Vancouver Persons With AIDS Society Newsletter Issue #58 July/August 1992

GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY Canadian AIDS Society Annual General Meeting Keynote Speech by Jon Gates, Canadian Council for International Cooperation. CATASTROPHIC RIGHTS: WHAT DO THE CRITICS SAY? In a recent paper John Russell of Cornell University critically examines John Dixon's book Catastrophic Rights; HOPE IS THE MAGIC BULLET Article from Xtra writing favourably about Celia Farber's "The HIV Myth"; PRISON NOTES This is the coming out speech of an HIV positive inmate of a federal prison in BC. He repeats - or tells - all our stories only more so; CANADIAN AIDS SOCIETY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Report from Halifax on the PLHIV/AIDS forum and workshops and the AGM; KUDOS; AIDS TREATMENT HIGHLIGHTS: AZT SHADES OF GREY Extensive review of the testing of AZT and its benefits and drawbacks. PASSIVE IMMUNE THERAPY New Data Released, California Approval Possible. SELDANE/HISMANAL ALERT Potentially life threatening drug interactions Seldane or Hismanal with Ketoconazole or erythromycin. CD4 - PE40 Investigational drug thought to selectively destroy infected cells. CD8 CELL EXPANSION Research on feasibility and safety of the concept of CD8 expansion, extracting CD8 cells from an HIV positive person, treating them so they replicate in great numbers then reintroducing them. NEW BILL FAVOURS BIG DRUG FIRMS Federal government to introduce legislation that will give new brand name drugs greater protection against generic versions; BLOODWORK How often should bloodwork be done?; BIG ONES SMALL ONES SOME THE SIZE OF YOUR HEAD or DDI AND STUFF Advice on taking pills and how to take ddI; LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: NORMANDY HOUSE Kudos to Normany Hospital and its repite program. PRISON NOTE HIV + inmate describes conditions inside; WE'RE OPEN. OTHER PROGRAMS/SUPPORT PROJECTS OFFERED BY PWA AND OTHERS; AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP Adverstisment. ON GOING GOINGS ON; THANK YOU! To the volunteers and businesses who contributed to the AIDS Resource Centre Volunteer Party; A FAMILY PORTRAIT Project to document what it means to be Gay/Lesbian in Canada; CORIGLIANO SYMPHONY NO. 1 Review of four movement symphony about AIDS; GET INVOLVED Feather of Hope Aboriginal AIDS Prevention Society, portrait of a volunteer; ABORIGINAL PEER COUNSELLORS Another peer counsellor peer training program completed; WOMEN AND ? Persons with AIDS rather than Women with AIDS; NEWS FROM NORMANDY Normandy Special Care Residence, the first community-based long term care facility in BC for people with AIDS opens; LIBRARY NEWS New audio and video materials; LIBRARY OUTREACH PROGRAM Outreach Service is a free service that assists sight-impaired and homebound persons to use the collections of the Vancouver Public Library; HUGS Poetry; OBITUARIES: IN CELEBRATION OF DANNY CLOWES. IN MEMORY OF GLEN DAVID SANDERSON; AIDS VANCOUVER EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND How to apply; ADULT GUARDIANSHIP FORUM FOR THE HIV/AIDS COMMUNITY July 30, 1992; NOTICEBOARD; HELPLINE Volunteer Opportunities