SAN FRANCISCO: FORUM ON PNEUMOCYSTIS PROPHYLAXIS

BETA (Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS), a
publication of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, is sponsoring a
free public forum titled, "PCP Prophylaxis: What is the
Treatment of Choice?" on Thursday, December 6, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.,
at the San Francisco Medical Society Auditorium, 250 Masonic
Avenue (near Turk) in San Francisco.

Speakers include Marcus Conant, M. D., who has one of the
largest HIV practices in San Francisco; Walter Hughes, M. D.,
from Saint Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, who
will discuss his experience with Bactrim, as well as his research
on the new anti-pneumocystis compound 566C80 (see AIDS TREATMENT
NEWS #114, November 2, 1990); and Gifford Leoung, M. D.,
principal investigator of the San Francisco trial of aerosol
pentamidine which led to FDA approval of this treatment. A panel
of questioners will include Ron Baker (BETA), Michelle Roland
(AIDS TREATMENT NEWS), and Harold Cottman, M. D., a San Francisco
psychiatrist. The presenters will also take questions from the
audience.

For more information, call the San Francisco AIDS
Foundation, 415/863-2437, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday,
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.