Vancouver Persons With AIDS Society Newsletter Issue #56 May 1992

AIDS RESOURCE CENTRE A NEW ERA OF COOPERATION. AIDS Vancouver, the Vancouver Women and HIV/AIDS Support Network and the Vancouver Persons With AIDS Society are in the process of finalizing lease on building at Seymour and Helmcken. "One stop shopping" for people requiring information or support related to AIDS and HIV infection due to open July 1st; CANADIAN AIDS SOCIETY: AN OVERVIEW; NO MORE FEAR, NO MORE IGNORANCE is the theme of the Canadian AIDS Society's second National AIDS Awareness Week OCTOBER 5 - 11, 1992; WORLD AIDS DAY DECEMBER 1ST, 1992. AIDS: A Community Committment. Event announcement; IT'S ALL IN THE TOP RIGHTHAND DRAWER. PART TWO: Your File of Documents. Documents your executor will need, information on CPP Death Benefits, furneral preparations; AIDS TREATMENT HIGHLIGHTS: STRESS REDUCTION STUDY. PCP PROPHYLAXIS NEW GUIDELINES. SWOLLEN LYMPH NODES. NEW DEVELOPMENT IN CMV TREATMENT. RESEARCH STUDY WITH HERPES ZOSTER/SHINGLES. CANADA INVITED TO JOIN DELTA COMBINATION TRIAL. STUDY OF CHEMOTHERAPY FOR MAC APPROVED. ddI & HEART FAILURE. GP 160 TRIAL GETS OFF THE GROUND. AZT PLUS OR MINUS INTRON-A TRAIL SET TO GO AHEAD. CANFAR NEWS Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research awards 44 grants. CIMETIDINE Immune modulator. NOTES ON THE PSYCHOSOCIAL NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH AIDS/HIV. TREATMENT INFO PACKAGES UPDATE. NEWLETTERS AND TREATMENT ISSUES. OPEN FORUM ON HIV CLINICAL TRIALS; KUDOS; WE'RE OPEN; OTHER PROGRAMS/SUPPORT PROJECTS OFFERED BY PWA AND OTHERS; ONGOING GOING'S ON; MY VICTORY GARDEN OF LIFE Poetry; POSITIVE LIVING Non-facilitated support group for mutual support and empowerment; LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: GOOD INTENTIONS Re: "AIDS: Why Science is Failing" recommending "Good Intentions: How Big Business and the Medical Establishment are Corrupting the Fight Against AIDS" by Bruce Nussbaum. I NEVER SAID GOODBYE A woman who loast her son to AIDS is calling for submissions to a book "I Never Said Goodbye to Nat"; STEP 10 HIV and AA; HOME/HOSPITAL VISITING PROJECT HAS STARTED! Any members who are isolated in their homes or in hospital are encouraged to call the office and contact the visiting project. Support group for volunteer visitors; HOME/HOSPITAL VISITNG PROJECT ORIENTATION DAY: WED. APRIL 8TH, 1992. Description of the process of creating the Home/Hospital Visiting Project and the orientation day; RECIPES: SUGAR FREE, YEAST-FREE EASY CHICKEN AND RICE. POTATO PANCAKES. 9th INTERNATIONAL AIDS CANDLELIGHT VIGIL SUNDAY MAY 24TH, 1992 Event announcement; ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. AIDS Vancouver will be holding their AGM on Tuesday May 12, 1992; OBITUARIES: MAURICE LUCIEN COURTEMANCHE FEBRUARY 1957 - MARCH 1992. JOE FORD 1955 - 1992; NOTICEBOARD; HELPLINE Volunteers needed;