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─ Area: AIDS-HIV - R ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Msg#: 522 Date: 01-08-93 06:03
From: Billi Goldberg Read: Yes Replied: No
To: All Mark:
Subj: (4) CDC SUMMARY 1/7/93
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-=> Quoting Billi Goldberg to All <=-
BG> "Clinic Widens Its Reach to AIDS in Md. Suburbs" Washington Post
BG> (01/07/93), P. B8 (Goldstein, Amy)
BG> Washington, D.C.'s largest provider of AIDS services announced
BG> the opening of a satellite office in Hyattsville, Md., yesterday,
BG> signifying the first time the clinic has branched into the Maryland
BG> suburbs. The Whitman-Walker Clinic's new office on New Hampshire
BG> Avenue is funded mainly through federal grants, and is expected to
BG> provide counseling, pharmacy services, a buddy system, and
BG> transportation to the several hundred people with AIDS in suburban
BG> Maryland. The office is located on the border of Prince George's and
BG> Montgomery counties, the suburban Maryland jurisdictions with the
BG> highest rates of AIDS cases. Jim Graham, Whitman-Walker's executive
BG> director, said, "We wish none of this was necessary. We wish we
BG> could contract rather than expand, but the epidemic is raging in our
BG> city and our region." Approximately 1,000 people in Prince George's
BG> County and 600 in Montgomery County have developed full-blown AIDS
BG> since the epidemic began in 1981. During the same time, about 4,000
BG> AIDS cases were reported in Washington and almost 1,300 in Northern
BG> Virginia. Graham said the new office will prompt a grass-roots AIDS
BG> movement in Maryland that will boost the number of volunteers and
BG> help the clinic acquire state and county subsidies. The new center,
BG> with a 1993 budget of $186,000, will provide anonymous HIV tests,
BG> sponsor education programs, and attempt to track down people with
BG> AIDS who are not obtaining sufficient medical care.
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