                     AIDS Daily Summary 
                      October 13, 1994

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"HIV-Infected Teenager Convicted of Attempted Murder in 3 Rapes"
"Lawyer Says After HIV Diagnosis, He Went From Legal Star to 
Leper"
"Across the USA: Minnesota/Illinois"
"Philadelphia AIDS Advocacy Coalition Sponsors Gubernatorial 
Forum on HIV and AIDS on October 19"
"10K Run and Rollerblade on Oct. 22 at Griffith Park for 
Childrens AIDS Center; Hundreds of Children in Los Angeles County
to Benefit"
"Infant's HIV Infection Attributed to Patient-to-Patient Contact"
"Safe Sex for Lesbians"
"HIV-1 Subtype E in Yunnan, China"
"AIDS Scams Alleged"
"Pillar House to Auction Kitchen Seats for AIDS Benefit"
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"HIV-Infected Teenager Convicted of Attempted Murder in 3 Rapes"
Washington Post (10/13/94) P. C5
     An HIV-positive Maryland teenager has been convicted of attempted
murder in the rape of three women last year.  A second man is 
awaiting trial on charges related to the rapes.  The 
teenager--diagnosed with HIV three years before the 
rapes--pleaded guilty to three rape charges and three counts of 
robbery with a deadly weapon, but pleaded not guilty to the 
charges of attempted second-degree murder.  In making his 
decision, the judge relied on the 1990 Georgia and 1989 Indiana 
cases in which men were convicted of murder for deliberately 
trying to infect other people with HIV.  Related Story: 
Washington Times (10/13) P. A1
      
"Lawyer Says After HIV Diagnosis, He Went From Legal Star to 
Leper"
Philadelphia Inquirer (10/13/94) P. A1;  Slobodzian, Joseph A.
     "Scott Doe," the lawyer who accused his former employers of HIV 
discrimination, testified Tuesday that after just a year at the 
law firm, he received regular praise, big assignments, and large 
bonuses.  Doe claimed the praise and assignments stopped coming 
his way after his boss discovered that he was HIV-positive.  Doe 
said he saw a photocopy of a letter he had received from a Johns 
Hopkins University AIDS specialist in a credenza behind his boss'
desk and had no idea how his boss obtained the letter, which Doe 
said was kept in his desk at the firm.  Doe contradicted a series
of allegations that his former employers made against him as 
grounds for his dismissal, including their claims that he was 
leaving work early and reporting to work late in the morning and 
that he was secretly entering the law firm late at night and on 
weekends to steal confidential salary and shareholder 
information.  Doe will continue his testimony today.
      
"Across the USA: Minnesota/Illinois"
USA Today (10/13/94) P. 8A
     Two states recently announced AIDS-related news.  In Illinois, a 
new federal study reported that 44 percent of the state's private
water wells have been found to be contaminated with 
bacteria--which is extremely dangerous for people with weakened 
immune systems, such as infants or AIDS patients.  In 
Minneapolis, Minn., a syringe-exchange program has been approved 
to slow the spread of AIDS among intravenous drug users.  The 
three-year program will begin next year.
      
"Philadelphia AIDS Advocacy Coalition Sponsors Gubernatorial 
Forum on HIV and AIDS on October 19"
PR Newswire (10/12/94)
     A gubernatorial forum on HIV and AIDS will be held by the 
Philadelphia AIDS Advocacy Coalition on Oct. 19.  Estelle B. 
Richman, Philadelphia's Health Commissioner, will moderate the 
event.  She will be joined by Lt. Governor Mark Singel, as well 
as a campaign representative of Congressmen Tom Ridge and Timothy
C. Holloway.  "We are really thrilled to be able to offer the 
public an opportunity to speak to the candidates for Pennsylvania
Governor on the importance of HIV and AIDS," said Norman L. 
Baker, President of the Philadelphia AIDS Advocacy Coalition.
      
"10K Run and Rollerblade on Oct. 22 at Griffith Park for 
Childrens AIDS Center; Hundreds of Children in Los Angeles County
to Benefit"
Business Wire (10/12/94)
     Run & Roll For Our Future '94, a 10K run and rollerblade event, 
is being presented Oct. 22 by Ronald McDonald Charities in 
recognition of AIDS Awareness Month. The event will benefit 
hundreds of children at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles who are 
being treated for HIV and AIDS.  Activities include the 5K 
Celebrity/Family Rollalong, which will honor the children, 
families, and friends currently being helped by CHLA and will be 
dedicated to the children who have died of AIDS while at CHLA.  
The Childrens AIDS Center at CHLA--which emphasizes whole family 
support--is the largest care provider in the Western United 
States for youths of all ages with HIV or AIDS.
      
"Infant's HIV Infection Attributed to Patient-to-Patient Contact"
AIDS Alert (10/94) Vol. 9, No. 10, P. 133
     The New York City Department of Health and the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention report that patient-to-patient 
transmission resulting from an unidentified breakdown in 
universal precautions at a New York City hospital was the cause 
of an 11-month-old boy's infection with HIV in 1993.  
HIV-antibody testing was performed when the boy was hospitalized 
for Pneumocystis carinii, a complication of AIDS.  Officials 
reached the conclusion of patient-to-patient transmission because
two other HIV-positive patients were in the pediatric isolation 
unit undergoing similar procedures to the infant's--including 
blood draws, IV medications, and eye washes.  There were 46 
one-hour periods in which the same health care workers performed 
32 procedures on both the baby and one of the other patients.  Of
the 32 health care workers who treated the patients, only nine 
agreed to be tested for HIV--all were found negative.  Mary E. 
Chamberland, chief of the HIV infections branch of the CDC's 
hospital infections program, said that universal 
precautions--used effectively on patients in a similar 
unit--should have prevented HIV transmission whether any of the 
patients were infected or not.
      
"Safe Sex for Lesbians"
Focus (09/94) Vol. 8, No. 9, P. 8
     A lesbian AIDS pamphlet describes how a lesbian can avoid being 
infected with HIV by using simple precautions.  Plastic wrap, 
dental dams, or non-lubricated condoms should be used during oral
sex.  Plastic gloves should be worn during sex play.  Sex toys 
should not be shared without protecting against transmission by 
either cleaning them with bleach or by covering them with 
condoms.
      
"HIV-1 Subtype E in Yunnan, China"
Lancet (10/01/94) Vol. 344, No. 8927, P. 953;  Cheng, Hehe;  
Zhang, Jiapeng;  Capizzi, Jeffrey et al
     In a letter to the editor published in The Lancet medical 
journal, Cheng et al report that 80 percent of the HIV infections
reported in China during 1993 were from the southwestern province
of Yunnan.  HIV-1 isolates from these people and from intravenous
drug users (IDUs) in remote mountainous areas bordering 
Myanmar--the site of a 1989 HIV epidemic among IV drug 
addicts--were genetically characterized and classified within 
subtype B.  This subtype represents almost all of the HIV-1 
infections in North America and Europe.  In Thailand, the 
heterosexually transmitted HIV-1 epidemic is primarily due to 
subtype E.  Cheng et al report a segregation of HIV-1 subtypes 
among IDUs and people with sexual risk behaviors in Thailand.  
Subtype B is predominant among IDUs, while subtype E is the cause
of a massive heterosexual epidemic--yet subtype E has not been 
shown to be more transmissible than other subtypes.  The authors 
note how the introduction of subtype E into Yunnan via 
international prostitution emphasizes the vulnerability of women 
in the sex trade and the need for China to develop HIV control 
programs to prevent widespread sexual transmission of HIV.
      
"AIDS Scams Alleged"
Advocate (10/04/94) No. 665, P. 18
     Two fraud allegations emphasize the potentially negative business
side of the AIDS epidemic.  Michael Alan Booth, an Atlanta 
resident who has AIDS, charged Caremark International Inc. with 
inflating his bills and prescribing unnecessary care so that it 
could pay kickbacks to two doctors and a pharmacy.  The 
Illinois-based home health care provider, already indicted as 
part of a federal investigation into alleged kickbacks, has 
denied the accusations.  In Washington, D.C., the Securities and 
Exchange Commission accused Life Partners Inc., a 
viatical-settlement firm, of selling millions of dollars in 
unregistered securities--which is illegal.  The chairman of Life 
Partners, Brian Pardo, denied the allegations and accused the SEC
of "mischaracterizing the nature of our business and overstepping
its authority."
      
"Pillar House to Auction Kitchen Seats for AIDS Benefit"
Nation's Restaurant News (10/03/94) Vol. 28, No. 39, P. 19
     The Pillar House in Newton Lower Falls, Mass., is auctioning four
seats at its chef's table as part of an AIDS benefit on Oct. 22. 
All proceeds will go toward the construction of a computer center
for the Foundation for Children with AIDS.  The kitchen seats 
will be sold to bidders of more than $1,500.  Tickets for seats 
in the main dining room may be purchased for $150.  The 
seven-course meal will be prepared by six talented chefs from 
around the region.
      
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