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                     AIDS Daily Summary
                       August  1, 1994


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"$2.7 Million Awarded in AIDS Treatment Fraud"
Los Angeles Times--Washington Edition (08/01/94) P. B2;  Colker,
David
     A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has ordered North Hollywood
Medical Center to pay total damages of $2.7 million for its role
in the administering of the controversial drug Viroxan to five
AIDS patients.  The jury found the hospital, as well as two
physicians, liable for negligence, conspiracy, fraud, as well as
violation of state medical codes.  The hospital was ordered to
pay a $1.8 million punitive award to be shared between two of the
five patients; four of the five patients are to share in a
$925,000 award for their physical injuries, as well as for their
pain and suffering.  Ray Henke, attorney for the patients, said,
"The jury made it abundantly clear that the doctors were guilty
of AIDS fraud and that the hospital conspired with them."

"Trying to Hit a Home Run Against AIDS"
New York Times (08/01/94) P. C7;  Fainaru, Mark
     Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants became the first
big-league professional sports club to sponsor an AIDS-benefit
program on Sunday, when it held "Until There's a Cure Day" prior
to the team's game with the Colorado Rockies at Candlestick Park.
The pre-game ceremony featured a speech by Mary Fisher, the
HIV-infected woman who gave a similar presentation at the 1992
Republican National Convention.  "On behalf of more than one
million Americans infected with AIDS, I am here to salute the San
Francisco Giants," Fisher said.  "Today, the San Francisco Giants
demonstrate that AIDS is as all-American as Abner Doubleday's
sport."  Each member of the Giants wore a red ribbon symbolizing
AIDS awareness stitched to his uniform, and the team donated $1
from each ticket sold for the game to various AIDS organizations
in the San Francisco area.  Team officials said they hope to
sponsor a league-wide AIDS benefit next season.  Giants manager
Dusty Baker said, "I'm very proud of this organization.  This is
the first organization not to be afraid to come forward and say
something positive" on behalf of AIDS patients.  Related Story:
Washington Post (08/01/94) P. C7 Related Story: Washington Post
(08/01) P. C7

"Program Places Those With AIDS in Family Settings to Receive Care"
Baltimore Sun (08/01/94) P. 1B;  Selby, Holly
     Baltimore's C.A.R.E./Project Home program places AIDS patients
who otherwise would be homeless or forced to stay in nursing
homes in private residences or helps them live in their own
homes.  The state-funded program, perhaps the only one of its
kind in the country, recently was named a finalist for the Ford
Foundation/Harvard University Innovations in State and Local
Government Award.  Ten of the finalists for this award will
receive a $100,000 grant.  To be accepted into the
C.A.R.E./Project Home program, participants must exhibit two or
more disabling symptoms of AIDS.  Project Hope, now serving about
1,100 people, less than 500 with AIDS, originally began as a
program for the retarded, and was expanded in 1986 to include
people with AIDS.  The non-profit organization Housing Unlimited
Group, or HUG, is also working to provide housing to patients
with AIDS and the virus that causes AIDS.  Half of all Americans
with fatal illnesses are homeless, the National Commission on
AIDS says.

"AIDS Conference to Confront Emerging Asian Plight"
Reuters (08/01/94);  Moffett, Sebastian
     While sub-Saharan Africa is the home of two-thirds of today's
AIDS cases, Asia may one day have more AIDS cases than any other
region in the world.  Until 1988, Asia was, for the most part,
untouched by the deadly disease.  However, the World Health
Organization calculates that Asia's 2.5 million AIDS cases will
quadruple to more than 10 million by the end of the century.
This year's Tenth International Conference on AIDS will be held
in Yokohama, Japan, marking the first time the annual meeting
will be held in an Asian nation.  The event comes at a time when
the numbers of HIV victims and potential victims are rapidly
increasing, and hopes for a cure are dim.

"Who Owns AIDS"
Washington Post (07/30/94) P. A17;  Hentoff, Nat
     The defeat of Democratic New York State assemblywoman Nettie
Mayersohn's bill, which would require the state to tell mothers
if their newborns are HIV-infected, raises the question of when
the right to privacy should no longer be first priority.
Mayersohn's bill was prevented from coming to the assembly and
Senate floors because it is an election year, and many considered
it unwise to offend female activist and other groups.  A
recurrent argument by Mayersohn's opponents against making New
York give mothers the medical facts has in part to do with the
mothers' reactions.  If a woman is told she and her infant must
be tested, she may completely avoid the health care system,
Mayersohn's opponents argue.  Others disagree.  One woman who
discovered her son was HIV-infected nine months after his birth
wishes she had known sooner.  "I gotta know, so I can take care
of him and myself," she says.  In defense of her bill, Mayersohn
spoke at this year's New York Legislative session.  " ... Our
failure to pass a mandatory HIV testing bill makes us accomplices
... in the abuse and neglect of the most neglected children in
our state."  Legislators will meet in Albany next January to
redress the issue.

"Situation Angry, But Not Hopeless"
Men's Fitness (08/94) Vol. 10, No. 8, P. 108
     A study of 53 New York City men who had been diagnosed with AIDS
for at least three years sought to determine if AIDS patients are
largely suicidal.  Only six percent experienced persistent
depression, and both of the two men who attempted suicide had
tried to do so before being diagnosed.  In general, the
researchers found that the level of psychological health among
the subjects was positive.  The most discerning characteristic,
they noted, was not hopelessness, but anger.

"AIDS Co-Culprit Wreaks Havoc"
Men's Fitness (08/94) Vol. 10, No. 8, P. 108
     AIDS researchers are beginning to focus on some of the viruses
that take advantage and cause severe illness when HIV weakens the
immune system, especially HHV-6.  While generally harmless in
healthy individuals, the virus can cause widespread organ damage
among people who have AIDS.  In one study, scientists looked at
34 tissue samples extracted from lungs, lymph nodes, spleens,
kidneys, and livers of nine patients who had died from AIDS.  All
of the samples indicated widespread, active HHV-6 infection.