Many of those at high risk of developing AIDS remain suspicious of government attempts to test a vaccine -- especially one whose benefits remain questionable -- noted Derek Hodel, the treatment and research director for
the AIDS Action Council of Washington, D.C.
Riley: The health care worker caring for
the AIDS patient has a unique opportunity to be that person's link to humanity.
These charges against Bush reflect the sense among activists that if twice as much is spent on
the AIDS budget, then the disease will be cured twice as fast, if three times as much is spent, then it will be cured three times as fast, and so on.
The AIDS Malignancy Consortium (AMC) was developed in 1995 to expedite the rapid evaluation of hypothesis-driven Phase I, II, and III multicenter clinical trials that utilize the expertise of both NCI--and NIAID-sponsored scientists.
But you don't have to look as far as organ transplants to see just how far President Bush is willing to go to follow through on
the AIDS efforts he outlined in his State of the Union speech: not very far at all.
But AIDSWatch represents a crucial opportunity for
the AIDS community to speak as a powerful, single voice on funding issues.
The AIDS program teacher's manual informs the instructor as early as grade 3 that "information related to sexual transmission of AIDS should be used only if needed to answer specific questions."
But Kwitny's credibility suffers when he ignores the many members of
the AIDS community who do not think Delaney is yet a candidate for sainthood.
* The Kaiser Family Foundation publishes detailed, reliable reports on HIV, Medicaid, the uninsured, and prescription drug coverage (including
the AIDS Drug Assistance Program).
He began to look for viruses that can cause cancer in humans, focusing on a particular class of viruses that insert copies of themselves among a cell's genes--just like
the AIDS virus does.
In the case of
the AIDS Rides--four of which will be held around the country this year--riders have baked in 100-plus temperatures as they've pedaled through California's central valley and have fought near-torrential downpours as they've pushed their way between New York and Boston.
"Answering
the AIDS Denialists: CD4 (T-Cell) Counts, and Viral Load," by Bruce Mirken, AIDS Treatment News #341 http://www.aids.org/immunet/atn.nsf/page/a-341-02