                     AIDS Daily Summary 
                      December 4, 1995

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"Epidemiology: 'Center' of AIDS Shifting to Asia"
"The Reliable Source: Sharon Stone"
"Federal AIDS Education Ad Campaign Aims at Teenagers"
"Red Cross Left in Lurch for Funds, CEO Says"
"German HIV Victims May Have to Register"
"Germans Jailed on AIDS Day Over Tainted Blood"
"Court Jails Woman Who Injected Lover With Blood"
"Parents, Students Support School Condom Programs"
"Is HIV the Cause of AIDS?"
"All About AIDS"
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"Epidemiology: 'Center' of AIDS Shifting to Asia"
Washington Post (12/04/95) P. A2;  Brown, David
     Most new AIDS cases will occur in Asia, not Africa, by the turn 
of the century, the World Bank said on Friday.  According to 
Richard Feachem, one of the institution's senior health 
officials, the bank's prediction adds to the increasing amount of
evidence that the "center of gravity of the epidemic is shifting 
from Africa to Asia."  Although India and Thailand are currently 
Asia's hot spots for HIV infection, many AIDS authorities are 
especially concerned about the virus' effect on China and 
Indonesia, in part, because of their large populations and the 
relative lack of dedication to HIV-prevention efforts by 
government officials.
      
"The Reliable Source: Sharon Stone"
Washington Post (12/04/95) P. B3;  Gerhart, Ann;  Groer, Annie
     Actress Sharon Stone has taken Elizabeth Taylor's place as the 
lead fund-raiser for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, 
according to Reuters.  "I am shocked by how little we know and 
how little we understand," said Stone, who is expected to raise 
$76 million in four years.
      
"Federal AIDS Education Ad Campaign Aims at Teenagers"
Washington Post (12/01/95) P. A16
     Health authorities introduced on Thursday a new ad campaign 
geared toward teenagers, called "Respect Yourself, Protect 
Yourself."  The fast-paced, contemporary public service 
announcements feature young people discussing sex, AIDS, condoms,
virginity, and abstinence.  For example, in one ad, a young woman
named Vivian says, "What do I say to a guy who won't use a 
condom?  Good-bye!"  In another ad, a youth named Dwayne states, 
"I'm HIV-negative, and I intend to stay that way."  Secretary of 
Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala noted that the 
television and radio commercials have been praised by people who 
think they go too far, and by those who believe they do not go 
far enough.  The Family Research Council, for example, described 
the ads as an "irresponsible use of federal funds" that are based
on the "flawed premise that there is nothing wrong or harmful 
about teenagers having sex."  However, some advocacy groups, 
including the AIDS Interfaith Network, hailed the effort for 
including a "range of prevention messages to young men and women,
both gay and heterosexual, to those who are currently sexually 
active, as well as to those who choose to abstain from sexual 
relations until they commit to a long-term monogamous 
relationship."  Related Story: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (12/01) P.
12A
      
"Red Cross Left in Lurch for Funds, CEO Says"
Toronto Globe and Mail (12/01/95) P. A1;  Picard, Andre
     The Canadian Red Cross (CRC) is experiencing a serious financial 
crisis, due, in part, to new blood safety measures and the 
provinces' reluctance to pay for them, said Douglas Lindores, 
secretary-general and CEO of the humanitarian agency.  "We've 
already gone in hock for $30-million to $40-million to keep 
Canadians supplied with safe blood and blood products, so this 
situation cannot continue much longer," Lindores explained.  
Phillip Dresch, interim executive of the Canadian Blood Agency 
(CBA), said that while the public should not really be concerned 
about debt, he added that the CRC's financial problems "could 
jeopardize the security of the blood supply in Canada."  Dresch 
observed that a long-term funding arrangement was imperative, and
that he believed one was possible.  The CBA finances and 
established policy for the CRC on behalf of Canada's provincial 
and territorial health ministries.
      
"German HIV Victims May Have to Register"
Washington Times (12/04/95) P. A13
     German Health Minister Horst Seehofer said that HIV-infected 
Germans may be forced to register by name with the government.  
This is just one of the measures being studied by two 
governments-sponsored AIDS research groups to fight the spread of
HIV-1 subtype E, Seehofer explained.  An estimated 14,000 Germans
have AIDS, and between 50,000 to 60,000 are reportedly 
HIV-positive.
      
"Germans Jailed on AIDS Day Over Tainted Blood"
Reuters (12/01/95)
     In Germany on Friday, three executives at UB Plasma were 
convicted of distributing poorly tested blood products, and thus 
causing the HIV-related deaths of at least two persons.  Company 
owner and managing director Ulrich Kleist and head controller 
Dieter Stuer were both sentenced to four years in jail, and lab 
doctor Alexander Kressler was sentenced to three years, a court 
spokesman reported.  The 1993 scandal, which involved some 71,000
batches of plasma that were sent to more than 50 hospitals, 
caused thousands of fearful Germans to be tested for HIV, 
thinking they might have been infected during operations many 
years ago.
      
"Court Jails Woman Who Injected Lover With Blood"
Reuters (12/01/95)
     A British court sentenced a Ugandan woman to two years in jail 
for injecting her lover with blood as a "parting present" when he
wanted to end the relationship to be with someone else.  Judge 
Heather Steel said 25-year-old Rhena Ndagga's crime was 
"deliberate, calculating, and cruel," and recommended that the 
woman be deported.  During Ndagga's relationship with 28-year-old
David Kabagwire, the two were tested for HIV.  Kabagwire's test 
was negative, but Ndagga's was positive.  Soon after the results 
were in, Kabagwire told her he had begun seeing another woman, 
though he continued to sleep with Ndagga.  One day, as the couple
left their home for confirmatory HIV tests, Kabagwire felt a 
sharp pain in his buttocks.  He called the police after finding a
needle and syringe on the rug with what appeared to be blood 
inside.  Thus far, Kabagwire has continued to test HIV-negative.
      
"Parents, Students Support School Condom Programs"
AIDS Alert (11/95) Vol. 10, No. 11, P. 141
     Studies of New York City schools indicate that parents support 
condom availability in schools and that students take advantage 
of them.  The city's program mandates that each of its 120 high 
schools establish a health resource center in which trained 
personnel provide the prophylactics to students who request them.
The schools must also add no less than six lessons to present 
HIV/AIDS classes, and provide rudimentary HIV/AIDS information to
parents.  The program was revised last year to enable parents to 
have their children "opt out" if they did not want them receiving
condoms.  The Academy of Educational Development (AED) found that
nearly 70 percent of parents favored the New York program, and 
only 2 percent chose to bar their children from obtaining condoms
at school.  Additionally, 31 percent of the sexually active boys 
and 18 percent of the sexually active girls surveyed said they 
would take advantage of the free protection.  The AED's Alice 
Radosh said that one great challenge now is to persuade more 
girls to require their partners to wear condoms.  According to 
the survey, 22 percent of the sexually active girls did not want 
to use condoms, and 42 percent of that number say they had 
unprotected sex.
      
"Is HIV the Cause of AIDS?"
Lancet (11/18/95) Vol. 346, No. 8986, P. 1371;  Duesberg, Peter 
H.
     In a letter to the editor of the Lancet, Professor Peter Duesberg
responds to a commentary in which editor Richard Horton asks 
Duesberg--who does not believe that HIV causes AIDS--to "concede 
defeat" in light of yet another connection between the virus, 
years of life, and death.  Duesberg notes, however, that Darby et
al.--the authors of the study to which Horton refers--do not 
detail the "specificity" of death that separates hemophiliacs 
with antibodies to HIV from those without.  He also lists 10 
points which he claims Horton asks him to stop questioning in 
view of the study.  The University of California at Berkeley 
professor states that he will concede if Horton disproves two 
predictions.  The first is that two groups of hemophiliacs, who 
vary only in antibody to HIV, but have the same lifetime 
consumption of factor VIII and other medications, will end up 
having the same risk of AIDS.  The second prediction is that in 
two groups of HIV-infected hemophiliacs matched for lifetime 
dosage of factor VIII, with one group treated with such anti-AIDS
drugs as zidovudine and the other group not treated at all, the 
medicated group will have a ten-fold greater mortality than the 
second group.
      
"All About AIDS"
Science (11/10/95) Vol. 270, No. 5238, P. 919
     A plethora of calls from people who question whether HIV causes 
AIDS or need to reinforce their arguments to skeptics has led the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to 
create a pamphlet on the subject.  "We found ourselves constantly
trying to send people references," said NIAID Director Anthony 
Fauci.  "We decided to put it all in one document."  The 61-page 
booklet, entitled "The Relationship Between the Human 
Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immunodeficiency 
Syndrome," notes that "if public health messages on AIDS 
prevention are diluted by the misconception that HIV is not 
responsible for AIDS, otherwise preventable cases of HIV 
infection and AIDS may occur, adding to the global tragedy of the
epidemic."
      
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