Announcements

Michelle Roland to Write for AIDS TREATMENT NEWS

Michelle Roland, well known among AIDS treatment activists
in San Francisco, will contribute occasional articles to AIDS
TREATMENT NEWS, starting with this issue.

Ms. Roland has worked with ACT UP/San Francisco since 1987,
and with its Treatment Issues committee since last year. She has
worked with NIH and FDA officials on issues of drug development
and regulation.

She also worked as interviewer for a year and a half for the
Biopsychosocial AIDS Project, University of California San
Francisco, and presented a poster on this work at the 1989 AIDS
conference in Montreal.

Ms. Roland is currently a medical student at the University
of California, Davis, and is student coordinator at the Medical
Center AIDS Clinic there. She is spearheading an effort to
create an AIDS curriculum for medical students -- a curriculum
which could become a national model.

She is also developing a computer model which might be able
to replace placebo controls in certain clinical trials.



Obtaining Conference Information

The most important reference from the Sixth International
Conference on AIDS is the three-volume set of abstracts. The set
costs $50. To order a copy, call the Sixth International
Conference, 415/550-0880.

The papers deemed most important by the Conference
organizers were given time for oral presentation. Audio tapes of
the sessions can be ordered from Professional Programs, Inc.,
12035 Saticoy Street, Suite B, North Hollywood, CA 91605, phone
818/764-7087, fax 818/764-7658. Tapes cost $8.50 per cassette;
postage in the U. S. is $1.50 per tape, $15 maximum postage per
order; overseas airmail postage is $2 per tape ($4 minimum
postage) with no maximum. You can order individual tapes by
number, or obtain an order blank to make selections. Note that
most sessions are on two cassettes.



Statement of Purpose

AIDS TREATMENT NEWS reports on experimental and complementary
treatments, especially those available now. It collects
information from medical journals, and from interviews with
scientists, physicians, and other health practitioners, and
persons with AIDS or HIV.

Long-term survivors have usually tried many different treatments,
and found combinations which work for them. AIDS TREATMENT NEWS
does not recommend particular therapies, but seeks to increase
the options available.

We also examine the ethical and public-policy issues around AIDS
treatment research and treatment access.