
"Multiple Drug Reactions in a Patient with AIDS": Lancet (12/16/89) Vol. 2, No. 8677, P. 1455; Wignants, H., et al.; Writing in response to a report by Drs. Ong and Mandal (Lancet, Oct. 21), H. Wignants and colleagues from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium , discuss the case of a 40-year-old gay man with HIV infection and Kaposi s sarcoma who displayed a hypersensitivity to sev
"Acute Rhabdomyolysis Coincident With Primary HIV-1 Infection": Lancet (12/16/89) Vol. 2, No. 8677, P. 1454; Mahe, Antoine, et al.; Primary HIV-1 infection may have caused rhabdomyolysis in an 18-year-old patient from Mali , report Antoine Mahe and fellow researchers at the Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Poissy, Poissy, France . The researchers note that the man presented
"Teaching the Teachers": Lancet (12/16/89) Vol. 2, No. 8677, P. 1467; Unmasking AIDS is a new video by the International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF) designed to overcome AIDS communication problems and make people change their sexual behavior. The video shows how group discussion, role play, drama, puppetry, and masks can overcome obstacles to change caused by difficulties wi
"Multiple Drug Reactions in a Patient with AIDS": Lancet (12/16/89) Vol. 2, No. 8677, P. 1455; Wignants, H., et al.; Writing in response to a report by Drs. Ong and Mandal (Lancet, Oct. 21), H. Wignants and colleagues from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium , discuss the case of a 40-year-old gay man with HIV infection and Kaposi s sarcoma who displayed a hypersensitivity to sev
"Acute Rhabdomyolysis Coincident With Primary HIV-1 Infection": Lancet (12/16/89) Vol. 2, No. 8677, P. 1454; Mahe, Antoine, et al.; Primary HIV-1 infection may have caused rhabdomyolysis in an 18-year-old patient from Mali , report Antoine Mahe and fellow researchers at the Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Poissy, Poissy, France . The researchers note that the man presented
"Treatment IND for Pediatric Zidovudine": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/15/89) Vol. 262,; FDA has approved the distribution of zindovudine (also known as AZT ) strawberry-flavored syrup under a Treatment IND forchildren between the ages of 3 months and 13 years who have AIDS or are suffering from symptoms of adva
"AIDS Antigen Test": JAMA (12/15/89) Vol. 262, No. 23, P. 3254; FDA has approved a new diagnostic kit to detect the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in serum and plasma. HIVAG-1 and HIVAG-1 Blocking Antibody, from Abbott Laboratories , differs from other enzyme-linked immunoassaytest
"Street-Wise Crack Research": Science (12/15/89) Vol. 246, No. 4936, P. 1376; Holden,; A new breed of ethnographer lives with crack families in crack-ridden neighborhoods to study the problems caused and aggravated by drugs. The discoveries these street ethnographers make can have direct implications for public policy, especially as it affects AIDS policy. Philippe Bourgois,who is on leave from the
"New York City Will Test for AIDS in Autopsies to Trace the": New York Times (12/15/89), P. A1; Lambert, Bruce; The New York City Medical Examiner will begin testing for HIV in all autopsies performed and will use the results in statistical research and contact tracing. The tests are expected to detect HIV in at least 1,000 of the 8,000 corpses examined yearly. Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch said the results will be ex
"Cytomegalovirus Retinitis": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/15/89) Vol. 262, No. 23, P. 3337; To, King, and Friedman, Alan H.; Cytomegalovirus ( CMV ) retinitis is the most common cause of blindness among people with HIV infections, according to King To of Lenox Hill Hospital and Alan H. Friedman of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. CMV retinitis clinically manifests itself in
"Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Correctional Institutions:" Recommendations, Advisory Committee for Elimination of Tuberculosis: Journal of the American Medical Association (12/15/89) Vol. 262, No. 23, P. 3258; HIV infection is among the factors heightening the need for correctional institutions to take precautions against outbreaks of tuberculosis (TB), according to the Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Tuberculosis. The rate of HIV infection in state/federal prisons is an estimated 75 per 100,000, compared to 13 p
"Cytomegalovirus Retinitis": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/15/89) Vol. 262, No. 23, P. 3337; To, King, and Friedman, Alan H.; Cytomegalovirus ( CMV ) retinitis is the most common cause of blindness among people with HIV infections, according to King To of Lenox Hill Hospital and Alan H. Friedman of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. CMV retinitis clinically manifests itself in
"Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Correctional Institutions:" Recommendations, Advisory Committee for Elimination of Tuberculosis: Journal of the American Medical Association (12/15/89) Vol. 262, No. 23, P. 3258; HIV infection is among the factors heightening the need for correctional institutions to take precautions against outbreaks of tuberculosis (TB), according to the Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Tuberculosis. The rate of HIV infection in state/federal prisons is an estimated 75 per 100,000, compared to 13 p
"Plasma Viremia in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection": The New England Journal of Medicine (12/14/89) Vol. 321, No. 24,; Coombs, Dr. Robert W.; To further their understanding of the patterns of viralreplication, the authors undertook a cross-sectional and longitudinal study of virologic markers in HIV-infected persons. In a study involving 213 HIV antibody positive persons and 71 HIV-negative persons, the authors compared the frequency of isolation of HIV fr
"Crisis...What Crisis?": Nature (12/14/89) Vol. 342, No. 6251, P. 728; McGourty,; Americans are developing a dangerous complacency about AIDS, according to the U.S. National Commission on AIDS, which issued its first report to President Bush earlier this month. Scheduled to issue its first report in August 1990, the commission decided the problems with the U.S. response to the epidemic were too
"Frequent Isolation of HIV-1 From the Blood of Patients Receiving": New England Journal of Medicine (12/14/89) Vol. 321, No. 24, P.; Burke, Donald, et al.; The results of a study of 70 blood samples from 45 HIV-positive persons who were taking AZT indicates that treatmentwith AZT seldom if ever eradicates HIV-1 from the blood, according to a letter from Donald S. Burke of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Rese
"Quantitation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 in the Blood": New England Journal of Medicine (12/14/89) Vol. 321, No. 24, P.; Ho, David D., et al.; The levels of HIV-1 in the plasma and peripheral-blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of HIV-infected persons are much higher than previous estimates, according to David D. Ho and colleagues of the UCLA School of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The researchers report that in a study of 54 infected patients who were
"HIV Revealed: Toward a Natural History of the Infection": New England Journal of Medicine (12/14/89) Vol. 321, No. 24, P.; Baltimore, David, and Feinberg, Mark B.; Despite the enormous amount of information that has emerged about the genetic structure of HIV and how it operates in vitro, write David Baltimore and Mark B. Feinberg of the Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambrige, Mass., much is still unknown about how HIV initiates and maintains a natural infection. Only rec
"Man With AIDS Plans to Sue Blood Donor": Reuters (12/14/89); London--An man who received an HIV-contaminated transfusion in a Scottish hospital says he has AIDS-related symptoms and is seeking a court order for the donor s name to be revealed so he can sue the donor. The man, identified in court as AB, said he was transfused after a bone marrow transplant in 1986 and was lat
"AIDS Virus Can Hide for More Than Three Years": United Press International (12/14/89); Stein, Rob; Boston--A new study has found that HIV can hide in the body and evade easy detection for up to 3 1/2 years before the body produces antibodies that can be detected by standard tests, Northwestern University researchers reported Thursday. Most people begin producing antibodies to the virus within 12 weeks of infection
"When Research, Treatment Overlap": Washington Post (12/14/89), P. A33; Specter, Michael; Strong ethical guidelines that are standard throughout the world mandate consent of the subject of human experimentation, unlike in Nazi Germany where medical scientists and doctors experimented on people without restraint. However, recent highly-publicized human experiments--suc
"Free Morphine in Amsterdam": Wall Street Journal (12/14/89), P. A17; In Amsterdam, Dutch officials plan to offer heroin addicts free morphine injections to help reduce drug-related crime and limit the use of dirty needles that helps transmit HIV. About 200 of the city s estimated 8,000 addicts are expected to take part in the program, in which they will be given doses of morphine each
"Doctors Said to Ignore Part of the AIDS Law": New York Times (12/14/89), P. B8; Doctors routinely ignore a part of the AIDS confidentiality law that encourages them to notify sex and needle-sharing partners of HIV-infected people, said New York City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph yesterday. At a state assembly hearing, Joseph urged that the law be amended to make contact tracing mandatory to
"An Insidious Test for AIDS": New York Times (12/14/89), P. A39; Gifford, William C., 3d; The private sector must accept full responsibility for the nation s health, or step aside, writes William Gifford 3d, editoral assistant with Legal Times. Gifford writes that when he recently applied for an individual health insurance policy, a private insurance agent came to his apartment to take blood and urine s
"Studies Give New Clues on Action of AIDS Virus": New York Times (12/14/89), P. B22; Altman, Lawrence K.; Two new reports show that levels of HIV in the blood of infected persons are hundreds of times higher than scientists thought and that there is no period of infection when the virus is dormant. The studies, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, provide insight into how the virus causes infection, mu
"HIV Watch: Closets Within Closets": Bay Area Reporter (12/14/89) Vol. 19, No. 50, P. 5; Botkin, Michael C.; Although many people living with HIV must conceal their condition, writes the Bay Area Reporter s Michael C. Botkin, it seems odd that so many people s condition remains concealed after death. Concealing HIV as a cause of death serves the interests not of the deceased, he writes, but of those who seek to bury the dec
"Activists Slam AIDS Database": Gay Community News (12/14/89) Vol. 19, No. 50, P. 16; AIDS activists fear a new database, the Evaluative Online Database on Unproven Remedies for AIDS, may be used to deny insurance coverage to people with AIDS. Grace Powers Monaco , the organizer of the new database, says that in he
"Segregation of HIV Inmates to End": Bay Area Reporter (12/14/89) Vol. 19, No. 50, P. 1; Botkin, Michael C.; The California Medical Facility at Vacaville, Calif., has agreed to phase out the segregation of people with AIDS after reaching a settlement with inmates represented by the ACLU, the Prison Law Office, and three private law firms. The arrangement will settle Gates vs. Deukemejian, a January 1988 class-action suit.
"Polymerase Chain Reaction for Seronegative Health Care Workers with" Parenteral Exposure to HIV-Infected Patients: New England Journal of Medicine (12/14/89) Vol. 321, No. 24, P. 1681; Wormser, Gary P. et al.; Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and other techniques to detect HIV infection are unlikely to reveal large numbers of undetected HIV-1 infection among health care workers, according to Gary P. Wormser and fellow researchers from the New York Medical College and Cetus Corp. PCR testing detects the virus itself rather t
"HIV Watch: Closets Within Closets": Bay Area Reporter (12/14/89) Vol. 19, No. 50, P. 5; Botkin, Michael C.; Although many people living with HIV must conceal their condition, writes the Bay Area Reporter s Michael C. Botkin, it seems odd that so many people s condition remains concealed after death. Concealing HIV as a cause of death serves the interests not of the deceased, he writes, but of those who seek to bury the dec
"Activists Slam AIDS Database": Gay Community News (12/14/89) Vol. 19, No. 50, P. 16; AIDS activists fear a new database, the Evaluative Online Database on Unproven Remedies for AIDS, may be used to deny insurance coverage to people with AIDS. Grace Powers Monaco , the organizer of the new database, says that in he
"Segregation of HIV Inmates to End": Bay Area Reporter (12/14/89) Vol. 19, No. 50, P. 1; Botkin, Michael C.; The California Medical Facility at Vacaville, Calif., has agreed to phase out the segregation of people with AIDS after reaching a settlement with inmates represented by the ACLU, the Prison Law Office, and three private law firms. The arrangement will settle Gates vs. Deukemejian, a January 1988 class-action suit.
"Polymerase Chain Reaction for Seronegative Health Care Workers with" Parenteral Exposure to HIV-Infected Patients: New England Journal of Medicine (12/14/89) Vol. 321, No. 24, P. 1681; Wormser, Gary P. et al.; Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and other techniques to detect HIV infection are unlikely to reveal large numbers of undetected HIV-1 infection among health care workers, according to Gary P. Wormser and fellow researchers from the New York Medical College and Cetus Corp. PCR testing detects the virus itself rather t
"Coye Proposes AIDS Testing of Pregnant Women": United Press International (12/13/89); Shearman, J. Craig; Trenton, N.J.--New Jersey state Health Commissioner Molly Coye said Wednesday that pregnant women should be routinely tested for HIV, but only on a voluntary basis and with their advance permission. Coye released statistics showing that New Jersey has the second-highest rate of HIV-infected newborn infants of eights
"Homosexual Rights Group Blasts Interpretation of AIDS Law": United Press International (12/13/89); Lowry, Bob; Austin, Texas--The Texas State Health Department s interpretation of a key portion of the omnibus AIDS bill could devastate AIDS services and education in the state, according to Glen Maxey, director of the Lesbian-Gay Rights Lobby of Texas. At issue is language that states: Grants may not be awarded to an entity or
"AIDS, Unknown a Decade Ago, at Crucial Stage Entering '90s": Reuters (12/13/89); Arieff, Irwin; Washington--The AIDS epidemic enters the 1990s at a crucial stage, as one of the most important threats to global public health. Health authorities say the disease could spin out of control if current prevention efforts prove inadequate. Although researchers have found many new therapies and hope to make AIDS a mana
"U.S. Is Pressed to End Screening of Those Who Have AIDS Virus": New York Times (12/13/89), P. B14; Hilts, Philip J.; The National Commission on AIDS, the Amerian Bar Association, and the international League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies yesterday called for an immediate end to the U.S. government s policy of barring HIV-infected people from entering the country unless they get a special waiver. The policy forces HIV-infe
"Computers Help AIDS Patients": Associated Press (12/12/89); Cleveland--A federally funded experiment has housebound AIDS patients caring for themselves by using a computer service. As part of the Case Western Reserve University program, patients were given computer terminals which allow them to retrieve treatment information and make informed decisions about their own care. T
"Computer Users Warned of Computer Sabotage Disk": Associated Press (12/12/89); London--Personal computer users in London were warned Tuesday night that the AIDS Information Introductory Diskette, a mailed disk purporting to give AIDS information, may actually be part of a sabotage plot. Alan Solomon, head of a British company specializing in computer viruses, said several thousand of the disks,
"Family Says 10 Babies Were Exposed to AIDS": United Press International (12/12/89); Gainesville, Fla.--A Central Florida couple has filed a $5 million lawsuit against Shands Hospital at the University of Florida, alleging their daughter was one of 10 premature babies given HIV-infected blood in 1983. The suit also says the hospital attempted to cover up the matter until June 1989. Blood tests have
"The Storming of St. Pat's": New York Times (12/12/89), P. A24; The demonstrators who stormed St. Patrick s Cathedral Sunday, rather than inspiring sympathy for the plight of homosexuals, people with AIDS, or those seeking abortion rights, brought discredit on themselves by demonstrating in a way that violated the rights of others to practice their religion, write the editors of t
"Cardinal Says He Won't Yield to Protests": New York Times (12/12/89), P. B3; Purdum, Todd S.; John Cardinal O Connor responded to Sunday s protests against his statements on AIDS, homosexuality, and abortion yesterday, saying his approach could be changed only over my dead body, and that demonstrations would not prevent him from preaching church doctrine. O Connor, Archbishop of New York, has frequently cal
"Should a Hospital Tell Patients if a Surgeon has AIDS?": New York Times (12/12/89), P. B1; Sullivan, Joseph F.; Before he died of AIDS in June, Dr. William H. Behringer filed a suit that has forced a court review of the rights of ill doctors to treat patients and perform surgery without informing patients of their condition. Behringer sued the Princeton Medical Center, where he was on the staff, saying that after he was diagno
"Doctors and Ethics": Washington Post (12/12/89), P. 8; Bloom, Mark; The American Medical Association s (AMA) House of Delegates, the association s decision-making arm, has encouraged health authorities to trace all contacts of patients testing positive for HIV and notify them that they are at risk of infection. In addition, the delegates voted to encourage the reporting of HIV-positi
"Tentative Accord Reportedly set on NIH, AIDS Budgets": Washington Post (12/12/89), P. A23; Rich, Spencer, and Schwartz,; The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have tentatively agreed to recommend $1.7 billion for AIDS research and other AIDS public health programs and just over $7 billion for the National Institutes of Health for fiscal 1991. The agreement represents a compromis
"Life and Death on Ward 5A": Washington Post (Health) (12/12/89), P. 12; Adams, Jane; More than a quarter of the 4,609 San Franciscan AIDS patients who have died were cared for by nurses on Ward 5A at San Francisco General Hospital, the oldest inpatient AIDS ward in the nation. These nurses have set a standard of care for AIDS wards across the nation. From the beginning, they decided to touch their p
"AIDS, Crack, and Homelessness Contribute to Rise in Foster Care": Associated Press (12/11/89); Mesce, Deborah; Washington--Homelessness, AIDS, and crack cocaine are overwhelming child welfare services nationwide and contributing to the growing number of children in foster care, while federal funding has not kept pace with the problem, according to a report by the Democratic Majority on the House Select Committee on Children, Y
"Cuomo Blasts Protesters for Disrupting Catholic Mass": United Press International (12/11/89); Albany, N.Y.--Despite his support for abortion rights and AIDS patients, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a Catholic, criticized the AIDS and abortion-rights activists who disrupted mass at St. Patrick s Cathedral Sunday. Even the awful provocation emanating from these issues does not justify the outrage of desecrati
"AIDS Dominates the 1980s": United Press International (12/11/89); Stein, Rob; Boston--The 1980s saw the dawning of the Age of AIDS, in which an obscure disease that appeared to affect only homosexual men grew to epidemic proportions with issues touching all aspects of society around the world. Since 1981, 66,000 Americans have died of AIDS and an estimated 1.5 million have become HIV-infecte
"Tagamet Could Be Useful in Treatment of AIDS": United Press International (12/11/89); Philadelphia--The ulcer drug Tagamet could be used to treat AIDS, says the drug s manufacturer, SmithKline Beecham. The drug maker will participate in a study of the drug s use as an AIDS treatment, a spokesman for the company said Monday. A West German study showed Tagamet improved the condition of AIDS patients by
"School Officials Take a Dim View of Condom Sales": New York Times (12/11/89), P. 72; Douglas and Steven Kreuzer, brothers, engineering students and entrepreneurs, have been selling latex condoms with the words Get Lucky Bucky and the University of Wisconsin, Madison mascot, Bucky Badger, printed on them for over two years. The school s administration, however, recently sent a cease and desist let
"111 Arrested in Protest at St. Patrick's": New York Times (12/11/89), P. B3; De Parle, Jason; New York City police arrested 111 people yesterday when 4,500 people demonstrated outside St. Patrick s Cathedral and several dozen disrupted the mass of John Cardinal O Connor to protest the prelate s recent statements on abortion, homosexuality, and AIDS. O Connor opposes the use of condoms, safe sex, and needle
"AIDS Comfort": Newsweek (12/11/89) Vol. 114, No. 24, P. 63; Ellen Ahlgren, a retired schoolteacher from Northwood, N.H., decided to make quilts for babies with AIDS living in hospital and foster homes. She founded a national project called AIDS Baby Crib (ABC) Quilts to brighten the lives of more than 2,000 U.S. children with AIDS by giving each of them a cheerful comforter.
"The Good Father": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (Image Magazine); Fernandez, Elizabeth 12/10/89 Page 8; Bob Arpin, a 43-year-old Catholic priest, is gay and has AIDS. Arpin says he firmly believes in the power of truth and has found inspiration in what others might deem a death sentence. AIDS, he says, has given him a new public voice and a desire to bridge the gap between the church and the gay community. When he di
"AIDSWEEK: The Law": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (12/10/89), P. A8; As part of a settlement easing segregation of HIV-infected prisoners, Vacaville prison officials agreed to integrate 20 to 30 of the 130 inmates with HIV disease into prison activities, lawyers for the inmates announced. HIV-infected prisoners will still be housed separately....In the third consecutive ruling for Irw
"AIDSWEEK: The World": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (12/10/89), P. A8; Women are three times as vulnerable to HIV infection from a single sexual encounter as are men, according to British researchers. Studies in Britain and the United States have shown that if a woman has sex once a day with an HIV-infected man she has a statistical chance of being infec
"AIDSWEEK: Research": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (12/10/89), P. A8; James Mason, top federal health official, said people taking AZT for HIV-related conditions should not worry about recent reports that very high doses of the drug cause tumors in aging lab rats. Althought the findings are significant, he said, they do not
"AIDSWEEK: She Hopes for a Vaccine in Five Years": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (12/10/89), P. A8; Michael Murphey-Corb, whose Tulane University team developed the first promising vaccine against SIV, an AIDS-like disease in monkeys, said her personal goal is an HIV vaccine within five years. Murphey-Corb warned of many obstacles, however, including protecting against mutant viral strains and making sure the vacci
"Regional AIDS Centers to be Announced": United Press International (12/10/89); Shearman, J. Craig; Trenton, N.J.--The New Jersey state Health Department will announce today its choice of four hospitals to participate in a $1 million statewide system of early intervention centers for state residents infectedd with HIV who do not yet show symptoms. The four regional centers, combined with a center already open at th
"Mother-to-Infant Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus": Lancet (12/09/89) Vol. 2, No. 8676, P. 1351; Goedert, James J.,; In a prospective study of HIV-infected pregnant women in Brooklyn, research James J. Goedert of the National Cancer Institute and colleagues report, 60 percent of infants born at 37 weeks of gestation or earlier were infected with HIV, compared to 22 percent of infants born at 38 weeks of gestation or later. Of 55 ev
"AIDS in Teenagers": Lancet (12/09/89) Vol. 2, No. 8676, P. 1385; What hope have we for controlling the AIDS epidemic if the infection is not treated as a dangerous contagious disease? write the editors of the Lancet, who note that cases of syphilis are reported to public health authorities, contacts are traced and tested, and patients are treated and observed. AIDS meets all the
"The Cost of Medicines": Lancet (12/09/89) Vol. 2, No. 8676, P. 1384; Sibbison, J.B.; At a recent hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, witnesses testified on the exorbitant prices of many prescription drugs in the United States . Sen. David Pryor (D.-Ark.) who called the growing prices of drugs a national crisis, cited studies showing vastly lower prices f
"Syphilis Cases Increase in Seattle-Tacoma Area": United Press International (12/09/89); Seattle--The Seattle-King County Health Department has warned that syphilis cases are on the rise in the Seattle-Tacoma area. The syphilis trend has health officials concerned that fewer people are practicing safer sex, which would cause an increase in the incidence of HIV transmission in the area. Health officials
"Government ddI Trials on Trial": Science (12/08/89) Vol. 246, No. 4935, P. 1244; Palca, Joseph; Federal health officials are dealing with two troublingquestions as clinical tests of ddI begin: First, will the new parallel track program make it impossible to attract enough patients for clinical trials? And, second and perhaps more important, will a dearth of volunteers spell the end of the wide-scale distribution
"Incidence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seroconversion in US": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/08/89) Vol. 262,; Garland, Frank C., et al.; The U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps administered 1,956,631 enzyme-linked immunosorbent screening tests for HIV antibodies to 1,070,511 active-duty enlisted and officer personnel from 1986 to 1988, reports a team of researchers led byFrank C. Garland of the Naval Health Research Center. The tests identified 582 seroco
"Progress in Vaccines Against AIDS": Science (12/08/89) Vol. 246, No. 4935, P. 1233; Bolognesi, Dani; The pessimism shadowing the development of a vaccine for HIV infection shows some signs of receding, writes Dani P. Bolognesi of Duke University Medical Center. The efficacy of killed virus in animal tests, the identification of important immunological targets on the infected cell and the virus, and the fact that hum
"The Risk of Developing AIDS in Hemophiliac and Homosexual Men": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/08/89) Vol. 262,; Jason, Janine M.; In a response to a letter on an article of theirs discussing the risk of developing AIDS in hemophiliac men, Janine M. Jason and colleagues from the Centers for Disease Control note that current data do not indicate that HIV-infected hemophiliacs have lower rates of AIDS or longer latency periods than do homosexual or
"A Formalin-Inactivated Whole SIV Vaccine Confers Protection in": Science (12/08/89) Vol. 246, No. 4935, P. 1293; Murphey-Corb,; A formalin-inactivated whole SIV vaccine protected eight of nine rhesus monkeys from SIV infection, reports Michael Murphey-Corb and colleagues from Tulane University. SIV, the simian model for HIV, provides effective evaluation of AIDS vaccine methodologies in rhesus macaques, taking advantage of the similarities in
"AIDS Mothers Who Pass Disease to Infants Lack Antibody--Study": Reuters (12/08/89); Arnst, Catherine; London--A research team working in Brooklyn, N.Y., has discovered that pregnant HIV-infected women are more likely to infect their children if they lack an antibody that is critical to the virus. In a report in the Lancet, Dr. James Goedert of the U.S. National Cancer Institute and his colleagues report on a study of
"New Method of Creating Antibodies Hailed as a Research Aid": New York Times (12/08/89), P. A32; Blakeslee, Sandra; A team of scientists led by Richard Lerner at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, Calif., has developed a new method of creating monoclonal antibodies thousands of times faster, in greater quantity, and at lower cost than the current method. The technique, a major advance in biotechnology, will allow researchers to tap t
"Tests of a Vaccine on Monkeys Offer New Hope in AIDS Fight": New York Times (12/08/89), P. A1; Hilts, Philip J.; Researchers in Louisiana yesterday reported the most promising discovery yet in the fight to find a vaccine against HIV. Michael Murphy-Corb and colleagues at Delta Regional Primate Research Center at Tulane University used whole-killed virus, inactivated with formalin, and protected eight of nine monkeys against a s
"Thailand's Sex Industry: An Armed 'AIDS Time Bomb"": Bay Area Reporter (12/07/89), P. 17/1; Wockner, Rex; British writer Peter Tatchell says Thailand is sittingon an AIDS time bomb, following a visit to Bangkok this fall. It s the world s leading center for sex tourism, Tatchell says, and [it] also has a massive drug problem arising from the production of heroin in the Golden T
"Reporters Field Questions on Media Coverage of AIDS": Bay Area Reporter (12/07/89), P. 4; A panel of San Francisco area journalists representing print, TV, and radio answered questions about AIDS and HIV coverage at a forum hosted by Positives Being Positive, a peer support network sponsored by the AIDS Health Project. The panel answered questions on the reluctance of the media to address alternative ther
"Scientific Firsts May Fail in the Commercial World": Washington Technology (12/07/89) Vol. 4, No. 17, P. 20; When the World Health Organization asked the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at Johns Hopkins University to design a single-use syringe to help curb the spread of HIV, the lab developed one. However, the researchers soon found that scientific breakthroughs have no guarantee of su
"AMA Supports AIDS Notification; Attacks Tobacco": Associated Press (12/07/89); Honolulu--The American Medical Association Wednesday recommended that communities set up partner notification systems to protect unsuspecting sexual or needle-sharing partners of HIV-infected people. The delegates approved the policy by voice vote as part of a resolution to enco
"Kenya Reports Finding Most Promising Drug to Combat AIDS": Reuters (12/07/89); Nairobi, Kenya--Doctors at a Nairobi research facility announced they have discovered a drug they say halts the symptoms and effects of AIDS within days. We do not claim to have a cure for AIDS but we have given AIDS sufferers the best chance available and another chance to lead normal lives, Dr. Davy Koech, head o
"AIDS Activist Group Harasses and Provokes to Make Its Point": Wall Street Journal (12/07/89), P. A1; Crossem, Cynthia; Members of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), an AIDS advocacy group, have entered government, finance, and religious offices and conducted civil disobedience demonstrations. ACT-UP members have gained access to these places unchallenged by security personnel and employee because of their clean-cut, yuppie app
"With AIDS, Doctor Plans for a Trial, Not a Career": New York Times (12/07/89), P. B1; Navarro, Mireya; Veronica Prego was an extern, a medical-school graduate working toward an internship, when she pricked a finger with a needle seven years ago. She is now 32 and battling AIDS. Instead of preparing for a medical career, she is preparing for a negligence lawsuit against Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York Cit
"AIDS Panel Says U.S. Lags on Health Care Policy": New York Times (12/07/89), P. A26; Hilts, Philip J.; In its first report to the president--delivered eight months early--the National Commission on AIDS faulted the federal government for the lack of a national plan for dealing with the impact of AIDS and criticized the Bush administration s drug policy, which it said doesn t include or allocate resources for HIV infect
"AIDS Commission Reports Early to Bush": Washington Post (12/07/89), P. A11; The National Commission on AIDS sent its report to the White House eight months early to drive home the point that the nation s health-care system needs urgent repair to deal with the AIDS crisis. The commission said the response to the AIDS epidemic has been slow because the disease initially appeared in groups oft
"Officer Wants Prisoner's AIDS Test Results": United Press International (12/06/89); Indianapolis--The Indianapolis Fraternal Order of Police has pledged to help Sgt. David Young financially and back legislation that would require high-risk suspects to undergo HIV antibody testing. Young, who was punctured by a hypodermic needle while searching a man believed to be a heroin addict, thinks he may have
"A Nurse Is Sentenced for Denying Treatment": New York Times (12/06/89), P. B8; Barbara Ford, a nursing supervisor in Queens, N.Y., was sentenced to 200 hours of community service treating AIDS patients for denying emergency-room treatment to an 81-year-old woman suffering from a rapid heartbeat and respiratory distress. This was the first successful criminal prosecution of a hospital employee i
"AIDS Drug Causes Cancer in Animals": New York Times (12/06/89), P. A20; Hilts, Philip J.; Burroughs Wellcome Company said yesterday that AZT has been found to cause cancer in mice and rats. However, doctors emphasized that for most patients, the drug s benefits far outweigh its risks. Doctors also said the findings do not ensure that AZT will
"Not Waiting for Approval": Advocate (12/05/89) No. 539, P. 28; Zimmerman, Andy; As head of Project Inform and organizer of the controversial Compound Q study, Martin Delaney is squarely in the limelight these days. Since the establishment of Project Inform in 1985, Delaney has grown from a vocal outside critic of the way the government and drug manufacturers faced the AIDS crisis into an insider
"The Helquist Report: U.S. Immigration Problems Continue for": Advocate (12/05/89) No. 539, P. 27; Helquist, Michael; Issues of HIV status and foreign travelers have not been resolved in this country. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service will allow HIV-positive foreign nationals into the country if they are traveling on business and if they apply for a special visa. The visa requirement raises several issues, such as whe
"An Ugly "Spin" on AZT": Advocate (12/05/89) No. 539, P. 53; Byron, Stuart; Only willful intellectual dishonesty can account for Celia Farber s conclusions in her article, Sins of Omission: The AZT Scandal, in Spin magazine s November issue, writes the Advocate s Stuart Byron. Farber, writes Byron, barely goes beyond John Lauris
"Study Finds Teens Hear AIDS Advice But Ignore It": Reuters (12/05/89); Chicago--A survey of 448 Oklahoma City area students showed that teens learn about AIDS prevention but do as they please when it comes to actual behavior. Researchers from the University of Oklahoma Helath Sciences Center and Texas Tech University conducted the survey of students aged 14 to 17 who had been exposed to
"Records Plan Draws Heat": Advocate (12/05/89) No. 539, P. 19; Peterson, Robert W.; Oklahoma Department of Health (ODH) officials are attempting to change the state s AIDS reporting system. Although Oklahoma hospitals, clinics, and private physicians are required to give ODH the names of patients who are HIV positive, state law allows six clinics to conduct anonymous testing. ODH officials want the
"Outlook for AIDS Research: The Worst Is Yet to Come": Washington Post (Health) (12/05/89), P. 5; Hines, William; What is the outlook for the second decade of the AIDS epidemic? June E. Osborn, chairman of the National Commission on AIDS, and Anthony S. Fauci, head of the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health, say it is not good. On World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, Osborn and Fauci took issue with two public misim
"Pregnancy and AIDS: Questions About Treatment and Social": Washington Post (Health) (12/05/89), P. 11; Waxman, Sharon; More than 600 AIDS experts gathered in Paris last week for the first global conference to address the complex ethical and social dilemmas facing mothers and children with AIDS. The message of the roomful of ministers of health was that health systems around the world cannot cope with the hard questions posed by AIDS
"Religious Groups Exhorted to Press on AIDS": New York Times (12/05/89), P. A24; An interfaith group of religious leaders adopted a consensus statement yesterday calling for greater government involvement in AIDS prevention and care. The religious leaders, who gathered for a two-day conference in Atlanta at the Carter Presidential Center, said they face formidable problems in developing a united
"Employers Address Issue Head-On": Industry Week (12/04/89) Vol. 238, No. 23, P. 11; Benson, Tracy; How can a company deal with the issue of AIDS in the workplace? When one CEO member of The Executive Committee (TEC) was faced with an employee uprising over an HIV-infected worker, he invited an expert from the Centers for Disease Control to educate his staff about AIDS in the workplace, according to Bud Carter, Atl
"Program Targets Ex-Cons, Ex-Drug Abusers": Associated Press (12/04/89); Rosen, Barbara; New York--AIDS Risk Reduction and Eduction for Former Intravenous Drug Abusers Entering Society, more commonly known as ARRIVE, is a New York City program to help students with drug problems who have recently completed jail terms get back into society. The primary purpose of the program is to stop the transmission (
"Four Churches Vandalized Over Archbishop's Anti-Condom Stance": Associated Press (12/04/89); Los Angeles--A group of AIDS activists says it will continue to vandalize Roman Catholic churches until Archbishop Roger Mahoney changes his stance on the use of condoms to prevent AIDS. The group, Greater Religious Responsibility!, splashed red paint on the doors of four churches to retaliate against Mahoney for mak
"New Study Will Probe Problems Artists Have With Health Coverage": Journal of Commerce (12/04/89), P. 9A; McNiff, Tom Jr.; The National Endowment for the Arts has funded a study by the American Council on the Arts to determine the availability and affordability of health insurance for actors and other artists. Some arts groups argue that insurers may be hedging on insurance for artists due to a concern with AIDS. At this point, no solid
"A Guardian of U.S. Health Is Failing Under Pressures": New York Times (12/04/89), P. A1; Hilts, Philip J.; The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) faces rising responsibilities, a staff shortage, poor morale, and a budget that has not changed in almost a decade. Yet the agency is responsible for insuring the safety of food, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices. Industry officials complai
"AIDS Officials Reinstated in a Call for Healing": New York Times (12/03/89), P. 48; Lambert, Bruce; New York City Human Rights Commission Chairman John E. Brandon reversed himself Friday and reinstated Keith O Connor and Kathryn L. Taylor, the two top officials in the AIDS Discrimination Division, who were removed amid gay rights organization protests. Two weeks ago, Brandon reinstated O Connor, who had been demote
"At Last, a Place in Medicine for Interferon": New York Times (12/03/89), P. E6; Kolata, Gina; The drug interferon got a boost last Thursday when two groups of researchers reported that alpha interferon is the first known drug that can treat hepatitis C, the most common form of the sexually-transmitted disease that affects 3 to 7 percent of the American population. Interferon fell into disrepute when it failed
"Let Me Just Stamp Your Passport": Lancet (12/02/89) Vol. 2, No. 8675, P. 1325; With its policy on HIV-infected people, the U.S. Immigration Service s (INS) has produced a Berlin Wall made of straw and then knocked holes in it, write the editors of the Lancet. The policy is remarkable mainly for its purposelessness and its ugliness, they write. In theory, says the Lancet, the INS could dema
"Systemic Glutathione Deficiency in Symptom-Free HIV-Seropositive": Lancet (12/02/89) Vol. 2, No. 8675, P. 1294; Crystal, Ronald G.,; Glutathione deficiency could be one of several factors responsible for immune deficiency in HIV infection, write Ronald Crystal and colleagues from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Glutathione plays an important role in the body s immune system, including activation of lymphocytes. Crystal and colleagu
"An AIDS-Associated Microbe Unmasked": Science News (12/02/89) Vol. 136, No. 23, P. 356; McKenzie, A.; A mysterious virus-like infectious agent (VLIA) isolated from a lesion of an AIDS patient with Kaposi s sarcoma has been identified as a mycoplasma, the smallest known organism capable of living without a host. Shyh-Ching Lo and researchers from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C. Lo and colle
"Women Twice as Likely to Continue Sharing Needles": Gay Community News (12/02/89) Vol. 17, No. 20, P. 2; Villalobos,; A recent survey by the Santa Clara County, Calif., drug abuse services bureau found that over 40 percent of female IV drug users continue to share needles even after learning the practice puts them at risk for HIV. The county s criminal justice services bureau interviewed and tested 263 men and 126 women arrested bet
"Book Reviews: AIDS": Journal of the American Medical Association (12/01/89) Vol. 262,; McHugh, Margaret; Understanding and Preventing AIDS: A Guide for Young People, by Warren Colman, is a well-written book about AIDS for younger adolescents, grades 5 through 9, writes Margaret McHugh of New York University-Bellevue. The guide provides a primer with appropriate vocabulary, clear definitions of biological terms, and gr
"Structure of Complex of Synthetic HIV-1 Protease with a": Science (12/01/89) Vol. 246, No. 4934, P. 1149; Miller, Maria,; Maria Miller and colleagues from the National Cancer Institute s Frederick Cancer Research Facility report on their study of the structure of a cloned HIV-1 protease. Mutation of the active site of HIV-1 protease (HIV-1 PR) results in the production of noninfective virions, so the researchers studied inhibitors of HI
"Multiple Mutations in HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Confer": Science (12/01/89) Vol. 246, No. 4934, P. 1155; Larder, Brendan; Researchers Brendan Larder and Sharon Kemp of the Wellcome Research Laboratories describe four mutations in HIV reverse transcriptase (RT) isolated from HIV-infected individuals with reduced sensitivity to AZT . Three amino acid substitutions were common to
"Haitians Getting Bad Rap, Anthropologist Says": United Press International (12/01/89); Gainesville, Fla.-- Racism has given Haitians a bad press, said Robert Lawless, a University of Florida antrhopologist. Haitian boat people have been stereotyped as AIDS carriers and voodoo practitioners, resulting in job discrimination, according to Lawless. The professor contends Haitian job advancement has bee
"Swedes Call for Legalizing Homosexual Marriage to Combat AIDS": Associated Press (12/01/89); Faul, Michelle; As health experts and AIDS advocates commemorated World AIDS Day last Friday, Claes Ortendahl, director of Sweden s Social Welfare Board, called for the legalization of marriages between gays to reduce promiscuity and decrease the transmission of HIV. Countries throughout the world marked the AIDS awareness day with
"AIDS Activists Arrested in Pennsylvania Avenue Protest": Associated Press (12/01/89); Mesce, Deborah; Washington--Seventy-eight AIDS activists shouting Where is George? were arrested Friday after a protest and die-in in front of the White House. Many of those arrested were directors and top officials of AIDS advocacy groups from across the nation. The demonstrators met to protest the Bush administration s lack of
"Budget Office Proposes $8 Billion Medicare Cut": New York Times (12/01/89), P. A26; Tolchin, Martin; The health insurance program for the elderly and disabled would sustain the largest reduction of any domestic program under a White House budget office proposal to cut $8 billion in Medicare spending, officials said. Under the new budget plan, financing of AIDS research and treatment would be reduced by $7 million fr
"To the Swiss and Dutch, Tolerance is Anti-Drug": New York Times (12/01/89), P. A4; Bollag, Burton; Switzerland and the Netherlands take liberal approaches to their drug problems. In Zurich and Rotterdam, authorities do not arrest or harass small-time drug users and dealers, because they believe to do so would be counterproductive a
"Panel Proposes AIDS Program to Help Inmates": New York Times (12/01/89), P. B3; Lambert, Bruce; New York State s AIDS Advisory Council proposed major new programs to combat the rising epidemic of AIDS in prison, warning that prisons could become a charnel house of inmates consigned to a tragic and hastened death without a fast response. Health and prison officials endorsed the proposals as a strong plan for
"World AIDS Epidemic Draws New Warnings": New York Times (12/01/89), P. D19; Hilts, Philip J.; Officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday that the AIDS epidemic is gaining momentum worldwide and in some regions affects as many women as men. Jonathan Mann, director of the Global Program on AIDS, said the epidemic is still out of control. The disease ha
"Study Sheds Light on AIDS-Lung Infection Link": Washington Post (12/01/89), P. A20; Okie, Susan; Researchers at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) have discovered abnormally low levels of glutathione in the blood and lung fluid of 14 men in early stages of HIV-infection, which may explain why the immune systems of people with HIV/AIDS break down and why they have so many lung infections. Gluta
"Life Review and the Threat of Death": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling (12/89) Vol. 5, No. 1, P. 3; Krupnick, Janice, and Shill, John; As knowledge about HIV infection has grown, the way in which patients are treated has changed as well, write Janice Krupnick of Georgetown and George Washington Universities, and John Shill of Georgetown University. The goal of medical treatment in people with AIDS, they write, now leans toward maintaining the health
"Public Afraid of Contracting HIV in Physicians' Offices": AIDS Alert (12/89) Vol. 4, No. 12, P. 201; A survey conducted by researchers at the University of California in San Francisco shows that patients are frightened about contracting HIV in their physicians offices. Out of 2,000 respondents from the general population, 45 percent believed that if a physician is infected with HIV, he/she should not be allowed to
"Surgeons' Association Recommends Voluntary Testing of Patients": AIDS Alert (12/89) Vol. 4, No. 12, P. 1981; The AIDS task force for the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) has recently recommended voluntary HIVantibody testing of all patients. The task force believes that testing would give an accurate assessment of a patient s HIV status, important in choosing a mode of treatment, and it could further minimize
"AZT: The Tarnished Star": Eurobusiness (12/89) Vol. 2, No. 3, P. 17; Bebbington, Clare; Wellcome, the manufacturer of zidovudine ( AZT ) under the name of Retrovir, has achieved tremendous financial success with the drug, yet despite this success, the company is constantly enveloped in a heated public controversy the like of which few drug compa
"AIDS and the Meaning of Natural Disaster": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling (12/89) Vol. 5,; Berube, Allan; Whether people treat the AIDS epidemic and suffering asa medical learning experience or as a source of inspiration, theyare doing the sufferers and survivors a great diservice, writes Allan Berube, a historian and author of the book Coming Out UnderFire. While difinitive answers may comfort people who seek absolute a
"Early Research Shows Aerosol Transmission Might be Possible": AIDS Alert (12/89) Vol. 4, No. 12, P. 196; Scientists at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) say unpublished, preliminary reseach shows that microscopic floating blood particles commonly generated during surgical procedures may be capable of infecting health care workers with HIV and other blood-transmitted diseases. Dr. Don Jewett of UCSF sa
"Dentists Have Important Role in Early Detection of HIV": AIDS Alert (12/89) Vol. 4, No. 12, P. 203; As early intervention becomes increasingly important, dentists can play an important role in the early detection of HIV, says Michael Glick, director of the Temple University School of Dentistry s infectious disease center. Glick points out that oral manifestations make up approximately 40 percent of the initial mani
"AZT: The Tarnished Star": Eurobusiness (12/89) Vol. 2, No. 3, P. 17; Bebbington, Clare; Few drug companies have ever faced the public controversy Wellcome has become embroiled in over AZT . As one of the few companies to continue anti-viral research in the 1970s, Wellcome was well placed to begin work on anti-AIDS drugs when the breadth of the
"AIDS: Facts and Fallacies": MGF (12/89) Vol. 5, No. 10, P. 31; Whitty, Stephen; What you don t know about AIDS can kill you. In New York City, it s the number one killer of men aged 25 to 44, and one out of every five Americans now has a friend or relative who has AIDS or has died from it. AIDS is not a gay disease--you aren t safe if you re straight. AIDS is passed through exchange of bodily
"T4 Cell Counts Vary Among Labs; Precautions Should Be Taken": AIDS Alert (12/89) Vol. 4, No. 12, P. 200; T4 cell counts reported by commercial laboratories can vary by as much as 300 points, according to Colorado physician Charles Steinberg, who says the findings suggest guidelines for T4 cell counts need restructuring and that physicians should be much more careful about treatment decisions based on T4 counts. Steinber
"T4 Cell Counts Vary Among Labs; Precautions Should Be Taken": AIDS Alert (12/89) Vol. 4, No. 12, P. 200; T4 cell counts reported by commercial laboratories can vary by as much as 300 points, according to Colorado physician Charles Steinberg, who says the findings suggest guidelines for T4 cell counts need restructuring and that physicians should be much more careful about treatment decisions based on T4 counts. Steinber
"HIV Testing": Nature (11/30/89) Vol. 342, No. 6249, P. 466; Britain s government refuses to admit liablility for any of the 1,200 hemophiliacs in the country who contracted HIV through contaminated blood products. However, the government has announced a 19 million pound donation to the Macfarlane Trust to compensate the infected hemophiliacs. The government gave the same tru
"HIV Testing: UK Blood Screening Begins": Nature (11/30/89) Vol. 342, No. 6249, P. 466; Newmark, Peter; The United Kingdom will begin large-scale testing of blood samples for HIV infection in January, using blood drawn for other purposes, the Department of Health says. The samples will be anonymised, according to the department, but because information about the testing will be made a
"More About Oral": Bay Area Reporter (11/30/89) Vol. 19, No. 48, P. 7; Lifson, Alan; Unprotected receptive or insertive anal intercourse has been the primary risk factor associated with new HIV infections, although there are reports that two men seroconverted after multiple episodes of receptive oral intercourse with ejaculation, write Alan Lifson and Paul O Malley of the Clinic Study, who write to cl
"COBRA Benefits Extended for Disabled": Bay Area Reporter (11/30/89) Vol. 19, No. 48, P. 22; Botkin,; The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 (COBRA) continuation bill would extend COBRA benefits to disabled people, significantly benefitting people with AIDS and HIV infection. The bill passed Congress and is expected to take effect Jan. 1 with President Bush s approval. The extension will fill the
"Priority on HIV": Nature (11/30/89) Vol. 342, No. 6249, P. 462; Whether Robert Gallo of the U.S. National Cancer Institute or Luc Montagnier of the Institut Pasteur in Paris discovered HIV was a battle settled by then U.S. President Ronald Reagan and then French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, who agreed that AIDS was too important to fight over, write the editors of Nature. Howev
"Perinatal Pharmacokinetics of Zidovudine": New England Journal of Medicine (11/30/89) Vol. 321, No. 22, P.; Chavanet, Pascal, et al.; Both mothers and infants appear to tolerate zidovudine ( AZT ) during pregnancy, report Pascal Chavanet and fellow researchers from hospitals in France . They describe a study of a 30-year-old HIV-positive woman who declin
"Prophylaxis of Infections in AIDS": New England Journal of Medicine (11/30/89) Vol. 321, No. 22, P.; Bach, Michael C.; Should doctors, in light of the efficacy of primary prophylaxis against pneumocystis, consider prophylaxis for other agents known to cause infection in patients with HIV disease? asks Michael Bach of Maine Medical Center in Portland. Bach writes that the concept of primary prophylaxis against severe immunodeficiency
"Doctor Admits AIDS Test Extortion": United Press International (11/30/89); Trenton, N.J.--Monir Dawoud, a Jersey City doctor, admitted Thursday that he extorted more than $3,000 from two illegal aliens who tested positive for HIV. Dawoud, who was authorized by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to examine foreign nationals seeking permanent residence, told two immigrants they would
"Key to AZT Resistance Found": United Press International (11/30/89); Kolberg, Rebecca; Washington--Researchers from England s Wellcome Research Laboratories reported Thursday in the journal Science that they have pinpointed common genetic mutations in the DNA of AZT-resistant strains of HIV. The research may lead to quick tests to determine if patients are resistant to AZT. Brendan Larder and Sharon K
"Hepatitis B Four Times as Common Among Blacks": Associated Press (11/30/89); Byrd, Robert; Atlanta--African-Americans have four times the incidence of hepatitis B as whites, according to the first nationwide scientific survey of the infectious liver disease. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported Thursday that in a five-year study of more than 14,000 people, 4.8 percent showed signs of having been
"AIDS Activists: Bush Fails": Associated Press (11/30/89); Washington--On the eve of World AIDS Day, AIDS activists say George Bush s report card shows failing grades for his AIDS efforts. Rene Durazzo, spokesman for several AIDS groups, said Bush has yet to provide a national strategy and has not made a push for more funding for prevention, care, research, and treatment.
"Seven East Germans Die of AIDS": Reuters (11/30/89); East Berlin--The chief AIDS adviser to the health ministry in East Germany said Thursday that only seven people have died of AIDS in that country. Niels Sinnichsen, the leading AIDS expert in East Germany, told a weekly newspaper, the Morgenpost, that the country has no drug addi
"Black, Male, Gay and Angry: He Had a Right": Washington Post (11/30/89), P. DC1; Milloy, Courtland; Lawrence A. Washington died Nov. 21 of AIDS, writes the Washington Post s Courtland Milloy, who says he listened to friends eulogize Washington last Monday. Milloy recalls how Washington had been angry with Milloy for writing that, unlike the District s white homosexual community...black gays [had] failed to deal wi
"Canadian Company Claims Foolproof Test for AIDS Virus": Reuters (11/29/89); Parry, Antony; Toronto--Cangene Corp. President James Rae said Wednesday that his biotechnology company has developed a test for HIV that detects the virus directly without having to wait several weeks for antibodies to develop. The test, Nucleic Acid Sequence Based Amplification (NASBA), checks for a predetermined nucleic acid spe
"AIDS Mothers and Children Will Haunt Society, Experts Say": Reuters (11/29/89); Peirce, Andrea; Paris-- Knowing you transmitted death to your child causes enormous rage and despair, said Anita Septimus, an AIDS specialist attending the first international conference on the effects of AIDS on mothers and children. Experts at the conference said the trauma, guilt, depression, and physical health problems suffere
"AIDS Cases in Women Could Rival Homosexual Cases by Mid-1990s": United Press International (11/29/89); Sugar, Ken; Atlanta-- Unless we do something to stop [HIV s] spread, unless we do something about drugs, we are going to have a situation in Georgia like New York City or Newark, N.J., where the problem is not gay men, but heterosexual men and women involved either directly or peripherally with IV drugs and other kinds of drug ab
"Bill Lifting Some AIDS Confidentiality Requirements Clears": United Press International (11/28/89); Lansing, Mich.--Michigan currently has strict statutes protecting the confidentiality of children with AIDS. Information may be released only with signed parental permission or through a court order. However, those requirements would be lifted and information could be released to the director of a foster care agency
"AIDS Activist Chris Brownlie Dead at 39": United Press International (11/28/89); Los Angeles--AIDS-care activist Chris Brownlie died at his home Tuesday at age 39. The first county-supported hospice, where he had been a patient until he went home Monday, is named for him. He lobbied extensively for the $2 million, 25-bed county Chris Brownlie Hospice for AIDS patient care, the first and largest
"Homeless AIDS Patients Increase As Housing Becomes Scarce": United Press International (11/28/89); Kilkelly, Ned; New York--An advocate for the homeless said Tuesday that the number of homeless AIDS sufferers in New York is rapidly increasing while housing is dwindling. Peter Smith, president of the Partnership for the Homeless, testified at a city council hearing that one of three homeless persons has AIDS or is HIV-positive.
"Bringing AIDS Into the Open": Wall Street Journal (11/28/89), P. A12; Sokolov, Raymond; In his first novel, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Sockett, John Weir highlights the need for serious, informed debate about the AIDS plague, the need for open discussion and for an end to pretending the disease isn t there, writes Raymond Sokolov of the Wall Street Journal. Weir depicts the urban gay world an
"Clerics Advised on AIDS Preaching": New York Times (11/28/89), P. B3; Goldman, Ari L.; In an existential sense, we all have AIDS, and the question is how we want to be treated as dying men and women, said the Rev. James A. Forbes Jr. of the Riverside Church in Manhattan as he sounded an eloquent call for compassion in advising other ministers how to preach on AIDS. Forbes, speaking at the Jewish The
"Needles That Cannot Be Shared or Reused": Washington Post (Health) (11/28/89), P. 5; Colburn, Don; Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore haved designed a nonreusable syringe that could help slow the spread of AIDS, hepatitis B, and other blood-borne diseases. The syringe automatically seals itself off within a few minutes of delivering its first injection, preventing further use. The barrel of the
"Many AIDS Cases Go Unreported": New York Times (11/28/89), P. C15; A study in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association has found that AIDS cases in South Carolina have been grossly underreported, especially among blacks. The study found that 62, or 40 percent, of 153 AIDS cases were not reported to the South Carolina
"Federal Official Faults Public Cholesterol Tests": New York Times (11/28/89), P. C8; Leary, Warren E.; Richard P. Kusserow, inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said Monday that inexpensive mobile health services that test for blood cholesterol levels may be unsafe and inaccurate. Kusserow said public cholesterol screenings should be discouraged without tighter regulation. A study
"AIDS Patient Files Suit": Business Insurance (11/27/89) Vol. 23, No. 48, P. 2; Bradford,; John McGann, an AIDS patient who works for H + H Music Co. in Houston, Texas, is suing his employer and General American Life Insurance, charging that they conspired to deny him $1 million in potential medical benefits. H + H Music cut McGann s benefits by switching all employees to a self-insured plan administered b
"Drama Teaches Children About AIDS Along with Their ABC's": Reuters (11/27/89); Ben-Itzak, Paul; San Francisco--A play by playwright Doug Holscaw, Into the Future, may help elementary school children become more familiar with AIDS. Holscaw wrote the play in collaboration with a number of school-age children for 9- to 12-year-olds to help deal with fear and ignorance about AIDS. The play was funded by $57,000
"Conference on How AIDS Affects Mothers, Children, Opens": Reuters (11/27/89); Peirce, Andrea; Paris--The first international conference on how AIDS affects mothers and children behan Monday with more than 600 sicentists, government officials, and health experts in attendance. Conference delegates debated ethical questions such as whethere pregnant women with AIDS should be forced to abort, and how to care for
"Butterworth: Test Accused Sex Offenders for AIDS": United Press International (11/27/89); Moline, Michael; Tallahassee, Fla.--Under legislation proposed Monday by Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth, accused sex offenders would face mandatory HIV antibody tests and victims would be entitled to know the results. Butterworth s proposal would affect people accused of rape against adults or children when bodily fluids ar
"AIDS Patient Who Won Landmark School Case Dies": Associated Press (11/27/89); Martinez, James; Tampa, Fla.--Eliana Martinez, an 8 year-old with AIDS, died Monday at home. Eliana s adoptive mother, Rosa Martinez, won a landmark two and a half year court battle to enable the girl to attend public school. She attended class for the first time last April. Rosa Martinez had battled the Hillsborough County School
"Museums in Mourning": Washington Post (11/27/89), P. B7; On Friday Dec. 1, more than 500 cultural institutions across the country will respond to World AIDS Day with A Day Without Art: A National Day of Action and Mourning, a series of events planned to recognize people with AIDS. Thomas Sokolowski, committee member of Visual Aids, a group of New York arts professionals
"New York Health Chief Goes Wrong on AIDS": New York Times (11/27/89), P. A18; Sweeney, Timothy J.; History will judge the misplaced priorities of Dr. Stephen Joseph, New York City Health Commissioner, writes Timothy Sweeney, deputy executive director of the Gay Men s Health Crisis in New York. Joseph should spend his final days in office making progress on programs for new drug therapy distribution, new HIV counse
"Panel Warns of Failings in Efforts to Halt AIDS": New York Times (11/27/89), P. B3; Freitag, Michael; The Citizens Commission on AIDS has concluded that many myths and misunderstandings about HIV disease continue despite increased public knowledge about the illness. The commission s findings will be released today in a report that also recommends that AIDS education messages be reframed. The report warns that publi
"AIDSWEEK: The Law": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/26/89), P. A12; A Miami judge sent Leonardo Gomez, 43, a federal prison inmate with AIDS, to a private hospital after ruling that the U.S. Bureau of Prisons lacks adequate facilities to treat the condition. Lawyers for Gomez said they will file a class-action suit on behalf of all federal prisoners with AIDS....A joint conference c
"AIDSWEEK: Research": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/26/89), P. A12; The American Heart Association has announced that HIV can infect heart tissues. In addition, heart disease may be one of the most important manifestations of HIV infection in children. Some AIDS patients may have no lung problems or central nervous system problems because those are being taken care of by drugs, sa
"AIDS Hospice Closed After Battle to Open": Washington Post (11/26/89), P. A19; A home for people with AIDS in Belleville, Ill., has closed after less than two and a half months because of financial problems and public ill will, according to its chairman, Keith Thomas. Our Place was allowed to open only after a federal court battle with the city. The home s board voted unanimously Nov. 18 to cl
"Key West Is Coping With High Rate of AIDS": Washington Post (11/26/89), P. A23; Key West, Fla., famed for a relaxed and relatively carefree lifestyle, is coping with one of the nation s highest AIDS caseloads. Longtime residents of the city say that despite the heavy toll on health-service providers, the Key West community has a compassionate attitude that bigger, richer cities could learn from.
"Diabetes Mellitus, AIDS, and Night Sweats": Lancet (11/25/89) Vol. 2, No. 8674, P. 1285; Silbert, Peter L.; A physician s failure to reduce a diabetic patient s insulin dose when the patient suffered night sweats, a common symptom of nocturnal hypoglcaemia, caused the patient to fear the symptoms indicated HIV infection, writes Peter L. Silbert of Royal Perth Hospital in Australia . W
"Apartheid and AIDS": Lancet (11/25/89) Vol. 2, No. 8674, P. 1280; Viljoen, A.T.; Sanctions against South Africa have slowed the economy, resulting in increased poverty, hunger, and joblessness, writes A.T. Viljoen of the AIDS Advisory Group at Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education in South Africa. With rising unemployment, prostitution has
"AIDS in Africa": Economist (11/25/89) Vol. 313, No. 7630, P. 16; The AIDS epidemic threatens to blow the World Bank s strategy for African economic recovery apart in east and central Africa, where AIDS researchers predict the disease could cause a decline in population growth. Population issues lie at the heart of the World Bank s strategy, which calls for population control and b
"Nestle Accused of False AIDS Claim": Lancet (11/25/89) Vol. 2, No. 8674, P. 1289; A spokesman for the Nestle Company has been accused by the activist group Baby Milk Action of directly contradicting World Health Organization policy and misleading 200 schoolchildren by saying that in some African countries up to 50 percent of people are HIV-positive and that HIV-
"Reporting of AIDS: Tracking HIV Morbidity and Mortality": Journal of the American Medical Association (11/24/89) Vol. 262,; Buehler, James W., et al.; Because we rely so much on AIDS surveillance data to gauge the AIDS epidemic and plan for its future, we must discover how completely the data reflects the actual morbidity of HIV infection, write James W. Buehler and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The two important questions to ask, they write,
"Underreporting of AIDS Cases in South Carolina, 1986 and 1987": Journal of the American Medical Association (11/24/89) Vol. 262,; Conway, George A., et al.; Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control report on their review of 596,585 hospital discharge billing records to evaluate the completeness and accuracy of AIDS reporting in South Carolina from Jan.1, 1986 to June 30, 1987. George Conway and colleagues from the CDC report finding that of 153 reportable cases o
"AMA Insights: Current Data Regarding Sexual Practices": Journal of the American Medical Association (11/24/89) Vol. 262,; The American Medical Association (AMA) sent a letter to all members of the Senate Appropriations Committee pushing for funding for the U.S. Public Health Service national survey of health and sexual behavior. The letter stressed that current data regarding sexual practices are e
"HIV Watch: Dead Meat Special": Bay Area Reporter (11/23/89) Vol. 19, No. 47, P. 5; Botkin,; Richard Craig, who has been living with AIDS for two years, applied for an Independent Living program sponsored by the Department of Rehabilitation so he could invest his Social Security money in a program to make him self-sufficient. The program, geared toward the disabled, would allow him to take a 500-hour massage
"HIV Watch: Drug ddI: No Free Lunch": Bay Area Reporter (11/23/89) Vol. 19, No. 47, P. 5; Botkin,; The experimental drug ddI is now being used as an HIV treatment, but it s no miracle drug, writes Michael Botkin. Many people have trouble tolerating the drug when they start it, says Botkin, who notes that AZT s limitations did not become known until it had been in use a few years, indicating that there s no guarant
"Bone Marrow Toxicity of Dideoxyinosine": New England Journal of Medicine (11/23/89) Vol. 321, No. 21, P.; Molina, Jean-Michel; Jean-Michel Molina and Jerome E. Groopman of New England Deaconess Hospital report on their study of the effects in vitro of dideoxyinosine (ddI) on bone marrow progenitor cells of normal subjects. They report that only very high doses of ddI caused bone marrow toxicity (inhibited growth of bone marrow progenitors).
"Unusual Modes of HIV Transmission": New England Journal of Medicine (11/23/89) Vol. 321, No. 21, P.; Vittecoq, D., et al.; The authors of a New England Journal of Medicine article about the transmission of HIV via acupuncture needles, D. Vittecoq and fellow researchers write that their patient may have exposed himself to HIV through sexual intercourse or by using drugs. However, they write, he was carefully questioned by physicians exper
"When to Prophylax?": Bay Area Reporter (11/23/89) Vol. 19, No. 47, P. 17; Gross,; Physicians of the County Community Consortium in San Francisco have seen Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) in a significant number of patients with T-helper cell counts in the 200-300 range and suggest possible changes in the Centers for Disease Control guidelines. They recommend including other markers along with
"Unusual Modes of HIV Transmission": New England Journal of Medicine (11/23/89) Vol. 321, No. 21, P.; Weiss, Stanley H.; Molecular analysis ( fingerprinting ) of viral isolates represents a crucial step in the confirmation of unusual histories, writes Stanley Weiss of the New Jersey Medical School. The report in the New England Journal of Medicine (Jan. 26) of possible HIV-1 transmission by oral sex falls far short of the necessary min
"Unusual Modes of HIV Transmission": New England Journal of Medicine (11/23/89) Vol. 321, No. 21, P.; Chamberland, Mary E., et al.; Letters in the Jan. 26 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine describe two cases of unusual modes of HIV transmission, via female-to-male oral-genital contact and through acupuncture, according to Mary E. Chamberland and colleagues from the Centers for Disease Control, who write that additional detailed informat
"A Cluster of HIV Infection Among Heterosexual People Without": New England Journal of Medicine (11/23/89) Vol. 321, No. 21, P.; Clumeck, Nathan, et al.; Belgian researcher Nathan Clumeck and his colleagues report the case of a high disseminator, a male patient who transmitted HIV to 11 of 18 female patients without apparent risk factors. The patient s sexual contacts were mostly middle-class Europeans, eight of whom were married. Clumeck and his colleagues suggest
"Red Cross Body Pulls Out of AIDS Talks, Cites U.S. Visa Rules": Reuters (11/22/89); Geneva, Switzerland--The League of Red Cross Societies said Wednesday it will not attend next year s AIDS conference in San Francisco because of discriminatory U.S. policies that prohibit granting visas to people with HIV/AIDS. A statement from the league s Geneva headquarters said the policies conflict with Red Cros
"Some AIDS Carriers Super Contagious, Doctors Say": United Press International (11/22/89); Stein, Rob; Boston--Belgian doctors reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that an unusually contagious HIV carrier infected half of his recent female partners, underscoring the risk of a single sexual encounter. The man, a Central African civil engineer, infected at least 11 of the 18 women he had sex with in the three
"UF Task Force Urges Condom Machines": United Press International (11/21/89); Gainesville, Fla.--A survey released by the University of Florida s AIDS advisory task force showed that although 85 percent of UF students are sexually experienced, only 20 percent consistently use condoms during intercourse. The panel has again advised the installation of condom machines in dormitories to help pr
"Hepatitis B Is Greater World Health Risk Than AIDS, Expert Says": Associated Press (11/21/89); Recer, Paul; Washington--Infectious disease expert Sanford F. Kuvin warned participants of the fourth National Forum on AIDS and Hepatitis B that hepatitis is a much greater worldwide health threat than AIDS, but U.S. doctors are not promoting a vaccine against the illness. Kuvin said Monday that hepatitis B carriers are 20 to 30
"Report Says Jail Physician Delayed Seeing Inmate": United Press International (11/21/89); Baltimore--The Baltimore City Jail s medical director delayed examining an inmate who later died for lack of treatment, according to an internal report. The prison doctor did not believe the prisoner s condition warranted emergency treatment, yet when he finally did see inmate Abdullah Shabazz, he ordered the prisone
"City Official Says D.C.'s Hispanic Community Suffering": United Press International (11/21/89); Washington--The numbers of AIDS cases and infant deaths are taking a heavy toll on Washington, D.C. s 80,000-member Hispanic community, according to Arlene Gillespie, director of the Office on Latino Affairs. The escalation of social problems coincides with an increase in the use of crack cocaine, with more members o
"AIDS Art Show Is Canceled Over a Banner": New York Times (11/21/89), P. C21; Kimmelman, Michael; The curator of an art exhibition on AIDS has withdrawn the exhibit because of a dispute over a banner. The art exhibit would have opened at the Henry Street Settlement House on New York s Lower East Side Dec. 1, but Humberto Chavez, curator, cancelled the show, Images and Words: Artists Respond to AIDS. A group of
"Benefit in Treating AIDS at Home": New York Times (11/21/89), P. D2; Freudenheim, Milt; Home care can be less costly for AIDS patients and better for their health, according to health care experts. The last place to put a patient with a depleted immune system is an acute-care hospital full of diseases, said Todd Richter, a health care analyst. Intravenous therapy at home can cost $400 to $500 less th
"Innovative AIDS Drug Plan May Be Undermining Testing": New York Times (11/21/89), P. A1; Kolata, Gina; The new parallel track program for ddI appears to be foundering. The plan allows people to get ddI outside of concurrent federal trials for safety and efficacy. However, only 75 patients have volunteered for clinical trials so far, while 1,300 people have applied to receive the drug outside the trials, a number incr
"The Helquist Report: Brief Notes": Advocate (11/21/89) No. 538, P. 24; Helquist, Michael; People who experience resistance to AZT can look to newer drugs being tested in clinical trials. DDI and DDC appear to work even when AZT stops....A report at the Montreal International AIDS Conference stated that there are two genetically different strain
"The Helquist Report: A Relentless Increase": Advocate (11/21/89) No. 538, P. 24; Helquist, Michael; Some recently released statistics from the office of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D.-Mass.) should help people put the day-to-day AIDS toll in perspective, writes Michael Helquist. There were 189 AIDS cases reported each day last June and 120 deaths per day. The total number of deaths from AIDS as of June 30, 1989 was 58,0
"News In Brief: Montana": Advocate (11/21/89) No. 538, P. 18; A new Montana AIDS law that took effect in October is flawed, according to the Montana Medical Association. The law requires people who take antibody tests to receive counseling and sign consent forms before testing, but also requires doctors to protect the anonymity of test subjects. Members of the medical associat
"News In Brief: Wisconsin": Advocate (11/21/89) No. 538, P. 19; Only three people showed up to a seminar in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, about AIDS and its impact on businesses. Shirley Zuelke, founder of Med-Talk Ltd., the seminar s sponsor, said she made follow-up calls to 600 businesspeople who were sent invitations. Zuelke said despite the calls she was unable to interest any addi
"A Very Risky Business": Newsweek (11/20/89) Vol. 114, No. 21, P. 82; Seligmann, Jean, et; Surgeons and other health care professionals often find themselves covered with blood, poked by needles, and cut by knives. As the number of patients with AIDS increases, so does the risk of accidental exposure to the HIV. The federal Centers for Disease Control has issued guidelines for health care workers on how t
"AIDS Battler Gives Needles Illicitly to Addicts": New York Times (11/20/89), P. A1; Lambert, Bruce; Jon C. Parker has been called the Johhny Appleseed of hypodermic needles. He spends most of his weekends handing out clean needles free to IV drug users to help prevent the spread of AIDS, along with bleach kits and condoms. On a particular Saturday in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, one man tells him You can
"AIDSWEEK: The Law": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/19/89), P. A8; An Alameda County Superior Court judge allowed a lesbian couple to adopt a 2-year-old boy with AIDS, reversing a California Department of Social Services policy against adoptions by unmarried couples. The boy was born HIV-positive and had lived with the couple since he was 5 weeks old....Fire officials in Springfield
"AIDSWEEK: AIDS Day Focuses on Youth at Risk": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/19/89), P. A8; The World Health Organization announced that the theme of World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, will be youth and responsibility for AIDS prevention. WHO picked the theme because while youth may be more likely than others to engage in risk behaviors, they are often less aware of the risks....
"New AIDS Vaccine May Soon Have Human Tests, Scientist Says": Reuters (11/19/89); London--A new vaccine against AIDS developed by British researchers may be tested on humans next year, accoridng to Geoffrey Schild, director of the Medical Research Council s AIDS program. Schild said the vaccine is safe, made from the protein gp-120, a part of the virus outer coat. The vaccine s ability to protec
"Researcher Denies Wrongdoing in AIDS Virus Discovery": Associated Press (11/19/89); Raeburn, Paul; New York--Robert Gallo, the American scientist credited as co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, criticized a 16-page story in yesterday s Chicago Tribune that described in great detail allegations made several years ago that he stole the HIV from the laboratory of Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. The rep
"Oral Hairy Leucoplakia": Lancet (11/18/89) Vol. 2, No. 8673, P. 1194; Oral hairy leucoplakia (HL) is a white lesion in the mouth that appears corrugated, shaggy, or hairy. HL was originally thought to be an opportunistic infection characteristic of HIV infection, but it actually is a manifestation of chronic immunosuppression and not specific to HIV, according to the editors of the La
"Inhibition of HBV DNA Replication by Ganciclovir in Patients": Lancet (11/18/89) Vol. 2, No. 8673, P. 1225; Locarnini, Stephen,; Stephen Locarnini and colleagues of Victoria, Australia , report on a study the effects of ganciclovir on hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in four homosexual men with AIDS who received the drug for cytomegalovirus (
"HIV Infection Among Sub-Saharan African Patients in the UK": Lancet (11/18/89) Vol. 2, No. 8673, P. 1225; Murphy, S., et al.; Because people who have lived or worked in sub-Saharan Africa may unknowingly import HIV infection to the United Kingdom , S. Murphy and colleagues of St. Mary s Hospital, London, suggest that all these people should be offered antibody testing. The researchers report on a study in whi
"HIV and the Epidemiologist": Lancet (11/18/89) Vol. 2, No. 8673, P. 1228; Gillett, Grant; Epidemiologists want a measure of how many unidentified and unnamed people are HIV-positive, writes Grant Gillett of New Zealand , and they may just have to live with not knowing exactly who is HIV positive to get useful scientific data. Ethics require consent if the individual
"Message Board Says 'Kill All Queers'": Gay Community News (11/18/89) Vol. 17, No. 18, P. 2; Rich,; An electronic message board at the corner of Connecticut Avenue and L Street in Washington, D.C., that usually displays public service announcements flashed an entirely different message Oct. 23-- Help Stamp Out AIDS Now: Kill All Queers and Junkies. Judith Miller, president of Miller Companies, Inc., which owns the
"Sex, Drugs, AIDS Becoming Part of Georgia's Rural Culture": United Press International (11/18/89); Atlanta--J. Ted Holloway, director of the southeast health unit of the Georgia Department of Human Resources told a conference in Atlanta Friday that increases in AIDS, syphilis, and crack use threaten to overwhelm public health services and will be the death of a way of life in
"HIV-1 Antibody Reactivity in Inner-City Alcoholics": Journal of the American Medical Association (11/17/89) Vol. 262,; Schleifer, Steven J., et al.; Alcohol abusers, particularly in inner-city areas, represent a secondary at-risk population for HIV because of geographic and social proximity to high-risk groups, write Steven J. Schleifer and colleagues of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, who conducted an anonymous screening assay to assess HI
"Infection Control Guidelines for CPR Providers": Journal of the American Medical Association (11/17/89) Vol. 262,; Cummins, Richard O.; The American Heart Association (AHA) has published guidelines for CPR providers to prevent transmission of HIV and hepatitis B (HBV). The AHA views the AIDS epidemic as a public health problem, and not a political, moral, or ethical one, writes Richard Cummins of the University of Washington. The group, Cummins writ
"AZT Still on Trial": Science (11/17/89) Vol. 246, No. 4932, P. 882; Cherfas, Jeremy; Protocol 298 of the U.S. Veterans Administration may solve the dispute between Protocol 019, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) study of AZT , and Concorde I, the similar French and British study. When NIAID stopped 019, Conco
"Time Bomb of AIDS Ticks as Thai Sex Capital Flourishes": Washington Times (11/17/89), P. A10; Health officials estimate that up to 45 percent of the 3,000 prostitutes in Patpong, the world s largest sex center in the heart of Bangkok, Thailand , carry HIV. In combination with nearly 150,000 IV drug users and a flourishing sex trade, world health officials worry that Thail
"Dismissal of Choreographer with AIDS Was Illegal and Unfair": New York Times (11/17/89), P. A38; Fitzgerald, Geraldine; Lawyers for the producers of Legs Diamond say Michael Shawn was fired for incompetence (news story, Oct. 27), but he was a great success and an excellent choreographer for South Pacific, writes South Pacific s director, Geraldine Fitzgerald. Michael was one of the most conscientious people I have ever worked with
"Dismissal of Choreographer with AIDS Was Illegal and Unfair": New York Times (11/17/89), P. A38; Giordano, Tony; Michael Shawn, the choreographer for the Broadway musical Legs Diamond who was fired by the show s producers three weeks before rehearsals and has sued for AIDS-related discrimination (news story, Oct. 27), was capable of fulfilling his contract and was fired because of AIDS discrimination, according to Tony Giordan
"Irish Condom Erupts in Middle of AIDS Crisis": Reuters (11/17/89); Majendie, Paul; Dublin, Ireland--In Ireland, the sale of condoms has been confined by law to pharmacies and family planning clinics, despite the fact that the number of AIDS cases there is doubling every nine months. The Irish Planning Association was sued last month for selling condoms at a record store in Dublin--the capital city
"Mr. Frohnmayer's Fumble": New York Times (11/17/89), P. A38; John Frohnmayer, chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts, found himself between a rock and a hard place over a $10,000 grant for an AIDS art show [and] in trying to get out of it he dug himself a very deep hole, write the editors of the New York Times. Susan Wyatt, director of Artists Space in New York, ha
"National Arts Chief, In a Reversal, Gives Grant to AIDS Show": New York Times (11/17/89), P. A1; Honan, William H.; Under heavy criticism from artists and art leaders, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman John E. Frohnmayer reversed himself yesterday and restored a $10,000 grant to Artists Space for an exhibition about AIDS. Frohnmayer said that he agreed to restore the grant after he visited the show, Witnesses: Agains
"Wellcome Seeks Approval to Sell AZT to All Those Infected with": Wall Street Journal (11/17/89), P. B4; Lublin, Joann S.; Burroughs Wellcome reported yesterday that AZT sales jumped 49 percent to $211.8 million in fiscal 1989, which analysts say resulted from expectations of quick market approval by the Food and Drug Administration for expanded distribution of AZT to symptom-f
"Book Review: Counselling in HIV Infection and AIDS": New England Journal of Medicine (11/16/89) Vol. 321, No. 20, P.; Cleary, Paul D.; Counselling in HIV Infection and AIDS, edited by John Green and Alana McCreaner, is a collection of articles writeen to assist counselors of HIV-infected people and those seeking antibody testing, writes Paul Cleary of Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. The book is a comprehensive source of practical advice on h
"Book Reviews: Pathology and Pathophysiology of AIDS and": New England Journal of Medicine (11/16/89) Vol. 321, No. 20, P.; Weinberg, David S.; Pathology and Pathophysiology of AIDS and HIV-Related Diseases, edited by Sami J. Harawi and Carl J. O Hara, is a valuable source of information on the pathology of infection with HIV for the pathologist and the general medical community, writes David Weinberg, physician at Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Mass
"HIV Watch: Let the Buyer Beware": Bay Area Reporter (11/16/89) Vol. 19, No. 46, P. 19; Botkin,; A correspondent has warned the Bay Area Reporter that AIDS patients should avoid a mail-order pharmacy, American Preferred Plan of Garden City, New York. The company charged $995 for a month s supply of AZT (a 50 percent mark-up) and billed the wrong ins
"Free Pentamidine Program Under Way, Drug Maker Says": Bay Area Reporter (11/16/89) Vol. 19, No. 46, P. 4; Dwyer,; A spokesman from Lymphomed claims the pharmaceutical has already begun its program to provide nebulized pentamidine, trade name NebuPent, to HIV-positive indigent people for Pneumocystis carinii prophylaxis. Lyphomed announced its Patient Assistance Program Oct. 11. On Oct. 13, Lymphomed said that it was still wor
"Conference on AIDS and Vision Loss": Bay Area Reporter (11/16/89) Vol. 19, No. 46, P. 4; An estimated 75 percent of AIDS patients will develop a visual impairment as new therapies extend people s lives. A national conference, AIDS and Vision Loss, which will take place in San Francisco Jan. 25-26, 1990, will address this issue. The conference is designed for health-care professionals and AIDS care pro
"UCLA AIDS Test Fees Protested": Associated Press (11/16/89); Los Angeles--AIDS activists say UCLA Medical Center was trying to profit from a government-subsidized research program by charging a $260 consultation fee to determine a patient s eligibility for the study. Neil Schram, former chairman of the L.A. City-County AIDS Task Force, said experimental drug programs are feder
"AIDS Prompts CPR Changes": United Press International (11/16/89); Stein, Rob; Boston--Stressing that there are no known cases of HIV transmission through mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the American Heart Association nevertheless said Thursday it would amend its guidelines on CPR by offering an alternative for people afraid of contracting HIV. The AHA s Emergency Cardiac Care Committee said some
"Statements of Grief and Survival in Show That Confronts AIDS": New York Times (11/16/89), P. C23; Russell, John; Controversy has surrounded Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, the new show at Artists Space (223 West Broadway, N.Y.), which began as a low-key cry of grief and outrage from a group of Lower East Side artists. Susan Wyatt, executive director of the gallery, said the show was intended as a kind of testimony of survi
"Dr. Joseph and AIDS Testing": New York Times (11/16/89), P. A30; Dr. Stephen Joseph, New York City Health Commissioner for three years, raised, and fought for, the right causes write the editors of the New York Times. Joseph recently proposed contact tracing for AIDS in New York, which has been avoided in the past because it would put the names of gay men and IV drug users, who
"Pope Asks Global AIDS Effort": New York Times (11/16/89), P. A10; Pope John Paul II ended the stormy Vatican AIDS conference yesterday with a plea for governments to develop and carry out a global strategy against the disease. In his first speech dedicated solely to AIDS, the Pope reaffirmed the Church s opposition to homosexual activity and condom use. However, he urged AIDS pati
"British Kids Learn About AIDS Through Game": United Press International (11/15/89); London--The British Medical Association (BMA) has approved a game for children 11 to 18 to teach them about the dangers of AIDS. The game, released this week, consists of 28 cards depicting a range of social and sexual activities that children must define as safe or as posing a risk for HIV transmission. Safe behavi
"Low-Income AIDS Patients Face New Crisis as Funds Become Scarce": United Press International (11/15/89); Fairfax, Va.--Northern Virginia health care providers, faced with a shortage of federal and state funding for AIDS, say they cannot afford to care for AIDS patients seeking medical treatment who are unable to pay for it. Virginia health officials will accept no new enrollees for its
"Cookie Mueller Dead; Actress and Writer, 40": New York Times (11/15/89), P. B26; Dorothy (Cookie) Mueller died Friday of AIDS-related pneumonia 40 at Cabrini Medical Center in New York. Mueller, who was 40 years old, was an actress, columnist, and art critic. She published a novella, Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls, this year. Mueller starred in two acclaimed underground films, John
"Health Board Backs Move to Trace AIDS": New York Times (11/15/89), P. B1; Lambert, Bruce; Stephen Joseph, departing New York City Health Commissioner, has long been a proponent of contact tracing for people who test positive for HIV. The city Board of Health reached a consensus yesterday on Joseph s proposal to ask the state to require the reporting of names of HIV-infected people to the health authoritie
"La Dolce Musto: A Message to Pat Buckley": Village Voice (11/14/89), P. 46; Musto, Michael; Pat Buckley has raised money to fight AIDS while her husband, William F. Buckley, sets the fight back with his biases against dope addicts and sex-driven gay(s) whom he believes to be suffering the consequences of their actions, writes Michael Musto of the Village Voice. Musto writes that he wants to hear from
"Priest Explains His Shock Gesture at Vatican AIDS Conference": United Press International (11/14/89); Ridley, Charles; Vatican City--The Rev. Peter White unfurled a banner, The Vatican has AIDS, from the speaker s rostrum and was expelled from the opening session of the Vatican conference on AIDS last Monday. The Irish priest was welcomed back to the conference Tuesday after he explained that he has AIDS and made the gesture as a c
"Modrow Says Berlin Wall Should Remain, Promises Coalition": Associated Press (11/14/89); Katzman, Abner; Berlin--Hans Modrow, East Germany s new premier, said the Berlin Wall, though open to travel, must remain standing to keep out AIDS, crime, and other Western problems. In our coutnry there is little criminal activity...cases of AIDS and drugs are virtually unknown. Our people are asking themselves why they shouldn
"AIDS Drug Comes Up Short, Study Shows": United Press International (11/14/89); Washington--University of California San Francisco researchers reported Tuesday that Septra, a combination antibiotic therapy used to treat Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) is not as effective as it could be. Jeffrey Edman and Daniel Santi reported that trimethoprim, one of Septra s two antibiotic ingredients, in
"Biotech Firm Postpones Plan to Go Public": Washington Post (11/14/89), P. B9; Barnum, Alex; Immune Response Inc., an AIDS research company cofounded by polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, has delayed going public with its stock because of Wall Street s reluctance to court the biotechnology industry. The company s move illustrates the difficulty faced by small, cutting-edge biomedical companies trying to raise
"'Midnight Caller' Continues Its AIDS Story": New York Times (11/14/89), P. C26; O'Connor, John J.; Gay groups and AIDS activists attacked NBC s Midnight Caller last season because an episode about AIDS concerned a bisexual man with AIDS who knowingly continued his promiscuous sexual behavior. The groups charged that it was hardly the type of program to calm existing public hysteria. The episode was altered befo
"Endowment Head Explains Withdrawal of Art Grant": New York Times (11/14/89), P. C20; Honan, William H.; John E. Frohnmayer, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, said he regretted describing his decision to withdraw sponsorship from a New York AIDS art show as political. He said there was an erosion of artistic focus in the show, Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, that he described as political. Hi
"Vatican Parley on AIDS Hears O'Connor Assail Condom Use": New York Times (11/14/89), P. A10; John Cardinal O Connor, Archibishop of New York, opened the Vatican s first conference on AIDS today by assailing the use of condoms and the distribution of clean needles as ways to prevent the spread of HIV. He was the first speaker at the three-day meeting of more than 1,000 delegates from 85 countries. O Connor a
"Josephs Resigns After 3 Years as New York's Health Chief": New York Times (11/14/89), P. B2; Lubasch, Arnold H.; Dr. Stephen C. Joseph, New York City Health Commissioner for more than three years, has resigned his post effective Dec. 31, when Mayor Ed Koch s administration terminates. Joseph headed the city s battle against the AIDS epidemic and was often criticized for his controversial ideas. He campaigned for subway posters
"F.D.A. Chief Is Demoted in Wake of Criticisms": New York Times (11/14/89), P. B13; Hilts, Philip J.; Louis Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced yesterday that Food and Drug ( FDA ) Commissioner Frank E. Young has been shifted by the Bush Administration to a less influential position created for him at HHS. Sullivan cited no reasons for the change. Young h
"Major Civil Disobedience Action for December First": New York Native (11/13/89) No. 343, P. 16; An ad hoc group of AIDS, lesbian, and gay service and advocacy organizations, the World AIDS Day Coalition, has announced plans for a major civil disobedience action at the White House on December 1, 1989, to coincide with World AIDS Day. The action will attempt to call attention to the failure of the U.S. governmen
"Researchers to Make Public New AIDS Test Results": United Press International (11/13/89); Pittsburgh--Charles Rinaldo, a University of Pittsburgh professor, Monday predicted a major AIDS research breakthrough when the Pitt Men s Study Group and several other test sites release study data on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test in mid-December. The PCR test can determine the precise time of HIV infecti
"First Vatican AIDS Conference Marked By Clashes on Ethics": Reuters (11/13/89); Pullella, Philip; Vatican City--At the Vatican conference on AIDS this past Monday, Cardinal John O Connor of New York and AIDS researcher Robert Gallo clashed over ethics, a protesting priest was evicted, and a man stood outside the hall calling the gathering a sham for excluding AIDS sufferers. O Connor said the spread of disease sh
"Legislator Questions $11 Million for AIDS Treatment": United Press International (11/13/89); Jacksonville, Fla.--Florida Sen. Larry Plummer (D.-South Miami) said he wonders if AIDS patients will commit crimes to get into improved AIDS treatment programs offered by the state s prison system. He was responding to the state Department of Corrections request for $11 million next year for AIDS treatments for inm
"Texas Hospital Dismisses Nurse over Mishap with HIV Needle": Washington Times (11/13/89), P. A5; Aynesworth, Hugh; Jody Lain, a former emergency-room nurse at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, accidentally stuck another nurse with an HIV-infected needle Sept. 26 and was fired three days later for gross negligence and endangering the life of another person. Lain said she did nothing wrong, broke no procedures, and that the
"Viratek Withdraws Request for Approval of Drug in AIDS Use": Wall Street Journal (11/13/89), P. B3; Viratek Inc. temporarily withdrew its request for Treatment IND status for the drug ribavirin, currently approved in the United States to treat a respiratory infection in infants. Ribavirin would be used to treat HIV infection in people without symptoms if approved by the Food and D
"Bioethics: Choosing Our Words About AIDS": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/12/89), P. D-19; Accuracy, sensitivity, and objectivity are three good reasons to choose words carefully, writes Bruce Hilton, especially when discussing disenfranchised HIV-infected people. He writes that the difference between HIV-infection and full-blown AIDS is important. People with AIDS are eligible for some state and federal
"AIDSWEEK: The World": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/12/89), P. A8; Fifteen months of clinical studies of a new transfusion treatment on nine people with AIDS in London resulted in six patients showing no HIV antibodies. Medicorp Inc., a Montreal-based company, has been awarded a U.S. patent for the treatment, which uses blood plasma from asymptomatic HIV carriers....
"AIDSWEEK: Research": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/12/89), P. A8; Fewer surgeons than expected have been diagnosed with AIDS as a result of HIV infection in the operating room, according to David M. Bell of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The CDC wants to do a major survey of the AIDS risk among surgeons as part of an effort to evaluate risks in the health care professions..
"AIDSWEEK: Prevention": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/12/89), P. A8; The Centers for Disease Control suspects a relaxation of safe-sex practices and its possible parallel, a national increase in HIV infection, because of an outbreak of gonorrhea among gay men in Seattle....The National Conference of Catholic Bishops officially repudiated last year s qualified support of condom educatio
"AIDSWEEK: The Law": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/12/89), P. A8; After a protest by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), San Francisco Police Department officers beat demonstrators and forced hundreds of people in the Castro district into stores and homes for more than an hour....Citizens of Concord, Calif., repealed a measure banning discrimination against people with HIV
"AIDSWEEK: AIDS Deaths on the Rise Among Women": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/12/89), P. A8; During the week, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control said AIDS deaths among U.S. women rose 75 percent between 1986 and 1988, making the disease the eighth highest killer of women of childbearing age. In comparison, AIDS deaths among men rose 42 percent in the same time period. Black women were nine times
"Religious Sect Fights L.I. School District Over Class on AIDS": New York Times (11/12/89), P. 40L; Verhovek, Sam Howe; A dispute between the Plymouth Brethren and the public high school district of Valley Stream, Long Island, has reached the New York Court of Appeals. The Brethren, a small religious order that calls newspapers and television pipelines of filth and rejects computers as paving the way for the Antichrist, wants to k
"Gonorrhea Outbreak Stirs Concern in Seattle": New York Times (11/12/89), P. 30; Researchers with the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported Thursday that an outbreak of gonorrhea among gay men in Seattle could indicate the abandonment of sexual practices that protect against HIV transmission. In the CDC s weekly report, the researchers said some homosexually active men may have rela
"Protests Greet Removal of Top AIDS Officials": New York Times (11/12/89), P. 41; Lambert, Bruce; The New York City Human Rights Commission has denied charges that it removed the top two officials in its AIDS Discrimination Division because they are gay. Keith O Connor, director of the AIDS office, and Kathryn L. Taylor, his deputy, believe they were dismissed two weeks ago because of discrimination and friction
"Transmission of HIV: Genital Ulceration, Sexual Behavior, and" Circumcision: Lancet (11/11/89) Vol. 2, No. 8672, P. 1157; O'Farrell, Nigel; A study of Zulu patients in Durban, South Africa , indicates that many normal sexual encounters include blood-to-blood contact, writes researcher Nigel O Farrell, because of genital lesions that might bleed during intercourse. In Zulu men the coexistence of chancroid and an uncirc
"Rapid Discrimination Between HIV-1 and HIV-2 Infection": Lancet (11/11/89) Vol. 2, No. 8672, P. 1156; Caruso, Beatrice; Italian researchers Beatrice Caruso and colleagues report a new assay, PEPTI-LAV 1-2, intended to distinguish between HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections. The researchers used the test on 18 sera collected at a blood bank in Guinea Bissau. The procedure is simple and fast, they write, a
"ACT UP/New York's Strategy Misfired": Gay Community News (11/11/89), P. 5; Petrelis, Michael; ACT UP/New York, an AIDS advocacy group responsible for direct action, drugs-into-bodies activism, took the wrong position in the recent Compound Q controversy, writes Michael Petrelis, co-founder of ACT UP/New York. Instead of embracing clandestine trials of the drug designed to bypass slow-moving standard drug-test
"Money for AIDS Projects in Other Countries": Gay Community News (11/11/89) Vol. 17, No. 17, P. 2; Gaines,; The American Foundation for AIDS Research ( AmFAR ) will fund AIDS projects [to be] carried out in the developing world by non-governmental organizations, according to AIDS Treatment News. Potential areas for funding include education for lay and professional audiences by local ser
"Gore Tex Organoids and Genetic Drugs": Science (11/10/89) Vol. 246, No. 4931, P. 747; Culliton, Barbara; Researchers John Thompson and Thomas Maciag have created an organoid, a man-made, biologically active ball of indestructible Gore-Tex and cells that can make blood vessels and secrete proteins. Gene therapists hope to use these organoids to get genetically altered cells into a patient s body, and perhaps eventually
"Targeting AIDS Prevention and Treatment Toward HIV-1-Infected": Journal of the American Medical Association (11/10/89) Vol. 262,; Francis, Donald P., et al.; Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and California health departments, universities, and research groups propose establishing private and public outpatient facilities where patients infected with HIV-1 can receive state-of-the-art treatment and long-term follow-up. Early treatment of clinical conditions
"The HIV Epidemic and Training in Internal Medicine: Challenges": New England Journal of Medicine (11/09/89) Vol. 321, No. 19, P.; Cooke, Molly; The HIV epidemic has forced a reevaluation of training in internal medicine and an examination of the implicit purpose of clinical education, write Molly Cooke and Merle Sande, physicians at San Francisco General Hospital. Appreciation of HIV-related risk requires well-conducted and universally-observed programs of i
"HIV Watch: Insurance Atrocity of the Week": Bay Area Reporter (11/09/89) Vol. 19, No. 45, P. 5; Botkin,; The health plan for the Printing Industries of Northern California (PINC) specifies a lifetime maximum of benefits for AIDS and ARC of $50,000, a pitiful...obviously inadequate sum, according to the Bay Area Reporter s Michael Botkin. The policy would be illegal if written in the state of California, but it was wri
"HIV Watch: Is Oral Moral and Safe?": Bay Area Reporter (11/09/89) Vol. 19, No. 45, P. 5; Botkin,; In Michael Botkin s new column, HIV Watch, which will report and comment on HIV-related medical, social, and political developments, Botkin writes that the recent study by Alan Lifson documenting two cases of oral transmission of HIV is no hoax. The study is part of the San Francisco Cohort, the biggest and best lo
"ACLU Presses AIDS Bite Appeal": Associated Press (11/09/89); Atlanta--The American Civil Liberties Union will handle the appeal of Gregory Scroggins, who was convicted Oct. 20 of attempted murder for biting a policeman. The ACLU attorneys will make this a test case, because the courts have clearly said [previously] that biting someone isn t a method of killing them even if th
"Arts Endowment Pulls Its Grant to Show on AIDS": New York Times (11/09/89), P. A1; Honan, William H.; The National Endowment for the Arts suspended a $10,000 grant for a New York City art exhibit about AIDS, Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, yesterday because it includes images of homosexual acts and its catalogue criticizes public figures. Johen E. Frohnmayer, NEA Chairman, said the agency withdrew its support to
"New York Housing Officials Redefine Family to Block Evictions": New York Times (11/09/89), P. B1; Gutis, Philip S.; New rules will prevent the eviction of poor and elderly people and people with AIDS, among others, by New York landlords. New York state housing officials have expanded the N.Y. Supreme Court ruling that extended the definition of family to include both homosexual and heterosexual couples. The rules will block landl
"AIDS Epidemic Requires Rethinking of Medical Training Process": Business Wire (11/08/89); San Francisco--The AIDS epidemic has dramatically affected the educational experience of doctors in training, causing them to worry about contracting HIV and to choose low-risk specialties, a University of California San Francisco study has found. There is a need to incorporate recognition of an element of risk into
"AIDS Program Under Way After Delays": Washington Times (11/08/89), P. B8; Portland, Ore. s needle-exchange program, originally planned to be the first in the nation, began Nov. 1. Outside-In, a nonprofit agency, finally started giving clean hypodermic needles to IV drug users in exchange for dirty ones after the agency had problems obtaining insurance that caused a one-and-a-half year dela
"AIDS Rulings Help the Falsely Accused": New York Times (11/08/89), P. B3; Lambert, Bruce; Three recent decisions in cases of AIDS-related discrimination have extended protections under New York law to HIV-infected people and people mistakenly believed to carry HIV. Past rulings have focused on people with full-blown AIDS, but complaints of AIDS-related discrimination have grown among people perceived to be
"Life in Slammer for Texan Nabbed on HIV Charges": Advocate (11/07/89) No. 537, P. 16; Peterson, Robert W.; A Corpus Christi, Tex., jury sentenced Thomas Anthony Zule to life in prison after a two-day trial and an hour of deliberations. Zule was accused of knowingly placing a 15-year-old boy at risk for AIDS and was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault. The original charge, indecency with a child, was changed to aggr
"Feds' Tests Said to Be Lily-White": Advocate (11/07/89) No. 537, P. 16; An analysis by the AIDS Clinical Trials Group has found that although 42 percent of adults who have AIDS are black or Hispanic, fewer than half that percentage, 20.4 percent, of the people enrolled in clinical trials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) are black or Hispanic. IV drug u
"Chicago Organization Battles AIDS One Group at a Time": Reuters (11/07/89); Cunningham, Joe; Chicago--John Copeland modeled STOP AIDS: CHICAGO after San Francisco s STOP AIDS project, which began using a discussion format in 1984 to target the gay community for AIDS information. Since the first session of STOP AIDS: CHICAGO took place in August 1987, the organization has grown to a core of seven staff member
"AIDS Brings Medical Science Closer to Designer Drugs": Reuters (11/07/89); Arieff, Irwin; Washington--At a research conference sponsored by the New York Academy of Science and the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C., last week, researchers presented strategies to fight AIDS, some of which were mere theory. Others involved experimental drugs already being tested in animals or humans. Researc
"AIDS Panel Supports Bleach Programs": United Press International (11/07/89); Kolberg, Rebecca; Washington--The National AIDS Commission issued a statement yesterday that officially endorsed experimental programs to give bleach to IV drug users to clean their needles and prevent HIV transmission. The Commission strongly supports pilot projects involving bleach distribution, according to the statement. David
"Inmate Care Still Under Review": United Press International (11/07/89); Baltimore--The Maryland Board of Physician Quality Assurance, a state panel that reviews complaints against Maryland doctors, is investigating the treatment given a Baltimore City Jail prisoner who died of AIDS in December. A grand jury report claims that Abdullah Shabazz was denied proper medical treatment at the
"Officials Hear Both Sides on Anonymous AIDS Testing": United Press International (11/07/89); Raleigh, N.C.--North Carolina state officials heard testimony Monday in a public hearing on a proposed new law that would require physicians to report the names and addresses of HIV-positive individuals to the state. Some doctors and public health officials support anonymous testing, while others contend it puts publ
"AIDS Panel Supports Bleach Programs": United Press International (11/07/89); Kolberg, Rebecca; Washington--The National AIDS Commission issued a statement yesterday that officially endorsed experimental programs to give bleach to IV drug users to clean their needles and prevent HIV transmission. The Commission strongly supports pilot projects involving bleach distribution, according to the statement. David
"Flies in the Ointment": Advocate (11/07/89) No. 537, P. 6; Voeller, Bruce; Bruce Voeller of the Mariposa Foundation in Topanga, Calif., writes to the Advocate to correct or clarify some of Michael Helquist s report on his research of condom breakage (Advocate, Issue 534). Condoms break very easily when used with many lubricants commonly found around the house, Voeller writes, especially han
"News in Brief: Colorado": Advocate (11/07/89) No. 537, P. 19; Last month the number of people in Boulder County who took HIV antibody tests doubled. Health department officials say the dramatic increase came after the department began advertising its policy of allowing test recipients to use aliases.
"Gay Teachers Sue for Benefits for Longtime Companions": New York Times (11/07/89), P. B2; Gutis, Philip S.; In a case now being watched by cities and private employers around the country, the Gay Teachers Association filed suit last year against New York City for discrimination. Partners of gay teachers are routinely denied coverage under city health-benefit plans, because only married spouses can obtain [health insurance
"Aspects of AIDS": Washington Post (Health) (11/07/89), P. 23; De Vita, Elizabeth; Beginning this month, the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Washington, D.C., will sponsor a Project Oasis Medical Forum to allow people to air concerns and feelings about HIV/AIDS. The forums meet the second Tuesday of each month and are free and open to the public. The forums will take place at Foundry United Me
"AIDS Art May Test Helms Ban": Washington Post (11/07/89), P. C1; Kastor, Elizabeth; A new art exhibit at Artists Space in New York, Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, will test the Helms law s restriction of National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) funding of obscene or homoerotic art. The NEA gave Artists Space a $10,000 grant for the show, which includes images of gay sexuality among the work of
"Youngest AIDS Patients Surviving Longer": New York Times (11/07/89), P. A1; Lambert, Bruce; Celeste Carrion died last month of AIDS. At 12 years and 7 months old, she was one of the longest surviving children born with AIDS. After a 1987 Newsweek article featured Celeste and her family, she became a national symbol of children with AIDS--a group whose numbers are steadily increasing. There are few statist
"The Helquist Report: The Full Picture": Advocate (11/07/89) No. 537, P. 26; Helquist, Michael; Words make a significant difference in how people respond to the AIDS epidemic and the ensuing public-health crisis, writes the Advocate s Michael Helquist, so a basic understanding of terms will facilitate clear discourse on AIDS and HIV infection. HIV disease refers to the period between HIV infection and develop
"David Kessler: Home Nursing for AIDS Patients": Business Week (11/06/89) No. 3132, P. 117; Castellon, David; David Kessler left Mississippi to go to Hollywood at the age of 18 with dreams of becoming an actor. He studied nursing to help pay the bills and ended up founding Progressive Nursing Services, a private nursing firm, in 1985. The AIDS epidemic was well understood by then, but many health care workers would not trea
"Condom Display Banned from Contest": United Press International (11/06/89); Houston--The vice president of Tiffany s in Houston ordered a display window dismantled because it contained more than 2,000 gold condoms. Designer Kelly Amen had created the display as part of an annual contest to raise money for AIDS research. We re dealing with a disease that kills thousands of people and they r
"Liberal Dinner Turns Ugly: Ailes Accused in Gay Bashing": New York Native (11/06/89) No. 342, P. 11; Hammond, John; A wolf pack of party supporters led by Republican media guru Roger Ailes attacked AIDS activists at the annual dinner of New York City s Liberal Party Oct. 21. The demonstrators targeted Liberal/Republican mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani because of his unwillingness to meet personally with AIDS activists and bec
"A Mouse That Roars": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/05/89), P. D20; Scientists at the Medical Biology Institute in La Jolla, Calif., collaborated with researchers at the National Institutes of Health to lay the groundwork for gene therapy in humans in the body of a mouse. Gene therapy, the goal of which is to teach a human cell to make its own AIDS drug and release it into the blood,
"AIDSWEEK: Education/Prevention": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/05/89), P. A8; Jonathan Mann, director of the World Health Organization s AIDS program, told the National AIDS Commission last week that dangerous complacency threatens to worsen the epidemic. He said that if indifference or denial lead to relaxation of current efforts or to a decrease in future commitment to AIDS, we will falte
"Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 10/89)": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/05/89), P. D19; Mathematicians at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are modeling the AIDS epidemic. Staff write Allyn Jackson says, One of the most surprising aspects of the AIDS epidemic is that, unlike most epidemics, it does not exhibit exponential growth. Rather, the best fit to the data on the number of AIDS ca
"AIDSWEEK: Care": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/05/89), P. A8; Bay Area service agencies said the Oct. 17 earthquake caused special problems for the city s AIDS patients. The quake added stress, sent people with weakened immune systems outdoors for the night, and disrupted home health services. The quake created a housing shortage and downed the San Francisco AIDS Foundation ho
"AIDSWEEK: Benchmarks in the Legal Struggle": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/05/89), P. A8; The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that a Nebraska social service agency could not perform mandatory HIV tests on its employees who work with the mentally retarded....A San Francisco Superior Court judge set a limit of $250,000 on awards for pain and suffering from blood banks to people infected with HIV by contam
"Doctor Says Amanda Blake Died of AIDS": United Press International (11/05/89); Chrystal, Chris; Sacramento, Calif.--Amanda Blake s physician, Lou Nishimura, said Saturday that the actress, Miss Kitty on television s Gunsmoke, died of AIDS. Blake died Aug. 16 at the age of 60 from throat cancer complicated by a type of viral hepatitis brought on by AIDS. No mention of AIDS was made at the time of her death.
"Laughter as Remedy to Ignorance on AIDS": New York Times (11/05/89), P. 71; Suzi Landolphi s one-woman show, Hot, Sexy, and Safer, has brought her AIDS and safe sex message to thousands of students at campuses from Boston to Los Angeles. Her hour-and-a-half mixture of music, comedy, audience participation, and frank discussion broaches subjects--sex and AIDS--that many would not otherwise
"10 Girls Charged in N.Y. Pin Attacks": Washington Post (11/05/89), P. A16; Ten black teenage girls, aged 13 to 15, were arrested last Friday night and charged with stabbing 39 white women with pins in a series of attacks that spread fear through the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The girls were arrested and charged with juvenile delinquency after one confessed to police that she and her frie
"Intralesional Vinblastine for Oral Kaposi Sarcoma in HIV": Lancet (11/04/89) Vol. 2, No. 8671, P. 1100; Epstein, Joel B.; Joel Epstein and Crispian Scully suggest intralesional vinblastine for treatment of oral Kaposi s sarcoma (KS). They report that in a clinical trial, results at one month were encouraging, with a 50 percent reduction in at least half of the lesions in 16 patients. In addition, some lesions regressed completely and o
"'Compassionate' Release of DDI": Lancet (11/04/89) Vol. 2, No. 8671, P. 1079; Compassionate release of the experimental antiviral dideoxyinosine (ddI), recommended by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ), threatens the status of clinical trials, write the editors of the Lancet. The FDA has made only a token response, they write, with restrictions and
"AIDS Growing as Cause of Death Among Women": Associated Press (11/04/89); Atlanta--A study released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that AIDS ranks eighth among the leading killers of women of child-bearing age. From 1986 to 1988, the number of AIDS deaths in women aged 15 to 44 increased by 75 percent--1,430 women died last year from AIDS. The researchers also f
"Carter Urges Kindness for AIDS Patients": Washington Post (11/04/89), P. G12; At a health symposium in Atlanta Oct. 25-27, Jimmy Carter said religious leaders must treat AIDS patients with kindness and compassion just as Jesus Christ embraced lepers. The former president said AIDS is not an easy issue to deal with. I have a problem with [AIDS] because it involves homosexuality...sex outside
"Use of Home Test Kits for HIV Is Bad Medicine": Journal of the American Medical Association (11/03/89) Vol. 262,; Rundell, James R., et al.; The experience of the U.S. Air Force with HIV testing demonstrates the need for counseling to accompany testing and reinforces the reasons why home test kits for HIV are contrary to standard medical practices, write James R. Rundell and colleagues. All active-duty military personnel are routinely tested for HIV with
"Disseminated Mycobacterium bovis Infection from BCG Vaccination": Journal of the American Medical Association (11/03/89) Vol. 262,; Boudes, Pol, et al.; The administration of live vaccines, especially BCG, may be dangerous to persons infected with HIV because of the possibility of adverse reaction to the vaccine, write Pol Boudes and colleagues, French physicians. They report a case in which a 32-year-old Algerian man developed AIDS and disseminated Mycobacterium bov
"China Tightens AIDS Monitoring": Associated Press (11/03/89); Beijing--The Beijing Health and Epidemic Prevention Department said Friday it will step up its AIDS-prevention system. The new efforts will include monitoring Chinese who have daily contact with foreigners and checking everyone infected with venereal disease for HIV infection. The official Xinhua News Agency said th
"WHO Reports 186,000 Cases": Associated Press (11/03/89); Geneva--The World Health Organization said Friday that more than 186,000 cases of AIDS were reported worldwide by the end of October. The WHO, which covers only people diagnosed with AIDS, recorded 4,340 new cases in the month of October. The United S
"Expert: AIDS Issue for All MDs": Associated Press (11/03/89); Omaha, Neb.--Jon Fuller, assistant director of the Clinical AIDS Program at Boston City Hospital, told the Omaha Mid-West Clinical Society that AIDS is fast becoming an issue for primary care doctors rather than medical specialists. AIDS must take its place among such frequent, chronic disorders as heart disease and
"Bishops Emphasize Ethics in Ban on Condoms: Law of Secondary": New York Times (11/03/89), P. A34; Griffin, John; In a letter to the New York Times, John Griffin, former teacher at Fordham University, writes that Jesuits at Fordham taught him a well established principle of Catholic theology--the law of secondary effect. This principle dictates that a communicant may without theological error perform an act which has a sinful se
"Several Officers Given AIDS Tests": Washington Post (11/03/89), P. D3; When the Prince George s County Police department learned that Arnold Batson tested positive for HIV and hepatitis B, the department sent about a dozen police officers for HIV testing and counseling. Batson was the chef at Stoney s Restaurant in Clinton, Md., and one of two men killed in an execution-style shooting d
"AIDS Research: Have Grant, Will Travel": Nature (11/02/89) Vol. 342, No. 6245, P. 3; Dickman, Steven; West Germany has announced a fellowship program to bring some of its best biologists into AIDS research. The German Cancer Research Centre will administer the program, which will initially last five years, with funds from the West German Research Ministry. Beginning in 1990, as
"AZT for Children in Extended U.S. Trial": Nature (11/02/89) Vol. 342, No. 6245, P. 10; Lindley, David; In late October, the Food and Drug Administration approved AZT for use in children under its treatment IND program. The drug will be given free to children with AIDS or late-stage asymptomatic HIV infection by the manufacturer, Burroughs Wellcome. The app
"Wider Use of Testing for HIV Infection": New England Journal of Medicine (11/02/89) Vol. 321, No. 18, P.; Whyte, John; HIV testing has been used to deny access to the military, delay prisoners release from incarceration, deny insurance, prevent access to certain professions, prevent entry into the United States , and deny medical and dental care, writes John Whyte of Tufts University School of Medicine
"Reversible Cardiac Dysfunction Associated with Interferon Alfa": New England Journal of Medicine (11/02/89) Vol. 321, No. 18, P.; Deyton, Lawrence R., et al.; Interferon alfa has been shown to have antiretroviral effects in patients with early HIV infection and Kaposi s sarcoma without many adverse effects, write Lawrence Deyton and others of the National Institutes of Health. They write that interferon alfa is produced by leukocytes as part of the immune response and has
"Rest Area Condom Plan Defended": Associated Press (11/02/89); Concord, N.H.--William Wallace, New Hampshire State s public health director, defended his decision to pass out condoms and advise gay men about AIDS prevention at highway rest stops, although the pilot program was canceled last month after Gov. Judd Gregg called it inappropriate and said it indirectly promoted hom
"AIDS-Infected Hemophiliacs Suspected of Fire-Bomb Attack": Reuters (11/02/89); Paris--Police said yesterday they suspect angry HIV-infected hemophiliacs of fire-bombing a car belonging to the head of France s national blood transfusion center. France s Honor, a group suspected to consist of hemophiliacs and other AIDS sufferers, claimed responsibility for the Tuesday night attack. Police say
"AIDS Drug Continues to Provide Benefit, Study Shows": United Press International (11/02/89); Boston--In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association , Margaret Fischl and researchers at the University of Miami School of Medicine have shown that AZT continues to prolong the lives of AIDS
"AIDS in China": Wall Street Journal (11/02/89), P. A15; The People s Daily said a Beijing food-shop assistant has become the first mainland Chinese to get AIDS through sex. Doctors discovered the unnamed man had the disease after hospital tests. His associates and family were tested after his infection was confirmed, but none carry HIV. The newspaper described the man a
"Complacency Seen Hurting AIDS Fight": Washington Post (11/02/89), P. A4; Okie, Susan; Worldwide, we believe we are in danger of losing the race against AIDS, said Jonathan Mann, director of the World Health Organization s (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS. He said yesterday in an interview that 6 million people will have developed AIDS by the end of the next decade, 10 times the current number of total
"AIDS Activists Rip LAPD Policy": Associated Press (11/01/89); Los Angeles--The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power/Los Angeles charged that police harassment of people possessing bleach and condoms has frustrated the group s AIDS prevention efforts. ACT-UP told a news conference last Tuesday that police in downtown L.A., Hollywood, and the San Fernando Valley have used possession o
"Experimental Drug Found Superior in AIDS-Related Blindness": Reuters (11/01/89); New Orleans--Foscarnet appears to be more effective against cytomegalovirus retinitis, a potentially blinding AIDS-related eye infection, than Ganciclovir, according to Fred Ussery of Houston s Baylor College of Medicine. Ussery told a meeting of the American Academy of Opthalmolo
"Novello Nominated As First Woman Surgeon General": United Press International (11/01/89); Silverman, Gary; Washington--President Bush announced his nomination yesterday of Antonia Novello for the post of U.S. surgeon general. If confirmed by the Senate, Novello, a Puerto-Rican born pediatrician and expert on kidney diseases and AIDS in children, would be the first Hispanic and the first woman to hold the post. AIDS activ
"Helping Those with AIDS": New York Times (11/01/89), P. C7; The Open Hand Cookbook (Pocket Books, $18.95) is a collection of menus and easy-to-follow recipes contributed by 63 California chefs. Some of the proceeds from the book will benefit Project Open Hand, a program that provides meals for San Franciscans with AIDS. Robert Schneider, a chef who has volunteered for Proj
"A Director's Race with AIDS Ends Before His Movie Opens": New York Times (11/01/89), P. C17; Harmetz, Aljean; Director Howard Brookner succeeded in writing, producing, and directing a $4 million movie, The Bloodhounds of Broadway, for Columbia Pictures, but died of AIDS April 27, before the film s release. The film interweaves four Damon Runyon stories that take place Dec. 31, 1928, the last New Year s Eve of the Jazz Age.
"Needle Attacks Spreading Fear on West Side": New York Times (11/01/89), P. B3; McKinley, James C. Jr.; Paranoia and fear predominate on New York s Upper West Side in the wake of a recent series of attacks in which women were jabbed with needles or pins. Investigators say that they believe 26 of the 28 attacks were racially motivated, because in those cases black teenagers, mostly female, jabbed a sharp object into the
"Counseling Pregnant Women Requires Special Awareness": AIDS Alert (11/89) Vol. 4, No. 11, P. 188; Health care providers need to be aware that counseling a pregnant woman with HIV infection involves more than merely explaining the perinatal risk of virus transmission. Many health care providers wrongly assume that HIV-infected pregnant women will terminate their pregnancy when told of the risk of transmission to t
"Alternative Mind and Body Techniques Used to Fight HIV": AIDS Alert (11/89) Vol. 4, No. 11, P. 185; Glazier, Debra; Although the beneficial effects of alternative treatments may lie in the patient s belief in their efficacy, increasingly physicians and patients fighting HIV disease are turning to alternative therapies as an adjunct to antivirals and other standard treatments to augment patient well-being and healing, write Debra Me
"Checklist to Identify 'Worried Well' Cuts Down on Investigation": AIDS Alert (11/89) Vol. 4, No. 11, P. 183; Barbara Hedge, principal clinical psychologist at St. Mary s Hospital, London, and colleagues have developed a 24-question checklist to identify the worried well, patients who have the irrational belief that they are infected with HIV. The checklist cuts down on unnecessary medical investigation and insures quicker
"Contact Tracing in a Rural Community": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling (11/89) Vol. 4,; A study of a rural South Carolina contact tracing program reported at the Montreal AIDS Conference demonstrated identification of a high percentage of asymptomatic HIV-infected people, a decrease in high-risk behaviors, and cost-effectiveness. The researchers attributed the success of the program to guarantee of conf
"World Health Organization Statement on Partner Notification": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling (11/89) Vol. 4,; The World Health Organization Consultation on Partner Notification drafted a consensus statement for national and local governments on contact tracing as a response to the AIDS epidemic. Partner notification programs for HIV infection should be considered, according to the stateme
"Home Health Aides Afraid to Care for People with AIDS": AIDS Alert (11/89) Vol. 4, No. 11, P. 180; A survey of 31 home health care agencies in the Boston area showed that 27 have experienced or anticipated difficulty servicing people with AIDS because of fear of contagion among home health aides, who provide vital backup to nurses. Home health aides, who help patients with personal care needs and hygiene, refused
"Nurses Say Universal Precautions Take Too Much Time to Follow": AIDS Alert (11/89) Vol. 4, No. 11, P. 179; Nurses want someone to nag them, to say put this on, so that they will follow the universal precautions for blood-generating procedures recommended by the federal Centers for Disease Control, according to Carolyn Sipes, clinical nurse specialist and HIV program coordinator at the Children s Hospital in Columbus, Ohi
"Bringing the Heartland Face-to-Face With AIDS": Business Month (11/89) Vol. 134, No. 5, P. 48; Mehler, Mark; John McNulty, former director of personnel at Modine Manufacturing Co., started an in-house AIDS education program that became a grass-roots community outreach effort. Earl E. Richter, company chairman and CEO, gave McNulty $135,000 to inform Modine employees and Richter himself. McNulty developed a one-hour present
"HIV Infection and Sexual Assault": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling (11/89) Vol. 4,; Frattaroli, Lynda M.; Fear and concern about possible HIV infection usually intensify the feelings of shock, fear, disbelief, anxiety, depression, and helplessness that may occur in victims of sexual assault. There are no data showing that sex offenders are at greater risk for HIV infection than the population, but vaginal or rectal assau
"AIDS Watch: Shooting the Messenger": Discover (11/89) Vol. 10, No. 11, P. 32; Montgomery, Geoffrey; Early this century, Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich coined the term magic bullet to describe a drug so specific it could strike directly at the source of a disease without side effects. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) believe they have a magic bullet for AIDS, a synthetic nucleic acid called the anti
"Fast Forward": Across the Board (11/89) Vol. 26, No. 11, P. 6; Business leaders, worried about the impact of AIDS on their firms, are sharply stepping up their AIDS education programs. Three fourths of 118 companies included in a Business Roundtable survey reported that they began AIDS education programs last year. New programs included seminars, meetings, videos, and AIDS arti
"Paying the AIDS Bill": Governing (11/89) Vol. 3, No. 2, P. 74; The federal government pays more of the cost of dealing with AIDS--apart from Medicaid outlays--than most states. New York, California, and Florida, with the highest caseloads, spend more of their own money than the government s, as do Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Massachusetts, states with comparatively light c
"Nebraska Agency Can't force AIDS Tests on Workers": Associated Press (10/31/89); Rubin, James H.; Washington--Under a new Supreme Court order, the Eastern Nebraska Community Office of Retardation (ENCOR) cannot force public employees who supervise mentally retarded people to undergo HIV testing. The order upholds decisions by lower courts protecting the workers Fourth Amendment rights. ENCOR director Don Moray s
"Making More Red Blood Cells": Washington Post (Health) (10/31/89), P. 18; Erythropoietin, a genetically engineered protein that stimulates blood production in the body, received Food and Drug Administration approval in June for the treatment of people suffering from anemia caused by kidney failure. The human gene encoding erythropoietin production is inserted into hamster tissue, which pro
"Insurers Balk at Paying for All Cancer Drugs": Washington Post (Health) (10/31/89), P. 6; Rovner, Sandy; Health insurance companies may hinder major advances in the treatment of AIDS and cancer by refusing to reimburse patients for experimental therapies that are the best available or sole effective treatments. Members of the Health Insurance Association of America met last week with the National Committee to Review Cur
"Private Labs to Do Tests for AIDS in New York": New York Times (10/31/89), P. B3; Verhovek, Sam Howe; The New York State Health Department said yesterday it has decided to lift its ban on HIV testing by commercial laboratories. New York was the only state to prohibit HIV testing by commercial labs, and state health officials say the new policy will lead to wider and faster testing. Leaders of gay rights groups said
"Ban on Mandatory AIDS Tests Allowed": Washington Post (10/31/89), P. A6; Kamen, Al; The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday refused to let Nebraska require AIDS tests for state employees who help the mentally retarded. The court declined without comment to review a federal appeals court ruling that the proposed mandatory blood test violated Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches. The c
"Employer Fights AIDS with Education": Business Insurance (10/30/89) Vol. 23, No. 44, P. 31; Shapiro; Educating employees and their families about AIDS is the best way for employers to fight the deadly disease, according to Dr. Patrick Vienot, health and safety manager for International Business Machines s Courbeevoie, France , unit. Vienot said that the virus affects us all. Th
"Mainstreaming a Cult Classic: The Last 'Tale of the City'": Newsweek (10/30/89) Vol. 14, No. 18, P. 77; Clifton, Tony; Armistead Maupin can even make wry jokes about AIDS, which he does in his latest novel, Sure of You, the sixth in a series of books that have become cult classics. The book follows the lives of a parade of characters through the breakdown of relationships in a city haunted by AIDS. Maupin, 45, lives with his HIV-p
"Legal Services Program for AIDS Patients": New York Times (10/30/89), P. A18; Hansell, David A.; David Hansell, director of legal services of the Gay Men s Health Crisis (GMHC), New York, writes that the GMHC also has a legal services program for people with AIDS--the first and for many years the only program of its kind in New York. Hundreds of volunteer lawyers have provided free legal services to people with
"We All Have to Learn to Deal with AIDS": Washington Post (10/30/89), P. A14; Schlosberg, Claudia; Claudia Schlosberg, a Washington, D.C., mother of two, writes that she awaits the day when the reasonable reaction of people confronting the reality of AIDS is no longer news. Schlosberg writes that she has two preschool children in a respected Washington day care center with a strict confidentiality policy. When t
"The New Condom: Larger Than Life": Newsweek (10/30/89) Vol. 114, No. 18, P. 10; Carter-Wallace Inc. is now marketing condoms that are 20 percent larger than a standard latex Trojan. The Magnum Condom may outsell the one size fits all brands, as Carter-Wallace s marketing ploy encourages men to buy the larger size. Carter Products marketing director Scott Hoyt said, Over 70 percent of men cou
"AIDSWEEK: Care": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (10/29/89), P. A4; Antonia Novello, the Hispanic pediatrictian slated to be the next U.S. surgeon general, said the country must begin thinking about AIDS as a disease of whole families. We have to think of the children who will be sick [and] the children who will be orphaned when the parents die, she said at a symposium on health ca
"AIDSWEEK: Research": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (10/29/89), P. A4; A National Cancer Institute study confirmed previous reports that age correlates with progression to AIDS in HIV-infected people. James Goedert co-authored the study of hemophiliacs who contracted HIV through tainted blood products. After eight years, Goedert found that 13 percent of those under age 18 had AIDS, com
"AIDSWEEK: Small Steps and 1 Big One for the Kids": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (10/29/89), P. A4; During the week, 65-year-old Mary de Armond of Los Gatos, Calif., completed her 4,000-mile walk across the country for children with AIDS. She left San Francisco 20 months ago and walked all the way to Boston to bring attention to the growing number of infants infected with HIV from birth. I went a route where I th
"AIDSWEEK: The World": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (10/29/89), P. A4; Michel Carael of Belgium , a consultant with the World Health Organization , told an international conference in Cameroon that more efficient education and prevention could reduce the spread of HIV by one th
"Insurers Avoid Arts Groups as AIDS Risks": United Press International (10/29/89); Tampa, Fla.--The Tampa Tribune reported Sunday that several insurance companies routinely deny coverage to performing arts groups, hair stylists, florists, and interior decorators--all people working in fields perceived as magnets for homosexuals--because of fears of expensive AIDS-related claims. Underwriters say th
"Guardian Angels Patrol Upper West Side for Pin-Pricking": United Press International (10/29/89); New York--The Guardian Angels began patrolling a stretch of Broadway on the Upper West Side after a series of attacks on women who were reportedly jabbed with needles. A gang of youths staged most of the attacks on Broadway between last Tuesday and Thursday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. The victims were seven women between t
"Officials Ground Condom-Shaped Hot Air Balloon": United Press International (10/28/89); Durham, N.C.--Members of the Durham County Commission stopped the launch of a 120-foot condom-shaped hot air balloon that was part of an AIDS awareness event. Irving Hoffman, a Durham County Health Department official who organized the launch as part of National AIDS Awareness Month, said County Manager Jack Bond had
"Quake Particularly Stressful for San Francisco's 3,000 AIDS": Associated Press (10/28/89); Geranios, Nicholas K.; San Francisco--The Oct. 17th earthquake posed special problems for San Francisco s AIDS patients. The weakened immune systems of people with AIDS make them especially vulnerable to illness while huddled outside. The quake also added stress to pre-existing fears of dying and disrupted crucial home and health services
"A.P. Giveaway": Gay Community News (10/28/89) Vol. 17, No. 15, P. 2; Gaines,; Lymphomed Inc. of Rosemont, Ill. said they would give aerosolized pentamidine free to uninsured people Oct. 12. However, the company said it will not reduce the price of the drug for those who do have insurance. Lymphomed s wholesale price is $99.54 per vial, but pharmacists frequently charge $150 to $200 per vial.
"DDI Trials Announced": Gay Community News (10/28/89) Vol. 17, No. 15, P. 2; Gaines; Rules and requirements for entrance into three trials of ddI announced Sept. 28 in Washington raise questions about access and availability. Two of the three trials will examine ddI taken in conjunction with AZT and the third will study ddI in people who c
"Human Chromosome 12 is Required for Elevated HIV-1 Expression in": Science (10/27/89) Vol. 246, No. 4929, P. 488; Hart, Clyde E.,; HIV regulatory genes and host cell factors control virus production, write Clyde Hart and colleagues from the Centers for Disease Control, du Pont, and the University of California, who describe their study of human-Chinese hamster ovary hybrid cell clones to determine which human chromosomes are involved in regulatin
"AIDS Bias Suit Ends with $60,000 Settlement": Washington Blade (10/27/89) Vol. 20, No. 43, P. 15; Sullivan,; Raytheon Company agreed to pay the family of John Chadbourne more than $62,000 in an out-of-court settlement. The settlement was reached three months after the California Court of Appeals upheld a lower court verdict that Raytheon violated the state s Fair Employment and Housing Act, which forbids discrimination agai
"Whitman-Walker Expands Services for Deaf Clients": Washington Blade (10/27/89) Vol. 20, No. 43, P. 15; As part of a new program for the deaf community called Project AIDS Access, Washington, D.C. s Whitman-Walker Clinic will expand its services for the deaf. Sandra Egan, a social worker, provides counseling and case management for deaf clients in the clinic s AIDS Services division, Wednesdays from noon to 8 P.M. and
"AIDS Led to Dismissal, Choreographer Says": New York Times (10/27/89), P. B1; Margolick, David; Michael Shawn, a choreographer who has AIDS, has sued the producers of the Broadway show Legs Diamond, claiming he was fired because he tested positive for HIV. Lawyers for the producers say that Shawn was dismissed for incompetence and an inability to perform unrelated to his illness. Shawn, however, insists he w
"AIDS Issue Gets an Explicit Airing": Washington Post (10/27/89), P. D7; Nelson, Jill; Neecy s Dilemma, a radio drama, brought the issue of AIDS education further out of the closet and onto community airwaves yesterday in Washington, D.C. Gaston Neal, a writer and employee of the D.C. Office of AIDS Activities, wrote the play with Ralph Matthews, a former employee. WOL and WPFW presented an unpreced
"U.S. Gives Children Access to AIDS Treatment Drug": Wall Street Journal (10/27/89), P. B4; Louis Sullivan, secretary of Health and Human Services, announced yesterday that children with AIDS will get AZT . After two years of restricted access, the Food and Drug Administration granted AZT treatment investigational new drug (IND) status, giving pat
"The Treatment of Hemophilia: Past Tragedy and Future Promise": New England Journal of Medicine (10/26/89) Vol. 321, No. 17, P.; Roberts, Harold R.; In 1978, no one could have predicted that HIV-contaminated factor VIII products would infect 50 percent to 90 percent of people with severe hemophilia, writes Harold R. Roberts of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Roberts writes that without improved therapy, the infection will inexorably progress to cli
"European Trials of AZT to Continue": Nature (10/26/89) Vol. 341, No. 6244, P. 678; Coles, Peter; Concorde 1, an Anglo-French placebo-controlled clinical trial of AZT in asymptomatic HIV-infected people, will continue despite short-term positive results that led the United States to halt similar studies. The National In
"Sex Survey Gets Wellcome Support": Nature (10/26/89) Vol. 341, No. 6244, P. 675; Webb, Ben; Britain s national survey of sexual behavior will go ahead despite Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher s veto. Wellcome Trust has granted 900,000 British pounds to support the study, which will provide data about transmission of HIV. Thatcher refused to fund the survey because she felt it would be too intrusive, but
"Absence of Anti-Human Immunodeficiency Virus Types 1 and 2": New England Journal of Medicine (10/26/89) Vol. 321, No. 17, P.; Schimpf, K., et al.; K. Schimpf and colleagues report on a study of 155 patients from hemophilia centers in the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria to investigate the risk of contracting HIV from human factor VIII heated to 60 degrees Celsius for 10 hours. Th
"A Prospective Study of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1": New England Journal of Medicine (10/26/89) Vol. 321, No. 17, P.; Goedert, James J., et al.; James J. Goedert and colleagues at the National Cancer Institute report on their study of 319 hemophiliacs with documented dates of seroconversion to HIV-1. They studied numbers of CD4 lymphocytes, presence of serum interferon or HIV-1 p24 antigen, and low or absent levels of anti-p24 or anti-gp120 to predict a high
"Scientists Discover Genetic Tie to AIDS Infection": United Press International (10/26/89); Kolberg, Rebecca; Washington--Federal researchers reported Thursday in the journal Science that a single human chromosome appears necessary for high levels of HIV production. Studies of genetic material inserted into hamsters showed that chromosome 12 played a significant role in activating HIV. Researchers at the Centers for Disease
"Business Bulletin: An AIDS Directory": Wall Street Journal (10/26/89), P. A1; The American Foundation for AIDS Research has produced an AIDS directory, Learning AIDS. The directory rates and reviews educational materials and lists films, pamphlets, brochures, videos, and other educational data. The directory s distributor is R.R. Bowker of New York.
"Radio Play Will Look to Listeners for Help with Safe-Sex": Washington Post (10/26/89), P. DC1; Milloy, Courtland; Neecy can t get her boyfriend, an IV drug user, to use a condom. He sleeps with other women on the side, but he also gives Neecy money and helps support her children. What should she do? You can help her solve her problem by tuning in to Washington-area radio stations WOL-AM (1450) or WPFW-FM (89.3) this morning fr
"For Charity and for Fun": New York Times (10/26/89), P. C12; Hochswender, Woody; In Paris Wednesday night, many of the leading names in French fashion attended a benefit party at the Bastille Opera with a concert and dinner for 600. The proceeds will go to Arcat-SIDA, an organization that helps provide therapy and information to AIDS patients. The idea was that the fashion industry should reall
"Va. Assures Privacy for Students with HIV": Washington Post (10/26/89), P. A1; Bates, Steve; Virginia s State Board of Education yesterday unanimously voted in favor of protecting the privacy of students with HIV. The new policy states that parents of a child with HIV do not have to inform local school officials or parents of other children of the child s condition. The policy reflects a dramatic shift in p
"AZT Expected to Be Cleared for Children": Wall Street Journal (10/26/89), P. B2; Chase, Marilyn; Louis Sullivan, secretary of Health and Human Services, is expected to announce today that the Food and Drug Administration has cleared AZT for children with AIDS under its treatment investigational new drug (IND) label. Under the treatment IND program, a
"AIDS Linked to Aging": United Press International (10/25/89); Stein, Rob; Boston--James Goedert and researchers from the National Cancer Institute said Wednesday that children and teenagers infected with HIV fare better than adults, because their immune system may protect them better. The study of 319 hemophiliacs, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that the rate at w
"Offensive Message Flashes at Busy City Corner": Washington Post (10/25/89), P. D1; Wheeler, Linda; The owners of an electronic information board at the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and L Street NW, in Washington, D.C., say they were mystified by a message that flashed five times in 25 minutes Monday. The message read: HELP STAMP OUT AIDS NOW: KILL ALL QUEERS AND JUNKIES. Craig Dean, a Georgetown University
"News in Brief: Iowa": Advocate (10/24/89) No. 536, P. 23; A T-shirt caused an uproar at the University of Iowa, where the Campus Review, a right-wing student paper, displayed a shirt which depicted two men having sex within a slashed red circle with Stop AIDS printed underneath. The paper s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Renander, said the shirt points out the obvious: To stop
"News in Brief: Connecticut": Advocate (10/24/89) No. 536, P. 23; An oral surgeon at the University of Connecticut s dentistry school in Farmington verbally abused him because he acknowledged on a questionnaire that he is gay, says Dennis Kelly, who sought treatment at the school. The patient said the oral surgeon, Chris Brown, demanded he take an HIV antibody test, told him his tr
"News In Brief: Montana": Advocate (10/24/89) No. 536, P. 24; Health officials at the Billings Area Indian Health Service said American Indians need AIDS education. The officials cited the AIDS-related deaths of three Native Americans in Montana. A spokesman for the National Indian AIDS Media Consortium said American Indians now have the highest rate of sexually transmitted di
"The Helquist Report: Kicking and Screaming All the Way": Advocate (10/24/89) No. 536, P. 30; Helquist, Michael; Burroughs-Wellcome reduced the price of AZT by an additional 20 percent under intense pressure from AIDS activists and members of Congress in mid-September. The price reduction came days after Wellcome company officers strenuously defended the high price a
"AIDS Spreading Faster in Ireland Than Anywhere Else in Europe": Reuters (10/24/89); Dublin, Ireland--A government spokesperson told a World Health Organization seminar in Dublin that the number of cases of AIDS in Ireland is doubling every nine months. A major concern is Dublin s growing population of IV drug users, said Liam Flanagan, who told seminar participa
"Health Director Sues City Over Needle Exchange Program": United Press International (10/24/89); Tacoma, Wash.--Tacoma city officials said they would stop paying their share of a $45,000 needle exchange program in November, so the head of the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department filed suit against them Monday to protect the controversial program designed to prevent AIDS. The needle exchange will continue from
"Study Supports Mind-Body Connection in AIDS Patients": United Press International (10/24/89); Stein, Rob; Boston--A Boston University study of nine AIDS patients supports the hypothesis that mental attitude may influence the health of AIDS patients, according to a researcher. Paul Black, who helped conduct the study, said Tuesday that immune system function appeared to be stronger in patients with positive mental attitud
"The Helquist Report: Update on Circumcision As a Risk Factor": Advocate (10/24/89) No. 536, P. 30; Helquist, Michael; Several studies in Africa have supported the hypothesis that uncircumcised men may have a greater risk of contracting HIV during sex. In the United States , 85 percent of the male population is believed to be circumcised. In countries where the practice is less common, the possible ri
"The Helquist Report: Top Priority T-Cell Tests": Advocate (10/24/89) No. 536, P. 30; Helquist, Michael; Many scientists and community physicians have agreed that a dropping T4 cell count directly relates to advancing HIV disease. Last month Anthony Fauci, the primary federal AIDS researcher, called the T4 cell count the best candidate for a surrogate marker of HIV disease progression, and federal officials recently rec
"Labor Letter: Fear of AIDS Hinders Hiring at Few Hospitals": Wall Street Journal (10/24/89), P. A1; Wafaa El-Sadr of the AIDS program at New York City s Harlem Hospital Center says she was the only staff physician available to treat AIDS patients last summer. She now has only the part-time help of two doctors to treat AIDS patients. El-Sadr says, I ve been recruiting every single day since it s been identified th
"AIDS Quilt and the Stories Behind Its Symbols": New York Times (10/24/89), P. C26; O'Connor, John J.; Tonight at 10 P.M., Home Box Office presents Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, a moving and sympathetic account of the people who have died of AIDS. Dustin Hoffman narrates the 75-minute documentary, which tells the stories of a one-time Olympic decathlon star, a former IV drug user, a U.S. Navy commander and
"Front-Runner for Surgeon General": Washington Post (Health) (10/24/89), P. 6; Squires, Sally; Antonia Novello, pediatrician and deputy director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, emerged last week as the leading candidate for surgeon general. People who know her say she will be far less outspoken than former surgeon general C. Everett Koop, who spoke out for sex education and con
"Japan Researchers Find AIDS Antibody They Say Kills Infected": Wall Street Journal (10/24/89), P. B4; Schlesinger, Jacob M.; Shin Yonehara and Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Japanese researchers, say they have discovered an antibody that killed only HIV-infected cells in laboratory test-tube experiments. The antibody works by recognizing a Fas-antigen, a characteristic of an infected cell, and then killing the cell. The researchers said that at low
"The AIDS Threat to Teenagers": U.S. News + World Report (10/23/89) Vol. 107, No. 16, P. 29; HIV infection in teenagers may become the third wave of the AIDS epidemic. Crack use, promiscuity, and the practice of trading sex for drugs have made crack houses the heterosexual equivalent of the gay bathhouse in terms of HIV transmission, according to Martha Rogers, chief of AIDS epidemiology at the Centers for
"Safe-Sex Poster Furor": United Press International (10/23/89); Hickory, N.C.-- If You Can t Keep It Zipped--Keep It Covered, says a new safe-sex poster that is causing controversy in Catawba County, N.C. The poster, which shows a pair of unzipped jeans and the slogan supporting condom use to prevent HIV transmission, has become the topic of a student newspaper survey and coffee
"Washington Whispers: Political Disease": U.S. News + World Report (10/23/89) Vol. 107, No. 16, P. 13; An appointment to what should be a nonpolitical post may cause the next political struggle of the AIDS epidemic. Many public health professionals want Woodrow Myers, Indiana s top health official, to fill the directorship of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Conservatives, however, staunchly oppose Myers,
"AIDS-Virus Carrier Sentenced to 10 Years for Biting Officer": Washington Times (10/23/89), P. A7; A Cobb County, Ga., Supreme Court judge sentenced Gregory Scott Scroggins, 27 years old, to 10 years in prison for biting a police officer. Scroggins, who carries HIV, was convicted of attempted murder last Friday. Defense attorney Greg Schroeder called the judgment tantamount to a death sentence. Scroggins bit Co
"Murderous Mischief on AIDS": New York Times (10/23/89), P. A18; Jesse Helms amendment to the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) appropriations bill could condemn many innocent people to death, write the editors of the New York Times. The amendment contains language that bans use of funds for distribution of needles to IV drug users without presidential permission. Legis
"Calculated Risk": Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel (10/22/89), P. E1; Hughes,; John Fisher quietly made history last March by being the first person in the United States to be injected with Compound Q. Fisher learned of the drug from Paul Ellis, who manages research and development in the office of Robert Mayer, a North Miami doctor know for renegade AIDS treatme
"AIDSWEEK: The Law": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (10/22/89), P. B3; Hilton, Bruce; Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services James Mason said his staff was looking for ways to change the Orpan Drug Act to prevent overpricing of needed drugs when the number of patients soars. The Orphan Drug Act was designed to spur the manufacture of drugs for rare diseases by granting the producer a special
"AIDSWEEK: Research": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (10/22/89), P. B3; Hilton, Bruce; MicroGeneSys reportedly upset Robert Redfield, developer of an experimental AIDS vaccine, by sending out a press release announcing promising results after the vaccine had been tested in only two people.... Genentech and other developers said synthetic factor VIII is in the final st
"AIDSWEEK: Education/Prevention": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (10/22/89), P. B3; Hilton, Bruce; Teen cases of AIDS have increased by 43 percent in 12 months, causing the Center for Population Options (CPO) to call on schools, churches, community organizations, and parents to educate teenagers about AIDS. CPO, a nonprofit group partially funded by the Centers for Disease Control, said, Our children have a right
"AIDSWEEK: Care": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (10/22/89), P. B3; Hilton, Bruce; The state of Michigan has started to pay the private insurance premiums of people with AIDS or ARC who are too sick to keep working. For persons without insurance, Michigan would pay $1,600 a month per person in Medicaid dollars. However, the state pays only $245 a month to keep each insurance policy valid. Four ot
"AIDSWEEK: Tell Your Partner or Go to Prison": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (10/22/89), P. B3; Hilton, Bruce; The Defense Department mandates that military people who carry HIV inform their sexual partners, use a condom while having sex, and refrain from donating blood or sperm, according to Scripps Howard News Service reporter Peter Copeland. The U.S. Military Court of Appeals upheld the convictions of a male Army sergeant
"Charity Agrees to Dissolve After Yearlong Investigation": New York Times (10/22/89), P. 37; Teltsch, Kathleen; As part of the settlement of a yearlong investigation, the Creo Society has agreed to close. The society--a former producer of opulent charity balls for socially prominent New Yorkers--settled with the State Attorney General s office before going to trial to face allegations of waste and mismanagement. The allegatio
"At a Hospital, a Harsh Lesson on Drugs": New York Times (10/22/89), P. 36; Tomasson, Robert E.; In one New York City drug-education program, nurses and prosecutors don t just say no, they show kids firsthand what can happen if they use drugs. When a group of 10-year-olds at the Bronx- Lebanon Hospital Center saw babies with
"Inosine Pranobex and Zidovudine Metabolism": Lancet (10/21/89) Vol. 2, No. 8669, P. 977; De Simone, Claudio; Inosine pranobex (INPX), like probenecid, can extend the interval between AZT doses and reduce the daily requirement for the drug, write Claudio De Simone and colleagues of Italy . The researchers write that eight AIDS pa
"Diabetes Mellitus Misdiagnosed as AIDS": Lancet (10/21/89) Vol. 2, No. 8669, P. 976; Swai, Andrew B.M.,; Andrew B.M. Swai and colleagues from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania , and Bukoba write that they are concerned that in Africa, newly presenting diabetics and patients with other febrile illnesses may be misdiagnosed as having AIDS, with dire consequences for the lives of the patients. D
"Female-to-Male Transmission of HIV-1": Lancet (10/21/89) Vol. 2, No. 8669, P. 977; Bulterys, Marc, et; Marc Bulterys and colleagues from the UNR-JHU Perinatal AIDS Research Project at the Univeristy of Rwanda in Butare, Rwanda, write of a potential source of bias in the study by Cameron and colleagues (Lancet Aug. 19) that presented evidence of the importance of genital ulcer diseas
"Multiple Drug Reactions in a Patient with AIDS": Lancet (10/21/89) Vol. 2, No. 8669, P. 976; Ong, E.L.C., and; E.L.C. Ong and B.K. Mandal of the Regional Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, University of Manchester School of Medicine describe multiple drug complications in a 28-year-old homosexual male AIDS patient with a 3-week history of intermittent fever and a dry cough. He was taking prophylactic flu
"First Licensed Inpatient AIDS Hospice in U.S. Opens in Boston": PRNewswire (10/20/89); Boston--An 18-bed inpatient AIDS hospice will open in the Mission Hill area of Boston on Oct. 25. The three-story, 5,654-square-foot building will be called the Hospice at Mission Hill. It will be one of the first inpaitent AIDS facilities in the United States to operate as a true ho
"Catholics, Condoms, and AIDS": New York Times (10/20/89), P. A34; The Catholic bishops draft report strongly rejecting condom use to prevent the spread of HIV conflicts squarely with the public health strategy for combating AIDS, write the editors of the New York Times. The report states that condoms are technically unreliable and therefore promote behavior which is morally unacce
"Fatal Attitude: Five Tips to Overcome Negative AIDS Thinking and": Bay Area Reporter (10/19/89) Vol. 19, No. 42, P. 12; Williams,; John-Michael Williams, a person living with AIDS, says his AIDS diagnosis sure ruined my weekend. Williams, who says he refuses to die, offers five tips to help others survive and get their housework done at the same time. The first is not to die simply because you are told you will--the trash still needs to be tak
"NGRA Publishes 'How to Enter U.S. for HIV Positives'": Bay Area Reporter (10/19/89) Vol. 19, No. 42, P. 15; Athough a 1987 law forbids entrance to the United States to HIV-positive foreign nationals, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service agreed last spring to allow such persons to enter the country for 30 days to attend conferences, visit relatives, conduct professional business, o
"HIV-Infected Function As Well As Healthy Gays": Bay Area Reporter (10/19/89) Vol. 19, No. 42, P. 23; Preliminary findings of a study by University of California, San Francisco researchers indicate that healthy HIV-infected gay men function as well mentally and neurologically as uninfected men. UCSF researchers tested 33 gay men infected with HIV and a control group of 23 HIV-negative gay men for their ability to do
"AIDS: Complexities and Strategies": Nature (10/19/89) Vol. 341, No. 6243, P. 566; Newmark, Peter; At the Institut de la Vie symposium on AIDS in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland , Belgian researchers announced that AZT trials in Europe would continue until U.S. data were available for scrutiny. Participants at the
"News and Views": Nature (10/19/89) Vol. 341, No. 6243, P. 566; The lack of standard reagents, including viruses, makes comparing AIDS research from different laboratories problematic, especially in the case of vaccine research. In Europe, the European Communities have launched the EVA, or European vaccine against AIDS, which will use most of its 2.5 million ECU budget for produc
"Community-Based Food Programs for AIDS Groups": Bay Area Reporter (10/19/89) Vol. 19, No. 42, P. 3; The National AIDS Network (NAN) has developed a guide, Food Programs: Assessing and Developing Community-Based Nutritional Support Programs for Persons with HIV-Related Illness. The guide is a source to help service agencies establish or enhance community food programs to meet the nutritional-support needs of people
"SIV Adaptation to Human Cells": Nature (10/19/89) Vol. 341, No. 6243, P. 573; Hirsch, V.M., et; In vitro propagation may select for mutant forms of virus, skew representation of genotypes within a virus mixture, and obscure the full potential of viral genomes, write V.M. Hirsch of the Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues. Hirsch and fellow researchers discovered an adaptation in simian immunodeficienc
"AIDS Researchers Meet, Compare Notes on Finding Cure": Fort Lauderdale News (10/19/89), P. 5A; McVicar, Nancy; Jonas Salk of San Diego, collaborator Clarence Gibbs of the National Institutes of Health, and 200 other scientists from around the world met at the Westin Cypress Creek Hotel in Fort Lauderdale this week to exchange progress reports on their searches for an AIDS vaccine. Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, and Gib
"Student Newspaper Includes Condoms": Associated Press (10/19/89); New Brunswick, N.J.--The Rutgers University student newspaper, The Daily Targum, put condoms in the 17,000 issues it circulated Wednesday to create awareness in the student consciousness that AIDS presents a danger every day of their lives, said Kelly Whiteside, an editor. A foil packet containing a condom was tape
"Churches Urged to Deal Explicitly with AIDS": United Press International (10/19/89); Hartford, Conn.--Beny J. Primm, head of addiction treatment for the Bush administration, called on black churches to talk explicitly about sexual behavior and AIDS in their communities and to show compassion for IV drug users. Primm told a symposium of 50 church and health officials in Hartford Wednesday that the chu
"Armed Men Steal Truck, Meals for AIDS Victims": United Press International (10/19/89); Miami--Cure AIDS Now, a group that supplies food to 425 people with AIDS and dependents of people with AIDS in Dade County, said it lost 245 frozen meals on their way to clients when two armed men commandeered a U-Haul truck carrying the meals. The robbers came up with guns and demanded the truck, said Bob Kunst, t
"Legislator Seeks to Stop AIDS Play at University": Washington Times (10/19/89), P. C11; Missouri state Rep. Jean Dixon has written other legislators urging them to protest an upcoming Southwest Missouri State University performance of a play about AIDS among gay men. It is a homosexual political agenda. They re doing nothing but propagating it with taxpayer s dollars, Dixon said of the play, The Norm
"Alabama Opens AIDS-Babies Home": Associated Press (10/18/89); Birmingham, Ala.--Alabama public health officials announced Tuesday that A Baby s Place, a new foster home for babies with AIDS, will provide long-term housing for children who are abandoned at a hospital or whose parents are dead or unable to care for them. Children s Aid Society (CAS), a United Way agency, will o
"HHS Honors AIDS Professionals": Associated Press (10/18/89); Washington--The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) honored five physicians and six dentists Wednesday as heroes in the fight against AIDS. The eleven were honored, one posthumously, for their selfless dedication, compassionate service and outstanding leadership in caring for HIV-infected people, said Jam
"Needle Exchange Called Illegal": Associated Press (10/18/89); Tacoma, Wash.--Tacoma City Attorney William Barker recommended that the city stop paying its half of a $45,000-a-year needle exchange program, the nation s first established needle exchange to prevent the spread of HIV among IV drug users. Health department officials said the program would continue but could be halte
"Obituary: Franco, 51, Zairian Band Leader and Creator of the": New York Times (10/18/89), P. D29; Franco, a Zairian guitarist and one of Africa s most popular musicians, died Thursday in Brussels of a long and undisclosed illness. Franco wrote Beware of AIDS, a hit song in Central Africa that became a battle cry against the disease. His band T.P.O.K. Jazz, created soukous, a rumba-influenced dance style. He i
"New York Sees Rise in Babies Hurt by Drugs": New York Times (10/18/89), P. B1; French, Howard W.; The New York State Department of Health predicts that 5 percent of all newborns in New York City and 10 percent of nonwhite babies could require admission to intensive care wards by 1995 if current drug abuse patterns continue. The projections are based on admissions to neonatal intensive-care wards between 1983 and
"President Picks Hispanic Woman to Become U.S. Surgeon General": New York Times (10/18/89), P. A20; Hilts, Philip J.; President Bush has chosen Antonia Novello, a pediatrician and an expert on pediatric AIDS, to be the U.S. Surgeon General. If confirmed, she would be the first woman and the first Hispanic person to hold the position. Surgeon Generals in the past have set policy on national issues such as smoking and AIDS. C. Evere
"In Va., Calm Greets News of Pupil with AIDS Virus": Washington Post (10/18/89), P. D1; Baker, Peter; What can we do to help? asked a Fairfax County community upon learning that a child with HIV would be attending class. In January 1988, the same community met similar news with angry demands, emotional outcries, and threats of legal retaliation. The news that a Crestwood Elementary School child has tested positive
"Cruel and Unusual: AIDS in Prison": Village Voice (10/17/89) Vol. 34, No. 42, P. 16; Minkowitz,; Independent auditors continually cite abuses and inadequacies in New York State prison AIDS care. The state s Commission on Corrections says that a full third of prison AIDS cases reported through 1987 were diagnosed after death. The Department of Health found that only three of 11 randomly selected facilities provi
"Kansas Changes AIDS Messages": Associated Press (10/17/89); Topeka, Kan.--Kansas state health officials plan to change messages in their AIDS education programs, because a Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) survey showed that many Kansans surveyed thought HIV could be transmitted by casual contact. The University of Kansas conducted the survey, contacting 682 people
"Think Tank Says 14.5 Million U.S. AIDS Cases Possible by 2002": Associated Press (10/17/89); Recer, Paul; Washington--The Hudson Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank, predicted Tuesday that 14.5 million Americans will be infected with HIV by 2002 unless government and society take strong measures to control the epidemic. The Hudson study estimates, based on numbers of people infected with HIV, predicted 1.4 million
"AIDS Expert Cautious About Vaccine": United Press International (10/17/89); West Haven, Conn.--Daniel Hoth of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases expressed caution Tuesday about a report that a vaccine developed by MicroGeneSys could boost the immune systems of HIV-infected people. Robert Redfield of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research reported Monday that the v
"AIDS is State's Top Inmate Killer; Cost of Care may be $14": Miami Herald (10/17/89), P. 1A; Rozsa, Lori; AIDS is the number one killer of Florida prison inmates. Since 1981, 114 prisoners have died from AIDS. A study by Johns Hopkins University indicates that nearly 3000 inmates--7 percent of Florida s 39,000 prisoners--carry HIV. Treatment of inmates with AIDS is barbaric. Prisons are like concentration camps for A
"Group Gives AIDS Info, Condoms": Associated Press (10/16/89); Richmond--Workers for the Richmond Street Outreach Project have been leaving condoms and AIDS literature at 30 or so depot spots such as Howard Jordan s downtown pool hall for the past few years. When he first allowed the outreach workers to leave their AIDS materials, Jordan s customers thought it was a joke, he
"Bar Creates Network to Help People with AIDS": United Press International (10/16/89); Tallahassee, Fla.--At a lawyer training session last weekend at Nova University Law Center in Fort Lauderdale, the Florida Bar created the AIDS Legal Network to provide free representation for people with AIDS. The network will also teach lawyers how to handle discrimination, insurance, and other AIDS-related dispute
"Intermountain Hispanic Leaders Link with AIDS Teleconference": United Press International (10/16/89); Salt Lake City--Hispanic leaders from Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming will gather at the Hispanic Latino AIDS teleconference Oct. 27 to discuss cultural and societal factors of AIDS, pediatric AIDS, and intervention strategies. The Centers for Disease Control funded the conference to encourage leaders of Hispanic communitie
"Gregg to Halt Condom Distribution": United Press International (10/16/89); Concord, N.H.--New Hampshire Gov. Judd Gregg announced Sunday he will stop state counselors from distributing condoms and AIDS information to gay men who congregate at highway rest stops. A New Hampshire AIDS program spokesman said the counselors approach gay couples at rest stops and distribute the condoms and pamph
"Talk Alone Won't Prevent AIDS": Associated Press (10/16/89); Gainesville, Fla.--According to a new University of Florida study, some college students misinterpret popular AIDS prevention messages and risk contracting HIV by not using condoms. Rebecca J. Welch Cline, associate professor of communication studies, found that a large group of students who talk with their partners
"Homes Take Homeless with AIDS": Associated Press (10/16/89); Boston--Safe houses in Boston and the North Shore--a network of private homes--take in homeless AIDS patients in secret. The homes, like the underground railroad in the Civil War, keep homeless people with AIDS safe from threats or evictions. As part of a group called AIDS Shelters and Hospices, the six houses in Bo
"MicroGeneSys Vaccine Boosts Viral Immunity in Patients with": PRNewswire (10/16/89); West Haven, Conn.--In initial clinical trials, VacSyn HIV-1, an AIDS vaccine developed by MicroGeneSys, has shown the ability to modify the human immune response to HIV with no evidence of toxic side effects, according to the company s chairman and president, Franklin Volvovitz. Study volunteers, each in early stag
"UM Program Teaches Addicts to Clean Needles": United Press International (10/16/89); Miami--The Health Crisis Network and the University of Miami School of Medicine have been quietly teaching IV drug users how to bleach needles in an effort to stem the spread of HIV. The two-year effort, funded by a federal grant for $1.3 million, has helped 1000 addicts in Miami and 200 in Belle Glade, where it has
"Who Should Foot the AIDS Bill?": Time (10/16/89) Vol. 134, No. 16, P. 88; Sachs, Andrea; This year AIDS medical care is expected to cost $3.75 billion. Federal and state programs will pay 40 percent of the bill, private insurers another 40 percent, and 20 percent will fall into the self-pay category, which often means no pay. Those with AIDS often must spend down to poverty to qualify for Medicaid.
"AIDSWEEK: Research": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (10/15/89), P. A6; A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association said most people know they have little chance of contracting HIV from an infected doctor. However, nearly 45 percent believe HIV-infected doctors should be forbidden to practice. Study co-author Bryan Maguire of the UC-
"AIDSWEEK: Care": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (10/15/89), P. A6; Lymphomed Inc. said it is still working on its plan to give aerosolised pentamidine free to the poor and has set no target date....At the 3rd National AIDS Update in San Francisco, Anthony Fauci, AIDS research director for the National Institutes of Health, said early intervention and treatment mean fewer AIDS cases t
"AIDSWEEK: Education": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (10/15/89), P. A6; Kay James, former official of the National Right to Life Committee, blocked the federal AIDS-education pamphlet for teenagers that has been stalled at the Department of Health and Human Services for two years by sending it back for review. ...Conservatives attacked a new draft statement condemning condom use and need
"AIDSWEEK: UCSF Finds Cheating on HIV Drugs": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (10/15/89), P. A6; University of California-San Francisco researchers found that 39 of 144 patients receiving treatment for HIV-related conditions at the UC-Med Center s AIDS clinic, 28 percent, are taking some other unapproved treatment that could weaken the prescribed drug or have dangerous side effects. Researchers found that patien
"Minister Feels Blessed Despite AIDS": United Press International (10/15/89); George, Iowa--The Rev. David Wessels, 37, a gay Presbyterian minister, has returned home to George to die. In 1983, Wessels resigned from the church and divorced his wife after coming to terms with and admitting his homosexuality. Wessels has bitter feelings toward the Presbyterian Church, which officially condemns
"New York Limits a Key AIDS Test": New York Times (10/15/89), P. 36; Kolata, Gina; The p24 antigen test, which measures blood levels of an HIV antigen protein, is almost unavailable in New York state. New York doctors and AIDS advocates want the test for use in making treatment decisions, because rising antigen levels usually indicate an advancing HIV infection and perhaps the need for prophylactic
"World AIDS Day": Lancet (10/14/89) Vol. 2, No. 8668, P. 934; World AIDS Day will be Dec. 1, 1989. Events will focus on the theme of AIDS and Youth. Those interested in information about the global event can write the World Health Organization s Global Programme on AIDS, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland .
"Vatican to Hold International AIDS Conference Next Month": Associated Press (10/14/89); Vatican City--The Vatican will hold an international conference on AIDS Nov. 13-15 and has invited Robert Gallo of the United States and Luc Montagnier of France , co-discoverers of HIV. Pope John Paul II has called for compassion for AIDS sufferers
"HIV-1 Research Test Kit": Science (10/13/89) Vol. 246, No. 4927, P. 275; Beckman Instruments has designed the ASQ HIV kit, a research-only HIV-1 antibody test kit. The test, which can be automated, measures absorbance values of six antibodies from blood or plasma and relates them to a control. The test provides absorbance values that can be related to specific antibody reactivity to diff
"Dallas HIV Survey Proceeding": Science (10/13/89) Vol. 246, No. 4927, P. 215; No one has claimed the $100 offered by the Dallas Gay Alliance to the first person to turn in the controversial pilot sex survey unanswered. Federal health officials are paying $50 per participant for a blood sample and a completed questionnaire on risk behaviors associated with AIDS. The survey, conducted by the Ce
"Pitt Conducts Free AIDS Teleconference for Health Care": PRNewswire (10/13/89); Pittsburgh--The University of Pittsburgh s Pennsylvania-New York AIDS Regional Education and Training Center will sponsor a free AIDS teleconference tomorrow, Oct. 17, on the latest AIDS information and HIV-related issues. The lecture is the first in a series of six teleconferences scheduled during the next eight mon
"Cuba World's Leader in AIDS Testing But Cases Edge Upward": Reuters (10/13/89); Martin, Lionel; Havana-- Cuba , with the world s most comprehensive AIDS screening program, has tested 75 percent of its sexually active population, or 5.5 million people out of a total population of 10.5 million, according to Ministry of Health statistics. The government agency says the tests show t
"Courter Attacked on His Proposal to Ban AIDS Virus in Classroom": New York Times (10/13/89), P. B4; Kerr, Peter; In New Jersey, Republican gubernatorial candidate Rep. Jim Courter is under fire for his proposal to remove HIV-infected students and teachers from the classroom. Courter, who is running against Democratic Rep. Jim Florio, made the proposal Wednesday night in the second debate between the candidates. Critics from th
"Family Members Paid to Provide Home Care": Wall Street Journal (10/13/89), P. B1; Schiffman, James R.; The John Alden Life Insurance Co. of Miami is waiving a standard provision in insurance contracts that bars payment to family members and friends providing home care, and will pay up to $15 an hour to encourage home care for people with AIDS. Gordon Nary, executive director of AIDS Medical Resource Center in Chicago,
"AIDS Hitting Workplace": Journal of Commerce (10/13/89), P. 9A; According to a poll, AIDS in the Workplace, by The Executive Committee, a San Diego-based international organization serving top corporate executives, one in 20 companies has an employee or employees with AIDS. The higher costs and ethical dilemmas associated with the epidemic will grow for U.S. companies in the ne
"Bishops Urge Chastity to Curb AIDS": New York Times (10/13/89), P. A14; Steinfels, Peter; A committee of Roman Catholic bishops issued a statement yesterday entitled Called to Compassion: A Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis. The bishop s statement urges chastity and rejects condom use to prevent the spread of HIV. A group of prelates drafted the statement in an attempt to end a controversy started in 1987
"Reflections on Activism": Bay Area Reporter (10/12/89) Vol. 19, No. 41, P. 6; Warner, W.L.; For activism to be productive, it must be focused and timely, communicate a clear message, and be directed at the person or persons, in power or at fault, who can redress the wrong, writes W.L. Warner, new-drug researcher, president of Consultants for Health Care, and past president of the Bay Area Physicians for Huma
"Rainbow Deaf Society Meets AIDS Groups": Bay Area Reporter (10/12/89) Vol. 19, No. 41, P. 17; Last month, the Rainbow Deaf Society s Deaf Community AIDS Project met with several Bay Area service organizations to establish and implement AIDS services for the deaf community. Studies have not been conducted, but it is estimated that deaf persons in San Francisco have contracted AIDS or ARC and died at a two-to-o
"New AIDS-Related Databases": Bay Area Reporter (10/12/89) Vol. 19, No. 41, P. 17; The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has added two new databases, AIDSTrials and AIDSDrugs, to provide online access to information on clinical trials of AIDS drugs and vaccines and trial participation criteria. The databases represent the Public Health Service s response to the Health Omnibus Programs Extension Ac
"Criticized on AIDS Drug, Maker Giving Some Away": New York Times (10/12/89), P. A1; Kolata, Gina; Lymphomed Inc. of Rosemont, Ill., says it will give aerosol pentamidine free to uninsured AIDS- and HIV-infected patients. Aerosol pentamidine prevents Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, the most deadly opportunistic AIDS-related infection. AIDS activists and patients have long criticized Lymphomed for overcharging, and
"AIDS Courses Help Dispel Myths": Associated Press (10/11/89); Little Rock--University of Arkansas campuses at Fayetteville and Little Rock offer comprehensive AIDS courses to help dispel myths about the disease. One UA-Little Rock professor, Tom Lynch, says the course has changed attitudes. He says he thinks AIDS education classes will become more popular. There is still a l
"Report: Homelessness Growing": United Press International (10/11/89); Anderson, David E.; Washington--A survey released Wednesday by the Partnership for the Homeless, a private shelter provider in New York City, showed that the number of homeless people in the United States grew by 18 percent between January 1988 and April 1989. The number of homeless people may be as high
"Cartoon Karate Hero Warns Street Kids About AIDS": Reuters (10/11/89); Parry, Antony; Toronto--A cartoon film produced by Canada s National Film Board, Karate Kids, will warn street kids in Third World countries about the dangers of AIDS. The idea came from Peter Dalglish, who recognized the force of cartoons as a teaching method while working for UNICEF in Khartoum. Noticing that apart from cuts a
"Big Board Boosts Security in Wake of AIDS Protest": Wall Street Journal (10/11/89), P. C25; In the wake of Sept. 14 demonstrations by AIDS activists protesting the high price of AZT , the New York Stock Exchange has decided to beef up security. The protesters, who wore fake Bear Stearns badges, penetrated an off-limits area of the exchange, chai
"Bedside Lawyers": New York Times (10/11/89), P. A30; The nonprofit group Volunteers of Legal Service has recruited experienced trust and estate lawyers from some of New York City s top law firms to give legal advice to dying AIDS patients. Volunteers travel to bedsides to help prepare wills and living wills, resolve child guardianship issues, and offer AIDS sufferers s
"How New York Prisons Deal with AIDS Inside Their Walls": New York Times (10/11/89), P. A30; Coughlin, Thomas A., III; Thomas A. Coughlin, Correctional Services Commissioner for New York State, writes that he commends the Sept. 6 New York Times editorial Official Injustice on AIDS. Coughlin writes that he also supports humane and equal treatment for prisoners with AIDS and HIV. He contends that prison inmates with AIDS have shorter
"RI AIDS--Dental Care Criticized": Associated Press (10/10/89); Providence, R.I.--Rhode Island Hospital s Joseph Samuels Dental Center will curtail services for the poor and people with AIDS because it can no longer afford to give free dental care to non-patients, according to Bruce Komiske, hospital vice president for business development. Barbara Colt, director of the R.I. Hos
"Government Distributes AIDS-Related Video": United Press International (10/10/89); Washington--HIV-infected people can develop life-threatening opportunistic infections--including salmonellosis, listeriosis, and campylobacterosis--from food. The Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) began distributing a videotape Tuesday to help HIV-infected persons protect
"Harvard Establishes AIDS Research Center": Washington Times (10/10/89), P. B8; Harvard will establish the Statistical Data Analysis Center for the AIDS Clinical Trials Group as a clearinghouse for AIDS research at its School for Public Health. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will oversee the $38.6 million center, which will compile information and design proposals for
"Whorephobia": Advocate (10/10/89) No. 535, P. 4; Cockerline, Danny; Danny Cockerline, a prostitute and the coordinator of an AIDS-education project for prostitutes in Toronto, writes that he was very disappointed with the whorephobia in Love for Sale in the Age of AIDS (Advocate, Issue 530). Cockerline defines whorephobia as the use of stereotypes to portray prostitution as patho
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Bill Mole's Charity Walk Leaves a Trail of" Angry Donors: Advocate (10/10/89) No. 535, P. 8; Peterson, Robert W.; Bill Mole, a 40-year-old Canadian, began his Global Walk for AIDS Research in New York in May 1988. He said he hoped to raise $10 million in a 25,000-mile walk across five continents and 35 countries. He has encouraged people to donate to the World Health Organization and promise
"News in Brief: Colorado": Advocate (10/10/89) No. 535, P. 22; The Boulder County Health Department may ask drug dealers to tell their customers about the county s AIDS education programs, because, according to Federico Cruz-Urbine, health department head, the dealers have credibility among their clients. The department runs a needle exchange program for the 200-400 IV drug user
"Moscow Bans Barber Shop Shaves in Fight Against AIDS": New York Native (10/09/89) No. 338, P. 15; Professor C. Vinogradov, head of the Moscow Department of Hygiene, said in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda that hygiene standards at many barber shops are inadequate. Therefore, Soviet authorities have banned shaving in Moscow to prevent transmission of HIV via dirty blades. We believe sterilization of razors sh
"Human Rights Commission Launches AIDS Compassion Campaign": New York Native (10/09/89) No. 338, P. 12; People with AIDS exist in every community and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. This is the key idea of an AIDS Compassion ad campaign by the New York City Commission on Human Rights in collaboration with Anda, Bokuniewicz + Scotti Advertising (AB+S), an agency entirely owned and operated by women. AB+
"Asian Pacific AIDS Material": New York Native (10/09/89) No. 338, P. 15; The Asian/Pacific Lesbians and Gays group in Los Angeles has translated AIDS education information into many Asian Pacific languages. The brochures, available to any person or organization upon request, have been translated into Cambodian, Chinese, Hawaiian, Iloccno, Thai, Tongan, Laotian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnames
"Guerrilla Drug Trials: The Underground Test of Compound Q": Time (10/09/89) Vol. 134, No. 15, P. 18; Wyss, Dennis; Martin Delaney, director of Project Inform, revealed the preliminary results of the underground trials of Compound Q Sept. 19 to a crowd of 500. Delaney warned, It s not a one-shot cure. However, many of the trial s volunteers showed a decrease in viral activity and felt more energetic. Project Inform s guerrilla
"A Recount of AIDS Carriers": Time (10/09/89) Vol. 134, No. 15, P. 103; Joel Hay, a health ecomonist for the Hoover Institution at Stanford, has used back calculation to analyze data on HIV infections. His conclusion is that 640,000 people carry the virus, rather than the 950,000 to 1.45 million estimated by U.S. health officials. Hay s statistical tool estimates how many people carr
"A New AIDS Drug Gets the Go-Ahead": Newsweek (10/09/89) Vol. 114, No. 15, P. 40; Only time and the upcoming formal clinical trials will tell if ddI (dideoxyinosine) can fight HIV. Last week the Food and Drug Administration announced its wider distribution plan for the experimental drug. Approximately 2600 people with AIDS or ARC in clinical trials and thousands more who do not qualify for the tr
"AIDS: Pneumonia Suit": Newsweek (10/09/89) Vol. 114, No. 15, P. 10; In an obituary, death attributed to pneumonia often means death from AIDS. This well-known practice of distraught relatives has caused a Boston pneumonia victim to sue the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary because of discrimination at work. William Schwarz says co-workers harassed him, called him Marilyn, and tr
"Fighting AIDS All the Way": New York Times Magazine (10/08/89), P. 42; Josephs, Larry; Larry Josephs, director of public affairs for the New York State Urban Development Corp., writes that on July 22, 1989, he became one of only 100 people in the United States to receive ddI, a promising new AIDS drug. He writes that he tested positive for HIV in 1987. His doctor, Ja
"80 Arrested in Los Angeles": New York Times (10/08/89), P. 31; In Los Angeles, police officers wore surgical masks and rubber gloves as they arrested 80 demonstrators who were protesting federal policies on AIDS drugs. About 400 protesters blocked the entrance to the Federal Building in the Westwood section of Los Angeles to spotlight the lack of health care for people with AIDS
"AIDS Protesters Stage White House 'Die-In'": New York Times (10/08/89), P. 31; At a die-in in front of the White House Saturday, AIDS activists urged President Bush to provide more federal support for homeless people with AIDS. About 100 demonstrators lay on their backs as others drew chalk circles around their bodies to dramatize the number of homeless people who have died in the nation s st
"The Needle Question": Washington Post (10/08/89), P. C3; Nadelmann, Ethan; The governments of several European countries, recognizing the link between IV drug use and HIV transmission, have actively attempted to limit the spread of the virus. Several European nations have removed restrictions on sale of syringes and instituted free needle-exchange programs. The
"AIDS is Spreading in Teen-Agers, A New Trend Alarming to": New York Times (10/08/89), P. A1; Kolata, Gina; HIV infection is increasing among teenagers because of multiple sexual partners and infrequent use of condoms. Infection rate in some teen-age groups is higher than that for adults, with equal numbers of males and females infected, according to new studies. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) does not yet have est
"Aerosolized Pentamidine and Public Health": Lancet (10/07/89) Vol. 2, No. 8667, P. 863; McDiarmid, Melissa; Researchers Melissa McDiarmid and David Jacobson-Kram write that the lack of toxicity data for aerosolised pentamidine is troubling, because health-care workers could be endangered by its administration as an aerosol. Aerosolised pentamidine, used in primary and secondary prophylaxis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
"Pentamidine and Hypoglycemia": Lancet (10/07/89) Vol. 2, No. 8667, P. 864; Pierone, Gerald, et; Gerald Pierone and colleagues write that they recommend trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole (T-S) as the agent of choice for prophylaxis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) over nebulised pentamidine. The researchers take issue with a statement by Lingenfelser et al. (Lancet, 08/19) that nebulised pentamidine is the
"D.C. AIDS Center Planned": Washington Post (10/07/89), P. B5; In Washington, D.C., the Veterans Medical Center and the Washington Hospital Center will use a $2.9 million federal grant to establish a new center for clinical research on AIDS. The money, which the hospitals will receive over five years, will help both health centers to expand existing programs for people with AIDS
"HHS Aide Blocks Publication of Pamphlet on Condom Use": Washington Post (10/07/89), P. A2; Specter. Michael; Present and former health officials are angry with Kay James, the chief public affairs officer of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), who has blocked the publication of a major AIDS education pamphlet that explains how to use a condom. James, whose title is Assistant Secretary for Public Health, says s
"A 14-Acre Blanket of Love, Loss, Sorrow": Washington Post (10/07/89), P. B3; Waterman, Kathy Ann; The AIDS Memorial Quilt, displayed for the final time in its entirety last weekend, covered all 14 acres of the Ellipse yet represented only 18 percent of all U.S. AIDS deaths, according to the Names Project. The 10,848 panels represent the people who died in more than name. The memorials are like scapbooks of memor
"AIDS Drugs Remain Unavailable for Kids": Science (10/06/89) Vol. 246, No. 4926, P. 22; Culliton, Barbara; The irony now is that an asymptomatic mother can get AZT for herself but she can t get it for her symptomatic child, said Philip A. Pizzo, chief pediatrician at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). His research over the past two years has shown that AZT
"Hope for AIDS Vaccines": Science (10/06/89) Vol. 246, No. 4926, P. 23; Cherfas, Jeremy; A group of leading AIDS researchers gathered at Yverdon les Bains, Switzerland , to discuss the latest vaccine developments at an international meeting sponsored by the Institut de la Vie, a Parisian foundation. Gordon Ada, chairman of the World Health Organization s Programme
"A New Antiviral Drug: Promising or Problematic?": Science (10/06/89) Vol. 246, No. 4926, P. 20; Palca, Joseph; Researchers worry about possible ddI backlash. The drug has been made widely available but toxicity data--what little there is--has not. The drug s chief side effects--pancreatitis and severe pain at the extremities-- show up later in treatment and others are bound to appear. Margaret Fischl of the University of Mi
"Biomedical Dollars and Body Counts": Science (10/06/89) Vol. 246, No. 4926, P. 34; Sen. Bill Armstrong (D.-Colo.) slipped an amendment into the National Institutes of Health appropriations bill last month that raises the old question of whether biomedical research priorities should be set by the number of people who die from specific diseases. The Armstrong amendment requires the Department of Hea
"Frederic de Hoffman": Associated Press (10/06/89); San Diego--Austrian-born Frederic de Hoffman, a well-known nuclear physicist, died last Wednesday at age 65 of complications from AIDS. Hoffman, president of the Salk Institute for 18 years, helped develop the atomic bomb with the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, N.M.
"In Service to the Quilt": Washington Post (10/06/89), P. C1; Trescott, Jacqueline; Volunteers will unfold the AIDS Memorial Quilt today on the grounds of the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. The quilt, which has 10,848 panels and weighs more than 13 tons, is a handmade memorial to the many victims of AIDS. The idea for the painstaking project, originated over two years ago by Cleve Jones, subsequently
"Van is Hope for Bronx 'Throwaways'": New York Times (10/06/89), P. B3; Brozan, Nadine; In the South Bronx, teenage prostitutes who work the meanest streets in New York get condoms from Project Street Beat, a subsidiary of Planned Parenthood. As the only outreach program for teenage prostitutes in the South Bronx, Project Street Beat works for the throwaways, kids whose parents abused or abandoned the
"U.S. Announces Grants for Trials of AIDS Drugs": New York Times (10/06/89), P. A20; Lambert, Bruce; Yesterday, the federal government awarded the first grants for community-based AIDS drug trials--$9 million for 18 projects in 14 cities. However, AIDS experts harshly criticized the Department of Health and Human Services for omitting the Community Research Initiative (CRI) in New York City, the first and largest co
"Prevalence of HIV Antibody Among Blood Donors in California": New England Journal of Medicine (10/05/89) Vol. 321, No. 14, P.; Hughes, Michael J., et al.; Michael J. Hughes and colleagues from the California Department of Health Services report that the overall prevalence of HIV antibodies has declined among California blood donors from 0.13 percent in 1985 to .013 percent in the fall of 1988. The researchers say they monitored 300,000 units of whole blood and 200,000
"Exposure of Patients to Human Immunodeficiency Virus Through the": New England Journal of Medicine (10/05/89) Vol. 321, No. 14, P.; Cumming, Paul D., et al.; Paul D. Cumming and colleagues from the American Red Cross report that they analyzed data on blood donors and HIV tests to predict prevalence and incidence of HIV among blood donors. Risk of transmission to recipients of transfusions exists primarily during the window period between the time of HIV-infection and sero
"The Natural History of Transfusion-Associated Infection with": New England Journal of Medicine (10/05/89) Vol. 321, No. 14, P.; Ward, John W., et al.; John W. Ward and colleagues from the Centers for Disease Control report on their study of 694 blood recipients from 112 donors who later developed AIDS and from 30 donors who later tested antibody-positive. Of the recipients tested, 85 were seronegative, 116 tested seropositive, and 19 had AIDS. Of 101 seropositives
"Clinical Implications of Positive Tests for Antibodies to Human": New England Journal of Medicine (10/05/89) Vol. 321, No. 14, P.; Leitman, Susan F., et al.; Susan Leitman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health report on a prospective study of 693,000 volunteer blood donors screened for HIV-1 from July 1985 to Dec. 1988 to evaluate the clinical importance of HIV seropositivity in asymptomatic blood donors and to identify characteristics that distinguish HIV-in
"Sex Statistics Unreliable": Nature (10/05/89) Vol. 341, No. 6241, P. 379; Goodhart, C.B.; The British government s cancellation of a sex survey designed to help understand the mechanism of the spread of AIDS may have been wrong on the grounds cited-- too intrusive --but right for other reasons, according to C.B. Goodhart of Gonville + Caius College in Cambridge, England. Goodhart writes that the results w
"Grant Awarded for Rapid Saliva-Based AIDS Test": PRNewswire (10/05/89); Beaverton, Ore.--The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded a six-month $45,000 grant to Epitope Inc. for development of its Rapid Assay for HIV-1 Antibodies in Saliva. The 10-minute saliva test allows for rapid, accurate diagnosis without the time, precautions, and equipment needed to test blo
"Houston AIDS Rate Tops National Average": United Press International (10/05/89); Houston--Nearly 4 percent of those seeking treatment at sexually transmitted disease clinics in Houston, Texas, have tested positive for the AIDS virus, a figure much higher than the national percentage, according to city health officials. The national average of HIV infected clinic patients is estimated at 2.6 cases
"AIDS Acquired from Transfusions Shows Sharp Decline, Study": Wall Street Journal (10/05/89), P. B5; Bishop, Jerry E.; Researchers for the American Red Cross and the State University of New York estimated that current efforts to screen blood for HIV are more than 99.9 percent effective. In a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, they reported that 49 of every 50 HIV-infected potential blood donors choose not to donate blood b
"Drug Maker Says Studies Show New Drug Inhibits AIDS, Herpes": Reuters (10/04/89); Clancy, Mike; Dallas--Carrington Laboratories of Irving, Texas, reports that its new drug, acemannan, inhibits growth of HIV in the test tube. Tuesday at the International Symposium on Antiviral Chemotherapy in Italy , the laboratory reported results from several studies showing that acemannan, b
"AIDS-Infected Blood donors Face Sex Trace": United Press International (10/04/89); Tampa, Fla.--The Southwest Florida Blood Bank, already one of the country s most aggressive in protecting its blood supply, plans to begin tracing the sexual contacts of HIV-infected donors. Employees will warn donors that the bank will send their names to the Hillsborough County Health Department if they test positi
"AZT to be Sold in Strawberry Syrup": United Press International (10/04/89); Kolberg, Rebecca; Washington--Burroughs Wellcome announced Wednesday that it will distribute AZT in syrup form. The drug currently comes only in capsule form. The strawberry-flavored syrup should help facilitate dosage adjustments and be useful to patients who cannot swall
"OSHA Pushes to Protect Rescue Workers from Blood-Borne Diseases": Associated Press (10/04/89); Atlanta--The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration will press for regulations to protect an estimated 5.3 million rescue workers from AIDS and other blood-borne diseases. Joseph H. Coggin Jr., a consultant to OSHA and head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of South Alabam
"People Receiving HIV-Infected Blood Highly Likely to Get AIDS": Reuters (10/04/89); Shaffer, Marjorie; New York--One study in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reports that the nation s screening system for HIV has made the blood supply much safer since 1985. However, another study by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reported that more than 95 percent of patients who r
"Innocent People": Record (10/04/89); Hackensack, N.J.--Burroughs Wellcome said it s moving as fast as possible to get AZT approved for use in children, but it has yet to apply for Food and Drug Administration approval of the drug for kids under 12. Meanwhile, hundreds of kids suffer and die w
"The Costs of Cures": Wall Street Journal (10/04/89), P. A30; Many people argue that market economics should not determine the price of life-saving drugs--that pharmaceutical companies should not profit from the fatally ill. However, making the development of new drugs a nonprofit federal function would not duplicate the success of the private sector, judging by bureaucratic
"New York, in Move to Bar AIDS, Puts New Limits on Sperm Banks": New York Times (10/04/89), P. A1; Verhovek, Sam Howe; The New York State Health Department will require anonymous donors to commercial sperm banks to take at leat two AIDS tests, in an effort to prevent the spread of HIV by artificial insemination. In addition, the new regulations will prohibit donors who have had homosexual sex since 1977, have used IV drugs, or who ha
"AIDS Increasing in Women, Children": United Press International (10/03/89); Shearman, Craig J.; Trenton, N.J.--A New Jersey study predicts the number of AIDS cases among women and children will almost double in the early 1990s. The report by the state Pediatric AIDS Advisory reccommends the state set up an AIDS advisory board and an intergrated state response coordinating health, social services, corrections,
"Is Too Much Being Spent on AIDS?": Wall Street Journal (10/03/89), P. A22; Hay, Joel H.; The AIDS crisis will force the federal government to pay an estimated $6 billion this year for treatment, research, and education, according to Joel H. Hay of the Hoover Institution. Although the government has made mistakes in responding to the crisis, it is now realistic to consider that neither AIDS nor death will
"Survey on AIDS Riles Dallas": Washington Post (Health) (10/03/89), P. 7; Boodman, Sandra G.; Last week, gay activists sporting Just Say No buttons dumped 90 life-sized dummies in front of the Dallas County Health Department to represent the number of people expected to die of AIDS during the run of a controversial sex survey in Dallas. The survey of 3400 households represents the first phase of a national
"The Proper Time to Tell Doctors What Will Be Expected of Them": New York Times (10/03/89), P. C3; Altman, Lawrence K.; The AIDS epidemic may shift the focus of medical schools from student achievement to the expected moral and ethical behavior of physicians. Medical experts say students should learn the risks and responsibilities of becoming a doctor before they enter medical school, so that physicians cannot say no one told me lat
"FDA Review Process Short on Manpower": Scientist (10/02/89) Vol. 3, No. 19, P. 27; Marwick, Charles; The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has failed to fill at least two outside committees created to advise it, one of which would recommend possible antiviral drugs for AIDS. Congress created the antiviral drugs advisory committee last year to monitor AIDS drugs for the anti-infecti
"El Paso Police Officers Puncture Prostitutes' Condoms...": United Press International (10/02/89); El Paso, Texas--Officials of Aliviane NO-AD Inc., a community drug treatment and prevention program, have accused El Paso police officers of taking bleach away from IV drug users and puncturing condoms carried by prostitutes. Robert Murillo, director of AIDS prevention programs for Aliviane NO-AD, brought the charges
"AIDS Claims Climbed 21 Percent To $590 Million In 1988": National Underwriter/ Life + Health (10/02/89) Vol. 93, No 34, P.; Brostoff, Steven; The rate of increase of AIDS-related claims seems to be decreasing, even though AIDS-related life and health insurance claims jumped more than 21 percent in 1988, according to a newly released survey by the American Council of Life Insurance and Health Insurance Association of America. The total cost of claims was al
"AIDS Underestimated in Children, Doctors Say": United Press International (10/02/89); Schlangenstein, Mary; Although estimates say 20,000 children in the United States carry HIV, the actual incidence of infection in children is drastically underreported due to current definitions of the disease. The federal Centers for Disease Control reports that 1681 children were diagnosed with AIDS as o
"Teens Recruited in Fight Against AIDS": United Press International (10/02/89); Grant, Alison; Dayton, Ohio--Eva Winston of Montgomery County s health department, who believes there s no pressure greater than peer pressure, uses teens to carry AIDS prevention messages to their peers through raps, skits, plays, and poems. Stopping AIDS is My Mission (SAMM) is a peer education concept that uses trained junior
"Howard U. Hospital Agrees to Treat AIDS Patients Better": Washington Times (10/02/89), P. B3; Barras, Jonetta Rose; In a settlement reached Friday, Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. agreed to end its policy of segregating HIV infected patients and adopt federally recommended universal precautions for treating all patients. A 31-year-old woman filed suit against the hospital in U.S. District Court last year. Debra K
"Sex, Spies and Videotape: Investigating for AIDS": Newsweek (10/02/89) Vol. 114, No. 14, P. 66; Leerhsen, Charles; Private eyes still investigate mostly sexual matters. Increasingly, firms such as Action Investigative Services of Washington, D.C., look for evidence of past marriages, bad credit, or AIDS--for a clientele largely comprised of heterosexual women and gay men. One Miami woman, worried about AIDS, hired agent Carlos F
"How Much for a Reprieve from AIDS?": Time (10/02/89) Vol. 134, No. 14, P. 81; Gorman, Christine; Last week, Burroughs Wellcome said it will cut the wholesale price of AZT by 20 percent. The cut came in the wake of passionate protests from activists who have accused the company of profiteering at the expense of desperate AIDS patients. AZT is one of t
"These Maps Guide the Way to Potential AIDS Victims": Business Week (10/02/89) No. 3126, P. 102E; In the San Francisco Bay Area, the Youth Environment Study distributes condoms, AIDS-prevention information, and bleach for sterilizing needles to IV drug users. The National Institute on Drug Abuse funds the outreach program, which now uses a computerized mapping system to pinpoint areas of heavy drug use and prosti
"Japanese AIDS Drug Useless in Pill Form": United Press International (10/01/89); Stein, Rob; Boston--Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore have discovered that dextran sulfate, a Japanese anti-cholesterol drug used by to fight AIDS, is useless in pill form because of poor absorption by the digestive tract. The drug showed promise in the test tube as an anti-viral agent and t
"Condom Olympics Seek to Encourage Safe Sex Practices": New York Times (10/01/89), P. 49; The Madison AIDS Support Network and other campus and community groups sponsored the Condom Olympics at the University of Wisconsin last Sunday. The seven events at the Olympics included a condom water-balloon toss, a condom relay race, a condom volleyball tournament, and a condom demolition derby. Sponsors intended
"In Ethiopia, Unlikely Warriors Against AIDS": New York Times (10/01/89), P. 10; Perlez, Jane; The title on the calendar s yellow cover reads: For a Happy Life, Good Health is Needed. The calendar, carried by more than 1500 Ethiopian prostitutes as part of the country s efforts against AIDS, contains a daily record of sexual encounters and condom use. The Ethiopian Ministry of Health developed an unusual pro
"Pregnancy and HIV Infection": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling (10/89) Vol. 4,; Hauer, Laurie B.; Black or Latina women comprise 70 percent of women with AIDS. More than 70 percent of the mothers of children with AIDS are IV drug users or their sexual partners. Because these communities of women are disproportionately affected by HIV and other serious health and economic problems, they need information about HIV
"Understanding Alternative Therapies Often Used to Fight HIV": AIDS Alert (10/89) Vol. 4, No. 10, P. 170; Glazier, Debra; Some HIV-infected patients are turning to alternative healing methods--including homeopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic, gemstone, and herbal healing--that are outside the mainstream of Western tradition but are often based in Eastern traditions that predate Western medicine by thousand of years, write Debra Medeiros G
""Faggots and Rubbers and AIDS, Oh My!"": Baltimore Alternative (10/89), P. 9; Wright, Michael; The Mora, Minn., school board s Health Advisory Task Force recommended that the board reinstate Mora s sex and AIDS education classes. The board reinstated the classes but said it would allow parents to voice their comments and to take children out of any sex and AIDS classes they deem inappropriate. The board cance
"Hospital Guilty of Discriminating Against HIV-Infected Employee": AIDS Alert (10/89) Vol. 4, No. 10, P. 175; The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has found Humana Hospital-Lucerne in Orlando, Fla., guilty of discrimination for forcing James Kautz, an HIV-positive former operating room technician, to take an extended medical leave of absence. The hospital has been ordered to reimburse Kautz for all lost wages and
"Guidelines for Monitoring Patients with Early HIV Disease": AIDS Alert (10/89) Vol. 4, No. 10, P. 168; Treatment of patients with early HIV disease requires appropriate counseling, according to Paul Volberding, chief of medical oncology and director of the AIDS division of San Francisco General Hospital. Patients will be too traumatized upon receiving a positive diagnosis to comprehend any discussion of the disease, h
"Hospital Gets Zidovudine to Patients Despite Bureaucratic": AIDS Alert (10/89) Vol. 4, No. 10, P. 164; St. Clare s Hospital and Health Center in New York City allows HIV-infected Medicaid-eligible patients to get AZT without having to wait months for the government to process their Medicaid applications. Mark Benge, HIV Resource Coordinator at the hospital,
"My Life Stalking AIDS": Discover (10/89) Vol. 10, No. 10, P. 30; Gallo, Robert C.; In 1979, an outbreak of infectious disease seemed unlikely unless the microbe was casually transmitted, writes Robert C. Gallo, and, furthermore, scientists thought retroviruses did not exist in man. AIDS changed these views radically, says Gallo. Because HIV remains infectious for years and can lie dormant and asym
"Caring for Children with HIV Infection": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling (10/89) Vol. 4,; Cooper, Ellen R.; For treatment of pediatric AIDS, recognition and treatment of infections is crucial--frequent exams, monitoring of immune function, and sophisticated developmental assessment are critical, writes Ellen R. Cooper of the Pediatric AIDS Program at Boston City Hospital. Symptoms of pediatric HIV infection, including wast
"Guide on AIDS": Nation's Business (10/89) Vol. 77, No. 10, P. 10; The National AIDS Information Clearinghouse has published a booklet containing background and information on AIDS in the workplace. AIDS Education: A Business Guide is available free for single copies, and in bulk for a nominal charge. Those interested in more information can call toll free--800-342-AIDS.
"AIDS on Campus: The Threat Colleges Won't Admit": Glamour (10/89), P. 116; A recent study by the American College Health Assocation (ACHA) has found that 2 out of every 1000 college students who had blood tests at student clinics carry HIV. Other studies demonstrate that many students know little about AIDS. On campus, students don t see anyone who s ill, so they feel invincible, says Ch
"Risk of HIV Infection in Polytransfused Thalassemia Patients": Lancet (09/30/89) Vol. 2, No. 8666, P. 813; Lefrere, J.J., and; In a study of 2972 polytransfused thalassemia patients (PTT) patients from 14 countries, write J.J. Lefrere and R. Girot on behalf of a World Health Organization team estimating the persisting tranfusional risk of HIV, the results showed that the risk of HIV-1 infection from packed
"United States: The Cost of Treating AIDS": Lancet (09/30/89) Vol. 2, No. 8666, P. 795; Sibbison, J.B.; June Osborn, chairman of the National AIDS Commission, said the 20 percent reduction in the price of AZT is welcome, but the poor still cannot pay $6,500 for treatment of AIDS or even $2,700 to treat asymptomatic HIV infection. Florida, with one of the hig
"The AIDS Disaster in Zimbabwe": Economist (09/30/89) Vol. 312, No. 7622, P. 44; Last year Zimbabwe reduced its official AIDS death toll from 380 to 119 and stopped most research into the epidemic. However, AIDS deaths, if still deflated, are now counted up and published occasionally. Villagers receive AIDS education and prevention messages from workshops a
"Study Finds First Link to Oral Sex and AIDS": United Press International (09/30/89); San Francisco--The San Francisco Health Department has documented the first two cases of HIV contracted by oral sex, according to health department researchers. The findings are based on interviews with gay men whom the researchers studied over a long period, rather than hard scientific evidence. However, David Werd
"AIDS: Books from AAAS": Science (09/29/89) Vol. 245, No. 4925, P. 1432; AIDS 1988: AAAS Symposia Papers and AIDS: Papers from Science, 1982-1985 are collections of papers on AIDS available through the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The first volume reflects the current thinking on today s AIDS research as presented in papers at the 1988 AAAS Annual Meetin
"East German Scientists Develop AIDS Drug Similar to AZT": Reuters (09/29/89); East Berlin--A Communist youth newspaper reported Friday that East German scientists have developed fluorthymidin, a drug similar to AZT but more powerful. The paper quoted Prof. Ruediger von Baehr, an East German AIDS expert, who said, We hope this fluo
"Tim Wengerd, 44, Choreographer and Ex-Martha Graham Dancer": New York Times (09/29/89), P. B7; Kisselgoff, Anna; Tim Wengerd, a founder and choreographer of the Repertory Dance Theater of Utah and a major dancer in the Martha Graham company until 1982, died Sept. 12 of AIDS. Wengerd s performing skills and careful attention to detail made him one of the leading performers in the Martha Graham Company, where he made his debut in
"AIDS in a World Without Warnings": New York times (09/29/89), P. C18; James, Caryn; On the Make, a new film directed by Samuel Hurwitz, explores the moral underpinings of a man who has died of AIDS, writes reviewer Caryn James. Beginning with the funeral of Kurt, the movie later examines the man s promiscuous lifestyle, which includes seducing numerous women at a night club. Although the film was
"Group Offers Money in AIDS Survey Protest": New York Times (09/29/89), P. A13; The Dallas County Gay Alliance offered $100 Wednesday to the first person refusing to participate in a door-to-door survey designed to gauge the extent of the AIDS epidemic. The gay rights group opposes the survey, which will cover 3400 residents and begin Saturday. William Waybourn, president of the group, said $10
"AIDS, Drugs, Need and Greed": New York Times (09/29/89), P. A34; Is there something wrong with the way drugs are developed? ask the editors of the New York Times. They write that exorbitant prices for AZT and aerosolized pentamidine suggest serious faults in the system of drug development and manufacture. The governm
"Dutch Scientists Say AZT May Prevent Dementia in People": Wall Street Journal (09/29/89), P. B2; Lublin, Joann S.; AZT may prevent dementia , which affects about one third of AIDS patients, Jaap Goudsmit and his group of Dutch scientists report in this week s British Medical Journal. Previous research only suggested the drug could al
"FDA Authorizes Unproven Drug for AIDS Cases": Washington Post (09/29/89), P. A1; Specter, Michael; The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) said yesterday it will allow Bristol-Myers planned distribution of the experimental drug DDI to everyone with AIDS who cannot take AZT . This landmark decision will provide DDI, or did
"Homme Rouge and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome": New England Journal of Medicine (09/28/89) Vol. 321, No. 13, P.; Parker, Susan C., et al.; Susan Parker and colleagues, physicians from London s St. Thomas Hospital, report on a patient with HIV and T-cell non-Hodgkin s lymphoma presenting with erythroderma (homme rouge) who rapidly became unwell with increasing lymphadenopathy. Within three months, the 45-year-old man
"Avoiding Imports in Japan": Nature (09/28/89) Vol. 341, No. 6240, P. 270; Swinbanks, David; AIDS was introduced to Japan through its excessive imports of blood products in the 1980s. More than 90 percent of HIV-carriers in Japan are hemophiliacs who received non-heat-treated blood products made from U.S. plasma. The Ministry of Health and Welfare wants to drastically red
"Row Over Controversial New AIDS Drug": Nature (09/28/89) Vol. 341, No. 6240, P. 267; Buderi, Robert; The ad hoc trials of Compound Q sparked bitter controversy between Project Inform activists and many doctors and researchers. Project Inform co-director Martin Delaney and Alan Levin, a physician who helped organize the trials, said Compound Q is not a cure but a promising drug and potentially useful weapon in combin
"AIDS in Bulgaria": Nature (09/28/89) Vol. 341, No. 6240, P. 275; Dimitrov, Dimitre; Bulgaria s mandatory HIV testing program should be reevaluated to balance financial considerations against the program s possible benefit, write Dimitre Dimitrov and colleagues from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. More than 2 million people have been screened, revealing 1.2 seropositives per 100,000 Bulgarian
"Four Popular Condoms Leak HIV, Spermicide Fails, Study Finds": Bay Area Reporter (09/28/89) Vol. 19, No. 39, P. 4; Clark,; Researchers at UCLA have discovered that Lifestyles Conture, Trojan Naturalube, Trojan Ribbed, and Contracept Plus--four of the most popular brands of condoms in the United States--fail to stop leakage of HIV in simulated stress tests. In addition, the study found that Nonoxynol-9, the most widely used spermicide, do
"Abuse-Proof Syringe Designed to Fight AIDS": Bay Area Reporter (09/28/89) Vol. 19, No. 39, P. 15; Clark,; James Pauls, chairman of Entity Inc. and inventor of the child-proof cap, has patented a design for an inexpensive, non-reusable syringe that should help prevent the spread of HIV through the sharing of contaminated needles. Currently, disposable syringes can be reused. Pauls designed his syringe so that the plunger
"Credit Government Scientists with Developing Anti-AIDS Drug": New York Times (09/28/89), P. A26; Mitsuya, Hiroaki, et al.; Samuel Broder, Robert Mitsuya, Robert Yarchoan, Dani Bolognesi, and Kent Weinhold of the National Cancer Institute and Duke University write that they were astonished that T.E. Haigler, Jr., president of the Burroughs Wellcome Company, asserted in a Sept. 16 letter to the New York Times that the company discovered and
"Too Much Love for One Place: Second 'Grandma's House' to Care for Babies" with AIDS Virus: Washington Post (09/28/89), P. DC1; James, Jacqueline B.; In the District of Columbia, Grandma s House takes care of infants with HIV. Fifteen to 20 infants are on a waiting list for Grandma s House as a result of the city s drug crisis. A second facility will open in December to meet the increasing demand. Public Law 2-22, which requires removal of infants from unfit con
"Factor in AIDS Race Gap Found?": Associated Press (09/27/89); Boston--A study of 452 people in a methadone treatment program in New York City has found that ghetto shooting galleries may explain the higher incidence of AIDS in black and Hispanic drug addicts. The use of shooting galleries, which blacks and Hispanics frequent more than whites, was the biggest factor in determini
"Last-Minute Details Delay Plan to Distribute AIDS Drug DDI": Reuters (09/27/89); Washington--The Food and Drug Administration and Bristol-Myers are involved in last minute haggling that has delayed the company s wider distribution plan for dideoxyinosine, or DDI. Negotiations over fine details of the plan have delayed the drug s release past the Sept. 15th date on which
"Anthem for the AIDS Quilt": Washington Post (09/27/89), P. C7; Himes, Geoffrey; Names, written by Silver Spring, Md. s Cathy Fink, has become the unofficial theme song of the Names Project. She and her musical partner, Marcy Marxer, have recorded the song on their new album, Cathy Fink + Marcy Marxer. Names was inspired by the sight of the quilt and all the colors stretched out over many a
"Italian Drug to Be Tested Against AIDS in the U.S.": Wall Street Journal (09/27/89), P. B5; An Italian drug, N-acetylcysteine (NAC), will be tested soon as an HIV suppressor, according to a husband and wife research team at Stanford University. Geneticists Leonard and Leonore Herzenberg speculate that NAC counteracts the effects of tumor-necrosis factor, a naturally occurring protein believed to activate HI
"Side Effects Noted in High Doses of New AIDS Drug": New York Times (09/27/89), P. A20; Hilts, Philip J.; Dideoxyinosine (DDI), formerly thought to cause few side effects, causes severe pain in a few patients at middle doses and in about two thirds of patients on high doses of the drug, researchers say. The Food and Drug Administration, under pressure from AIDS activists, has slotted DDI for wider distribution, but now m
"AIDS Survey in Dallas Seen As Prelude to National Study": New York Times (09/27/89), P. A1; Lambert, Bruce; Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) took the first steps toward a national survey to find out how many Americans carry HIV. HHS mailed a pilot survey to 3400 Dallas households, asking residents questions about demographics, sexual activities, and use of drugs. The survey does not ask the par
"Black and White Death Rates Continue to Differ, Study Says": Associated Press (09/26/89); Black Americans are dying younger than white Americans, and they have higher infant death rates and higher rates of death from AIDS, a National Center for Health Statistics report reveals. The mortality statistics for 1987, which the agency released Tuesday, show that whites have a life expectancy of 75.6 years, comp
"Local Spending for AIDS": Washington Post (Health) (09/26/89), P. 4; Graham, Jim; Jim Graham, administrator of Washington, D.C. s Whitman-Walker Clinic, writes that although the District of Columbia government has appropriated $6.8 million for AIDS, there is not ample funding for AIDS treatment and services, contrary to a report in The Cutting Edge column in Sept. 19 s Washington Post. Graham writ
"Overprotecting Profit": Journal of Commerce (09/26/89), P. 8A; Congress should modify the Orphan Drug Act of 1984, write the editors of the Journal of Commerce, to ensure that patients and insurers do not pay excessively high drug prices when a rare disease develops into an epidemic--as is the case with the AIDS drug AZT
"Nutrition: Key in AIDS Care": Washington Post (Health) (09/26/89), P. 8; Rovner, Sandy; Malnutrition, rather than AIDS or opportunistic infections, immediately precedes death in as many as 80 percent of AIDS sufferers, according to Donald P. Kotler and C. Wayne Callaway, experts who spoke at a symposium of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Solid nutrition is no cure, they sa
"News in Brief: Colorado": Advocate (09/26/89) No. 534, P. 19; Timothy Keene, a convicted murderer serving four years in a state prison, has asked a Boulder, Colo., judge to reduce his sentence so he can seek better treatment for AIDS. Keene told Judge Joseph Bellipanni he wasn t receiving much preventive care in the AIDS ward in prison. Keene, 24, is serving time at the Colora
"News in Brief: South Carolina": Advocate (09/26/89) No. 534, P. 22; Several Charleston AIDS activists say highway rest stops are the small-city equivalents of big-city bathhouses. The activists want to see the rest stops targeted for AIDS education efforts. The Rev. George Exoo, chairman of a Charleston AIDS education and support group, has proposed the installation of AIDS educatio
"The Helquist Report: The Right Sex But the Wrong Lube": Advocate (09/26/89) No. 534, P. 28; Helquist, Michael; Bruce Voeller of the Mariposa Foundation conducted a small study that found that during anal sex, most men used lubricants that would damage the strength of a condom, making it more susceptible to breakage. Voeller found that many men misunderstand the difference beteen oil- and water-based lubricants--23 of 25 men u
"The Helquist Report: AIDS Once Removed": Advocate (09/26/89) No. 534, P. 28; Helquist, Michael; Educating employees about AIDS through literature alone is not enough to make at-risk individuals change their behavior and may reinforce negative attitudes toward HIV-infected coworkers, according to a telephone poll of 528 working adults in Georgia. A group of workers who had received a brochure about AIDS felt mor
"Appeals Court Rules in AZT Case": United Press International (09/25/89); St. Louis--The Missouri Department of Social Services must allow Medicaid to cover the costs of AZT , according to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled on the issue Monday. The Court upheld a lower court ruling on a class action suit filed by
"AIDS Advocates Plan to Import Drug": New York Times (09/25/89), P. A15; Kolata, Gina; New York s People with AIDS Health Group, enraged by the price of aerosolized pentamidine, has offered to help people fill prescriptions in England, where the drug costs a fraction of its price here. Aerosolized pentamidine helps prevent Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, the leading cause of death in AIDS patients. Th
"Health Crisis Confronts 1.3 Billion": Washington Post (09/25/89), P. A1; Okie, Susan; More than 20 percent of the world s population is sick or malnourished, according to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO s report, the first global estimates of disease, stated that 500 million people, or 40 percent of south and east Asians, suffer from malnutri
"So Little Time, So Many Cases": Newsweek (09/25/89) Vol. 114, No. 13, P. 59; Murr, Andrew; Field epidemiologists Hollard Phillips and Charles Matthews take to the Southeast Georgia streets to find people with syphilis. Experts say female crack addicts trading their bodies for sex is responsible for a marked increase in syphilis cases since 1986. Epidemiologists treat
"New AIDS Test Gives Results, On the Spot, in 10 Minutes": Associated Press (09/15/89); Recer, Paul; Washington--A new test for AIDS will allow patients to get a result in 10 minutes at their doctor s office, instead of waiting days to hear results from a laboratory. The test is called SUDS, or single use diagnostic system. Two drops of serum are separated from a blood sample from a finger stick, mixed with reagent
"Teen Poll: Sex Up, Drugs Down": Associated Press (09/15/89); Denver--A random telephone survey conducted among high school students in Denver indicates that sexual activity is up and drug use is down since a similar poll in 1985. Fewer teens are likely to use drugs or alcohol, the poll says, but a greater percentage say they know others who do. According to the results releas
"Denver Cleanup and AIDS Information Clash": New York Times (09/24/89), P. A26; Denver--AIDS murals designed to look like wall graffiti have clashed with Denver s beautification program. The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center sponsored the project, asking local artists to spray-paint murals in drug-ridden neighborhoods in an attempt to reach IV drug users with AIDS preventive messages
"How the AIDS Crisis Made Drug Regulators Speed Up": New York Times (09/24/89), P. E5; Hilts, Philip J.; AIDS activists have forced the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) to loosen its drug rules for dying patients, allowing them to take some risks with experimental drugs. AIDS activists, who formerly saw the FDA as cruel Nazis, with no concern for people dying, now see that they have
"Inhibition of Soluble CD4 Therapy by Antibodies to HIV": Lancet (09/23/89) Vol. 2, No. 8665, P. 734; Callahan, Larry N.; Anti-gp120 antibodies block the effects of soluble CD4 therapy (sCD4) by inhibiting binding of sCD4 to the viral envelope protein, writeLarry Callahan and Michael Norcross of the Food and Drug Administration. Soluble CD4 therapy tests--performed in vitro in the absence of HIV-antibody-positive (HIV+) sera--showed tha
"Intermittent High-Dose Zidovudine": Lancet (09/23/89) Vol. 2, No. 8665, P. 734; Price, L.A., et al.; L.A. Price and colleagues write that chemotherapy drugs with kinetics similar to AZT (zidovudine) show less bone marrow toxicity when administered intermittently at higher doses over a 24-hour period than when given on a continuous daily basis at smaller do
"Clinical Trials of Zidovudine in HIV Infection": Lancet (09/23/89) Vol. 2, No. 8665, P. 734; Morris, David J.; David Morris, a Manchester virologist, writes that the Lancet s Aug. 26th editorial correctly reserves judgement on the preventive use of AZT in symptomless people with HIV infection until the data are published in the scientific press. Morris writes that
"The Viral Advantage": Science News (09/23/89) Vol. 136, No. 13, P. 200; Weiss, Rick; Viruses possess an extremely high frequency of mutation, virtually guaranteeing that new and virulent infectious agents will appear and making development of vaccines against some, like HIV, very difficult. In addition, frequency of mutation means that a virus can broaden its host range or mode of transmission. For
"Apply for Reimbursements": Gay Community News (09/23/89) Vol. 17, No. 10, P. 2; Gaines,; People positive for HIV or with AIDS or ARC who have a physician s referral and meet income eligibility requirements may qualify for assistance from Massachusetts AZT Reimbursement Program (ARP), which also covers aerosolized pentamidine and alpha interfer
"Gay Man Sentenced for Assisting PWA's Suicide": Gay Community News (09/23/89) Vol. 17, No. 10, P. 2; Gaines,; A jury in San Diego found John Cleaves, a gay San Diego man, guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Dennis Eaton. Cleaves claimed he agreed to help Eaton commit suicide when the two met the night of September 13, 1988. Eaton said he had AIDS, according to Cleaves, and wanted to kill himself after they had ha
"Synergism Between HIV gp120 and gp120-Specific Antibody in": Science (09/22/89) Vol. 245, No. 4924, P. 1380; Mittler, Robert; HIV binds to the CD4 receptor of human lymphocytes to gain entry into the cell. Antibody reactive with CD4 suppresses T cell-dependent immune responses in vitro and in vivo. In this way, HIV may act to suppress the immune system of a person with AIDS. Robert S. Mittler and Michael K. Hoffman of the Bristol-Myers Co
"Senate Demolishes Plan to Set Aside Housing for PWAs": Washington Blade (09/22/89) Vol. 20, No. 39, P. 1; Keen, Lisa M.; This week, a 99-0 Senate vote killed 250 housing units for people with AIDS and prohibited use of federal funds for AIDS education programs that promote or encourage, directly, intravenous drug abuse or sexual activity, homosexual or heterosexual. On the floor of the Senate, Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) said he thought it
"Group Objects to TV Stations": Washington Blade (09/22/89) Vol. 20, No. 39, P. 18; In July, several groups representing gays, women, and minorities filed a petition asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny relicensing to six Philadelphia television stations because none of the six fulfill FCC requirements on discussion of issues concerning members of significant minority groups. A
"PWAs File Suit Against HUD": Washington Blade (09/22/89) Vol. 20, No. 39, P. 3; Chibbaro, Lou; Two men with AIDS and a California non-profit housing agency, Housing for Independent People, filed suit last Wednesday in the U.S. District Court against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD refused to provide a low-interest housing loan for four group homes for AIDS patients in San Jose b
"National Commission on AIDS Tours Whitman-Walker Clinic": Washington Blade (09/22/89) Vol. 20, No. 39, P. 9; Hinckle,; The National Commission on AIDS toured the District of Columbia s Whitman-Walker Clinic last Tuesday on the second day of its first meeting in the District. Whitman-Walker serves 531 clients with AIDS in D.C. and 200 more at a satellite clinic in Northern Virginia. Peter Hawley, director of the clinic, told the comm
"AIDS Alters Care Methods": Associated Press (09/22/89); Philadelphia--Doctors and dentists gathered at the First International Medical-Dental Congress on AIDS discussed how AIDS has altered the traditional relationship between physicians and their patients. Temple University sponsored the event, which began last Friday. Conferees discussed the legal rights and responsibi
"Obituaries: Jack Smith, Film Maker, 57": New York Times (09/22/89), P. A28; Jack Smith, an independent film maker best-known for Flaming Creatures, a 1963 film about transvestites, died of AIDS Monday at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. Smith s films and performance art were prominent in the Pop Art movement from 1958 to 1964.
"Senate Votes to Withhold AIDS Funds from States Without Notification Rule": Wall Street Journal (09/22/89), P. C8; Rogers, David; Yesterday, the Senate passed on a voice vote an AIDS provision that would withhold federal support for local AIDS education programs from states that fail to require a good faith effort to notify the spouse of an HIV-infected person. The Senate attached the provision to a massive spending bill allocating more than
"No Drug Yet Approved for Children with AIDS": Washington Post (09/22/89), P. A4; Okie, Susan; The Food and Drug Administration has approved no drugs to treat children with AIDS--not even AZT , which has been approved to treat adults for two and a half years. Doctors can legally prescribe AZT for anybody, but most only give the drug to extremely sick
"HIV Infection in Brazil: Cortes et al.": New England Journal of Medicine (09/21/89) Vol. 321, No. 12, P.; Cortes, Eduardo, et al.; Eduardo Cortes of the Federal University of Rio de Janiero and David Ho and Roger Detels of the UCLA School of Public Health previously reported that bisexual men, rather than IV drug users, may act as the main route of HIV transmission between the homosexual and heterosexual communities in
"HIV Infection in Brazil: Thomas R. O'Brien et al.": New England Journal of Medicine (09/21/89) Vol. 321, No. 12, P.; O'Brien, Thomas R., et al.; Thomas R. O Brien and colleagues of the AIDS Program of the U.S. Center for Infectious Diseases write that serologic reactivity to HIV-1 and HIV-2 does not necessarily indicate dual infection. The researchers, noting that Cortes et al. reported dual infection in five Brazilians with AIDS or HIV infection based on du
"HIV Infection in Brazil: Romilio Espejo et al.": New England Journal of Medicine (09/21/89) Vol. 321, No. 12, P.; Espejo, Romilio T., et al.; Romilio Espejo and colleagues from Chile report on a suspected case of HIV-2 infection in Chile. A serum sample from the patient reacted strongly with HIV-2 gp140 and HIV-1 envelope protein. The researchers write that double reactivity to HIV-1 and HIV-2 envelope glycoproteins has
"HIV Infection in Brazil": New England Journal of Medicine (09/21/89) Vol. 321, No. 12, P.; Beach, Richard S., et al.; Data from Honduras supports the theory of Cortes and colleagues (New England Journal of Medicine, April 13 issue) that a fourth pattern of the spread of HIV has developed in Brazil , according to
"Controlling AIDS in Cuba": New England Journal of Medicine (09/21/89) Vol. 321, No. 12, P.; Healton, Cheryl; In response to Antonio M. Gordon and Reinaldo Paya s contention that Cuban officials have knowingly and grossly underestimated HIV infection and AIDS in Cuba, Cheryl Heaton and Ronald Bayer of the Columbia University of Public Health reply that they have concluded the official data the Cubans have provided is probably
"Controlling AIDS in Cuba": New England Journal of Medicine (09/21/89) Vol. 321, No. 12, P.; Gordon, Antonio M.; Writing in response to the special report on AIDS in Cuba in the April 13 New England Journal of Medicine, Antonio M. Gordon and Reinaldo Paya claim that HIV infection, which Cuba officially recognized in 1987, has been present in the country since 1980. Evidence from serologic stud
"Infections with Cryptococcus Neoformans in the Acquired Immune": New England Journal of Medicine (09/21/89) Vol. 321, No. 12, P.; Chuck, Steven L.; Steven Chuck and Merle Sande report on a study of 106 AIDS patients with cryptococcal infections at San Francisco General Hospital. Chuck and Sande studied the efficacy of treatment with amphotericin plus flucytosine, the efficacy of suppressive therapy, prognosis, and the course of nonmeningeal cryptococcosis. Cryp
"Seroprevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Among Male": New England Journal of Medicine (09/21/89) Vol. 321, No. 12, P.; Elifson, Kirk W., et al.; Kirk W. Elifson and others report on a study of 152 male prostitutes actively working the streets of Atlanta between July 1988 and May 1989 in which the researchers interviewed the men anonymously in their work settings. Elifson and colleagues note that their study differs from previous research on AIDS in prostitute
"Sexual Behavior Unsurveyed": Nature (09/21/89) Vol. 341, No. 6239, P. 181; Maddox, John; Researchers who developed the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles deserve a fundraiser now that the British government has refused to fund the project, writes Nature Editor John Maddox. A survey of sexual attitudes and behavior can be a great social benefit, Maddox writes, providing a wealth of knowl
"Wellcome's Corporate Extortion": Bay Area Reporter (09/21/89) Vol. 19, No. 38, P. 6; Burroughs Wellcome s reduction of the price of AZT by 20 percent is no merciful or generous act, write the editors of the Bay Area Reporter, but an attempt at damage control. Activists, health care workers, and government officials have pressured the compa
"Indian AIDS: Penalties--and Help--for Victims": Nature (09/21/89) Vol. 341, No. 6239, P. 173; Jayaraman, K.S.; The Indian Parliament has proposed a law to make AIDS a notifiable disease and require each Indian state to designate a health authority in charge of AIDS counseling and treatment. The bill would also impose criminal penalties on any HIV-positive person who knowingly donates blood, semen, or organs, and allow the gov
"AIDS Treatment: New Yardstick for Success": Nature (09/21/89) Vol. 341, No. 6239, P. 178; Ezzell, Carol; Maintaining levels of CD4 lymphocytes--or ratios of CD4 to CD8--may soon serve as sufficient proof to end clinical trials of the effectiveness of drugs against HIV, concluded participants at a Washington, D.C., conference sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Medicine. Such a surrogate endpoint should allow faster ide
"Dealing with AIDS on the Job": Associated Press (09/21/89); Albany, N.Y.--New York state Health Commissioner David Axelrod says new drugs will increase the life expectancy of AIDS patients and make AIDS an issue in the workplace in the coming years. In a message Wednesday to several hundred labor and management leaders at a two-day conference on AIDS in the workplace, Axelrod
"Personal Health": New York Times (09/21/89), P. B20; Brody, Jane; By using a living will, persons facing a terminal illness can maintain some control over their treatment even after they are unable to communicate their wishes themselves. In some cases, a living will is a simple statement specifying a desire that medical personnel use no means of life support if the signee should be
"Tests Find 1 Prisoner in 24 Has AIDS Virus": New York Times (09/21/89), P. B21; Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore say that one in 24 prison inmates in the United States , a lower number than they expected to find, carry HIV. In the study, the first to try to estimate the prevalence of HIV in prisoners, researchers tested blood from 11,198 inmate
"Gay Rights Advancing Under Banner of AIDS": Wall Street Journal (09/21/89), P. A22; Muggeridge, Charles; The gay liberation movement that began after the Stonewall riots twenty years ago scored few advances until recently, according to Charles Muggeridge, a reporter with the Welland, Ontario, Evening Tribune. The slow victories in gay rights battles have dramatically accelerated since 1986 because of AIDS, he writes. U
"Unsanctioned Testing of AIDS Drug, Compound Q, Called Safe by Its Leader": Wall Street Journal (09/21/89), P. B10; Chase, Marilyn; Martin Delaney, director of Project Inform, defended the group s unsanctioned test of the experimental AIDS drug Compound Q, saying the trial was safe despite three deaths and several cases of severe dementia . In addition, Delaney said Compound Q shows promising antiviral activity
"AIDS Rife in Male Prostitutes": Associated Press (09/20/89); Boston--A survey of male prostitutes in Atlanta showed 27 percent were infected with HIV, according to a team of researchers led by Kirk W. Clifson of Georgia State University. The virus was especially common among those exposed to syphilis and hepatitis--55 percent of those with
"AIDS Benefit Concert": New York Times (09/20/89), P. C24; Arista Records will host its 15th-anniversary concert on March 17th at Radio City Music Hall to benefit AIDS and celebrate the success of the company Clive Davis founded. The Eurythmics, Whitney Houston, Jermaine Jackson, Jeffrey Osborne, and Daryl Hall and John Oates are among the groups who have agreed to perform.
"New York Life to Fund Biogen AIDS Research": Journal of Commerce (09/20/89), P. 9A; Lee, Cristina; New York Life Insurance Co. and Biogen Inc., a pharmaceutical firm that develops products for AIDS and cancer, have signed a $20 million funding agreement to expand Biogen s development and production of antiviral AIDS drugs. The program will fund development of Biogen s CD4 therapies and allow the company to expand
"AIDS Education Pioneer David Brumbach, 46, Dies": Washington Post (09/20/89), P. B7; Barnes, Bart; David Brumbach, 46, an AIDS education activist, died of the disease at his home in Bethesda Sept. 15. Brumbach had worked as a marketing specialist for the international architectural engineering firm of Frank E. Basil Inc. until 1985, when he resigned his job to work full time in AIDS education. He organized a volu
"AIDS Panel Takes Testimony": Washington Post (09/20/89), P. A23; The National Commission on AIDS took its first day of testimony from experts this week. Belinda Mason, the panel member who has AIDS, said she thinks the panel can make a difference in the lives of AIDS sufferers. Mason, a 30-year-old mother of two who contracted HIV from a blood transfusion, said, We all want noth
"Private Study of AIDS Drug: Praise and Warning": New York Times (09/20/89), P. A21; Kolata, Gina; Martin Delaney of Project Inform said yesterday that Compound Q shows promise as an AIDS drug. However, Delaney warned people with the disease not to take it until the completion of more studies. Three patients in Project Inform s controversial underground study of Compound Q have died and seven have reported severe
"AZT Shows Promise for Children": Associated Press (09/19/89); Houston--A recent study, the most extensive yet of AZT in children, has shown that the drug is safe, helps children gain weight and avoid life-threatening infections, and improves their well-being, according to Ross McKinney of Duke University. Last year,
"District Leads Nation in Spending on AIDS": Washington Post (Health) (09/19/89), P. 5; Boodman, Sandra G.; The District of Columbia spends more money per capita on AIDS than any other city, according to a survey by the Intergovernmental Health Policy Center at George Washington University. In 1988, the city spent $9.91 per resident, the survey says. Activists in the District complain that although the city has spent subs
"Critics Fault Secret Effort to Test AIDS Drug": New York Times (09/19/89), P. C1; Kolata, Gina; A third man has died in the clandestine trials of Compound Q, and AIDS patients and advocates are criticizing the Project Inform trials. Researchers started the private study to demonstrate the failures of government testing. Instead, the tests may show why more traditional methods, emphasizing slow care and safegua
"Burroughs-Wellcome Cuts Price of AZT Under Pressure from AIDS": Wall Street Journal (09/19/89), P. A3; Chase, Marilyn; Burroughs-Wellcome has announced a 20 percent price cut in AZT . The drug maker responded to pressure from AIDS patients and their advocates to reduce the $8,000-a-year tab. AIDS activists have been lobbying for a price cut for months; Congress has threate
"AIDS Drug Research Picks Up Speed": Scientist (09/18/89) Vol. 3, No. 18, P. 16; Holland, Lisa; Researchers, attempting to target different stages in the life cycle of HIV, have developed AZT , ddI, ddC , recombinant soluble CD4, and now antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs). Antisense OD
"Infectious Diseases Expert to Head National AIDS Unit": Scientist (09/18/89) Vol. 3, No. 18, P. 21; George W. Counts, former professor of medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle, will head the Clinical Research Management Branch in the Treatment Research Program of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Division of AIDS. As head of the newly established branch, Counts will focus on enr
"Mathematical Detectives Tail a Deadly Disease": Scientist (09/18/89) Vol. 3, No. 18, P. 10; Pennisi, Elizabeth; Mac Hyman, a mathematical modeler at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, built a theoretical model of the spread of AIDS with help from other mathematicians, computer specialists, social scientists, and medical experts. Biostatisticians use models to make projections of future cases and evaluate how vaccine
"Fractured Liberties": New York Native (09/18/89) No. 335, P. 30; Ostrom, Neenyah; Shattered Mirrors: Our Search for Identity and Community in the AIDS Era by Monroe E. Price, Dean of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, reviewer Neenah Ostrom writes, repeatedly states that to fight AIDS, the government will have to take harsh and dramatic measures to modify behavior. On
"Dispelling Misconceptions": New York Native (09/18/89) No. 335, P. 4; Kochman, Arlene; Arlene Kochman, Associate Director for Services for SAGE (Senior Action in a Gay Environment), writes to dispel Robert Bray s misconception that AIDS is almost universally a disease of the young. She responds to a letter by Bray, commmunications director of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, to the Detroit Free Press,
"The Lentinan Trial": New York Native (09/18/89) No. 335, P. 19; Lentinan, an extract of the shiitake mushroom, has been shown in Japanese trials to reduce the size of cancerous tumors by enhancing immunity. CRI (Community Research Initiative) plans to conduct randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials to assess the immuno-restorative properties of lentinan in HIV-infecte
"Report Says Most States Protect AIDS Confidentiality": Reuters (09/18/89); Washington--According to a report prepared for the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department, 44 states have laws restricting access to the results of AIDS and HIV tests. Only 24 states and the District of Columbia, however, apply handicap anti-discrimination laws to individuals with AIDS and HIV. James Allen of th
"Medicare Payment Sought for Experimental AIDS Drugs": United Press International (09/18/89); Kolberg, Rebecca; Washington--A federal advisory committee has recommended that Medicare should pay for drugs showing promise for the treatment of AIDS even if they have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ). According to a committee of the National Cancer Institute, Medicare sho
"Winners, Losers Emerge in Spending-Bill Round": Washington Post (09/18/89), P. A12; Morgan, Dan; In the annual scramble for federal money, unconventional politics, partisan support, and the drug war played roles in what programs will get the nearly $500 billion set aside in the Senate s 1990 spending bills. The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved an increase in funding for AIDS research. The various ap
"An AIDS Game That Is Deadly Serious": U.S. News + World Report (09/18/89) Vol. 107, No. 11, P. 17; BLOCKAIDS, a computer game developed at the University of Texas, aims to teach teens about AIDS. Teens must correctly answer questions about HIV to fill in rows of blocks, as in the game Tic-Tac-Toe. Correct answers produce Blocky, who attempts to destroy the virus. The ugly Pac-Man-like AIDS virus appears on t
"Liberation Day for the Disabled": U.S. News + World Report (09/18/89) Vol. 107, No. 11, P. 20; Shapiro, Joseph P.; In a few weeks, President Bush should sign the Americans with Disabilities Act, which will give disabled people the same protections against discrimination that blacks and women won in the 60s and 70s. Under the new law, restaurants, stores, hotels and theaters can no longer turn away a person with cerebral palsy,
"Duration of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Before": Lancet (09/16/89) Vol. 2, No. 8664, P. 637; Horsburgh, C.; C. Robert Horsburgh and colleagues report on their study of 39 men before and after HIV-seroconversion to determine the duration of the period between infection and seroconversion. During this period, HIV-infected people can infect others despite negative serological tests. The researchers say they used the polymeras
"Iron Deposition in Liver in Zidovudine-Related": Lancet (09/16/89) Vol. 2, No. 8664, P. 681; Lindley, Roger, et; Roger Lindley and colleagues report that iron deposits build up in the livers of HIV-infected patients on AZT who become anemic and receive transfusions. The researchers measured liver iron content in 74 specimens without knowledge of transfusion history,
"Cytomegalovirus Infection and Progression to AIDS": Lancet (09/16/89) Vol. 2, No. 8664, P. 681; Webster, A., et al.; A. Webster and colleagues report their finding that the frequency of cytomegalovirus ( CMV ) infection in HIV-infected hemophiliacs closely resembles that of the general population and is independent of factor VIII use. Webste
"The Implications of Widespread HIV Testing for Prisoners and the": Gay Community News (09/16/89) Vol. 17, No. 9, P. 5; Greenspan,; Judy Greenspan, AIDS Information Coordinator for the ACLU National Prison Project, writes that the current movement in support of widespread voluntary testing could have disastrous implications for prisoners, IV drug users, and poor people in the United States . There is no such thing
"Man Indicted for 'Knowingly Spreading AIDS'": Gay Community News (09/16/89) Vol. 17, No. 9, P. 2; Briggs,; An Idaho grand jury has indicted a man who had unprotected sex knowing he was HIV positive. George Lewis is the first man to be charged under a 1988 law prohibiting deliberate exposure of someone to AIDS. Lewis was doing time in jail for two counts of lewd and lascivious conduct involving two boys, ages 11 and 15,
"AIDS Videos at ICA": Gay Community News (09/16/89) Vol. 17, No. 9, P. 2; Rich, Liddy; The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston is hosting Video Against AIDS, a series of independently produced videos covering different aspects of AIDS. Topics include women and AIDS, loss analysis, activism, and discrimination. The ICA Theater will show three two-hour programs twice each week through September 29
"The AIDS Vaccine Program: Searching for Answers and Volunteers": Baltimore Gaypaper (09/15/89) Vol. 11, No. 2, P. A9; The National Institutes of Health currently funds two clinical tests of vaccines at six centers across the country. Carol Tackett heads one program at the University of Maryland Medical School Center for Vaccine Development. The first trial is a safety test--six volunteers got a highly purified piece of HIV and six
"National Day of Protest Scheduled for Oct. 6th": Baltimore Gaypaper (09/15/89) Vol. 11, No. 2, P. A3; AIDS activists from across the United States who met at the Fifth International AIDS Conference in Montreal declared Oct. 6th a day of national protest. The protests will coincide with the final showing of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington, D.C., with the hope that the demonstrat
"Study Finds High Rate of HIV Infection in Women": Baltimore Gaypaper (09/15/89) Vol. 11, No. 2, P. A5; Reillo,; A University of Maryland study has revealed that seven of 58 women in a study who professed to have had only female sexual partners were diagnosed with AIDS. All seven had histories of venereal disease and admitted to regular alcohol and/or drug use, including IV drug use. This extremely high percentage of AIDS amon
"Scientists Develop Vaccine to Protect Monkeys from AIDS": Wall Street Journal (09/15/89), P. B2; Scientists at the University of Washington and at the Oncogen division of Bristol-Myers said in a report in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have developed a live, genetically engineered vaccine called v-senv5 that pretected four macaque monkeys from simian AIDS virus
"Burroughs Wellcome Reaps Profits, Outrage from Its AIDS Drug": Wall Street Journal (09/15/89), P. A1; Chase, Marilyn; Yesterday, activists in San Francisco, London, and New York staged demonstrations protesting the high price of Burroughs Wellcome s drug AZT . In New York, five AIDS activists chained themselves to a balcony inside the Stock Exchange, sounded a horn to drow
"Early HIV Care May Cost Over $5 Billion a Year": Washington Post (09/15/89), P. A4; Specter, Michael; In a report published in today s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association , researchers predict that early treatment for HIV-infected Americans with aerosol pentamidine alone would cost at least $5 billion a year and profoundly affect the nation s health care syste
"Clinical Pharmacology of 3'-Azido-2',3'-Dideoxythymidine": New England Journal of Medicine (09/14/89) Vol. 321, No. 11, P.; Yarchoan, Robert, et al.; Side effects of Zidovudine ( AZT ) include bone marrow toxicity, nausea, vomiting, myalgias, myositis, headaches, and liver abnormalities, report Robert Yarchoan and colleagues from the National Cancer Institute. Patients on very high doses, and occasionally
"Clinical Pharmacology of 3'-Azido-2',3'-Dideoxythymidine": New England Journal of Medicine (09/14/89) Vol. 321, No. 11, P.; Yarchoan, Robert, et al.; Even under conditions of high infectivity, AZT (zidovudine) inhibits new HIV infection of lymphocytes, write Robert Yarchoan and his fellow National Cancer Institute researchers. AZT is metabolized in the liver. Compounds that inhibit the enzymes responsi
"Clinical Pharmacology of 3'-Azido-2',3'-Dideoxythymidine": New England Journal of Medicine (09/14/89) Vol. 321, No. 11, P.; Yarchoan, Robert, et al.; Didexynucleosides-- AZT , DDI, DDC, and others--are a family of compounds that inhibit replication of HIV in human T cells at the level of reverse transcriptase (viral DNA polymerase), write Robert Yarchoan and his fellow National Cancer Institute researchers
"No News Is Bad News": Nature (09/14/89) Vol. 341, No. 6238, P. 87; Margaret Thatcher s squeamishness may damage the chances that AIDS will be rationally managed in Britain, according to the editors of Nature. Thatcher used her influence to stifle a social survey of contemporary adult behavior, including sexual behavior. She considered the study too intrusive to receive public fun
"The Crumbling San Francisco Model": Bay Area Reporter (09/14/89) Vol. 19, No. 37, P. 6; Christen,; San Francisco s health care delivery and prevention education program for people with AIDS is crumbling due to lack of new monies from federal and state governments, writes Pat Christen, executive director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. San Francisco s programs now lack the necessary resources to continue the
"Soviet PWA May Get Legal Protections": Bay Area Reporter (09/14/89) Vol. 19, No. 37, P. 19; Clark,; A new Soviet law would guarantee Soviet citizens with AIDS the right to medical confidentiality and access to health-care services, according to the Sept. 4 Izvestia, the Soviet government daily. The new draft law sets up a legal mechanism to prevent the authorities from arbitrary use of the U.S.S.R. s mandatory HIV
"Health-Care Givers Reluctant to Treat HIV-Positive Patients": Bay Area Reporter (09/14/89) Vol. 19, No. 37, P. 5; In a recent study of Stanislaus County, California, a county demographically representative of middle America, only 48 of 152 physicians said they would treat a person with asymptomatic HIV infection, AIDS, or ARC. The majority of 198 doctors, dentists, chiropractors, and mental health specialists surveyed said they
"Emergency Rooms in Crisis": Washington Post (09/14/89), P. A1; Specter, Michael; Yesterday, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) issued a stark report on overcrowding in hopsital emergency rooms across the United States that could threaten the future of the country s hospital system. The report stated that hospital emergency departments in 41 state
"AIDS Virus 'Dangerous Weapon' in Sex Assault Case": Washington Post (09/14/89), P. D1; Thompson, Tracy; A District of Columbia Superior Court grand jury indicted a District man yesterday on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon--his penis, his semen and other bodily fluids, and [HIV] --for allegedly forcing 3 young boys to have sex with him while he was infected with the virus that causes AIDS. The jury charged M
"FDA to Permit Distribution of Experimental AIDS Drug": Washington Post (09/14/89), P. A19; In the next few days, the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) will approve Bristol-Myers plan to distribute the experimental drug DDI to AIDS patients at no cost. Federal law prohibits sale of unapproved drugs, so Bristol-Myers agreed to distribute DDI (dideoxyinosine) free of charge
"Paul Gann, Leader in Tax Revolt in California in the 70s, Dies at 77": New York Times (09/13/89), P. B8; McQuiston, John T.; Paul Gann, known for his co-authorship of the Proposition 13 tax-cutting ballot measure a decade ago in California, died Monday from pneumonia, complicated by AIDS. Gann developed AIDS in 1987, five years after receiveing a blood transfusion in emergency heart surgery. His strong views on AIDS led him to sponsor a b
"HIV-Positive Man Files Discrimination Suit Against Falls Church Dentist": Washington Post (09/13/89), P. B4; Cohn, D'Vera; A Falls Church, Va. dentist faces a lawsuit after refusing to clean the teeth of a man who has tested positive for the AIDS virus. The patient, who has asked not to be identified, filed for suit after dentist Gary Ellenbogen refused him treatment in July. The patient says the refusal violated Virginia s law prohibit
"Putting the AIDS Message Where the Trouble Is": New York Times (09/13/89), P. C17; Yarrow, Andrew L.; AIDS Films, a non-profit company founded to increase understanding of AIDS, will develop 10 prevention films targeting different problems communities have in dealing with AIDS. The first three address psychological and cultural factors hindering AIDS prevention among black women, black adolescent males, and Hispanic
"Amid Fear Over AIDS, One Dentist Offers Care": New York Times (09/13/89), P. A14; Hinds, Michael deCourcy; In Philadelphia and many other cities, people with AIDS have trouble getting dental care. Michael Glick, director of the Infectious Disease Center at the Temple University School of Dentistry, treats only AIDS patients and those with other infectious diseases, regardless of their ability to pay. Some call him a hero
"New Indicator Emerges for Judging AIDS Drugs": Washington Post (09/13/89), P. A3; Okie, Susan; A panel of medical experts said they perceive a growing consensus that if an AIDS drug prevents depletion of T4 lymphocytes, that drug should be considered for rapid approval or expanded distribution. The National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine organized the two-day meeting at which the panel discussion w
"AIDS and Rape: Should New York Test Sex Offenders?": Village Voice (09/12/89) Vol. 34, No. 37, P. 35; Hoffman, Jan; New York state s strict AIDS confidentiality law says no one can be tested for HIV without their informed consent--rapists and other sex offenders included. Debate over the informed consent provision rages among supporters of victims rights, feminist groups, civil libertarians, and gay rights activists. Legislators
"'Other Faces of AIDS,' a Frank Investigation": New York Times (09/12/89), P. C20; Goodman, Walter; AIDS is forcing the nation to confront sensitive issues. Other Faces of AIDS, a program to be aired at 8 p.m. tonight on Channel 13, is a documentary investigating some of these issues, including why AIDS afflicts a disproportionate number of black and Hispanic Americans. Currently, one-third of reported AIDS case
"Premarital AIDS Testing Repealed": Washington Post (09/12/89), P. A12; Gov. James R. Thompson signed legislation yesterday repealing Illinois premarital AIDS-testing requirement. The controversial program spent precious resources on a low-risk group, said advocates of strict measures against AIDS and public-health experts, who joined in the wide-spread criticism of the requirement. Th
"Judge Rules for Family on McKinney's Will": New York Times (09/12/89), P. B6; Probate Judge Earl F. Capuano ruled yesterday against Arnold Denson, the man who says he was Rep. Stewart B. McKinney s lover for 5 years before McKinney s death from AIDS. Denson sued for the property willed to him by McKinney, a 40 percent share of a Washington house and a 12-year-old car. However, the judge ruled
"Connecting": Washington Post (09/12/89), P. E5; The National AIDS Information and Education Program, through America Responds to AIDS, has published suggestions for parents and other adults on talking to young people about AIDS. The suggestions include looking in the media for stories and asking a young person s feelings, using school programs to fight out what a
"The ABC's of AIDS: Plain Talk at School": Washington Post (09/12/89), P. E5; Dzik, Eileen; Lyle Goode, cofounder of Life Link, a Washington affiliate of the National Association of People with AIDS, says getting an AIDS diagnosis was like being hit by a truck going 50 miles per hour. As part of an effort by the city s Commission of Public Health to educate teens about AIDS, Goode and other members of Life
"Panels Discussion": Advocate (09/12/89) No. 533, P. 5; Alyson, Sasha; Sasha Alyson writes that the power of the AIDS Memorial quilt is that it provides a way for people outside the gay community to get involved in the AIDS movement. It does siphon volunteers and funding that would otherwise be available to people with AIDS, but it gives a focus to raise funds from individuals who could
"Pass With Care": Advocate (09/12/89) No. 533, P. 5; One Advocate reader who wished to remain anonymous was shocked and horrified in response to Craig Rowland s article, Another Epidemic, in which Rowland writes that he will hide his HIV-positive status from prospective lovers because of AIDS prejudice. The reader writes that blacks in the 50s called a similar decis
"The Helquist Report: Making Waves in Medicine": Advocate (09/12/89) No. 533, P. 24; Helquist, Michael; A 5-year study by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force of the practice of medicine in the country today has found that a wide range of common medical tests from cardiograms to chest X-rays should be abandoned for symptomless patients unless they belong to high-risk groups. Instead of testing and exams, the panel r
"News In Brief: Tennessee": Advocate (09/12/89) No. 533, P. 20; A Tennessee man has lost a suit alleging that doctors at a Memphis clinic forced him to falsely admit to having had gay sex before they would allow him to be tested for HIV. The doctors supposedly rejected the man s claim that he had been maliciously injected with HIV and forced him to say he was gay before they woul
"News in Brief: Nevada": Advocate (09/12/89) No. 533, P. 18; Las Vegas police issued arrest warrants for ten suspected prostitutes, nine of whom are men, charging them with selling sex despite testing positive for HIV. Nevada state law allows judges to order testing for prostitution detainees. All ten had been tested after previous arrests for prostitution.
"News in Brief: California": Advocate (09/12/89) No. 533, P. 18; In July, San Francisco County jail officials began a condom distribution program. However, Sheriff Mike Hennessey said the prisoners, reluctant to be the first to get one, have not taken any condoms. Hennessey said the program is meant to allow inmates to familiarize themselves with condoms and encourage them to use
"AIDS Testing Shouldn't Be Done at Home": Washington Post (09/11/89), P. A10; Vaughan, Chris; Chris Vaughan, HIV Program Director for the Washington Free Clinic in D.C., writes in response to Elliott J. Millenson s article advocating home-based AIDS test kits (Outlook, Aug. 27) that allowing access to testing without counseling is irresponsible and unethical. Vaughan writes that as the director of an anonymou
"Cheap Dates Are In, and Talk Is Cheap": New York Times (09/11/89), P. B1; Lee, Felicia R.; The talking date may be a trend in New York, thanks to AIDS, the difficulty in meeting new people, and time and budget constraints. Interviews with single men and women indicate that people are seeking love and romance more cautiously than ever. Men and women agree that uncontrived meetings of the minds made the b
"AIDS Quilt on the Ellipse": Washington Post (09/11/89), P. D7; Yasui, Todd Allan; The AIDS Memorial Quilt, also known as the Names Project, will be displayed on the Ellipse in Washington October 6-8. The quilt has grown too large to be displayed in its entirety, so this appearance will its last as a whole. Jeff Daniel of the D.C. chapter of the Names Project said sections will still be shown aro
"House Plans to Forge Ahead on Bill to Bar Discrimination Against": Wall Street Journal (09/11/89), P. A20; Karr, Albert R.; The House of Representatives will continue working on the bill to bar discrimination against the handicapped, including people with AIDS. The measure has considerable support among disability groups, which sense a major civil rights victory. The Senate passed the bill on a 76-8 vote last Thursday, after adding a few
"Harlem Effort Against AIDS Opens with a Prayer": Washington Post (09/11/89), P. A12; Goodstein, Laurie; Almost 100 religious leaders representing more than a dozen spiritual traditions offered a prayer against AIDS at Harlem s largest public hospital yesterday. The religious leaders joined hands to spread the word on AIDS and to break down the Harlem religious community s resistance to facing the AIDS crisis. Harlem h
"Housing-for People with AIDS": Washington Post (09/11/89), P. A11; Silverman, Mervyn F.; Mervyn Silverman, director of the AIDS Health Services Program at the University of California, San Francisco, argues for adequate and affordable housing for people with AIDS. Silverman relates the story of David C. Davis of Atlanta, who died of AIDS after social workers found him lying in soiled sheets and using a w
"Controversy Brews Over How to Judge Drugs for AIDS": Wall Street Journal (09/11/89), P. B5; Chase, Marilyn; The debate over criteria used to judge AIDS drugs effective moves to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C., today for two days of testimony and discussion that could lead to a new consensus on AIDS drug development. The Food and Drug Administration s standard criterion has been th
"There's No Magic Bullet, But A Shotgun Approach May Work": Business Week (09/11/89) No. 3123, P. 118; Freundlich, Naomi; AZT cannot stop AIDS by itself, no matter how early treatment begins. Researchers believe that combination therapy to attack the virus several ways will be the best treatment. A virus can become resistant to any one drug through genetic mutation. However
"Now That AIDS Is Treatable, Who'll Pay the Crushing Cost?": Business Week (09/11/89) No. 3123, P. 115; Freundlich, Naomi; Now that two recent studies have shown that AZT delays the onset of AIDS in HIV-infected asymptomatic individuals, an AIDS diagnosis doesn t seem so much like a death sentence. However, the new findings will dramatically affect the nation s already ailing
"Candidates Court Gay New Yorkers": New York Times (09/10/89), P. 35; Finder, Alan; Because Mayor Ed Koch and Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins are locked in such a tight battle for the Democratic mayoral nomination, gay and lesbian New Yorkers are being courted as never before. The AIDS epidemic has galvanized the gay and lesbian community, which now represents a major political interest gr
"Finding Out the Realities of AIDS in Prison": New York Times (09/10/89), P. 6E; Lambert, Bruce; When a group of judges toured Attica state prison in New York, the prison guide gave them a lesson in reality for prisoners with AIDS--confidentiality breaks down when guards proclaim the need for blood precautions when handling an inmate. Everyone in earshot knows the prisoner has AIDS and neighboring inmates some
"Classical Complement Pathway in HIV Infection": Lancet (09/09/89) Vol. 2, No. 8663, P. 624; Senaldi, G., et al.; G. Senaldi and colleagues write that data from a study of 74 HIV-positive people in different stages of HIV infection and 32 controls supports Soelder and colleagues claim in the July 29 Lancet that HIV may infect target cells via complement receptor 3 (CR3) and components of the classical complement pathway in vitro
"AIDS after Montreal": Lancet (09/09/89) Vol. 2, No. 8663, P. 623; Harvey, J.D.; In a letter to the Lancet s editors, J.D. Harvey questions whether the expense of sending a delegate to the Fifth International Conference on AIDS in Montreal last June was appropriate. Harvey writes that the organizers would argue that the conference provided opportunities to share knowledge and models of good pract
"Clindamycin/Primaquine for Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia": Lancet (09/09/89) Vol. 2, No. 8663, P. 626; Ruf, B.; Researchers B. Ruf and H.D. Pohle of the Free University of Berlin report encouraging results treating Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) with clindamycin/ primaquine. The clindamycin/primaquine regimen lacks the frequent and severe side effects of co-trimoxazole, another PCP treatment. Based on a study of five le
"Safer Sex: What's It To You": Gay Community News (09/09/89) Vol. 17, No. 8, P. 5; Harris,; Craig Harris, a New York AIDS activist and writer, writes that safe sex is more grey...[than] black or white. The more frequently buzz words such as condoms, body fluids, and dental dams are used, the more clouded the meaning of safe sex becomes, Harris writes. Safe sex defined is sex in which partners do not excha
"DDI Trials to Begin This Month": Gay Community News (09/09/89) Vol. 17, No. 8, P. 3; Dooley, John; Clinical trials of dideoxyinosine (DDI) begin in mid-September with 1000-2000 people with AIDS taking part at almost 30 sites nationwide. At the same time, thousands of others will probably have access to DDI via the treatment IND and parallel track programs. If the Food and Drug Administration (
"U.S. Player with AIDS Virus Denied Visa for Bridge Match": New York Times (09/09/89), P. 2; The Australian government has refused to let Peter Pender of San Francisco play bridge in Perth because he has HIV. Pender, who is symptomless, was scheduled to compete in the world team bridge championships in Perth, which began Saturday. Pender is a leading American bridge player whose team won the world title in 1
"Koop's Campaign to Rescue a Museum": Washington Post (09/08/89), P. A21; Okie, Susan; After 8 years of trying to educate Americans about AIDS, smoking, child safety, and other health issues, former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has decided that Washington needs a National Museum of Health and Medicine. Next month, Koop will begin a campaign to transform the Medical Museum of the Armed Forces Institu
"Michael Rice is Dead; Ex-TV Executive, 47": New York Times (09/08/89), P. D19; Michael Rice, 47, died of AIDS Wednesday at his home in Truro, Mass. Rice was a former general manager of Boston s WGBH, a leading public broadcasting station. He worked in both radio and television at WGBH from 1965 to 1978. He graduated from Harvard College and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. His comp
"William McLinn, 45, a Minister and Actor": New York Times (09/08/89), P. D19; The Rev. William L. McLinn, 45, a United Church of Christ Minister, died Monday of AIDS. McLinn became a minister after an entertainment career in which he impersonated Mark Twain in a show entitled Mark Twain Himself. He performed in theaters in the United States and
"Angel Estrada, 31, Dies; Created Sculptured Evening Wear": New York Times (09/08/89), P. D19; Hochswender, Woody; Angel Estrada died of respiratory failure, a complication of AIDS, yesterday in Manhattan. He was a fashion designer who specialized in elaborate evening clothes that added a touch of old-world glamour to downtown chic. His dresses could often stand up on a table by themselves, because of techniques such as boning a
"Hospital Policy Is Said to Hurt AIDS Patients": New York Times (09/08/89), P. B2; Lambert, Bruce; Municipal hospitals dispense few experimental drugs, so most of New York City s minority AIDS patients do not have access to medicines that could save their lives. Several AIDS organizations charged at a news conference yesterday that few minority AIDS patients are enrolled in clinical trials, although 61 percent of
"On the Block Where AIDS Hits Hardest, Residents Rally": New York Times (09/08/89), P. A1; Lambert, Bruce; Manhattan Plaza, between 42nd and 43rd streets and Ninth and Tenth Avenues in Manhattan, has had the most AIDS deaths on a single block in New York. The building s residents, many of whom are performing artists, have openly confronted and rallied against the disease. The individual tenants, merchants, owners, and ma
"When a House Officer Gets AIDS": New England Journal of Medicine (09/07/89) Vol. 321, No. 10, P.; Aoun, Hacib; Hacib Aoun writes that he contracted HIV in 1983 as a second-year medical resident. He was infected, he writes, when a capillary tube containing the blood of a patient who had received over 100 transfusions lacerated his finger. At that time, he writes, AIDS had not been discovered, and his ensuing mysterious illnes
"Group Helps Patients Get What's Theirs": Bay Area Reporter (09/07/89) Vol. 19, No. 36, P. 19; Conkin,; In San Francisco, the nonprofit group AIDS Benefits Counselors (ABC) helps its clients receive every benefit available from their employee packages and insurance contracts. A recent ABC report concluded that most of their clients have no idea of what s available to them, although the average amount of available benef
"Benefits of HIV Antibody Testing in Symptom-free Risk Groups": Lancet (09/07/89) Vol. 2, No. 8661, P. 512; Leen, C. L. S., et; C. L. S. Leen and colleagues of Edinburgh City Hospital in Scotland describe their attempt to reexamine the potential benefits of early HIV testing in symptomless individuals at high risk for HIV. The benefits, they write, now outweigh the detriments. AZT
"Renal Disease in Children with the Acquired Immunodeficiency": New England Journal of Medicine (09/07/89) Vol. 321, No. 10, P.; Strauss, Jose; Researchers Jose Strauss and colleagues report that children who acquire HIV infection during the perinatal period may have renal disease that is similar to that found in adults with HIV infection. Strauss and colleagues studied 155 children with AIDS, 12 of whom had proteinuria. Tissues from the 12 patiensts showed
"HIV Infection and Child Abuse": New England Journal of Medicine (09/07/89) Vol. 321, No. 10, P.; Gellert, George A.; George Gellert and Michael Durfee of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services write that clinicians and administrators of public health programs must recognize the transmission of HIV to children and adolescents via sexual abuse and be aware that the incidence of such transmission will probably increase.
"Publication of Guide for Developing Policies for HIV-Infected Students" and School Staff: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (09/07/89); The Centers for Disease Control provides funds to the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) to help schools design and implement effective health education programs to prevent the spread of HIV. NASBE has published Someone at School Has AIDS: A Guide to Developing Policies for Students and School
"Fauci Drops Name from List of Candidates to Head NIH": Washington Post (09/07/89), P. A21; Anthony Fauci, coordinator of the nation s AIDS research effort, has withdrawn his name from consideration as director of the National Institutes of Health. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said, It is extremely difficult to walk away from the possibility of being chosen
"School Guide Says AIDS Should Not Bar Students": New York Times (09/07/89), P. A19; Today, the National Association of State Boards of Education released Someone at School Has AIDS, a guide for the nation s schools on how to deal with teachers and students with HIV and AIDS. The guide suggests that confidentiality should be school policy, and students and teachers with HIV should be free to attend
"Senate Nears Consideration of Disabilities Act": Associated Press (09/06/89); Greene, Robert; Washington--As the Senate nears consideration of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business have mounted a last-minute challenge. The bill would assure the nation s 37 million disabled people the same protections the Civil Rights Act of 1964 g
"Mattox Rules AIDS Disclosure Law in Housing Illegal": United Press International (09/06/89); Austin, Texas--State Attorney General Jim Mattox ruled that a new law requiring Texas real estate agents to disclose, if asked, whether previous occupants of a dwelling had contracted HIV is illegal. Mattox said the law violates the 1988 Federal Fair Housing Act outlawing discrimination against the handicapped. Spon
"Stork Stays Busy in New York, Health Report Says": United Press International (09/06/89); Cross, Jeannie H.; Albany, N.Y.--A report the New York State Health Department issued Wednesday said that New Yorkers are having babies at a rate that sets a 17-year record. However, the report also reveals that AIDS is the leading killer of all New Yorkers between the ages of 20 and 44. Furthermore, the number of AIDS cases is rising
"New Booklet Discourages Isolating AIDS Victims": Associated Press (09/06/89); Henry, Tamara; Washington--A new booklet, Someone at School Has AIDS, says AIDS victims should not be isolated or given special treatment in U.S. schools. The booklet contains the most current information about AIDS for educators and updates guildelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control in 1985. The guide says up-to-date
"Official Injustice on AIDS": New York Times (09/06/89), P. A24; Last year, the editors of the New York Times write, the New York State s Office of Court Administration issued guidelines for the handling of defendants and prisoners with AIDS that showed complete ignorance of the disease and spawned uninformed rules and patchwork policies in the New York criminal justice system. Th
"Bar Panel Says Courts and Jails Mishandle Prisoners with AIDS": New York Times (09/06/89), P. A1; Lambert, Bruce; A report the New York City Bar Association will issue today says the New York State criminal justice system has deprived prisoners with AIDS of legal rights and endangered their lives with inferior health care. Defendants with AIDS have been deprived of counsel and kept out of court hearings because court lawyers and
"AIDS Counseling Bill Clears Senate": United Press International (09/05/89); Simons, Teresa; Sacramento--In the wake of a Los Angeles teenager s suicide and a Napa woman s attempted suicide after each learned of a positive HIV test, the California Senate passed legislation Tuesday requiring counselling for persons who get tested for HIV. The bill also requires confirmation of positive results before notifica
"Oclassen Seeks More Trials for AIDS-Blindness Drug": Wall Street Journal (09/05/89), P. B3; Oclassen Pharmaceuticals Inc. said it petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to begin immediate trials of FIAC, a new antiviral agent aimed at relieving a common and blinding infection of the retina in AIDS patients. Oclassen has exclusive world-wide development and marketing rights to FIAC, which is initially b
"Up Against It: In Newark, A Public Hospital Fights the Twin Plagues of" AIDS and Drugs: Washington Post (Health) (09/05/89), P. 12; Boodman, Sandra G.; In Newark, entire families are dying from the twin plagues of poverty and AIDS. Unlike most American cities, where gay men comprise at least two-thirds of AIDS cases, more than 75 percent of Newark s 1409 cases are drug-related and 90 percent are among blacks or Hispanics. The rapidly growing numbers of poor AIDS pa
"AIDSWEEK": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (09/03/89), P. A4; Don Boisvert, overseer of San Diego County s eight HIV testing sites, recently revealed he has AIDS. Boisvert, who didn t take the test until after symptoms appeared, said he made the announcement to encourage others to be tested. If people hear it enough, that there is a lot of unhealthy denial out there like mine
"Prospects for AIDS Drugs Keep Investors Guessing": Washington Post (09/03/89), P. H7; Crudele, John; With an estimated 100 drugs currently being tested for AIDS and AIDS-related problems, investors are placing their bets as to which company will make the next breakthrough. One pharmaceutical firm with a proven worth in the stock market is Wellcome PLC. Reports a couple of weeks ago that the drug
"One Hope for AIDS Patients is Hostage to the Market": New York Times (09/03/89), P. E5; Freudenheim, Milt; Burroughs Wellcome denies that AZT was largely financed by the federal government and claims that much of the money from profits from AZT goes to the Wellcome Foundation, which supports scientific research on AIDS and other diseases. Experts estimate that
"Reagan Was Slow to Grasp AIDS Epidemic, Doctor Says": Washington Post (09/03/89), P. A10; Brig. Gen. John Hutton, former personal physician to Ronald Reagan, said the President did not grasp the seriousness of the AIDS epidemic until more than five years after it began killing thousands of Americans. He accepted it like it was measles and it would go away, Hutton said. When questioned about the AIDS ep
"Inhaled Pentamindine in Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia": Lancet (09/02/89) Vol. 2, No. 8662, P. 559; Pierone, Gerald, et; Gerald Pierone and his colleagues of Mount Sinai Services, Elmhurst Hospital Center, Elmhurst, N.Y., write that prophylaxis for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) with aerosolized pentamidine is not uniformly effective. The researchers report on three cases in which patients developed PCP during inhaled pentamidine
"Genital Ulcers in Women": Lancet (09/02/89) Vol. 2, No. 8662, P. 558; Roddy, Ronald E., et; Ronald E. Roddy and his colleagues write that other researchers have reported an association between genital ulcers and HIV infection in homosexual men, heterosexual men, and women. The high prevalence of genital ulcers may be one reason for the greater heterosexual spread of HIV in Africa. Roddy and his team of res
"Staphylococcal Carriage and HIV Infection": Lancet (09/02/89) Vol. 2, No. 8662, P. 558; Ganesh, R., et al.; R. Ganesh and colleagues report on their study of 47 male homosexual asymptomatic HIV-carriers and 56 HIV-negative male homosexual controls to determine if there is increased asymptomatic carriage of staphylococcal skin infection in HIV-infected people. Symptomatic staphylococcal infections are common in individuals
"Staphylococcal Carriage and HIV Infection": Lancet (09/02/89) Vol. 2, No. 8662, P. 558; Ganesh, R., et al.; R. Ganesh and colleagues report on their study of 47 male homosexual asymptomatic HIV-carriers and 56 HIV-negative male homosexual controls to determine if there is increased asymptomatic carriage of staphylococcal skin infection in HIV-infected people. Symptomatic staphylococcal infections are common in individuals
"AIDS and New York": Economist (09/02/89) Vol. 312, No. 7618, P. 6; Schwab, Caryn; Caryn Schwab, from the office of the mayor of New York, writes that the city s response to the AIDS epidemic has been far from pitiful, that New York has done more than any other city in America to respond to the...epidemic. New York, she says, will spend $229 million in city funds this year, $448 million with sta
"Boston's Drug Trials": Gay Community News (09/02/89) Vol. 17, No. 7, P. 3; Dooley, John; The AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) is the division of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) that deals with AIDS drugs. Ninety percent of 44 clinical trials administered in Massachusetts before last spring were part of the ACTG. Four clinics in Boston comprise the Harvard/Boston City
"Genital Ulcers in Women": Lancet (09/02/89) Vol. 2, No. 8662, P. 558; Roddy, Ronald E., et; Ronald E. Roddy and his colleagues write that other researchers have reported an association between genital ulcers and HIV infection in homosexual men, heterosexual men, and women. The high prevalence of genital ulcers may be one reason for the greater heterosexual spread of HIV in Africa. Roddy and his team of res
"Thailand Calls for Arrest of Prostitutes": Gay Community News (09/02/89) Vol. 17, No. 7, P. 2; Gaines,; The Thai Public Health Ministry recently called for the arrest of all HIV-positive prostitutes. The Chicago Sun Times reported that Thailand s deputy public health minister urged local officials to arrest prostitutes after a survey by the ministry determined that 3000 female prostitutes were HIV-positive. In May 198
"'Hiroshima, Never Again'": Gay Community News (09/02/89) Vol. 17 No. 7, P. 2; Lovett,; In Sydney, Australia , gay and lesbian activists marched in the annual Hiroshima Day Remembrance parade on August 5th. Marchers chanted Money for AIDS, not for war, and handed out leaflets that compared the current military expenditures in Australia and the
"AZT Price Too High?--Bargain?": Associated Press (09/01/89); Boston--Five capsules of AZT sell for $9 in the drugstore, but contain 15 cents worth of ingredients and cost under $2.50 to make. Critics say the price is too high and Burroughs Wellcome says it s a bargain. People with AIDS generally take eight capsules
"Mass. Revises Rules on AIDS Testing": Journal of Commerce (09/01/89), P. 9A; Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Timothy Gailey issued revised regulations on insurance company testing for AIDS beginning Nov. 1. The rules require signed consent before HIV tests, mandate consumer permission before release of AIDS-related information, and forbid insurers asking questions relating to sexual pref
"Fauci Seen as Leading NIH Slate, But Heart May Lie with AIDS Post": Washington Post (09/01/89), P. A25; Okie, Susan; Anthony Fauci has been rumored to be President Bush s choice for director of the National Institutes of Health since James Wyngaarden announced his resignation last April. Sources close to Fauci say, however, that he prefers to remain in his post as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
"Residence on Earth: Living With AIDS in the '80s": Life (Special Issue) (Fall 1989) Vol. 12, No. 12, P. 135; White,; Author Edmund White writes that he is HIV-positive, almost 50, and does not have AIDS, although he lives with it every day. He calls life his term of Residence on Earth, from a book by Chilean poet Neruda, a reminder that everyone has to die eventually. In France , where he has
"Report from the Fifth International Conference: International": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling (09/89) Vol. 4,; Helquist, Michael; The Montreal conference on AIDS emphasized the differences between industrialized and developing countries, writes Michael Helquist, founding editor of Focus. Displays that cost enough to finance entire prevention efforts in developing countries awed many representatives. Physicians spoke of the basic problems of la
"Lessons for Antibody Test Counselors from the AIDS Conference": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling (09/89) Vol. 4,; Brickman, Alan; Alan Brickman, Counseling Supervisor for a San Francisco Alternative Test Site, reports that presentations at the Fifth International Conference on AIDS showed that behavior change in almost every risk group required messages that safer practices were becoming the community norm. Presentations on AIDS education and p
"Cross-cultural Sensitivity Training Vital for Health Care": AIDS Alert (09/89) Vol. 4, No. 9, P. 155; Polaris Research and Development and the San Francisco Public Health Department have designed a cross-cultural training program for health-care providers. As AIDS increasingly affects minorities, AIDS prevention and health care must become more culturally sensitive. The program attempts to make providers aware of cu
"A Report from the Fifth International Conference:": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling (09/89) Vol. 4,; Dilley, James W.; One of the most complicated issues discussed at the Fifth International Conference on AIDS is the effect of HIV on neuropsychiatric functioning. Of particular interest to researchers is AIDS Dementia Complex (ADC). ADC is a progressive dementing disorder caused by HIV infection of the brain. Epidemiologic studies s
"Report from the Fifth International Conference: Basic Science": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research & Counseling (09/89) Vol. 4, No.; Wilber, Judith; Judith Wilber, researcher at the Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory at the California State Department of Health, reports that vaccine news at the most recent international AIDS conference was not encouraging, but that there have been advances in HIV detection. Studies with vaccines so far have been inconclusiv
"Report from the Fifth International Conference: Legal and": FOCUS: A Guide to AIDS Research & Counseling (09/89) Vol. 4, No.; Davis, Jerome J.; Legal and ethical issues discussed at the Fifth International Conference on AIDS included legislation, the ethics of placebo-controlled studies, and the dramatic inadequacy of the current state of doctor-patient confidentiality, writes Jerome Davis of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Labor. Other i
"How to Protect Home Care Staff Without Facing Legal Problems": AIDS Alert (09/89) Vol. 4, No. 9, P. 159; Hogue, Elizabeth; Health care workers who provide home care may be exposed to dangerous situations if AIDS patients are IV drug users living in unsafe neighborhoods or housing projects, writes Elizabeth Hogue of the Health Law Department of Miles + Stockbridge in Baltimore. Home health care workers may want to discontinue care in such
"AIDS Virus May Be Transmitted Through Breast-Feeding": AIDS Alert (09/89) Vol. 4, No. 9, P. 2S; Breast milk confers some immunity from mother to infant via antibodies that can protect babies from various infections. However, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has recommended that mothers refrain from breast feeding if they have contracted HIV. This recommendation could be devastating in developing countries
"Reporters Keep An AIDS Secret": Washington Journalism Review (09/89) Vol. 11, No. 7, P. 18; Kelly, Michael; Reporters in the Chicago area did the right thing when they withheld the identity of a Wilmette elementary school student with AIDS for two years. The boy, John Graziano, died at age nine on May 13, 1989. In January 1987, school and health officials broke the news that a Central Elementary School student had AIDS.
"A Call to Consciousness": Best's Review-Life Health (09/89) Vol. 90, No. 5, P. 32; Russell Kirchner, director of market development for Employers Health Insurance (EHI), and Edward Scheider, former vice president of EHI, argue that HIV infection is one of the various reasons that health care costs are soaring out of proportion. Because the Public Health Service estimates the HIV problem will genera
"More AIDS Medicines Being Developed, But Approval Slow": AIDS Alert (09/89) Vol. 4, No. 9, P. 150; The Pharmaceutical Manufacturer s Association (PMA) says new drugs are still moving too slowly through the Food and Drug Administration s approval process. The PMA, in conjunction with the American Foundation for AIDS Research and the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ), routinely com
"Report from the Fifth International Conference: Education": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research + Counseling (09/89) Vol. 4, No.; Frutchey, Chuck; Chuck Frutchey, assistant director of education at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, reports that knowledge, attitude, and behavior (KAB) surveys presented at the Fifth International Conference on AIDS confirm that knowledge-enhancing strategies such as those found in mass media AIDS campaigns are not enough to chang
"Report from the Fifth International Conference: Clinical": FOCUS: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling (09/89) Vol. 4,; Gorter, Robert; Data from the Fifth International Conference on AIDS in Montreal show that researchers expect AIDS to soon become treatable. Researchers particularly emphasized combination antiviral therapies and prophylactic drugs to prevent opportunistic infections. Scientists emphasized the importance of early testing for HIV an
"Researchers Recommend Double Gloving for All Surgical Personnel": AIDS Alert (09/89) Vol. 4, No. 9, P. 157; A study conducted at San Francisco General Hospital demonstrates that wearing two pairs of gloves better protects surgical personnel from exposure to contaminated blood. From 1307 surgical procedures, 960 gloves were collected and examined for perforations in two categories, pairs worn doubly and pairs worn singly.
"Safe Sex--and Demanding Women": Self (09/89), P. 226; We can send people to the moon, but Americans can t even bring themselves to discuss a piece of latex that could save lives, said Mary-Ann Shafer of the University of California at San Francisco, speaking at a conference of the American Medical Association and the Centers for D
"Research on Nitrates Suggests Drug Plays Role in AIDS Epidemic": AIDS Alert (09/89) Vol. 4, No. 9, P. 153; According to Harry Haverkos, chief of the clinical medicine branch at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and George Seage III, AIDS epidemiologist for the Boston Department of Health and Hospitals, nitrite inhalants known as poppers are still being used within the gay community and may heighten a person s
"PCP Patients Living Longer, Increasing Need for ICU Services": AIDS Alert (09/89) Vol. 4, No. 9, P. 158; A study of AIDS patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at San Francisco General Hospital found that the survival rate for hospitalized AIDS patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia is improving, which could lead to increased demand for ICU services. The mortality rate of patients diagnosed with PCP fe
"How Easily Do Women Sexually Transmit AIDS Virus to Men?": AIDS Alert (09/89) Vol. 4, No. 9, P. 1S; Although the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission is smaller than the risk of male-to-female transmission, even a small chance should be enough to cause couples to practice safe sex, according to Nancy Padian, epidemiologist at the University of California in San Francisco. Over 1800 men, or 2 percent of men with
"Officer Safety and AIDS": Security Management (09/89) Vol. 33, No. 9, P. 247; AIDS: On-the-Job Protective Measures is a new video from AIMS Media that presents information to help security officers learn to protect themselves from HIV. The video stresses proper procedures for handling individuals when body fluids are exposed and depicts graphic situations that remind officers to wear gloves wh
"$4 Million Grant Given for AIDS Vaccine": High Technology Business (09/89) Vol. 9, No. 8, P. 33; The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded Applied Biotechnology and Harvard University, both of Cambridge, Mass., and the University of Massachusetts Medical Center (UMMC), in Worcester, a $4 million grant to develop an AIDS vaccine as part of its National Cooperative Vaccine Development Pr
"Coming of Age with AIDS": Discover (09/89) Vol. 10, No. 9, P. 34; Rosenthal, Elisabeth; Elisabeth Rosenthal, she was a fourth-year medical student in Boston when she saw her first AIDS patient in 1985. The doctors treated the man, a young IV drug user, like a leper, giving him a room alone and using gloves and gowns to examine him. As her graduating class choose residency training sites, many avoided h
"AIDS and Drug Addiction in New York": Futurist (09/89) Vol. 23, No. 5, P. 7; In New York, those at highest risk for HIV are IV drug abusers. The increase in the HIV infection rate among male homosexuals is now only 1 percent each year, as opposed to 8 percent among the city s drug addicts. Fifty years from now we may look back at the AIDS epidemic and see it as but one expression of the mor
"AIDS Now a Tractable Disease?": Nature (08/31/89) Vol. 340, No. 6236, P. 663; With more than one percent of the sexually adult population infected with HIV, AIDS may become as important a source of mortality in mid-life as tuberculosis was in the 30s. However, the heterosexual spread of HIV has not been as rapid as was originally feared and, recently, advances in drug therapy have delayed the
"Declining Prevalence of HIV-Seropositive Blood Donors": New England Journal of Medicine (08/31/89) Vol. 321, No. 9, P. 615; Ness, Paul M., et al.; The increase in AIDS cases has not coincided with an increase in HIV-seropositive blood donations, according to Paul Ness and his colleagues from Baltimore, Md. The researchers, who conducted a survey of HIV-1 seroprevalence in the Baltimore regional blood-donor population, say they found a striking reduction in HIV-
"More AIDS Q-Drug Tests Sought": Associated Press (08/31/89); Fort Lauderdale, Fla.--A Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel report said that Project Inform doctors will urge the FDA to expand clinical tests of Compound Q. According to Larry Waites, one of a group of San Francisco physicians who designed the renegade Compound Q trials, the drug
"Court Rules for FBI in AIDS Doctor Case": United Press International (08/31/89); San Francisco-- United States District Court Judge Charles Legge ruled August 25th that the FBI did not violate the privacy rights of a doctor with AIDS by telling new recruits about the doctor s condition. The ruling stated that the doctor had no private right to sue the federal gover
"Prisoner with AIDS Virus Wins Reversal of Conviction for Biting": New York Times (08/31/89), P. A20; An Alabama court reversed the conviction of Adam Brock, an HIV-infected inmate of Limestone Correctional Facility. Brock had been charged with attempted murder after biting a guard in a scuffle last year, but the Court of Criminal Appeals said Friday that while AIDS may very well be transmitted through a human bite,
"Spread of AIDS Will Test State Resources, Study Finds": Associated Press (08/30/89); Mesce, Deborah; Washington--The results of a survey the AIDS policy center at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., released Wednesday found that the increased demands of the AIDS epidemic will force more budgetary tradeoffs for state and local governments. States with high levels of disease are exceeding federal funds w
"Marine's AIDS Suit Winds Down": Associated Press (08/30/89); Boston--U.S. District Court Judge Rya Zobel said she will probably decide in a few days whether Navy doctors were negligent in handling the pregnancy of Marine Chief Warrant Officer Martin Gaffney s wife. A blood transfusion after the baby s stillbirth resulted in the infection with HIV of Gaffney s wife, who later p
"Inmate Sues to Stop Proposed Prison": United Press International (08/30/89); Glenville, W.Va.--Convicted murderer Martin Barritt, a West Virginia Penitentiary inmate, is suing the developers of two proposed prisons, charging that their plan to put District of Columbia inmates in state prisons discriminates against West Virginia convicts and could expose them to AIDS. The two prisons, proposed
"AIDS Activists Want to Slash Price of AZT": United Press International (08/30/89); Kolberg, Rebecca; Washington--Sixteen AIDS activist groups signed a letter Wednesday to Burroughs Wellcome calling for a lower price for AZT . Recent government studies that show AZT could be effective in delaying the onset of AIDS for 600,000 symptom-free Americans infected
"Wheaton Students Told of AIDS Infected Pupil": United Press International (08/30/89); Wheaton, Ill.--School officials have told students at the Franklin Middle School one of their classmates has AIDS. The officials visited each classroom to inform students that an unnamed male classmate carries HIV and that they are in no danger. The boy contracted HIV from a blood transfusion in 1985. The officials
"Report: States Spending More on AIDS": United Press International (08/30/89); Kolberg, Rebecca; Washington--A new study by George Washington University showed that state spending on AIDS increased by almost $100 million to more than $250 million during fiscal 1989. The study found that $500 million in non-Medicaid funds were spent to prevent and treat AIDS at the state level, with education and testing the two
"The Helquist Report: Brief Notes": Advocate (08/29/89) No. 532, P. 26; Helquist, Michael; A new monthly newsletter published by the Massachusetts Medical Society, AIDS Clinical Care, features Your Patients May Ask.... The special section offers doctors advice about how to answer common patient questions. A recent question addressed treatments for bouts of severe itching, called pruritis, that often occu
"Hospitals' AIDS Threat Worries": Associated Press (08/29/89); Fort Lauderdale, Fla.--Florida state law prevents segregation of people with HIV or AIDS but requires protection of patients in state institutions. State mental hospitals sometimes have trouble controlling sex among patients, and hospital officials worry about the spread of HIV. Health officials are working on a pro
"Women Prisoners with AIDS Allegedly Treated Inhumanely": United Press International (08/29/89); Hormell, Sharon; Los Angeles--The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a class-action suit Tuesday on behalf of six HIV-positive female inmates at the California Institution for Women, charging that the prisoners rights of privacy have been violated. The women, who have been forced to live in the prison s AIDS isolation unit
"The Helquist Report: PWAs and HIV-Positives Avoid Food Bacteria": Advocate (08/29/89) No. 532, P. 26; Helquist, Michael; Ingesting raw milk, raw vegetables, fresh fruit, and raw foods of animal origin such as meat, shellfish, and uncooked eggs can result in bacterial infections, including salmonella and listeriosis. For this reason, the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has warned people infected with
"The Helquist Report: New Treatment for Lymphoma": Advocate (08/29/89) No. 532, P. 26; Helquist, Michael; Chemotherapy in high doses suppresses bone marrow and lowers white-blood-cell counts. Despite these side effects, it is often used to treat AIDS-related lymphomas, leaving patients vulnerable to multiple opportunistic infections. However, Alexandra M. Levine and colleagues at the University of Southern Califoria hav
"Mayoral Hopefuls in New York Assess the City's Health Crisis": New York Times (08/29/89), P. B1; French, Howard W.; New York City mayoral hopefuls agree that AIDS is the largest single factor in the city s health care crisis. Mayor Ed Koch attributes many of the system s problems to AIDS and the burden it places on the city s public hospitals, which carry more than their share of the city s AIDS patients. David Dinkins, a black D
"Campaign to Test for STDs Off to an Awkward Start": Washington Post (Health) (08/29/89), P. 7; Boodman, Sandra G.; Burroughs Wellcome, the manufacturer of drugs used to treat herpes and AIDS, has launched an advertising campaign promoting the GSE, or Genital Self-Examination, to increase public awareness of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The drug maker started the campaign, which features full-page ads for popular magazine
"The Helquist Report: AZT Update": Advocate (08/29/89) No. 532, P. 26; Helquist, Michael; More than 20,000 poeple worldwide take AZT to fight or ward off the effects of HIV and many must struggle to find tolerable dosages. Highlights from recent reports on AZT include: Researchers have found that smaller doses protect the immune system as well
"News in Brief: Texas": Advocate (08/29/89) No. 532, P. 22; Two Austin men made a suicide pact. took overdoses of sleeping pills, and tried to suffocate themselves with plastic bags after testing positive for HIV. Police found them in an Austin apartment after relatives of one of the men could not get into the apartment and contacted a security officer. The police found a ha
"News in Brief: Colorado": Advocate (08/29/89) No. 532, P. 21; Donald Dressel, a Maryland man, had been roller-skating across the country to fight AIDS for one month before he hit Colorado, where a state trooper stopped him and informed him that state law prohibits roller-skating on public roads. He skated 180 miles farther to Denver, where he tried to get the governor s permiss
"Government Slow to Act on Condom Booklet": United Press International (08/28/89); Kolberg, Rebecca; Washington--Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) spokesman Jeff Nesbit said Monday that the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department has yet to decide, after five months of review, if the FDA can publish a pamphlet on condoms. The agency would publish 503,000 pamphlets at a cost of a
"Catch-22": New York Times (08/28), P. A16; Ketwig, Kenneth Lee; Despite the medical advances made in the treatment of AIDS, federal legislation aimed at protecting the employment rights of HIV-infected individuals and those with other chronic illnesses fails in a number of respects, according to Kenneth Lee Ketwig. For those who are healthy enough to work, most employer medical i
"AIDS + the Glasers' Family Battle": Washington Post (08/28/89), P. B1; Huck, Janet; During her pregnancy, Elizabeth Glaser received a blood transfusion that later infected her and her two babies with AIDS. After contracting AIDS, Glaser, the wife of actor and movie director Paul Michael Glaser, convinced Congress to increase the pediatric AIDS budget from $3.3 million to $8.8 million and to fund 13
"AZT's Inhuman Cost": New York Times (08/28/89), P. A16; At $8,000 a year, AZT is said to be the most expensive prescription drug in history, according to the editors of the New York Times. All Americans bear the high cost of the drug in taxes or insurance premiums, and many AIDS patients who need it have no hea
"AIDS Test Centers Across U.S. Report Increase in Inquiries": Wall Street Journal (08/28/89), P. B3; Chase, Marilyn; Telephone inquiries and appointments have increased at AIDS antibody test centers around the country in the wake of a recent study showing that AZT appears to delay the onset of AIDS in asymptomatic HIV-infected people. Some experts think the flurry of int
"Gout Drug May Help Reduce Cost of AIDS Therapy": Wall Street Journal (08/28/89), P. B3; Bishop, Jerry E.; Investigators at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore have discovered that probenecid, a drug long used to treat gout, may enhance the action of AZT in people with AIDS. Probenecid was developed to slow removal of penicillin from the blood b
"A New Reprieve for AIDS Victims": US News + World Report (08/28/89) Vol. 107, No. 9, P. 13; Although an estimated 600,000 Americans could benefit from the discovery that AZT can delay the onset of AIDS in asymptomatic HIV carriers, as many as two-thirds of those infected with HIV don t know it, and thus, will not seek the drug when it will do them
"Condom Art in Grand Rapids": Newsweek (08/28/89) Vol. 114, No. 9, P. 8; Mark Heckman s controversial AIDS-awareness billboard in Michigan is covered with real condoms. It says AIDS in huge letters and Wear Em in smaller letters at the bottom-right. Heckman says the billboard is his attempt to publicize the danger of AIDS, even in nice places like Grand Rapids. He says the respons
"Testing, Testing": New Republic (08/28/89) Vol. 201, No. 9, P. 14; Ellen, David; A new drug, ddI, is on the vanguard of what may be a revolution in the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ). The drug already has passed Phase I safety trials. Dr. Ellen Cooper, head of the FDA s anti-viral unit, has agreed to a Phase II trial to compare the drug s efficacy with
"AIDSWEEK: The World": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (08/27/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; Rotterdam announced it will give out free condoms to drug addicts. The city already offers free syringes to prevent the spread of HIV through dirty needles. Of 2500 estimated addicts in Rotterdam, 300 test positive for HIV....One of the candidates for president of Brazil is Herbe
"AIDSWEEK: Education/Prevention": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (08/27/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; The General Accounting Office reported that staff shortages at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had hurt the AIDS education effort. The CDC asked four times for more staff without success in 1988....Sun Life Insurance Co. of Canada surveyed its 900
"AIDSWEEK: Complications of the AZT Discovery": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (08/27/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; Not all of the implications of finding that AZT can delay the onset of AIDS in some symptom-free HIV carriers were good. Some British doctors expressed concern that wider use of AZT for a longer time could produce a new, AZT-resistant strain of HIV. Some
"AIDS Shifting to Drug-Plagued Inner Cities": Washington Post (08/27/89), P. A3; Okie, Susan; In an address to a meeting of AIDS researchers organized by Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute, Harold Jaffe of the Centers for Disease Control said, AIDS will increasingly become a disease of the inner cities, of [intravenous] drug abusers, their sexual partners and children, and of poor black and Hispani
"AIDS Tests: Do It Yourself?": Washington Post (08/27/89), P. C5; Millenson, Elliott J.; AIDS Activist groups opposition to home HIV testing caused the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) to categorically refuse all home AIDS test applications in March 1988. Concern about lack of anonymity, potential emotional trauma, and possible discrimination has fueled anti-test sent
"Koch's Record on AIDS: Fighting a Battle Without a Precedent": New York Times (08/27/89), P. 30; Lambert, Bruce; New York City Mayor Ed Koch has often said, We do more on AIDS than any other city or state in America, but his political opponents say he failed to plan and that the city s efforts have been tragically too little and too late. Many advocacy groups say the city failed to warn adequately against infection or urge AI
"'Indeterminate' Western Blots and HIV": Lancet (08/26/89) Vol. 2, No. 8661, P. 516; U.S. public health directors and the AIDS Program of the Centers for Disease Control have stated, A person whose western blot test results continue to be consistently indeterminate for at least 6 months--in the absence of any known risk factors, clinical symptoms, or other findings--may be considered negative for ant
"Prevalence of and Mortality from HIV Type 2 in Guinea Bissau,": Lancet (08/26/89) Vol. 2, No. 8661, P. 513; Gnaore, Emmanuel, et; Emmanuel Gnaore and colleagues of the AIDS Program, Centers for Disease Control, USA, and University of Abidjan, Ivory Coast , caution that perinatal transmission of HIV-2 may not be rare or absent in West Africa. They report a family cluster of HIV-2 infection, in which a 31-
"AIDS in Cuba": Lancet (08/26/89) Vol. 2, No. 8661, P. 512; Anderson, William H.; William Anderson of St. Elizabeth s Hospital in Boston writes that he believes Cuba has not been candid in its reporting of HIV infection and AIDS cases to the World Health Organization . Anderson writes that Cuba s policy of mandatory universal t
"Clinical Trials of Zidovudine in HIV Infection": Lancet (08/26/89) Vol. 2, No. 8661, P. 483; The United States lay press has recently published the results of two major AZT trials of the AIDS Clinical Trial Group (ACTG). The editors of the Lancet write that the results seem exciting and may support use of AZT in ea
"Probenecid and Zidovudine Metabolism": Lancet (08/26/89) Vol. 2, No. 8661, P. 473; Kornhauser, David M., et al.; David M. Kornhauser and colleagues of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md., have discovered that probenecid can be used in combination with AZT to extend the interval between doses and reduce the daily dosage requirement in half.
"Drug Combo: Double Whammy with a Bonus": Science News (08/26/89) Vol. 136, No. 9, P. 141; AZT and alpha interferon in combination inhibit the spread of HIV and shrink Kaposi s sarcoma tumors in some patients at doses low enough to avoid the debilitating side effects associated with the standard dose of either drug alone, according to H. Clifford
"Blue-green Algae Kill HIV in Culture": Science News (08/26/89) Vol. 136, No. 9, P. 141; Michael Boyd and colleagues have found potential AIDS treatments in extracts from Lyngbya lagerheimii and Phormidium tenue, blue-green algae collected in Hawaii and the Palau Islands. These compounds are sulfonic-acid-containing gl
"Questioning AIDS Findings": Science News (08/26/89) Vol. 136, No. 9, P. 131; Duesberg,; Peter Duesberg, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California at Berkeley, writes to dispute the statement that AIDS viral burden far exceeds estimates, from an article in Science News July 22, 1989. The article reported on the discovery by Schnittman et al. that 1 in 1000 T-cells
"Research Test to Detect HIV": Science (08/25/89) Vol. 245, No. 4920, P. 876; Applied bioTechnology has developed the first nonradioactive test that allows researchers to view and study HIV-infected cells. The test detects nucleic acids specific to HIV, allowing scientists to determine which and how many cells are infected. The test can detect as few as one infected cell in 100,000, can be pe
"AIDS Commissioner Belinda Mason: PWAs Get a Place at the Table": Bay Area Reporter (08/24/89) Vol. 19, No. 34, P. 20; O'Neill; Belinda Mason, a married mother of two from Owensboro, Kentucky, and a person with AIDS, says she s a self-styled AIDS activist. Mason became national news when President Bush appointed her to the National Commission on AIDS, the only person with AIDS on the panel. She contracted HIV in 1987 from blood transfusions
"AIDS Closer to Becoming a Treatable Disease": Nature (08/24/89) Vol. 340, No. 6235, P. 581; Ezzell, Carol; August was an exciting month for news of AIDS therapies. Together with AZT , the hybrid antibody-CD4 molecule immunoadhesin may help make AIDS a treatable disease. Genentech genetic engineers created immunoadhesin by fu
"Doctor Demands HIV Test, Denies Surgery": Bay Area Reporter (08/24/89) Vol. 19, No. 34, P. 16; A Sydney, Australia , physician refused to perform surgery on Simon Ferguson, a gay man, without knowing his HIV status, literally at the door of the operating room. Ferguson has filed a complaint with the Equal Opportunity Tribunal, a civil rights agency in Sydney. Richard Wes
"HIV Testing and Early Treatment": Bay Area Reporter (08/24/89) Vol. 19, No. 34, P. 6; The editors of the Bay Area Reporter write that the results of the federal study showing that AZT slows the onset of AIDS in symptom-free HIV-positive people mean that everyone at risk of contracting HIV should monitor their health in every way possible. T
"NIAID Funding Joint R&D": Washington Technology (08/24/89) Vol. 4, No. 10, P. 7; Garrity,; The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, Md., will expand a 3-year-old program that funds cooperative research activities aimed at developing AIDS drugs. NIAID will spend an additional $2.3 million in a second round of grants that will fund another 5 to 8 groups. The groups wor
"HIV Infection and Tuberculosis in Central Africa": New England Journal of Medicine (08/24/89) Vol. 321, No. 8, P.; Mets, Tony, et al.; Tony Mets et al. confirm the frequent coexistence of tuberculosis and HIV infection in central African patients. Tuberculosis is very common in Rwanda , already appearing in 20 percent of school children ages 10 to 15. Mets and colleagues found that 19 percent of 61 patients with
"Second Strain of AIDS Reported in US": Reuters (08/24/89); Schwartz, Jerry; Atlanta--The Centers for Disease Control reported Thursday that seven new cases of HIV-2 had been detected in the United States in people who came here from west Africa. Much less is known about HIV-2, the much rarer strain of the virus that causes AIDS. HIV-2 is much more prevalent
"Governor Vetos Sexual Abstinence Bill": United Press International (08/24/89); Ayers, Donald B.; Springfield, Ill.--Gov. James R. Thompson used amendatory veto power on a bill Thursday that would have required Illinois schools to advocate sexual abstinence until marriage, but left language that requires schools to teach AIDS prevention intact. The bill would have emphasized that abstinence is the expected norm
"ACLU Targets Jail for AIDS Disclosure": United Press International (08/24/89); Seattle--The American Civil Liberties Union will file a class action suit against Clark County prison officials on behalf of a former inmate whose HIV status was disclosed to other inmates. According to an ACLU statement, jailers segregated the inmate and told other inmates he was HIV positive, information which foll
"Child Kicked Out of Day Care over AIDS": United Press International (08/24/89); Shearman, J. Craig; Trenton, N.J.--AIDS is considered a disability under New Jersey s anti-discrimination laws, so a Trenton church may have violated state law by allegedly kicking a 4-year-old boy out of a preschool program because he is infected with HIV. The case was the fourth attempt by a New Jersey school to remove a student becau
"Man Says McKinneys Broke Promise on Will": New York Times (08/24/89), P. B5; Arnold Denson, 34, says the family of Rep. Stewart B. McKinney (R.-Conn.), who died of AIDS two years ago, has reneged on a promise to let him keep property willed to him if he kept quiet about his gay relationship with the late congressman. Denson says he is about broke and has gone public because promises were m
"AIDS Caused Richmond's Death": Washington Post (08/24/89), P. B1; Kaplow, Bobby; Race car driver Tim Richmond died of AIDS, according to a statement yesterday by his doctor, David W. Dodson. The statement indicated that Richmond died of complications of [AIDS] which he contracted through heterosexual contact. Dodson said in an interview that, it was a process of elimination . . . Tim did not
"Designer Antibody for AIDS Virus Begins First Human Clinical Trials": Wall Street Journal (08/24/89), P. B5; Chase, Marilyn; Synthetic CD4, linked to human immunoglobulin-G, has begun clinical trials for safety at the National Institutes of Health and in a multicenter study across the United States . Fifteen patients at the NIH and 50 patients at hospitals and universities across the country will receive the
"Teens Nonchalant About STDs?": Associated Press (08/23/89); Chicago--A new study has shown that teens use condoms to allow easy and spontaneous sex, not to prevent pregnancy or AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Researchers say the results show that teenagers think they are immune to STDs, when in fact infection among teens is widespread. The study, based o
"Study Links New AIDS Virus Infections to Unsafe Sex": United Press International (08/23/89); Wasowicz, Lidia; San Francisco--A study has shown that new cases of infection with HIV among San Francisco s homosexual and bisexual men result directly from unsafe sex, with some the result of only one instance of unsafe sex between men who had previously practiced safe sex. Dr. Alan Lifson, the report s author and chief of research
"Conference to Focus on AIDS in Workplace": Journal of Commerce (08/23/89), P. 9A; A conference on AIDS in the workplace with a focus on labor and management issues, confidentiality and discrimination, and federal AIDS regulations, will take place Sept. 20-21 at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York. Persons interested in the conference can contact Mardi Massaro, Division of Public Information
"Rep. McKinney's Will Contested": Washington Post (08/23/89), P. A19; Arnold R. Denson has contested the will of the late Stewart B. McKinney (R.-Conn.), saying official reports that the congressman contracted HIV from blood transfusions are false. The real estate agent says he was McKinney s lover for five years. McKinney, who died of AIDS in 1987, willed a car and a 40 percent share
"AIDS Education Efforts Dwarfed by Staff Shortages, Report Shows": Journal of Commerce (08/23/89), P. 9A; The Center for Prevention Services, the arm of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that handles education programs, requested additional staff four times in 1988 but obtained none because of agency-wide staffing constraints, according to a General Accounting Office (GAO) report released Monday. The constraints ar
"Employees Better Informed after AIDS Workshops": United Press International (08/22/89); Wellesley, Mass.--Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada surveyed its 900 member United States workforce before and after its employees attended AIDS workshops conducted by the Massachusetts AIDS Action Committee. After the workshop, the workers had fewe
"Tainted Blood Ravaged Family, Marine Says": New York Times (08/22/89), P. A19; On the opening day of a nonjury trial of his $55 million lawsuit against the federal government, marine Chief Warrant Officer Martin Gaffney testified that Navy doctors botched his wife s pregnancy and gave her an HIV-infected transfusion that ravaged his family, killing his wife and son and leaving him infected. Gaf
"Backing Off on AIDS Quarantine": Washington Post (Health) (08/22/89), P. 5; Boodman, Sandra G.; Connecticut prison officials will stop quarantining inmates with AIDS unless behavior or special medical attention requires it, as part of a settlement of a class action suit filed by five prisoners. This is the first time a state has rescinded an AIDS quarantine order, which forbids inmates with AIDS from talking to
"Public Sector Likely to Bear Brunt of Soaring AIDS Treatment Costs": Journal of Commerce (08/22/89), P. 1A; Conn, David; An estimated 600,000 Americans could benefit from early treatment with AZT , according to a recent study by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. However, AZT costs between $6,000 and $8,000 per year, a figure which could push AIDS trea
"Private Sector Questions Stance on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome": Washington Business Journal (08/21/89) Vol. 8, No. 13, P. 16; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is as complex an immune system disease as AIDS. Like AIDS, CFS leaves victims vulnerable to opportunistic infections. CFS, also called Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome and Chronic Epstein-Barr Virus Syndrome, strikes mostly young professionals in their peak productive ye
"NIH's Links to Pan Data Multiply": Washington Business Journal (08/21/89) Vol. 8, No. 13, P. 1; Menninger, Bonar; The National Institutes of Health has tentatively granted Pan Data Systems Inc. an exclusive license to produce and market the HHV6 herpes virus. The decision raises new questions about the relationship between the company and Syed Zaki Salahuddin, a top AIDS researcher in Robert Gallo s lab at the National Cancer In
"Lawsuit Against Funeral Director Alleges AIDS Discrimination": New York Native (08/21/89), P. 12; Lawyers for the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania announced the filing of a lawsuit against a funeral director, John M. Price, for improper handling of a burial in an AIDS-related death. The lawsuit claims Price committed fraud, breach of contract, negligence, unlawful interference with a corpse, and infliction of emo
"It's Official: New York City Recognizes Domestic Partnerships": New York Native (08/21/89) Vol. 9, No. 37, P. 9; Hammond, John; New York City Mayor Ed Koch issued Executive Order 123 on Aug. 7, officially recognizing unmarried couples and others with shared living arrangements as spousal equivalents. The order established bereavement leave for domestic partners and expanded the concept of what constitutes a family unit to include long-term an
"Wellcome Surges 32 Percent in London as AZT Report Raises Prospect of" Vast New Market for AIDS Drug: Wall Street Journal (08/21/89), P. C10; Tessier, Yann; In London, Wellcome PLC s stocks rose 32 percent a share Friday following the release of a U.S. government study showing that Wellcome s drug AZT delays the onset of AIDS in asymptomatic HIV carriers. In theory, one market analyst said, earlier use of the
"Report Says Agency Lacks Staff to Fight AIDS": Reuters (08/21/89); Washington--The General Accounting Office reports that staff shortages at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) may be seriously impairing federal, state, and local AIDS prevention programs. The report stated that increases in the CDC s oversight and technical staff have not kept pace with increased funding and respo
"AIDSWEEK": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (08/20/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; This week, National Institute of Health researchers reported that AZT and alpha interferon in combination are more effective with fewer side effects than either alone...Speakers at the National Conference on AIDS in Racial and Ethnic Populations said that m
"New Drug Study Heralds a Hopeful Realignment in the War Against AIDS": New York Times (08/20/89), P. E5; The government s report on the effectiveness of AZT in delaying the onset of AIDS removed any lingering doubts that members of risk groups should be tested for the virus, says the New York Times. The study of 3200 healthy virus carriers showed that, over a
"A Life-Saving AIDS Strategy": New York Times (08/20/89), P. E22; It will be a tragedy if society does not deliver the fruits of new research into AZT and pentamidine to those at risk for AIDS, write the editors of the New York Times. Research showing that AZT is effective at delaying the onset of AIDS requires a dramati
"AIDS Hot Lines Busy with Calls about AZT": Washington Post (08/20/89), P. A13; After Health and Human Services Secretary Louis W. Sullivan announced last Thursday that AZT can delay the onset of AIDS symptoms in HIV-infected but asymptomatic persons, AIDS hot lines in San Francisco and New York were swamped with calls. Don Troise, th
"Crack and Resurgence of Syphilis Spreading AIDS Among the Poor": New York Times (08/20/89), P. 1; Kerr, Peter; The nation s poorest neighborhoods are experiencing an increase in the rate of AIDS, spread by the combination of HIV, crack, and a rise in the rate of syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The pathological levels of sexual activity that crack apparently stimulates, combined with the increased dang
"Behringwerke Anti-HIV Test Kits": Lancet (08/19/89) Vol. 2, No. 8660, P. 458; Becker, W.; W. Becker protests Bhupesh Mangla s allegation in the July 15 Lancet that the West German firm Behringwerke sold anti-HIV kits at a discount in India after they had been recalled in other countries. The company sold some packages of turbid lots that may have increased false-positiv
"Women Receiving Anti Rh(D) Immunolglobulin Containing HIV Antibodies": Lancet (08/19/89) Vol. 2, No. 8660, P. 459; Dumasia, Almitra; Almitra Dumasia and colleagues report on their follow-up studies of several Rh(D)-negative Indian women who received anti-D immunoglobin before the product was banned because several batches contained HIV antibody. Batches produced in late 1988 were screened by competitive enzyme immunoassay and then by western blot.
"Rapid Emergence of AIDS in Abidjan, Ivory Coast": Lancet (08/19/89) Vol. 2, No. 8660, P. 408; De Cock, Kevin M.,; Kevin De Cock and colleagues report on their study of 1501 consecutive adult medical admissions to the two largest hospitals in Abidjan, Ivory Coast , between July and November, 1988. AIDS is a major public health problem in this West African city, accounting for 19 percent an
"Female to Male Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type Risk" Factors for Seroconversion in Men: Lancet (08/19/89) Vol. 2, No. 8660, P. 403; Cameron, D. William,; D. William Cameron and colleagues report on their study of 422 Kenyan men who had acquired a sexually transmitted disease from a group of prostitutes with an HIV-1 infection prevalence of 85 percent, to determine frequency and risk factors for female to male sexual transmission of HIV-1. Initially, 12 percent of the
"ACT UP/New York Blast the 'Times'": Gay Community News (08/19/89) Vol. 17, No. 6, P. 1; Sorge, Rod; When 150 activists marched through midtown and upper Manhattan to protest the New York Times coverage of the AIDS crisis, no daily paper or television station in the New York area covered the event. ACT UP targeted the Times for tremendous lack of investigative journalism relating to all aspects of the AIDS crisis,
"Nursing Homes Reject PWAs": Gay Community News (08/19/89) Vol. 17, No. 6, P. 2; Fauntleroy,; Only about one tenth of AIDS patients who need nursing home care can gain admission to a facility, according to a survey by the Social Work Department of the University of Illinois, Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reported that 45 percent of nursing home administrators surveyed would categorically refuse admission to AI
"Rubber Dam": Gay Community News (08/19/89) Vol. 17, No. 6, P. 2; Rich, Liddy; In London and other English cities, condom-clogged drains cause up to 10 percent of emergency calls to drain cleaning companies. Increasing numbers of blocked drains may mean safer sex is on the rise, but a London Rubber Company spokesman claimed condoms slip down the pipes easily. He said tampons and disposable dia
"The MHC-Binding and gp120-Binding Functions of CD4 are Separable": Science (08/18/89) Vol. 245, No. 4919, P. 743; Lamarre, Daniel,; CD4, the receptor for the HIV, binds to the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein gp120 and to class II major histocompatibility (MHC) molecules, according to Daniel Lamarre and his colleagues, who report that the two binding sites can be separated by inducing mutations into the regions important to binding. The fact that the
"How About a Self-Destruct Needle?": New York Times (08/18/89), P. A31; Zimmerman, David R.; Science writer David Zimmerman asks how long we will have to wait before someone develops a self-destruct needle. The development and distribution of this simple technologic option, he writes, would prevent much transmission of HIV by IV drug users, the primary route by which the virus is spreading from high-risk gro
"Aliens Testing Positive for AIDS Choose to Stay Illegal": New York Times (08/18/89), P. B1; Howe, Marvine; Immigrants who test positive for HIV face deportation. As a result, many immigrants in the New York and San Francisco areas who carry the virus have chosen to remain illegal rather than apply for legalization under the federal amnesty program. Having been in the country seven years or more, they would be eligible for
"Drug Could Benefit Thousands Here: Need Seen for Increase in Money," Outreach, Testing Programs: Washington Post (08/18/89), P. A6; Masters, Brooke A.; District of Columbia health and activist groups stressed the need for more money for AIDS outreach, testing, and services for low-income patients in response to the goverment s announcement yesterday that AZT delays the onset of AIDS in asymptomatic HIV-inf
"Drug Said to Help AIDS Cases with Virus but No Symptoms": New York Times (08/18/89), P. A1; Hilts, Philip J.; Yesterday, Health and Human Services Secretary Louis W. Sullivan announced the results of a two-year government study that determined AZT can delay the onset of AIDS in asymptomatic HIV carriers. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy
"Defective Viruses and AIDS": Nature (08/17/89) Vol. 340, No. 6234, P. 515; Duesberg, Peter; Peter Duesberg writes that if a pathogenic HIV complex were responsible for AIDS, in which defective viruses complement the host range and virulence of defective HIV with mutant alleles of common genes or unique genes, humans would develop AIDS soon after infection, carry high titres of defective pathogen and helper H
"Physicians Group Sets Up Fund to Help PWAs": Bay Area Reporter (08/17/89) Vol. 19, No. 33, P. 19; Chicago s Physicians Association for AIDS Care (PAAC) has developed Project Lifeline, a national superfund for financial assistance for AIDS patients of PAAC member physicians. Only 8 percent of the fund will be used for administration, leaving 92 percent to fund patient emergency needs such as food, rent, drugs, and
"Single Amino-Acid Changes in HIV Envelope Affect Viral Tropism and" Receptor Binding: Nature (08/17/89) Vol. 340, No. 6234, P. 571; Cordonnier, Agnes; HIV infects target cells by the binding of its extracellular envelope glycoprotein, gp120, to the CD4 antigen on target cells. Cordonnier et al. mapped HIV-1 glycoprotein residues essential for binding by creating mutations in the region of gp120 important for binding to CD4, and then analyzed the effects of binding
"Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Current Trends--First 100,000" Cases of AIDS--United States: Centers for Disease Control (08/17/89); The first five AIDS cases were reported in Los Angeles in June 1981. Since then more than 100,000 cases of AIDS have been reported by state and territorial health departments. The first 50,000 cases were reported between 1981 and 1987. However, the second 50,000 cases were reported between December 1987 and July 19
"Thailand Tries to Calm AIDS Scare over Mosquitoes": Reuters (08/17/89); Bangkok, Thailand--The Thai Public Health Minister, Chuan Leekpai, spoke along with a panel of medical experts at a news conference Thursday to calm public hysteria that AIDS could be transmitted through mosquitoes and vegetables fertilized with human waste. Recent local press reports said that housewives had stopped
"AIDS Groups to Ask for Expanded Access to New Medications": Wall Street Journal (08/17/89), P. B3; AIDS activists will press for broader distribution of experimental drugs at a meeting of senior U.S. health officials today in Bethedsa, Md. As a preface to today s meeting, the American Foundation for AIDS Research and 16 other groups signed a consensus statement that urges access to parallel track access to exper
"Protesters Briefly Take Over Podium at AIDS Conference": Associated Press (08/16/89); Mesce, Deborah; Washington--About 25 participants at the National Conference on HIV Infection and AIDS among Racial and Ethnic Populations took over the platform yesterday to express dissatisfaction and frustration with the proceedings. The demonstration disrupted the conference for roughly half an hour, during which the protestors
"Immune Problems May Play Key Role in Headache, Researchers Say": Associated Press (08/16/89); Coleman, Brenda C.; Chicago--Research with immunocompromised AIDS patients may shed light on the cause of headache pain, according to neurologist Lawrence Robbins. Because headache sufferers may be the victims of overactive immune systems, Robbins will study AIDS patients with a history of headaches to see if headache frequency decrease
"AIDS Testing Battle Settled": United Press International (08/16/89); Seattle--A Seattle resident has settled out-of-court with the insurance company, New York Life, that tested him for HIV without his consent three years ago. David Poot claimed he needed counseling for months after he was told he tested positive for HIV. Income from his landscape business dropped 60 percent, Poot sai
"AZT for ARC": Science (08/16/89) Vol. 245, No. 4918, P. 599; Federal health officials halted a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of AZT on patients with early AIDS-related complex (ARC) because the results were so positive that they were compelled to offer all patients in the trial AZT. Anthony S. Fauc
"The Helquist Report: Stimulant Eases Mental Problems": Advocate (08/16/89) No. 531, P. 24; Helquist, Michael; Francisco Fernandez reported a study of Ritalin, a drug usually prescribed for hyperactive children, in which 76 percent of 97 patients with AIDS and HIV-related symptoms showed moderate-to-significant improvement in energy, vigor, and mood. The drug increased mental performance abilities and reduced confusion, anxie
"Rising Worry on 'Partner' Benefits": New York Times (08/16/89), P. D1; Freudenheim, Milt; Employers have begun to worry about the potential costs of health benefits for employees domestic partners and about the costs of paying for treatment for partners with diseases such as AIDS. Demand for these benefits by employees and worry over costs by employers have grown because of recent court rulings and gover
"Poll: Confidence Grows in Blood Supply Safety": Journal of Commerce (08/16/89), P. 15A; A poll conducted by the American Association of Blood Banks found that American confidence in the safety of the blood supply is growing. Many still believe getting AIDS from a transfusion is likely, but the public understands the steps being taken to protect the blood supply, and it demonstrates a high level of know
"Chemicals Stop Growth of AIDS Virus in Test": New York Times (08/16/89), P. B6; Altman, Lawrence K.; Michael Boyd and colleagues at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) have discovered that glycolipids, combinations of sugars and fatty acids derived from blue-green algae, show remarkable antiviral activity against HIV in test-tube experiments. The chemicals are far from being tested in humans--scientists first must l
"Navy is Sued by an AIDS-Devastated Family": New York Times (08/16/89), P. B6; Marine Martin Gaffney, 40, of the South Weymouth Naval Air Station in Massachusetts, has filed a $55 million malpractice suit against Navy doctors, charging them with mishandling his wife s 1981 pregnancy. The doctors malpractice caused Gaffney s wife, Mutsuko, to deliver a stillborn child and forced her to have a t
"In Shift, Gay Men's Health Crisis Endorses Testing for AIDS Virus": New York Times (08/16/89), P. A1; Lambert, Bruce; New York City s Gay Men s Health Crisis (GMHC) reversed a long-held position and endorsed widespread voluntary testing. GMHC, the city s largest private organization providing AIDS services, based its reversal on new drugs that can prolong life if used in early stages of HIV infection. Richard Dunne, the group s exe
"Dancing with Death": Advocate (08/15/89) No. 531, P. 8; Peterson, Robert W.; Robert Pittman and Bob Barnett have AIDS. Looking for any way to survive, they joined the illegal Project Inform trials of Compound Q, an unconfirmed AIDS medication. In animal tests, Compound Q appears to kill HIV-infected cells and leave healthy cells alone. However, it can cause severe side effects because it ac
"News in Brief: Pennsylvania": Advocate (08/15/89) No. 531, P. 20; Philadelphia ACT UP members demonstrated at the facilities of the Gershman Young Men s Hebrew Association-Young Women s Hebrew Association (YMHA-YWHA), demanding that the group give people with AIDS and asymptomatic HIV-positive people equal access to health clubs and gyms. A member of the men s health club filed a c
"News in Brief: Massachusetts": Advocate (08/15/89) No. 531, P. 20; ACT UP activists calling themselves the end of Summer Sisters protested at three Boston gay events where disc jockeys played Donna Summer songs. Summer once said AIDS is God s punishment of gays. The activists disrupted three dance parties, one of which degenerated into a shoving and screaming melee involving orga
"The Helquist Report: Cause to Celebrate": Advocate (08/15/89) No. 531, P. 24; Helquist, Michael; Each change in drug regulations and access to treatments represents a victory for AIDS activists. Michael Helquist of the Advocate writes that he finds government recognition that the activists were right surprising. Anthony Fauci, director of AIDS research for the National Institutes of Health, said, In the beginn
"The Helquist Report: Betaseron and AZDU Trial Contacts": Advocate (08/15/89) No. 531, P. 24; Helquist, Michael; Current phase 3 trials of Triton Biosciences Inc. s Betaseron, a form of the naturally occurring protein human interferon beta, require weekly visits to a hospital involved in the study. The restrictions may pose difficulties to some people who wish to participate. The drug can reduce by as much as 200-fold the amou
"Another Epidemic: Is the Gay World Being Divided into Two Opposing Camps," the "Positive" and "Negative"?: Advocate (08/15/89) No. 531, P. 33; Rowland, Craig; Craig Rowland and many other gays face an AIDS-related epidemic that is poisoning the gay world--HIV-positive prejudice. The fear affects HIV-negative or untested intelligent people who are well-educated about the risks, causing them to back away from relationships with seropositive people. Men on the front lines o
"Minorities Under-Represented in AIDS Treatments, Doctors Say": Associated Press (08/15/89); Mesce, Deborah; Washington--Experts say poor blacks and Hispanics are under-represented in AIDS clinical trials because of lack of information and distrust of the medical establishment. The poor are not as well educated about prevention and don t have a cousin who is a doctor who can tell them about the latest drug that s being tes
"Connecticut's Jails to Halt Bias on AIDS": Wall Street Journal (08/15/89), P. B7; Hayes, Arthur S.; The state of Connecticut has agreed to stop segregating inmates suffering from AIDS unless their behavior poses a serious threat to other inmates or they require intensive medical care. The agreement is part of the settlement of a 1988 lawsuit filed on behalf of prisoners with AIDS deprived of outdoor recreation, chu
"Doctors Test Vaccine Against AIDS-Like Illness in Monkeys": New York Times (08/15/89), P. C3; Altman, Lawrence K.; Ronald Desrosiers and colleagues reported yesterday that they have developed an experimental vaccine using whole killed virus that protected two monkeys from SAIDS--simian acquired immune deficiency syndrome--which is caused by SIV--simian immunodeficiency virus. SIV is the closest known relative of the virus that ca
"Ignored AIDS Drug Shows Promise in Small Tests": New York Times (08/15/89), P. A1; Kolata, Gina; Alpha interferon, long ignored by AIDS patients and their advocates, may prevent or slow the onset of AIDS in some people infected with HIV. Recent studies have shown that in low doses in combination with AZT , alpha interferon inhibits production of viral
"Sullivan, Citing New Treatments, Urges More Voluntary AIDS Testing": Associated Press (08/14/89); Mesce, Deborah; Washington--Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan said Monday that the success of new treatments should encourage voluntary HIV testing. Governments and local communities must do a better job targeting AIDS prevention messages to minorities, said Sullivan, speaking at the opening session of a national co
"TNI Pharmaceutical's Immune System Enhancer to be Tested on ARC/AIDS" Patients: PRNewswire (08/14/89); Chicago--The Community Research Initiative (CRI) of New York plans to start clinical trials of Methionine Enkephalin (MEK) within the next few months. MEK, developed by TNI Pharmaceuticals, Inc., inhibits growth of tumorous cells and stimulates the immune system, according to its patents. The National Institutes of
"Complete Mutagenesis of the HIV-1 Protease": Nature (08/14/89) Vol. 340, No. 6232, P. 397; Loeb, Daniel D., et al.; Researchers Daniel Loeb and his colleagues describe how they introduced random mutations into HIV-1 protease and identified functionally important regions of the protein. HIV-1 protease is encoded by the HIV retrovirus for production of infectious virions. A disabling mutation results in the production of non-infect
"Automatic Exclusion from Crews Illegal for Seamen with AIDS": Journal of Commerce (08/14/89), P. 3B; Attaway, Robert J.; There is no legal justification for removing an HIV-infected crewmember from a commercial ship unless AIDS restricts the person s ability enough to impair the safe operation of the ship or the person requires medical attention beyond what is available on the ship, according to Robert J. Attaway, an admiralty law exper
"Harvard Team Says Vaccine Provided AIDS Protection in Small Test on" Animals: Wall Street Journal (08/14/89), P. B3; Chase, Marilyn; Researchers Ronald Desrosiers et al. of Harvard University report the first apparent vaccine protection against AIDS virus infection in an experiment involving SIV, or simian immunodeficiency virus, in six rhesus monkeys. The scientists vaccinated the monkeys with whole killed virus and one week later injected the
"New Hope: AZT Slows the Onset of AIDS": Time (08/14/89) Vol. 134, No. 7, P. 56; Last week a federal study showed that early intervention with AZT in asymptomatic HIV-infected people slows multiplication of the virus. The research, conducted by the National Institutes of Health, is the first clear proof that early intervention makes a
"AIDSWEEK: Research": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (08/13/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; Lydia Temoshok, a University of California-San Francisco researcher, told the American Psychological Association that stress may strengthen the immune system in people with early HIV infection, the opposite effect of stress in people diagnosed with AIDS....The Food and Drug Administration (
"AIDSWEEK: Care": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (08/13/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; In 1987, hospital care for people with AIDS in the United States cost nearly half a billion dollars, according to figures reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association . The National Public Health and Hospital Institute estimated peo
"AIDSWEEK: The World": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (08/13/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; The government of Zimbabwe reports only 440 confirmed cases of AIDS, but the private AIDS Counselling Trust estimates that more than 500,000 people carry HIV, which researchers have detected in 2 out of every 100 blood donors. AIDS also is the primary cause of infant deaths in Z
"AIDSWEEK: The Law": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (08/13/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; The California 2nd District Court of Appeals ruled, in the first appellate court decision protecting the jobs of workers with AIDS, that the state law banning discrimination against the handicapped applies to people with AIDS. The court upheld a $6,000 damage award to the estate of John Chadbourne of Santa Barbara.
"AIDSWEEK: Fear Slows the Fight in Florida": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (08/13/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; Florida officials said they can t fight AIDS because so many people fear immigration officials. Furthermore, federal funds won t pay for illegal aliens who do come forward. Many people don t seek benefits because they fear deportation, even if their children were born here. Illegal aliens who seek residency are rou
"New Drug Fights Virus Infecting Immunosuppressed Patients": United Press International (08/13/89); Salt Lake City--SR3745, a derivative of the antiviral drug ganciclovir, shows promise in cell culture for fighting viral infections common to AIDS. The drug inhibits viral replication by interfering with the polymerizing or hooking together of viral genetic material. Dale Barnard, a virologist at Utah State Universi
"HIV Testing in 25% of Swedish Population Aged 16-44": Lancet (08/12/89) Vol. 2, No. 8659, P. 386; Herlitz, Claes; In Sweden , the National Board of Health and Social Welfare recommends voluntary, anonymous HIV testing to anyone concerned about infection. Because of the authorities positive attitude, testing has been used so extensively that cost of testing was twice the cost of all HIV- and A
"AIDS and Academic Boycotts": Lancet (08/12/89) Vol. 2, No. 8659, P. 386; O'Farrell, Nigel; Nigel O Farrell of Durban, South Africa , expresses concern that academic boycotts may become another reason for the spread of AIDS in South Africa because of the absence of outside influence, exchange of ideas, and external peer review of the state of medical care. Academics voci
"Condom Giveaway in SF County Jails": Gay Community News (08/12/89) Vol. 17, No. 5, P. 2; Rich, Liddy; San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey had decided to distribute condoms to male prisoners in county jails, despite the fact that it is unclear whether or not he could be prosecuted for encouraging sex between prisoners. Hennessey said, There are rules against it, there are laws against it, but the truth is that co
"First Program for Older PWAs": Gay Community News (08/12/89) Vol. 17, No. 5, P. 2; Gaines, Kelly; Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE) recently announced a new care and support system exclusively for older people with AIDS, saying that most AIDS service programs were designed for younger people. SAGE s associate director for services, Arlene Kochman, said that the course of the disease, as well as treatments
"The Food and Drug Administration: Under Siege": Economist (08/12/89) Vol. 312, No. 7615, P. 60; The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) is recognized around the world as the most independent, credible, and scientifically rigorous of government watchdogs. However, that reputation has been tarnished by recent coverage of the FDA s drug approval process. Drug companies and groups
"A Fast Track for Drugs": Economist (08/12/89) Vol. 312, No. 7615, P. 16; The editors of the Economist write that the Food and Drug Administration s ( FDA ) new parallel-track system should be a blessing. The new system will allow people to receive a drug that has survived basic safety trials but has not yet been proven effective without having to enroll in
"NCI Team Remodels Key AIDS Virus Enzyme": Science (08/11/89) Vol. 245, No. 4918, P. 598; Marx, Jean L.; Alexander Wlodawer et al. of the National Cancer Institute have reported that the three-dimensional structure of an AIDS viral protease determined by x-ray crystallographers from Merck Sharp & Dohme was wrong. Based on his crystallographic analysis, Wlodawer and colleagues report changes that affect only about 15 p
"Conserved Folding in Retroviral Proteases: Crystal Structure of a" Synthetic HIV-1 Protease: Science (08/11/89) Vol. 245, No. 4918, P. 616; Wlodawer, Alexander, et al.; A new model of HIV-1 protease may help in the design of drugs to inhibit the virus, researchers Alexander Wlodawer and his colleagues report. The National Cancer Institute researchers describe how they determined the crystal structure of chemically synthesized HIV-1 protease using a model based on the Rous sarcoma vi
"AIDS and IV Drug Use": Science (08/11/89) Vol. 245, No. 4918, P. 578; Des Jarlais, Don; IV drug use is currently the second most common risk behavior and the primary source for heterosexual and perinatal transmission among persons with AIDS in the United States and Europe, accounting for 30 percent of current AIDS cases. Research among IV drug users has shown deliberate
"Doctor: AIDS May Wipe Out Town": Associated Press (08/11/89); Belle Glade, Fla.--Dr. Deanna R. James said she stands by her warning that AIDS may wipe out the black community in Belle Glade, a Florida town with one of the highest per-capita AIDS rates in the nation. James, a black doctor who works for the city health department, said blacks and Haitians make up 98 percent of AI
"Man Jailed for Spreading AIDS": United Press International (08/11/89); Calgary, Alberta--Gordon Summer, 24, pleaded guilty to public mischief and got one year in jail for having had sex without protecting his partners from HIV. He is the third person in Canada accused of knowingly spreading HIV and the only one to actually be charged and sentenced.
"Reporter's Notebook: ABA Positions Veer from High Court's Conservatism": Wall Street Journal (08/11/89), P. B3; Abramson, Jill; The usually staid and conservative American Bar Association took uncharacteristically progressive positions on flag-burning and the rights of people with AIDS during its annual meeting. The ABA s policy arm, the House of Delegates, adopted a report calling for strong measures to protect the confidentiality of people
"On the Sad Trail of Street Youths, Drugs and AIDS": New York Times (08/11/89), P. B1; King, Wayne; Ronald Williams wants to open a Covenant House in Trenton, N.J., to help combat the rising incidence of AIDS among the city s homeless youths. Kids on the streets get AIDS by what Williams calls survival sex; they sell themselves to get crack, often to intravenous drug users or HIV-infected people who can t find se
"Concentration of AIDS Cases Posing Serious Problem for Some Hospitals": New York Times (08/11/89), P. A12; Lambert, Bruce; A new study to be published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that AIDS cases, concentrated in selected hospitals in major cities across the nation, cause serious financial losses, force reduced care, and threaten to crowd out other patients in these hospit
"Do Antibodies Enhance the Infection of Cells by HIV?": Nature (08/10/89) Vol. 340, No. 6233, P. 431; Bolognesi, Dani P.; A discovery that antibodies play a major role in enhancement of HIV infection would greatly affect vaccination and therapeutic strategies, writes AIDS researcher Dani P. Bolognesi of Duke University Medical Center. Antibody enhancement of viral infectivity is a well-recorded viral phenomenon that has not been proven p
"AIDS Needle Infects Worker": Associated Press (08/10/89); Dallas--An employee of Parkland Memorial Hospital contracted HIV from a needle-stick last spring, according to a hospital spokeswoman. The hospital will only say that the employee took all the necessary precautions for working with an infected patient, but will keep the employee s identity and details of the incident
"HIV-1 Infected People Benefit from Flu Vaccine": United Press International (08/10/89); Baltimore--Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health report that an annual influenza vaccination may prevent HIV-infected people from getting the flu. The report, in the Journal of the American Medical Association , has found that HIV-infected people are more prone
"Lesbian Minister 'Assault' Case Closed": United Press International (08/10/89); San Francisco--San Francisco Police Chief Frank Jordan closed the police investigation into alleged attacks on Lynn Griffis, believing she fabricated the report that she had been kidnapped, beaten, and knifed by two skinheads who
"The FDA: Too Cautious, Not Too Bold": Washington Post (08/10/89), P. A25; Kinsley, Michael; The elaphantine drug approval policy is an example of America s immature attitude toward risk, writes the Washington Post s Michael Kinsley. Our wish to reduce to absolute zero the risk of another Thalidomide crisis has caused people to suffer and die needlessly while drugs pass through the long Food and Drug Adminis
"2d Ave. AIDS Center Gets Approval": New York Times (08/10/89), P. B3; Dunlap, David W.; The second of two very large nursing homes for people with AIDS that an affiliate of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York plans to build in Manhattan received City Planning Commission approval yesterday. Each of the seven-story homes will house 100 people who are not sick enough to be hospitalized but can not t
"Ever-Growing AIDS Quilt Set for Finale": Washington Post (08/10/89), P. D1; Aoki, Elizabeth N.; The AIDS memorial quilt will appear in public for the last time Oct. 6-8 on the Ellipse in Washington, after which, according to the Names Project, there won t be a public space in the United States large enough for the ever-growing quilt. It began as a single quilted panel in 1986 an
"FDA Clears Liposome Co. to Test Drug on Humans": Wall Street Journal (08/10/89), P. B4; Liposome Co. received Food and Drug Administration approval to start safety testing in humans of GENT-65, an antibiotic that may fight infections in AIDS patients and others. The drug is a cell-penetrating version of gentamicin, packed into liposomes--bubbles made of naturally occur
"Wellcome Unit and Vical Seek to Improve Drug AZT": Wall Street Journal (08/10/89), P. B4; Burroughs-Wellcome Co., the maker of AZT , and Vical Inc., a small San Diego biotechnology firm, have agreed to work together to investigate ways of improving the drug AZT s activity against AIDS. The companies, which signed a multiyear research and develop
"FDA Seeks to End Compound Q Test in AIDS Patients": Wall Street Journal (08/10/89), P. B4; Chase, Marilyn; In a letter to director Martin Delaney, the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) requested that Project Inform stop their unofficial drug trials of Compound Q. In the letter, Carl Peck, director of the FDA s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, urged that the group discontinue any
"Young AIDS Patient Victim of Sexual Abuse, Drug Injections": Associated Press (08/08/89); San Antonio--Social workers believe a San Antonio woman with AIDS sexually abused her daughter and injected her with drugs as punishment. The 9-year-old contracted AIDS as a consequence of her mother s actions, according to David Reilly, regional director of the Texas Department of Human Services. After her mother s
"FDA, Testers Move Closer Together": Associated Press (08/08/89); Mesce, Deborah; Washington--In a letter to Martin Delaney, co-director of Project Inform, the Food and Drug Administration told the AIDS activist to stop clandestine tests of Compound Q, a protein extract of cucumber root long used to induce abortions and treat tumors in China . The
"AIDS Increase Forecast for Sacramento": United Press International (08/08/89); Sacramento--A Sacramento task force has reported that there could be as many as 979 AIDS cases in Sacramento County in 1991 compared to the 323 reported in the county at the beginning of this year. The figures will triple despite the introduction of prevention and education programs, including drug abuse programs for
"AIDS Cases Close to 7,000 Mark": United Press International (08/08/89); Trenton, N.J.--The state health department announced Tuesday that New Jersey has recorded nearly 7000 cases of AIDS. As of July 31, the total was 6931, an increase of 170 cases since the start of the month. New Jersey has averaged six new cases a day this year. Although IV drug users make up 20 percent of AIDS case
"Dallas County AIDS Survey Delayed": United Press International (08/08/89); Dallas--Washington bureaucracy is delaying a door-to-door study of the drug use and sexual habits of Dallas County residents. The $500,000 survey, scheduled to begin next week, is the second part of the Centers for Disease Control s preparation for a nationwide survey. However, following a congressional committee s
"Medical Workers Who Don't Fear AIDS": Washington Post (Health) (08/08/89), P. 4; Dunlap-Noon, Gloria; Gloria Dunlap-Noon, whose son died of AID last April, writes that her son was treated with dignity, respect, good humor, and complete concern by the staff of the Washington Hospital Center in the District of Columbia. Never was he treated like a leper. No one ever came in his room dresed like an alien from outer sp
"Insurers' Excessive Fear of AIDS": New York Times (08/08/89), P. A18; The editors of the New York Times write that the cost of AIDS may be growing, but is still a very small part of the national health bill. Therefore, there is no excuse for insurance companies to restrict coverage for the disease or insist on the right to test applicants for health insurance. The editors of the Times
"The Offensive Tactics of AIDS Ideologues": New York Times (08/08/89), P. A19; Whelan, Elizabeth M.; Elizabeth Whelan, president of the American Council on Science and Health, who attended the Fifth International Conference on AIDS in Montreal, writes that she is deeply disturbed by her fear that the AIDS establishment is completely out of touch with the reality of American attitudes and mores. She stresses the impo
"The Dilemma of AZT: Who Can Afford It?": Washington Post (Health) (08/08/89), P. 6; Boodman, Sandra G.; Asymptomatic HIV-seropositive people should receive AZT , federal health officials now say. That dramatic announcement raises an important question: how will those who need it afford it--considering a growing number of people infected with HIV are poor IV d
"Patient Services Vie for Bigger Share of AIDS Funds": Scientist (08/07/89) Vol. 3, No. 16, P. 3; Pennisi, Elizabeth; AIDS is now a treatable disease, according to Reed V. Tuckson, District of Columbia commissioner of health. However, he adds, Few health care systems are equipped to handle what s coming; nor is there much planning going on. Robert P. Blendon, professor and chairman of health policy and management at the Harvard
"The Age of AIDS: Unleashed Power--Activists Score a Victory on DDI": Village Voice (08/07/89) Vol. 34, No. 31, P. 18; Massa, Robert; Activists were stunned, yet euphoric, when Bristol-Myers announced its intention to distribute DDI outside formal clinical trials. The announcement came right after Anthony Fauci proposed his parallel track program to distribute AIDS treatments as soon as they have proven safe. ACT UP had planned dramatic measures
"Insurance Limits Growing to Curb AIDS Coverage": New York Times (08/07/89), P. A1; Lambert, Bruce; Insurance companies want to treat AIDS as any other disease, barring coverage to HIV-infected applicants as they would to individuals with cancer or other serious conditions. Insurance companies have steadily increased restrictions, have violated laws and industry ethical standards to test patients without informed c
"The AIDS Underground: Herbs, Hormones, and Smuggling Runs Overseas": Newsweek (08/07/89) Vol. 114, No. 6, P. 50; Hammer, Joshua; A highly developed AIDS underground composed of entrepreneurs and AIDS activists smuggles unsanctioned experimental drugs into the United States . The network organized in 1987 with the demand for dextran sulfate from Mexico and
"AIDSWEEK: The Law": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (08/06/89), P. A4; Hilton, Bruce; The American Bar Association said the fight against AIDS is hampered by lack of complete confidentiality. In a 118-page report, the ABA s AIDS Coordinating Committee reported that confidentiality encourages at-risk people to come forward for voluntray testing, counseling, and research. The report called for extendi
"AIDSWEEK: Care": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (08/06/89), P. A4; Hilton, Bruce; Assistant Health Secretary James Mason told a House panel there is no money set aside in fiscal 1990 for a drive to provide early care to HIV-positive people, a plan that would cost at least $2.5 billion a year. Mason s announcement came after the Public Health Service issued new early-treatment guidelines. The plan
"AIDSWEEK: Research": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (08/06/89), P. A4; Hilton, Bruce; A two-year study has shown that AZT can help AIDS patients with minor symptoms, an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 more people. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health said the results emphasize the critical need for people at risk to be tested for
"AIDSWEEK: Epidemic Now in 151 Countries": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (08/06/89), P. A4; Hilton, Bruce; This week, according to the World Health Organization , two tiny countries, San Marino and Brunei , reported their first cases of AIDS--the 150th and 151st coun
"Cytomegalovirus Infection and Progression to AIDS": Lancet (08/05/89) Vol. 2, No. 8658, P. 335; Morris, David J.; David J. Morris, British virologist, responds to a report by Webster and colleagues proposing that cytomegalovirus ( CMV ) interacts with HIV in the development of HIV disease in hemophiliacs via a translation of CMV polypeptid
"Small Town AIDS Zap": Gay Community News (08/05/89) Vol. 17, No. 4, P. 1; Anger,; In the quiet town of Mora, Minnesota, the Concerned Parents for Abstinence successfully convinced the school board to remove AIDS and sex education from the curriculum last May. Members of the community became anti-AIDS and anti-gay after a fundamentalist pastor spoke out against an AIDS education play, saying it end
"First PWA Named to US AIDS Commission": Gay Community News (08/05/89) Vol. 17, No. 4, P. 3; Galst, Liz; On July 20, President Bush named Belinda Mason, 30-year-old president of the National Association of People with AIDS, to the National Commission on AIDS. Mason, one of the last two appointees and the only one with AIDS, is a former journalist and mother of two. She contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion she recei
"One Step Forward, One Step Backwards": Gay Community News (08/05/89) Vol. 17, No. 4, P. 2; Stein, Marc; According to regulations proposed for January 1, 1990, by Virginia s Bureau of Insurance, life and health insurance companies will be prohibited from denying coverage based on sexual orientation. The insurers, however, will be allowed to require HIV antibody testing if procedures are consistent, accurate, and not un
"AIDS Chair Will Work for Compassion": United Press International (08/05/89); Detroit--Dr. June Osborn, chair of the new National AIDS Commission, said she will work to turn fear to compassion for AIDS sufferers. She said that she thinks it s been hard for the country to get a sense that there are real people who are infected with [HIV], but more people will get to know others with AIDS as 4
"Circumcision May Protect Against the AIDS Virus": Science (08/04/89) Vol. 245, No. 4917, P. 470; Marx, Jean L.; Recent studies indicating that uncircumcised men run a greater risk of becoming infected by HIV than circumcised men may help explain differences in disease epidemiology between Africa and the United States . In Africa, AIDS affects men and women equally, while in the U.S., 75 percent
"Abbott Labs to Market AIDS Test": United Press International (08/04/89); Chicago--The Food and Drug Administration approved a test manufactured by Abbott Laboratories that directly detects HIV antigens. This test is the first of its kind, detecting HIV antigens rather than antibodies and eliminating some of the window period between infection with HIV
"Early AIDS Treatment Urged: AZT Found Helpful When Symptoms Begin": Washington Post (08/04/89), P. A1; Specter, Michael; AZT , until now only approved to treat AIDS patients already in late stages of the disease, can dramatically delay the onset of further symptoms in people in the early stages of HIV infection, a federal study shows. According to Anthony Fauci, director of A
"For Life": Bay Area Reporter (08/03/89) Vol. 19, No. 31, P. 8; Carper, Richard; Richard Carper, the man walking from Portland, Ore., to Washington, D.C., to raise money for AIDS, has written a letter to the Bay Area Reporter from Omaha, Nebraska, at 1582 miles the halfway point of his journey. He says he left Portland May 1 and expects to arrive in the District of Columbia on September 14 in goo
"Focus on Summer Products": Nature (08/03/89) Vol. 340, No. 6232, P. 409; Gershon, Diane; As of November 1989, researchers will be able to infect New Zealand White rabbits with HIV-1 to test and evaluate AIDS-related drugs, vaccines, and pharmaceutical agents. The patented rabbit animal model will be produced commercially by RRI in conjunction with the National Ins
"No Sex Please, We're American": Nature (08/03/89) Vol. 340, No. 6232, P. 331; Lindley, David; Last week the U.S. House of Representatives killed the $11 million budget item that would have funded the proposed controversial survey of sexual behavior in the United States . Howard Silver, executive director of the Consortium of Social Science Associations, a lobbying group, sugges
"Parallel Trial Controversy": Nature (08/03/89) Vol. 340, No. 6232, P. 331; Ezzell, Carol; Anthony Fauci s premature announcement of his parallel track program for testing AIDS drugs sparked media reports, a congressional hearing, and a Food and Drug Administration query as to just how such a scheme would work. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases last month said the
"AIDS: Sexual Behavior and Intravenous Drug Use; AIDS: Profile of an" Epidemic: New England Journal of Medicine (08/03/89) Vol. Vol. 321, No. 5, P. 333; Fields, Bernard N.; AIDS: Profile of an Epidemic, a publication of the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization , presents the current status of the epidemic in the Americas and aspects of the epidemiology of HIV infection, writes Bernard N. Fields of the Harvard Medical Schoo
"AIDS Bill Signed Into Law": United Press International (08/03/89); Columbus, Ohio--On Wed., Gov. Richard F. Celeste signed a comprehensive bill establishing several public health programs dealing with AIDS and assuring reasonable access to health and life insurance coverage and benefits regardless of an applicant s sexual preference. The bill, passed after 17 months of hearings and
"Mandatory AIDS Test Ruled Unconstitutional": United Press International (08/03/89); Chicago--Cook County Judge Patrick Morse, ruling in favor of two convicted prostitutes, struck down a state law mandating AIDS tests for persons convicted of prostitution, sexual assault, and other sex-related crimes. The judge found no compelling reason to set aside the women s right to be free from unreasonable s
"DC's Churches Join Drug War": United Press International (08/03/89); Washington--Thursday, more than 80 District of Columbia churches announced a program to establish 15 family counseling and assistance centers to provide AIDS and drug education outreach programs. The plan, which is expected to cost $1.8 million in its first year alone, will receive funding from the DC and federal gov
"AIDS Commission Chooses Leader": United Press International (08/03/89); Kolberg, Rebecca; Washington--June Osborn, dean of the University of Michigan s School of Public Health, won a secret ballot to become the leader of the new federal AIDS commission at its first meeting last Thursday. A Michigan pediatrician hailed by AIDS activists as a voice of reason in the fight against AIDS, Osborn has been very
"John Hirsch, 59, Director Praised for Supporting Canadian Talent": New York Times (08/03/89), P. A20; Fraser, C. Gerald; John Hirsch died of AIDS at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto Tuesday at age 59. He had directed plays at the Lincoln Center and at the Stratford Festival of Canada , where he was artistic director for 5 years. His work was widely acclaimed in the United
"Psychologist S.G. Garwood Dies at Age 49": Washington Post (08/03/89), P. C5; Psychologist and educator S. Gray Garwood died of AIDS August 1 at George Washington University Hospital. He held staff positions on the Education and Labor Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and played a role in the enactment of the Education for the Handicapped Amendments of 1986. In addition to lectur
"Accord Set on Disabled-Worker Bill: White HOuse, Senators Endorse" Anti-Discrimination Legislation: Washington Post (08/03/89), P. A6; Yost, Paula; The White House and key senators agreed yesterday to support a bill protecting disabled Americans against discrimination in the workplace. AIDS activists have pushed hard for such legislation, which would also protect the rights of AIDS patients and HIV-infected people. The bill would prohibit most employers from di
"AIDS Benefit in Methadone Use Is Questioned": New York Times (08/03/89), P. B6; The General Accounting Office (GAO) yesterday presented two studies questioning the effectiveness of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plan to give heroin addicts greater access to methadone to stem the spread of HIV. Methadone relieves an addict s craving for heroin and is less addictive. Because i
"House OKs Bill Upping AIDS Spending, Blocking Sex Survey": Associated Press (08/02/89); Fram, Alan; Washington--Federal AIDS spending would rise to $1.6 billion in fiscal year 1990 under House budget legislation passed Wednesday. However, the House also blocked a proposed survey of Americans sex habits that experts say would greatly help determine how HIV infection spreads. The new AIDS funding, distributed among
"New Commission to Watch Over U.S. AIDS Policy Development": Reuters (08/02/89); Arieff, Irwin; Washington--The new federal AIDS commission will hold its first meeting Thursday, after House and Senate leaders and finally President Bush completed the selection of members. The slow selection process took seven months, which gives the commission only 17 months to do its work. Many in Congress and the Reagan admin
"Global AIDS Cases Rise by 2.85 Percent in July": United Press International (08/02/89); Geneva--Reported cases of AIDS throughout the world reached 172,143 as of Aug. 1, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Wednesday. WHO said it received reports of 4770 new cases in July, an increase of 2.85 percent over the previous total. The
"AIDS Poisons Md. Woman's Love of a Lifetime: Widow Left HIV Positive" Reflects on Broken Dreams and the Price of Her Devotion: Washington Post (08/02/89), P. B1; Nelson, Jill; Janice Jirau says she is not afraid of dying. Her husband, Jimmy, died last May of AIDS, which he probably contracted through IV drug use. Although he infected her with HIV, she says holds no anger against her late husband s memory. Jirau says, The last month or so of my marriage was the best my marriage has been.
"The Helquist Report: Other Highlights": Advocate (08/01/89) No. 530, P. 26; Helquist, Michael; Recent studies on asymptomatic HIV-seropositive patients have shown that neurological and psychological problems rarely occur before weight loss and fever...A Northwestern University Medical School study reported that megestrol acetate, a drug used to treat breast cancer, reversed weight loss by stimulating appetite a
"The Helquist Report: Demonstrations": Advocate (08/01/89) No. 530, P. 26; Helquist, Michael; Organizers scheduled next year s international AIDS conference during San Francisco s gay and lesbian pride week. Michael Helquist writes that this should provoke more public dissent and demonstrations than at this year s conference, where the Canadian police tolerated quite a bit of disruption. Activists in Montrea
"The Helquist Report: Montreal and Beyond": Advocate (08/01/89) No. 530, P. 26; Helquist, Michael; Since the Fifth International Conference on AIDS, the government has decided to allow HIV-infected people greater access to experimental drugs and underground trials are underway to test the efficacy of Compound Q. The conferences should be renamed conventions, according to the Advocate s Michael Helquist, because the
"Swiss Battle Drug Addiction": Associated Press (08/01/89); Zurich, Switzerland--In Switzerland, authorities are attempting to battle a large drug addiction problem and Europe s highest per capita rate of HIV infection. Despite low unemployment and a high standard of living, the country has as many as 15,000 heroin addicts among its 6.5 million citizens. Dr. Werner Fuchs, wh
"AIDS-Infected Prostitute Released from Hospital Detention": Reuters (08/01/89); Sydney, Australia--Health officials say an HIV-infected prostitute they call a walking time bomb has left detention in a hospital and moved into hiding in a religious order. The New South Wales state government was holding the woman, known only as Charlene against her will under an 86-year-old law empowering heal
"ABA Calls for Strict Confidentiality on AIDS Issues": United Press International (08/01/89); Washington--The American Bar Association (ABA) has determined that discrimination against people affected by HIV is a major obstacle to public health efforts to halt the epidemic. The ABA s AIDS Coordinating Committee, which recently completed an 18-month study of AIDS discrimination, reports that public health effo
"No Federal Money for Early AIDS Treatment": United Press International (08/01/89); Kolberg, Rebecca; Washington--Although the Public Health Service announced in June that people infected with HIV should be given drugs to prevent opportunistic infections, the government has set aside no money in fiscal 1990 to pay for this early health care. Assistant Health Secretary James Mason estimated the cost of this early inter
"Taking Temperatures? Stick it in Their Ears": Washington Post (Health) (08/01/89), P. 5; Randal, Judith; A new ear thermometer, First Temp, produces more accurate readings than conventional oral and rectal thermometers, according to a study in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine by researcher Thomas Terndrup et al. The ear thermometer takes accurate readings in only a second by detecting infrared radiation from t
"Health Workers Seen Ignoring AIDS Risk": Journal of Commerce (08/01/89), P. 9A; A major study in the emergency room at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore shows that over a six-week period, health care workers failed to take adequate precautions against AIDS 66 percent of the time. Last year, 1 in 16 patients at the medical center s emergency room tested positive for HIV. Health workers, howeve
"New York AIDS Report Assails Inadequate Financing": New York Times (08/01/89), P. B1; Lambert, Bruce; The New York City AIDS Task Force, a broad coalition of health-care groups and advocates for AIDS services, released a report yesterday warning that the city s health-care system could collapse if the government fails to commit the billions of dollars needed to keep it going. The report, based on 15 months of researc
"All in a Night's Work: The Profits and Losses for Call Boys in the Age of" AIDS: Advocate (08/01/89) No. 530, P. 30; Lee, Craig; Why would anyone sell his body in the age of AIDS? Money. Print ad models, men who advertise in gay magazines as escorts, masseurs, and models, usually seem to come from conventional middle-class backgrounds lured by the prospect of making more money in a few hours than many people make in a week. Others ar
"Leprosy Drug Effective PCP Prophylaxis, Much Cheaper Than Inhaled" Pentamidine: AIDS Alert (08/89) Vol. 4, No. 8, P. 142; Dapsone, a tablet traditionally used to treat leprosy, effectively prevents Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) and costs much less than aerosolized pentamidine, according to a recent study. The study involved 30 AIDS patients at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif. For two years, 6 patients to
"Will New Types of Condoms Protect You from the AIDS Virus?": AIDS Alert (08/89) Vol. 4, No. 8, P. 2S; Companies are currently seeking Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) clearance to market alternatives to traditional condoms. Two of these are condoms for women and another is a mini-condom for men, but at least two have not been shown by any laboratory data to prevent HIV transmission
"Special AIDS Units Do Not Further Strain Hospital Resources": AIDS Alert (08/89) Vol. 4, No. 8, P. 140; A study conducted at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City found that clustering AIDS patients in hospital units enhances quality of patient care and costs no more than scattering patients throughout general medical floors. The study assessed all AIDS patients admitted to the special AIDS unit or scattered in g
"Landmark Study Shows AIDS Virus to be Problem on College Campuses": AIDS Alert (08/89) Vol. 4, No. 8, P. 4S; HIV represents a serious problem on college campuses, according to a survey by the American College Health Association (ACHA) of Rockville, Maryland. Researchers collected blood from students seeking medical attention only when bloodwork was necessary to treatment. The study spanned one year and 19 universities acro
"The Infant Brain": Discover (08/89) Vol. 10, No. 8, P. 30; Montgomery, Geoffrey; More than 90 percent of children with AIDS suffer some form of severe and progressive brain damage. However, when and how HIV invades infant brains remain mysterious. Studies by Arye Rubinstein and William Lyman indicate that the HIV infiltrates the brain in the first trimester of pregnancy, which could mean treatme
"Deficiency Syndrome: Business Isn't Facing up to the AIDS Crisis": Canadian Business (08/89) Vol. 62, No. 8, P. 9; Most Canadian businesses don t take AIDS seriously, according to a March survey of more than 500 companies by the Canadian AIDS Society (CAS). The CAS discovered only 4 percent of the firms in the survey group have developed or are developing policies and programs to deal with AIDS. Twenty-two percent said they didn
"Psychosocial Issues for Seronegative Gay Men in San Francisco": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling (08/89) Vol. 4, No. 9, P. 3; Schochet, Rachel; Mental health practitioners who deal with people with AIDS and their partners and friends must confront the complex psychosocial responses elicited by the AIDS epidemic, writes practitioner and researcher Rachel Schochet. Sometimes those who have lost friends, neighbors, and loved ones to AIDS suffer from survivor s
"Counseling Mixed Antibody Status Couples": Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling (08/89) Vol. 4, No. 9, P. 1; Caldarola, Tom; Among the many pressing AIDS issues health care providers must address are the problems faced by mixed antibody status couples, write Tom Caldarola and Michael Helquist. In counseling a couple where one partner is HIV positive but asymptomatic and the other is HIV negative, the primary issues are psychological and
"The Human Mouse: To Defeat AIDS, an Innovative Young Researcher has" Created Remarkable Hybrids of Mice and Men: Discover (08/89) Vol 10, No 8, P. 49; Montgomery, Geoffrey; Mike McCune, physician and immunologist, has developed a mouse with a human immune system. Eager for an animal model for studying how the HIV destroys the human immune system, he conceived and carried out the idea of transplanting embryonic human immune organs and cells into mice born with SCID, severe combined immun
"Fifth AIDS Conference: Is HIV Spreading at Epidemic Rates in the Inner" Cities?: Scientific American (08/89) Vol 261, No 2, P. 21; Benditt, John; Many presentations at the Fifth International Conference on AIDS in Montreal focused on evidence that HIV may have already begun to radiate outward from IV drug users in the inner city, spreading in conjunction with cocaine use, prostitution, and an explosion of other sexually transmitted diseases known to increase th
"Viruses Reportedly Taken from NIH Focus of Inquiry": Washington Business Journal (07/31/89), P. 1; Menninger, Bonar; Robin Elliott, a biological consultant who worked for Pan Data Systems of Rockville, Md., four years ago, has alleged that Syed Zaki Salahuddin routinely allowed rare and expensive viruses to be removed from his lab at the National Cancer Institute and delivered to Pan Data, which sold the viruses commercially. Salah
"Doctor Labors at Obscure Lab in Quest of AIDS": Washington Business Journal (07/31/89) Vol. 8, No. 10, P. 18; Menninger, Bonar; Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo, researcher at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, may have discovered a virus-like infectious agent that could be a major AIDS co-factor. Lo reportedly isolated his virus-like infectious agent, or VLIA, from a Kaposi s sarcoma skin tumor. He has su
"Bill Would Deny Homosexual Couples Rent Control Rights": United Press International (07/31/89); Albany, N.Y.--Republicans in New York state are planning to introduce legislation to prevent gay couples from receiving the same rights to rent-controlled housing as traditional husbands and wives. A Court of Appeals in New York determined in early July that a landlord could not evict the lover of a man who had died
"FBI Enters Case of Attack on Lesbian": United Press International (07/31/89); San Francisco--On Monday, the FBI announced it will investigate an alleged skinhead attack on a minister who works with AIDS patients. Lynn Griffis, a lesbian minister at San Francisco s Metropolitan Community Church, was abducted and beaten near her home last Thursday morning, apparently because of her AIDS work.
"AIDS Testing Begins Despite Controversy": United Press International (07/31/89); Providence, R.I.--Rhode Island plans to begin an HIV screening program on August 1 despite the protests of critics who say the state is allocating its dollars improperly. Under the plan, prison inmates and those convicted of prostitution or possessing a hypodermic needle must take the HIV antibody test. The screenin
"Substitute for Human Blood May Come from Cows": Washington Post (07/31/89), P. A3; Gladwell, Malcolm; Normal blood performs a variety of functions from warding off infection to healing wounds. Blood substitutes, a holy grail for hematologists for almost a century, only attempt the most critical function of blood, to carry oxygen to the body s cells. Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital want to drain blood
"AIDS Panel to Organize After Delay of 7 Months": New York Times (07/31/89), P. A9; Lambert, Bruce; The National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome meets Thursday in Washington, D.C., to organize and select a leader. The new federal AIDS commission s first meeting was delayed by the slow process of selecting its 15 members. The President and each chamber of Congress choose five of the members. The
"AIDSWEEK: The Law": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (07/30/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; A San Francisco Superior Court ruled that Irwin Memorial Blood Centers had not been negligent in the case of 6-year-old Brendan O Rourke, who contracted AIDS through transfused blood, because the HIV antibody test was not yet available....The American Civil Liberties Union demanded that the Los Angeles County Sheriff
"AIDSWEEK: The World": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (07/30/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; Police along the Riviera are using water cannons to drive transients from the beaches, because several children have pricked themselves on needles left by drug abusers....In Osaka, 7 HIV-seropositive male hemophiliacs sued the government and five United States drug firms for $5.7 milli
"AIDSWEEK: Care": San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (07/30/89), P. A6; Hilton, Bruce; A settlement between 5 major San Francisco hotels and the city s largest union included unprecedented AIDS health benefits for HIV-related drugs and hospice care....More than 10,000 people walked 6.2 miles through Golden Gate Park and raised $1.4 million for AIDS service agencies....The National Organizations Respondi
"High Predictivity of Neurological Manifestations for HIV Infection in" Africa: Lancet (07/29/89) Vol. 2, No. 8657, P. 270; Di Costanzo, Bernard, et al.; Researchers Bernard Di Costanzo et al. report on the prevalence of neurological manifestations of HIV infection in Africa. In Europe and North America, 40 percent of AIDS patients have neurological symptoms. Neurological manifestations in Africa had been reported to be lower, but report finding that the positive pre
"Fetoplacental Passage of Zidovudine": Lancet (07/29/89) Vol. 2, No. 8657, P. 269; Gillet, J. Y. et al.; AZT is usually contraindicated for pregnant women, but some patients admit being pregnant after treatment, according to J. Y. Gillet et al., who report on the fetoplacental passage of zidovudine (AZT) and its glucuronide metabolite. The researchers found s
"HIV Seroconversion Rates in Intravenous Drug Abusers from Northern Italy": Lancet (07/29/89) Vol. 2, No. 8657, P. 269; Nicolosi, Alfredo; Alfredo Nicolosi and Adriano Lazzarin of the Northern Italian Seronegative Drug Addicts Study report that the overall incidence of HIV infection in populations of Italian IV drug users is higher than the rates observed in longitudinal studies of homosexual men in the United States and
"Protesters Catapult Condoms Into London Prison": Reuters (07/29/89); London-- Act Up of London catapulted condoms over the wall of a central London prison Saturday to encourage inmates to practice safe sex. The protest responded to the British government s refusal to distribute condoms and hypodermic needles to inmates as a way to prevent HIV transmission in the country s jails. Act
"Update: Heterosexual Transmission of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome" and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection--United States: Journal of the American Medical Association (07/28/89) Vol. 262, No. 4, P. 463; The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports on heterosexually transmitted HIV infections based on national AIDS surveillance, HIV seroprevalence surveys, and studies of populations at risk for heterosexual transmission. By March 31, 1989, 4 percent of 89,501 AIDS cases in persons 13 years or older were attributed t
"AIDS Drug Development, Availability Intensify": Journal of the American Medical Association (07/28/89) Vol. 262, No. 4, P. 452; Goldsmith, Marsha F.; In an effort to deliver on promises made at the Fifth International Conference on AIDS in Montreal, the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) approved ganciclovir for marketing and erythropoietin for expanded premarket distribution. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of A
"Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Emergency Department Patients": Journal of the American Medical Association (07/28/89) Vol. 262, No. 4, P. 516; Kelen, Gabor D., et al.; Researchers Gabor Kelen and colleagues discovered that 6 percent of 2544 patients admitted consecutively to The Johns Hopkins Emergency Department tested positive for HIV. They found that HIV-infected patients were three times more likely to be admitted as seronegative than seropositive. Health care workers followed
"Quick Release of AIDS Drugs": Science (07/28/89) Vol. 245, No. 4916, P. 345; Marshall, Eliot; The high command in the war against AIDS--James O. Mason, assistant secretary for health of the Department of Health and Human Services, Anthony Fauci, chief of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, Samuel Broder, director of the National Cancer Institute, and Frank Young, commissioner of the F
"New AIDS Drug Passes First Clinical Test": Science (07/28/89) Vol. 245, No. 4916, P. 353; Marx, Jean L.; Robert Yarchoan, Samuel Broder, and others at the National Cancer Institute report that the anti-viral drug dideoxyinosine (DDI) has shown fewer toxic side effects in AIDS patients in phase I clinical trials. There are also indications that DDI suppresses viral replication and promotes weight gain. The drug may also
"State-Sponsored Anti-AIDS Campaign Targets Black Women": United Press International (07/28/89); McNary, Dave; Los Angeles--A new statewide AIDS education program unveiled Friday in California will target black women and teenage girls. Officials introduced the new $300,000 media campaign, How Do I Know You re Okay, in South Central Los Angeles. Statistics show that black women are at greater risk of HIV infection in Califo
"Shock Troops: Activist Risk-Takers May Gain Legitimacy in the War on AIDS": Wall Street Journal (07/28/89), P. A1; Chase, Marilyn; The unsanctioned Compound Q study has provoked crisis and confrontation that will likely result in the acceleration of AIDS drug testing and distribution. Because of the efforts of radical activists and the Compound Q shock troops, the Food and Drug Administration and federal researchers have decided to relinquish so
"New Drug for AIDS Yields Improvements Without Side Effects": New York Times (07/28/89), P. A1; Kolata, Gina; DDI, or dideoxyinosine, has shown dramatic results without toxic side effects in tests on people with AIDS, according to a study published today in Science magazine. In 13 of 26 patients--those who received the highest doses of the experimental drug--DDI promoted 50 percent increases in T-4 lymphocytes and 80 percent
"Vacaville Physician Takes AIDS Hysteria to Oregon": Bay Area Reporter (07/27/89) Vol. 19, No. 30, P. 25; Clark, Keith; Dr. William O Connor, a Vacaville, Calif., physician, believes that HIV can be transmitted by insect bites or by kissing. He also claims condoms aren t effective at stopping transmission, people with AIDS don t change their sexual behavior and continue to infect others, and 200 million people will die worldwide from
"Fundamentalists vs. AIDS": Bay Area Reporter (07/27/89) Vol. 19, No. 30, P. 8; Woodson, R.W.; R.W. Woodson, a former fundamentalist minister, writes that he finds the Concord, Calif., fundamentalist community s reaction against the AIDS anti-discrimination bill disturbing. He writes that nowhere does the New Testament support discrimination against t