                     AIDS Daily Summary 
                        June 10, 1996
     
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"Court to Rule on Girl, 3, With AIDS"
"Discounts Provided for New Medication" 
"HIV-Drug Nears Approval"
"New Anti-Viral Drug Recommended"
"Learning What Trip Really Means"
"AIDSWALK Rallies Forces Against Killer" 
"Black Clergy Exhorted to Take on AIDS"
"Healing the Wounds of the Past: Salvadoran Doctor's Mission Is 
to Help the City's Latinos"
"Special Consultation on Syringe Laws Addresses Epidemics, Airs 
Controversy"
"A Tax Break [Is Proposed for AIDS Patients and Others]" 
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"Court to Rule on Girl, 3, With AIDS" 
Washington Post (06/10/96) P. D3;  Lewis, Nancy
     A "do not resuscitate" order for a 3-year-old girl with AIDS
was temporarily removed Thursday in a ruling by the Maryland 
Court of Special Appeals.  Doctors say the girl is in grave 
condition because her mother hid her from authorities for six 
months.  The mother's attorney had filed an emergency appeal of a 
district court judge's decision to appoint a guardian and to 
approve the "do not resuscitate" order.  The girl's doctor has 
testified that any attempt to resuscitate her would lead to her 
death because of her serious condition.  She weighs about 17 
pounds, is unable to move her head, and is in constant pain even 
though she is receiving an adult dose of a painkiller more than 
20 times the strength of morphine.  The girl's medical records 
revealed that medical personnel suspected that the mother may 
have been abusing drugs at the time of the neglect, although she 
has testified that she has not used drugs for eight years.
     
"Discounts Provided for New Medication"
Wall Street Journal (06/10/96) P. A19;  Perelman, Gregg
     In a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal, Gregg 
Perelman, president and CEO of Stadtlanders Pharmacy, claims a 
recent Journal article represented pharmacy prices for protease 
inhibitors as lower than they actually are.  He points out that 
Stadtlanders, which distributes Merck's protease inhibitor 
Crixivan, provides the drug to about 80 percent of their 
customers at a large discount.  He also says that most of the 
people using the drug have insurance that covers part of the 
cost, and that others can use a cash discount prescription card.  
According to Perelman, the prices listed in the article for other 
protease inhibitors were 15 percent to 20 percent below actual 
pharmacy prices.
     
"HIV-Drug Nears Approval"
Miami Herald (06/08/96) P. 3C
     Nevirapine, a new anti-HIV drug made by Boehringer Inglheim 
Pharmaceutical, was recommended for approval Friday by a Food and 
Drug Administration panel.  The panel recommended use of the drug 
in adults with HIV, indicating that it should be used across the 
infected adult population, not only for advanced cases.
     
"New Anti-Viral Drug Recommended"
Houston Chronicle (06/07/96) P. 22A
     The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made new 
recommendations Thursday for treating health care workers who are 
exposed to HIV.  Workers with open wounds who are splashed with 
HIV-infected blood should be offered AZT immediately, and workers 
accidentally stuck with HIV-contaminated needles should be offered 
a three-drug regimen consisting of AZT, lamivudine, and indinavir, 
the agency said.  In December, the CDC published a study showing 
that health care workers who took AZT after a needlestick reduced 
their risk of becoming infected by 79 percent.  Lamivudine and 
indinavir are two new anti-virals that help fight HIV's ability to 
become resistant to AZT.
     
"Learning What Trip Really Means"
Los Angeles Times--Washington Edition (06/10/96) P. B4;  Reed, 
Mack
     As one of 2,275 cyclists who participated in the 525-mile 
California AIDS Ride 3, Los Angeles Times reporter Mack Reed 
relates stories collected during the trip, stories of climbing 
hills, wrecking, and sharing stories of loved ones lost to AIDS. 
He says the riders pulled together to help each other and 
offered support along the way.  The event raised $8 million for 
people with AIDS.
     
"AIDSWALK Rallies Forces Against Killer"
Baltimore Sun (06/10//96) P. 1B;  Francke, Caitlin
     An estimated 7,500 people participated in Baltimore's
AIDSWALK Sunday to remember loved ones lost to the disease, 
promote AIDS awareness, and raise money for the disease.  The 
mood was festive for the 3.2 mile walk, which started and ended 
at Memorial Stadium.  The event raised an estimated $300,000 for 
the Health Education Resource Organization (HERO), which cares 
for about 2,000 AIDS patients in the Baltimore area.
     
"Black Clergy Exhorted to Take on AIDS"
Philadelphia Inquirer (06/08/96) P. B1;  O'Reilly, David
     At a conference held Friday in Philadelphia, Rev. James A. 
Forbes, senior pastor at New York's Riverside Church, urged 
African American clergy to become active in the fight against 
AIDS, a disease that is widespread among the African American 
population.  Forbes noted that African American clergy and 
congregations have watched passively for 15 years as HIV spread 
from "them"--the homosexual community--to others, including 
teenagers, heterosexual men and women, and infants.  Former U.S. 
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was among the 250 clergy, church 
leaders and healthcare workers who participated in the event.  
She told the group that they should be as active as African 
American church leaders were in the anti-slavery and civil rights 
movements.  In Philadelphia, blacks make up about 40 percent of 
the population, and almost 70 percent of the AIDS cases reported 
last year.  The conference was sponsored by the Ecumenical 
Information AIDS Resource Center, a nonprofit agency established 
by predominantly African American churches to promote AIDS 
education among blacks.
     
"Healing the Wounds of the Past: Salvadoran Doctor's Mission Is 
to Help the City's Latinos"
Washington Times (06/10/96) P. C10;  Marshall, Toni
     La Clinica del Pueblo, a clinic for Latinos in Washington,
D.C., has the largest Latino-based HIV-AIDS program in the 
metropolitan area, according to the D.C. Agency for HIV/AIDS. 
Clinic administrator Dr. Juan Romagoza, while not licensed in the 
United States as a doctor, is largely responsible for the 
program's success, having developed health screening, education, 
and follow-up programs for such illnesses as cancer, HIV, and 
AIDS.  Romagoza was recently recognized for his efforts when he 
received the $100,000 Robert Wood Johnson Community Health 
Leadership award.
     
"Special Consultation on Syringe Laws Addresses Epidemics, Airs 
Controversy"
Journal of the American Medical Association (06/06/96) Vol. 275, 
No. 21; P. 1621;  Titus, Karen
     The Consultation on Syringe Laws and Regulations to Address
the Dual Epidemics of HIV Infection and Substance Abuse, held in 
Atlanta, Ga., brought physicians, public health experts, and 
other experts together to consider how syringe laws impact the 
transmission of HIV.  A national survey found that laws 
restricting the sale of syringes foil efforts by health care 
professionals to reduce disease transmission.  According to the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one third of all AIDS 
cases are related to injection drug use, and the rate of 
transmission associated with injecting drug users is higher than 
for any other category.  Don Des Jarlais, of the Chemical 
Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center, says that 
rates of HIV transmission among injecting drug users can be 
reduced by providing early intervention, sterile injecting 
equipment, and community outreach.  All but two states restrict 
access to syringes in some way, and 47 states have laws that 
criminalize the sale or distribution of drug injection equipment. 
Lawrence O. Gostin, a law professor at Georgetown University and 
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, said the issue will remain 
controversial, but that the solution will include both preventing 
and treating drug abuse and helping injection drug users protect 
themselves from disease.
     
"A Tax Break [Is Proposed for AIDS Patients and Others]" 
Advocate (06/11/96) No. 709; P. 16
     Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has introduced a bill that would
allow people with AIDS and other terminal illnesses to sell their 
homes and not pay a capital gains tax on the proceeds of the 
sale.  That exemption is currently available only to those aged 
55 and older.  Kerry explained that he proposed the bill because 
he had heard of families that took 10 years to recover from the 
financial burden created by the loss of a loved one to a terminal 
illness.
     
     
