Vancouver Persons With AIDS Society Newsletter Issue #50 August/September 1991

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? Promotional Song for Walk for AIDS '91 "What Are We Going To Do?" written by Amanda Hughes and performed at Tom Lee Music Hall; TREATMENT INFORMATION FOURMS The Vancouver PWA Society's Treatment Information Project hosting forums; BOUCHARD STOPS DISMANTLING CENTRE FOR AIDS Minister of Health and Welfare Benoit Bouchard has interrupted a plan to dismantle the Federal Centre for AIDS, ordered all branches of Health and Welfare to work together to develop an overall federal government response to AIDS; CONFIDENTIALITY AND OUR MEMBER MAILING LIST Chair of PWA Board clarifies policy and explains recent mailing in UBC envelops; CELEBRITIES HELPS PWA SOCIETY by installing a Breakopen Ticket Sales machine benefitting the Complementary Health Fund; VTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR PERSONS WITH HIV/AIDS. HIV and Human Rights: From Victim to Victor. Upcoming conference information; PRESIDENT AND ADVOCACY UPDATE New Home housing PWA, AIDS Vancouver and the Women and AIDS Support Network expected within a year. The Open Learning Network has bought the rights of our video " Working Together A Profile of Kevin Brown." New working relationship with McLaren Housing Society. The Society and other interested groups will be meeting with the clinical research team and other AIDS specialists regarding concerns about the proposed Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS; THE NAMES PROJECT QUILT The Toronto Affiliate of hte Names Project Foundation is proud to announce the Canadain Quilt is coming to Toronto; AIDS TREATMENT HIGHLIGHTS: T-CELL COUNTING STANDARDS. FLORENCE CONFERENCE OVERVIEW Report from the International Conference on AIDS. FOSCARNET: CONTROLLING CALCIUM DEPLETION. TOXOPLASMOSIS IN HIV. NUTRITION; IMMUNIZATION NOW AVAILABLE Influenza, pnuemoccal and hepatitis; KISS NEEDS YOU The Keep it Safer Sex Project, call for feedback and ideas; WHAT IS CAMOUFLAGE THERAPY? Camouflage Make-up is used to normalize an appearance; WE'RE OPEN: CALENDAR, ONGOING EVENTS; KUDOS OF THE MONTH; NOTES FROM THE SPEAKER'S BUREAU Personal reflection on volunteering for the Speaker's Bureau and information on the Keep It Safer Sex project; PLANTAIN Information on herbal alternative therapy; WHAT IS TOUCH FOR HEALTH? Information, sessions available; AIDS MASERY WEEKEND Event announcement; AN ODE TO THE SISTERHOOD Poetry; THOMAS EMMETT O'CONNOR JULY 27, 1991; WHAT DO WOMEN REALLY WANT? Positive Women's Gathering; STEP TWO AA and HIV; STEP THREE AA and HIV; LAW STUDENTS LEGAL ADVICE PROGRAM Weekly Legal clinics; LIBRARY NEWS Thanks to summer student, call for volunteers; ARTWORK NEEDED For Canadian HIV Trial Network Annual Report; PROFESSIONAL HAIR STYLING available; PARENTING AND HIV/AIDS Paediatric AIDS Conference, pre-conference get-together for people directly involved in parenting issues and HIV/AIDS; DEAR MEMBERS Peer counsellors available for hospital visits; ISLAND PERSONS WITH AIDS Support group; NORTH SHORE MEN'S POSITIVE SUPPORT GROUP; KAMLOOPS SUPPORT GROUP; FRIENDS FOR LIFE Support group organizing social activities and information exchanges for HIV+ people who identify as heterosexual; HELPLINE Volunteers needed; NOTICEBOARD;