                     AIDS Daily Summary
                       April 17, 1996
     
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"Real Estate: A Consolidation of Offices for the Gay Men's Health 
Crisis in a New Lease on West 24th Street"
"Across the USA: New York"
"Across the USA: Nebraska"
"63,000 AIDS Cases Reported in Kenya"
"Repeat HIV Tests Reassure Thousands of Britons" 
"UPI World Issues: Indonesia AIDS at a Glance" 
"Japan Provides Anti-TB Medicines to Nepal"
"HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention Programs for Adults in Prisons 
and Jails and Juveniles in Confinement Facilities--United States, 
1994"
"Russian Region to Protect HIV-Infected" 
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"Real Estate: A Consolidation of Offices for the Gay Men's Health 
Crisis in a New Lease on West 24th Street"
New York Times (04/17/96) P. D22;  Rothstein, Mervyn
     The Gay Men's Health Crisis, the nation's oldest and largest
AIDS service organization, will consolidate its offices into a 
newly leased 150,000 square-foot building at 199 West 24th Street. 
The organization's facilities are now spread out at five sites in 
the Chelsea/Midtown South area of Manhattan.  Mark Robinson, the 
group's executive director, said it had decided to stay in the 
Chelsea area because it was the organization's first home and 
because it is convenient to most clients.  The organization may 
collaborate with a medical center to provide on-site medical care. 
Robinson said no money set aside for programs would be used for 
renovation and construction.  A campaign to raise capital funds is 
underway, and the move to the new building is expected to be 
completed within a year.  Louis Bradbury, the board president, said 
the move would improve services and save the group money in 
facility costs.  He said the organization would now be able to open 
the David Geffen Center for HIV Prevention and Health Education.
     
"Across the USA: New York"
USA Today (04/17/96) P. 11A
     AIDS will leave 58,000 children in New York motherless by
2001, researchers at City University of New York Medical School 
estimate.  Nine out of 10 of the children will be black or 
Hispanic.
     
"Across the USA: Nebraska"
USA Today (04/17/96) P. 11A
     Although men who have sex with men are still the largest
group in the state at risk for HIV, HIV infection among women, 
heterosexuals, and minorities is increasing in the state, 
Nebraska authorities report.
     
"63,000 AIDS Cases Reported in Kenya" 
Xinhua News Service (04/17/96)
     Kenya has reported 63,000 AIDS cases since 1964, Nyanza 
Provincial Medical Officer Richard Muga told attendees at a 
workshop on AIDS and sexually transmitted disease on Tuesday.  Of 
the total number, 14,000 AIDS cases were in the Nyanza Province. 
Muga said that unless measures are taken to fight the disease, 
Kenya's work force will be hurt.  Most people affected by AIDS are 
in their most productive years, Muga said, adding that AIDS has 
led to discrimination by insurance companies, early retirement, 
dismissals of employees from work, and rejection by fellow 
workers.
     
"Repeat HIV Tests Reassure Thousands of Britons" 
Reuters (04/16/96)
     Thousands of Britons, anxious about the reliability of HIV
test results they have received, have now been reassured of their 
accuracy, the government said Monday.  Health minister John Bowis 
told Parliament that out of 25,000 samples tested with a 
questionable test kit, more than 90 percent had been re-tested, 
and all but three were reconfirmed as negative.  Britain ordered 
re-tests for blood that was initially screened with a kit made by 
Abbott Laboratories following reports that the test missed four 
cases of HIV infection.
     
"UPI World Issues: Indonesia AIDS at a Glance" 
United Press International (04/16/96)
     The sex trade in Indonesia is thought to be largely
responsible for the rapid increase in the country's number of HIV 
infections and AIDS cases.  However, a two-year-old program that 
promotes AIDS awareness among prostitutes in Jakarta is resulting 
in dramatic improvement in condom use.  A total of 380 cases of 
HIV or AIDS have been reported in the country, but experts say 
the number of cases could be as high as 200,000.  As in most 
Asian countries, in Indonesia the virus is spread primarily 
through heterosexual contact.
     
"Japan Provides Anti-TB Medicines to Nepal" 
Xinhua News Service (04/16/96)
     The Japanese government has donated nearly $750,000 worth of
anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs to Nepal through the Japan 
International Cooperation Agency.  The medicines, to be 
distributed to all 75 districts of the country through the 
national TB control project, would meet 90 percent of Nepal's 
total yearly demand for TB treatment.
     
"HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention Programs for Adults in Prisons 
and Jails and Juveniles in Confinement Facilities--United States, 
1994"
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (04/05/96) Vol. 45, No. 13, 
P. 268;  Hammett, T.M.;  Widom, R.
     Researchers from the U.S. Department of Justice's National 
Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC) report that a 1994 survey of federal, state, 
and some local prison systems identified a need to increase 
HIV/AIDS education and prevention among adult male inmates and 
confined juveniles.  In the adult prison and jail population, the 
AIDS rate was nearly six times that of the total U.S. adult 
population.  HIV education programs in the jails included 
peer-led programs, lectures, discussions, videotapes, and written 
materials, though the percentage of systems providing 
instructor-led programs decreased to 75 percent in 1994.  The 
survey found a small number of AIDS cases in the juvenile systems 
surveyed, but the rate of gonorrhea--an indicator of high-risk 
sexual activity--was much higher than the rate in the general 
population.  The facilities offered peer- and instructor-led 
programs, as well as audio-visual and written materials.  An 
editorial accompanying the NIJ/CDC study points out that HIV 
education is especially important for inmates and confined 
juveniles because they are vulnerable to HIV and could spread it 
in the community.  The authors therefore advocate interactive 
education, counseling, testing, and providing condoms and bleach 
in the facilities.
     
"Russian Region to Protect HIV-Infected"
American Medical News (04/08/96) Vol. 39, No. 14, P. 25
     Lawmakers in the republic of Kalmykia, the site of Russia's
first major AIDS outbreak, have approved legislation to guarantee 
people with HIV free medical care, priority housing, education 
and employment.  Beginning in 1988, an AIDS epidemic spread 
through hospitals in the southern Russian region, infecting 260 
infants.  The wave began when a man who had been infected in 
Africa infected his wife, who passed the virus on to her child.  
The child was hospitalized in Elista, the Kalmyk capital, and 
doctors further spread the virus by re-using tainted syringes.
     
     
