Vancouver PWA Coalition Newsletter Issue #17 February 1988

FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING New structure for Coalition, board members elected; FINANCE COMMITTEE ACTIVITES Committee report; TAX TIME AND PWAs Disability deduction available; SPIRITUAL CORNER; PROGRAM COMMITTEE UPDATE "Healing Circle" has returned; AL-721 is still being provided; financial request procedures reviewed and streamlined; Coalition to provide plants, art work, cassettes to Infectious Disease Clinic; complete library list is nearing completion; retreat planned; "survival course" in development; NEW PROCEDURES FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE; LIBRARY LIST Complete list of materials now available; PERONNEL COMMITTEE ACTIVITES Evaluation of AIDS: A Self-Help, Self-Care approach underway; Job descriptions, guidelines for committee memberships and volunteer training program in development; ADVOCACY COMMITTEE Lobbying: for amendments to the Human Rights Act to include medical disability and sexual orientation, St. Paul's hospital to put up condom posters, Federal Government and drug companies to make aerosol pentamidine available for prophylaxis and treatment, for a PWA to sit on the National Advisory Committee on AIDS and for funding to send two PWAs to the fourth International Conference on AIDS; VIDEO SERVICES AVAILABLE; ONGOING EVENTS