Vancouver Persons With AIDS Society Newsletter Issue #73 November 1993

GLOBAL QUESTIONS The BCPWA Society declines to attend the global conference for persons with HIV and AIDS and forwards by telephone its concerns and issues in the form of 10 questions; SITE REVIEW HIV DISEASE PROGRAM ST. PAUL'S HOSPITAL Part one of an edited report which the Society received from St. Paul's Hospital. This report follows two days of interviews and visits of St. Paul's facilities with the mandate from the administration to review the organizational structure and operations of the HIV Disease Program; OUR APOLOGIES FROM THE EDITOR FOR JAMES, THE CORRECT WORDING SHOULD OF READ FEBRUARY 27, 1968 - AUGUST 14, 1993; OBITURARY: DENNIS J. QUON; WORLD AIDS DAY DECEMBER 1, 1993. AIDS Vancouver World AIDS Day Coordinator discusses World AIDS Day and this year's theme and events; AND THE BAND PLAYED ON Film Review for PWA Newsletter; B.A.N. The Best of B.A.N. Fundraiser report, call for culturally sensitive resource material that may be of use to the Black AIDS Network, and upcoming events; TREATMENT INFORMATION: WASTING SYNDROME "SLIM" DISEASE Combating HIV related weight loss. WHEN YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE EATING. WHEN YOU FEEL NAUSEA. TREATEMENT NEWS CD4s DISPUTED AS PRIMARY TARGETS OF HIV. SCREENING TESTS USE P24 TO DETECT NEW HIV INFECTIONS. PROGRESSION OF HIV DISEASE IN MEN. HIV INFECTS IMMUNE CELLS ORIGINATING IN THE THYMUS; [MISSING PP. 21 - 28 IN ORIGINAL] ACTIVITIES FOR NOVEMBER - PERSONS WITH AIDS SOCIETY - VICTORIA BRANCH Programs and events; MISSING DOUGLAS Poetry; BILLY'S CORNER Commentary and description of the Society's finances; KUDOS; WE'RE OPEN. OTHER PROGRAMS/SUPPORT NETWORKS OFFERED BY PWA AND OTHERS. ONGOING GOINGS ON; LONELY TOMORROW Poetry; TREATMENT INFORMATION PROJECT UPDATE Activities of the project, call for volunteers; ACUPUNCTURE CLINIC; LIBRARY NEWS The Society's and AIDS Vancouver Libraries will be joing into one unified space. New aquisitions; HOUSING UPDATE The City of Vancouver will be reopening The Old Continental Hotel for those over 45 or on GAIN For Handicapped; HIDDEN LEGACIES On World AIDS Day, the Vancouver Men's Chorus will be performing the seven movement work entitled "Hidden Legacies" which was commissioned by the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles to "address the AIDS crisis in clear and unequivocal terms"; NOTICEBOARD. CLASSIFIEDS.