Announcements

** San Francisco: Long-Term Survivors Answer Audience
Questions, March 13

On Saturday March 13, the Alternative Treatments Committee
of ACT UP/San Francisco will conclude its four-part forum,
"Caring for HIV Naturally," with a panel of long-term survivors.
Expected speakers include Thomas Avena, Bart Casimer, Suzin
Gartland, Gloria Little Moon, Sharon Lund, George Melton, and Hap
Stewart. After short introductory talks, most of the five hours
scheduled will be open for questions from the audience.

The panel will take place from 1:00 p. m. to 6:00 p. m. in
the Gazebo Room of the Davies Medical Center, Castro and Duboce
Streets, San Francisco.

Comment:

Attendees should keep in mind that this panel was organized
to present information about alternative treatments, and some
speakers will likely urge rejection of mainstream medical care.
Many long-term survivors do rely on mainstream treatment,
however, and people should hear a variety of views before making
medical decisions.

** San Francisco: d4T Town Meeting, March 10; Ongoing Patient
Group

On March 10, ACT UP/Golden Gate will sponsor a town meeting
of patients on d4T. This meeting will allow patients to share
experiences, and is seen as the beginning of an ongoing patient-
monitored database on d4T. Over 2500 persons nationally are
already taking d4T, several hundred in the San Francisco area.

The Wednesday, March 10 meeting will be held at 7 p. m. at
the Metropolitan Community Church, 150 Eureka St., San Francisco.
Or you can call ACT UP/Golden Gate at 415/252-9200, or leave a
message regarding d4T on ACT UP's voicemail, 415/241-8800.

** AIDS Funding Background: Press Kit Available from Project
Inform

Issues concerning Federal funding of AIDS research and other
programs will become increasingly important over the coming weeks
and months. Persons and organizations working on these issues
need a reliable source of background facts and figures,
especially since much misleading information was released under
the Bush Administration and repeated in the media. (For example,
funding totals for AIDS have included entitlement expenditures
for Medicaid and Medicare, but funding totals for other diseases
did not, resulting in seriously misleading comparisons.)

Project Inform has prepared a 25-page press kit to support
its congressional lobbying. To obtain a copy, call 415/558- 8669
and ask for Anne Donnelly. The kit is free to news
organizations; others are requested to send $2.50 to cover
postage and handling.