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- LETTERS, Page 6AIDS Research
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- Your article on AIDS notes that "new drugs are giving hope
- but also raising difficult questions" about treatment (MEDICINE,
- June 19). You used a photo of me captioned, "Callen has fought
- the disease for seven years," followed by an implicit but and
- the sentence, "The bill for medical care will be staggering."
- Do you question whether my life is worthy of the meager federal
- AIDS research efforts? As someone who each day faces the very
- real possibility of early death, "merely postponing (it) by a
- few years," as you so glibly say, is precious beyond measure.
- I am also offended by your reference to irresponsible sexual
- activity by AIDS victims. In my work as an AIDS activist, I have
- met hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people with AIDS, and I am
- convinced the vast majority have sex safely and responsibly.
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- Michael Callen New York City
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