                     AIDS Daily Summary 
                      November 16, 1995

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"At Uncle Sam's, No One Answers"
"Across the USA: South Carolina"
"What Have We Learned If We Can't Share?"
"Blue Cross Announces $2.8 Million in Grants for Health Programs"
"Playboy TV Preempts Prime-time Line-up with Evening of 
Programming to Support World AIDS Day; Includes Live Show with 
Suzi Landolphi"
"Applied Immune Science Reports Third Quarter Results"
"Infectious Disease Testing for Blood Transfusions"
"AIDS: Why Let the Courtroom Become Your Classroom?"
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"At Uncle Sam's, No One Answers"
Washington Post (11/16/95) P. A1;  Barr, Stephen;  Montgomery, 
David
     Although the federal government shutdown does not affect all 
government offices, the closure has already taken its toll.  For 
example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has 
halted its disease surveillance, including monitoring current 
AIDS cases and the 1995 flu season.  In addition, surveys on 
public health and training and prevention efforts have been 
canceled.
      
"Across the USA: South Carolina"
USA Today (11/16/95) P. 13A
     Conway, S.C., television station WBTW will broadcast a retraction
and pay a settlement to Erin Kirby, a student at Coastal Carolina
University who was wrongly identified in 1993 as being 
HIV-infected.
      
"What Have We Learned If We Can't Share?"
Toronto Globe and Mail (11/15/95) P. A20;  Graydon, Michael
     During the past 12 years, gay men grew in the face of AIDS, yet 
blinded themselves to the world beyond their own community, 
contends writer and activist Michael Graydon in the Toronto Globe
and Mail.  Within the epidemic, women are now at particular risk 
for the disease--as gay men were and are--and the necessary steps
to prevent that devastation are those that gay men either learned
or developed in AIDS service organizations in the past 10 years. 
However, according to Graydon, a gay man himself, even though gay
men's voices are stronger than many, this time--which could be 
marked by sharing a decade of knowledge--is instead a period of 
"unrelenting selfishness."  Furthermore, some gay men even claim,
"No one suffers more than we do."  Graydon notes that the 
perspective of these men remains completely on themselves.  
Considering the many individuals who have already been hit by the
AIDS epidemic, gay men cannot permit such factors as sexism, 
racism, or classism to prevent them from sharing all that is 
possible, Graydon concludes.
      
"Blue Cross Announces $2.8 Million in Grants for Health Programs"
Business Wire (11/15/95)
     Blue Cross of California has awarded 15 health-related programs 
grants totaling nearly $2.8 million.  Of those programs, Los 
Angeles' AIDS Healthcare Foundation received $150,000 to increase
its prevention services.  Additionally, Gay & Lesbian Adolescent 
Social Services, Inc., West Hollywood, was given $153,402 for its
Mobile Health Outreach Project, which offers primary health care 
and HIV/AIDS prevention and screening for youths on the streets 
of Hollywood.
      
"Playboy TV Preempts Prime-time Line-up with Evening of 
Programming to Support World AIDS Day; Includes Live Show with 
Suzi Landolphi"
Business Wire (11/15/95)
     In recognition of World AIDS Day, Playboy Television will devote 
four hours of programming to AIDS awareness and the issue of 
safer sex.  The nation's third largest pay-per-view service will 
offer a special lineup, including a live call-in show featuring 
AIDS educator, comedienne, and entertainer Suzi Landolphi.  The 
cable station has challenged other cable affiliates to provide 
Landolphi's show free of charge as a public service, but has 
suggested that those systems charging subscribers for the program
should consider donating their proceeds to an AIDS organization. 
Landolphi has attracted national acclaim for her lecture program 
"Hot, Sexy & Safer."
      
"Applied Immune Science Reports Third Quarter Results"
Business Wire (11/14/95)
     Applied Immune Sciences reported revenues of $166,000 for the 
third quarter, which ended September 30th, compared to $263,000 
in revenues for the same period last year.  Net loss was 
$6,568,000 compared to $6,396,000 in 1994.  Applied Immune 
Sciences entered into a strategic alliance with Rhone-Poulenc 
Rorer in 1993 and is currently affiliated with the newly created 
division RPR Gencell, which provides it access to institutions in
the biotechnology field.  Products now in clinical trials include
treatments for bone marrow transplants, cancer, and AIDS.
      
"Infectious Disease Testing for Blood Transfusions"
Journal of the American Medical Association (11/01/95) Vol. 274, 
No. 17, P. 1374
     The National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Panel on 
Infectious Disease Testing for Blood Transfusions composed a 
statement on infectious disease testing for blood transfusions 
following its recent conference.  Among its recommendations, the 
nonfederal, nonadvocate, 12-member panel of experts said that 
antibody to hepatitis B core antigen testing should be continued 
because it may help eliminate some instances of posttransfusion 
hepatitis B.  In addition, it may serve as a surrogate marker for
HIV-infection in donors and may stop some cases of 
transfusion-related HIV infection.  According to the panel, 
public health surveillance and collaboration between public 
health and transfusion specialists is essential for responding to
emerging risks of infectious disease in the blood supply.
      
"AIDS: Why Let the Courtroom Become Your Classroom?"
American Management Association (11/95) Vol. 84, No. 11, P. 62;  
Breuer, Nancy L.
     Just because an employee is infected with HIV does not mean that 
the courtroom must be involved, writes Nancy A. Breuer in the 
American Management Association. Overall, AIDS is a business 
issue--and thus a productivity and a market issue--that requires 
strategic planning.  Some suggestions for planning include 
creating an internal task force to assess the impact of HIV/AIDS 
on the workforce and on the market, training managers and 
supervisors how to handle disclosure and medical confidentiality,
providing education for employees and their families, and 
treating any HIV-infected worker as you would want to be treated 
if you faced a terminal illness in the prime of your life.
      
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