Vancouver PWA Coalition Newsletter Issue #32 December 1989

VANCOUVER PWA SOCIETY FUNDED Minister of National Health and Welfare commits $125,000 to the Vancouver Persons with AIDS Society under the AIDS Community Action Program; WHERE PWA GETS ITS MONEY Report from the General Manager; PWAs GREET SOCREDS Members leaflet the Social Credit Party Convention, heckler flings condoms at Premier Vander Zalm; COMMUNITY DONATIONS ESSENTIAL Our programs and direct services to Persons with HIV/AIDS are funded by the generous contributions and fundraisers from the community; AIDS AND DISABILITY PROJECT The BC Coalition of the Disabled announces project to get AIDS prevention information to all people with a disability in BC; BEATTY APPOINTS THREE NEW MEMBERS TO NAC-AIDS; INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL FOR PWA/HIVs: AN UPDATE Information on discriminatory border and immigration policies. More information available; NATIONAL NAPWA CONFERENCE Report; PEPTIDE-T: A CONTROVERSIAL POTENTIAL TREATMENT FOR AIDS Research report. Information pack available; ddI AVAILABLE THROUGH EDRP Criteria for access extremely restrictive. Information pack available; INFO PACKS UPDATED New treatment information packs available. Updates with lastest research available; AZT TREATMENT: EARLIER IS BETTER Research report; CO-OP BUILDING WELCOMES PWA The Vancouver Housing Registry and the Vancouver Persons with AIDS Society identify housing as a critical issue for PWAs, provide information sessions to co-ops; LIVE IN A CO-OP! Register to be on the waiting list; ONGOING EVENTS; HEALING BEAUTY BATHS Tips and recipes; LOVE Poetry; ODE TO THE IDC Song lyrics; COPING WITH GRIEF AT CHRISTMAS Advice; MOBILIZING FOR EARTHQUAKE RELIEF: THE CONTRAST WITH AIDS Reprinted from AIDS Treatment News Issue #89; THE HEMOPHILIAC AND HIV INFECTION Information, testing and prevention advice from the Canadian Hemophilia Society; AIDS CAREGIVER CONFERENCE Event announcement; THE QUILT: A PERSONAL REMEMBRANCE Personal reflection on view the entire AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington, DC; THE NAMES PROJECT - WASHINGTON, DC Personal reflection; IN MEMORIAM - STEPHEN WHITTAKER; THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT Our love and thanks go to the community for the enormous effort and success of fundraisers and donations held last month; LIVING POSITIVE Support group announcement; DESIGN OUR NEW LOGO Entries are now being received for the PWA Logo Design Contest; BILLETING PWAs DURING GAY GAMES III Call for volunteers; CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES Social events announcements; "ONE STARRY NIGHT IV" Fundraiser report; NOTICEBOARD