AIDS Treatment News
Table of Contents, April 21, 2000

• Treatment Interruption: Experts Sound Cautious Note at San Francisco Forum; Meeting Proceeds Despite Disruption
  Doctors researching "strategic treatment interruption" in San Francisco told a large and interested audience what is and is not known -- despite violent disruption of the meeting by a "dissident" organization.

• Answering the AIDS Denialists: CD4 (T-Cell) Counts, and Viral Load
  Organizations that say that HIV does not cause AIDS, or urge people with HIV or AIDS to reject standard medical care, often argue that T-cell and viral load tests for patients are useless. This article addresses their arguments about these tests in the larger context of the existing medical and scientific evidence.

• ACT UP Golden Gate Changes Name to Survive AIDS
  Why a leading treatment activist organization changed its name to avoid being confused with a different group which uses the name ACT UP San Francisco.
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• Vaccines: Call Congress to Support R&D Tax Credit
  Your call to Congress can help the development of vaccines to save many lives by preventing the world's leading killer diseases.

• Africa Series Wins Pulitzer
  Mark Schoofs' eight-part series on AIDS in Africa, published in The Village Voice, won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.

• Treatment Fact Sheets: Call for Information
  Let us know which AIDS treatment fact sheets have been most useful to you.

• Sign-On Statement Against U.S. Drug-Price Increases
  Over 70 organizations and individuals so far have signed a statement against a round of major price increases for AIDS drugs in the U.S., which might occur during the next several months.

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