Vancouver Persons With AIDS Society Newsletter Issue #45 March 1991

MAI DRUG ACCESSED Clarithromycin available through the Emergency Drug Release Program for Mycobacterium Avium Intracellulare; NO FINANCIAL BARRIERS! Editorial on access to effective AIDS treatments without financial barriers; SHARE KNOWLEDGE Letter to the Editor; NURSE ON DUTY Outreach nurse available; OUT OF TOWN? Helpline available for collect calls; FREE MASSAGE FOR MEMBERS; ACT UP DEMO Report on demonstration against Premier Vander Zalm at UTV studio; FUN FUNDRAISER Women and HIV/AIDS Support Network held a very successful fundraiser; AIDS AND RELATED ISSUES IN THE ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY Report on Second Canadian Conference; MEDICAL FORUM REPORT Report on Dr Karen Gelmon's talk on Kaposi's Sarcoma and the Alpha-interferon trial; BLOOD TESTS DEFENDED Commentary on the Blood Testing Program; COMPOUND Q UPDATE Report on research on Trichosanthin; AIDS TREATMENT HIGHTLIGHTS. AZT: 300 MG MAY BE EQUALLY EFFECTIVE. ANTIVIRAL THERAPIES: WHERE WE HAVE BEEN AND WHERE WE ARE GOING. EPO APPROVED! MAJOR STRIDE IN MAI THERAPY; CALENDAR; ONGOING EVENTS; AIDS TREATMENT NEWS CONT. ANTIVIRAL COMBINATIONS. ORAL INTERFERON UPDATE; FUNERALS ARRANGED Volunteer funeral director available anytime; EVALUATION PROJECT IS NOW COMPLETE The Society's Evaluation Project Review Team receives evaluator's report and recommendations. Copies of full report availabe; CHINESE MEDICINE PROJECT Vancouver PWA Society funds pioneer project to establish the feasibility and efficacy of Chinese Medicine as supplementary therapy to Western medicine in treating AIDS and HIV; HELPLINE Volunteers needed; BRADLEY HAWBOLDT June 6, 1953 - Feb. 3, 1991; KEN PARKER Feb 1945 - December 1990; FORUM ON CHINESE MEDICINE Topic of Monthly Medical Forum; NORTHWEST HIGHWAY Poetry; NOTICEBOARD