                     AIDS Daily Summary 
                  Thursday, October 3, 1996
     
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"African With HIV Is Granted Asylum"
"Life After Death: New AIDS Drug Brings Hope to Provincetown, But 
Unexpected Woes"
"Across the USA: Minnesota"
"California Law Chief Takes Drug Fight to 'Doonesbury'" 
"Letter Writer Finally Gets White House Attention" 
"Protein May Aid HIV Treatment Without Side-Effects" 
"Feature: Senegal--The Spectre of AIDS"
"Baltimore May Head AIDS Vaccine Panel" 
"Adultery: A New Furor Over an Old Sin"
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"African With HIV Is Granted Asylum"
Washington Times (10/03/96) P. A1; Larson, Ruth
     An African computer engineer was granted asylum by a New
York immigration judge on the grounds that he is HIV-positive and 
fears that he would be alienated if he were forced to return home. 
 Earlier this year, the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV-AIDS 
recommended the lifting of a 1993 ban on allowing people with 
communicable diseases to immigrate to the United States.  The 
council suggested that people with HIV should not be deported and 
that they should be granted asylum.  The African engineer applied 
for asylum based on his HIV status in 1991, after deportation 
proceedings began against him.  He said that he was unable to get 
a job in his country, and that drugs to treat his illness were not 
accessible there.
     
"Life After Death: New AIDS Drug Brings Hope to Provincetown, But 
Unexpected Woes"
Wall Street Journal (10/03/96) P. A1; Carton, Barbara
     Provincetown, Mass., a popular gay resort in the 1970s, has
seen its steady rate of deaths attributed to AIDS slow due to the 
use of powerful new drugs.  One of every 15 residents in the town 
now has AIDS, and 393 have died of the disease.  The new protease 
inhibitors, combined with older AIDS drugs, are helping AIDS 
patients to live longer, however, impacting both the town's 
economy and atmosphere.  This hope for survival has brought 
elation to the residents of Provincetown, but, at the same time, 
has generated anxiety about the unknown path ahead.  Patients 
wonder if they should return to work, and how they can pay for the 
expensive drugs.  With AIDS patients living longer, the town has 
more difficulty meeting the demand for housing assistance.  The 
economy is not prepared to sustain full-time work for recovering 
patients, and many say they do not want to return to their former 
careers.  The patients have also voiced concerns about losing aid 
if they start new ones.  The new optimism and energy in 
Provincetown is evident in the social scene, but counselors worry 
that people may become too hopeful and stop practicing safe sex.
     
"Across the USA: Minnesota"
USA Today (10/03/96) P. 10A
     The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded a
$2.8 million grant to five AIDS research programs conducted by 
the University of Minnesota and the state health department.  The 
projects will study the effectiveness of CDC prevention programs 
at controlling the spread of AIDS.
     
"California Law Chief Takes Drug Fight to 'Doonesbury'" 
New York Times (10/03/96) P. A14; Golden, Tim
     California Attorney General Dan Lungren, who  was identified
on Tuesday in a "Doonesbury" cartoon as the man who organized a 
raid of San Francisco's Cannabis Buyers' Club, called a press 
conference on Wednesday to criticize the strip.  The club claimed 
to provide marijuana only for medical relief, to people suffering 
from illnesses like cancer and AIDS.  A upcoming proposition on 
the California ballot will ask voters to decide whether marijuana 
should be legalized for medical use or not.  The "Doonesbury" 
strip, written by Gary Trudeau, has taken up the issue, 
generating complaints from Lungren.
     
"Letter Writer Finally Gets White House Attention" 
Washington Times (10/03/96) P. A6
     Stephanie Honore, a 17-year-old from Columbus, Ohio,
threatened to blow up the White House after four letters she 
wrote to the president were not answered.  The letters concerned 
AIDS, education, animal rights, and the environment.  Her fifth 
letter, which also wished President Clinton dead and directed an 
obscenity at him, got Stephanie a visit by Secret Service agents, 
but no charges will be filed since no criminal intent was 
apparent, the Secret Service said.
     
"Protein May Aid HIV Treatment Without Side-Effects" 
Reuters (10/02/96)
     Scientists at the University of Bern, Switzerland, announced
Wednesday that they have found a protein that can help treat HIV. 
Marco Baggiolini and colleagues wrote in a letter to the journal 
Nature that they found that a modified form of a natural 
chemokine known as RANTES blocks HIV's entry into certain white 
blood cells without the side effect similar treatments cause.  
Chemokines bind to cell-surface receptors, which HIV needs to 
infect a cell.
     
"Feature: Senegal--The Spectre of AIDS"
PANA Wire Service (10/02/96); Ndiaye, Cheikh Tidiane
     In the town of Ourossogui, Senegal, the number of HIV
infections is increasing--a trend attributed to men who travel 
for long periods and bring the virus home with them.  Among the 
cases recorded for 1996, two-thirds of the carriers were men.  
Prospective blood donors are often found to be infected, 
including one man who was to give blood to his wife who was 
giving birth.  An education program has been launched, but is 
ineffective due to a language barrier and a lack of teaching 
materials.
     
"Baltimore May Head AIDS Vaccine Panel" 
Science (09/20/96) Vol. 273, No. 5282, P. 1647
     David Baltimore, of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, may be named director of the new AIDS Vaccine 
Research Committee, an organization being set up to take over the 
U.S. government's AIDS vaccine research effort.  The new group is 
being created at the suggestion of a panel of scientists who 
conducted a review last spring of AIDS research at the National 
Institutes of Health.  The panel recommended that the NIH's $125 
million AIDS vaccine research engine be restructured and operated 
by a committee directed by "a distinguished, non-government 
scientist."  Baltimore said he has been discussing the position 
with government officials, but noted that he has not made a 
decision yet and that he does not have a deadline.
     
"Adultery: A New Furor Over an Old Sin"
Newsweek (09/30/96) Vol. 128, No. 14, P. 54; Adler, Jerry
     Americans' attitudes about adultery have changed over the
last two decades, as have their views of marriage and fidelity. 
A 1974 survey found that, while a majority of every age group 
said that adultery was "always wrong," the smallest percentage, 
59 percent, was among those aged 18 to 29.  Now in their 40s, 74 
percent of this same group condemned adultery.  People in their 
20s now have the most conservative sexual values, the survey 
found.  Other results of a Newsweek poll indicated that half of 
those surveyed said adultery was wrong because it is immoral, 25 
percent disapproved because it can end a marriage, while 17 
percent said it was wrong because of the risk of AIDS and other 
diseases.
     
     
