                     AIDS Daily Summary 
                       June 24, 1996
     
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"Green Cross Corp."
"Ride to Remember: 1,901 Cyclists Join AIDS Fund-Raiser" 
"In Night Ministry, Cookies and Condoms Carry the Message" 
"Adamant About Animal Rights"
"Doctor Charged in Man's Suicide"
"Hands Reach Out to Family Hit by AIDS" 
"Rare Food Parasite Eyed in Illnesses" 
"Hollywood Marks 'Day of Compassion'"
"Returning Home: Reflections on the USA's Response to the 
HIV/AIDS Epidemic"
"Anti-AIDS Ads Back Gay Community"
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"Green Cross Corp."
Wall Street Journal (06/24/96) P. B9A
     Japan's Green Cross Corp. has announced that it will face a 
one-time charge of at least $42.5 million in the fiscal year 
ending March 1997 as a result of litigation by HIV-infected 
hemophiliacs who allege that the company supplied them with 
unheated blood products potentially contaminated with HIV.  The 
number of plaintiffs has increased from 401 in March to its 
present 806.
     
"Ride to Remember: 1,901 Cyclists Join AIDS Fund-Raiser" 
Washington Post (06/24/96) P. B1; Argetsinger, Amy
     The Philadelphia-to-Washington D.C., bicycle ride that ended
Sunday was one of five AIDS rides across the country that 
together are expected to raise $25 million for AIDS 
organizations.  The 1,901 riders that ended their trip from 
Philadelphia near the Washington Monument raised $4.5 million for 
Washington's Whitman-Walker Clinic, Food & Friends, and other 
AIDS service organizations.  Many of the participants, who were 
required to raise a minimum of $1,400 each, rode in support or 
memory of friends with AIDS.
     
"In Night Ministry, Cookies and Condoms Carry the Message" 
New York Times (06/24/96) P. A10; Terry, Don
     The Night Ministry, a nondenominational group of clergy and 
volunteers, provides outreach to pimps, prostitutes, teenage 
runaways, and homeless people on the streets of Chicago.  
Volunteers go out in the group's van five nights a week, 
delivering cookies, condoms, medication, conversation, and 
religion.  When the ministry was founded 20 years ago, it was 
based on listening and counseling, but with the onset of the AIDS 
epidemic, the group started providing condoms as well.  Rev. 
Thomas Behrens, who helped found the ministry, noted that the 
group provides condoms because "we can't continue to build 
relationships with people if they're dead."
     
"Adamant About Animal Rights"
Washington Post (06/24/96) P. B3; Lipton, Eric
     Animal rights activists gathered in Washington, D.C., on
Sunday for the March for the Animals, representing circus 
animals, dolphins, and animals used for fur, medical research, 
and cosmetic testing.  Some factions of the demonstrators were 
urging peaceful rallies, while others advocated noisy, disruptive 
protests.  AIDS activists have criticized the animal rights 
movement for putting animals before humans.  Animal rights groups 
argued, however, that research on animals does little to advance 
the search for new AIDS treatments.
     
"Doctor Charged in Man's Suicide"
Toronto Globe and Mail (06/21/96) P. A1; Coutts, Jane; Hess, 
Henry
     An AIDS specialist in Toronto was charged Thursday with
helping one of his patients kill himself.  Dr. Maurice Genereux 
is believed to be the first doctor in Canada to be charged with 
assisted suicide.  He was released on bail with permission to 
continue practicing medicine but not to prescribe controlled 
drugs.  The case involves the death of Aaron McGinn, a 
31-year-old AIDS patient who died at his home in early April.  
McGinn's death was attributed to AIDS, but three weeks ago, the 
Toronto coroner's office received a call that AIDS was not the 
real cause of death.  After researching the case, the coroner and 
police investigators concluded that McGinn had committed suicide 
with an overdose of Seconal, a drug Genereux had prescribed for 
him several months before.  Steve Minuk, McGinn's close friend 
and former lover, said he had known of McGinn's desire to take 
his own life and had promised not to interfere.
     
"Hands Reach Out to Family Hit by AIDS" 
Philadelphia Inquirer (06/22/96) P. B1; Shaw, Donna
     Following the death of her only son, Mark, to AIDS in 1992, 
Judith Trullinger became suicidal and could not work.  She now 
owes about $35,000 on her mortgage and as much as $145,000 in 
back taxes, and thus was about to lose her home in a sheriff's 
sale Friday.  Delaware County Judge Joseph F. Battle, however, 
gave Trullinger a three-month reprieve on her mortgage.  Sen. 
Rick Santorum's (R-Pa.) office offered her free legal assistance 
in the case and may help her with the taxes she owes as well.  
Since the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on Trullinger's dire 
needs on Thursday, many people have offered to help by providing 
money, housing, tax preparation, and other services.  Moreover, 
the Delaware Chapter of the National Hemophilia Foundation plans 
to set up a fund for Trullinger, whose son, a hemophiliac, 
contracted HIV from tainted blood products.  Trullinger also 
could be eligible to receive at least $100,000 under a nationwide 
settlement between four pharmaceutical companies and the lawyers 
for HIV-infected hemophiliacs.
     
"Rare Food Parasite Eyed in Illnesses"
Boston Globe (06/21/96) P. 1; Miles, Katrina; Knox, Richard A.
     After confirming 28 cases in Massachusetts of persistent 
diarrheal illness linked to a food-borne parasite, state health 
officials are considering warning doctors to watch for more cases 
involving the unusual microbe.  The infection has been reported 
in several hundred people in North America.  The Massachusetts 
health department is not advising people to avoid any fruits or 
vegetables, but is recommending that people with compromised 
immunity--like those infected with HIV or who are undergoing 
cancer treatment--consider eating only cooked, peeled, or locally 
grown produce.  The illness--caused by a one-celled organism 
called Cyclospora cayetanenis-- can lead to severe dehydration if 
left untreated.
     
"Hollywood Marks 'Day of Compassion'" 
United Press International (06/21/96) 
     HIV and AIDS were common themes on Friday's soap operas and 
television talk shows as Hollywood marked the fourth annual Day 
of Compassion to remember people who died of AIDS and to raise 
public awareness about HIV and AIDS.  Soaps, including ABC's "All 
My Children" and "General Hospital," remembered fictional 
characters and real people who died of AIDS.  Such talk show 
hosts as Maury Povich, Sally Jessy Raphael, and Oprah Winfrey 
discussed AIDS issues including children with AIDS, AIDS 
charities, and teenage mothers with AIDS.
     
"Returning Home: Reflections on the USA's Response to the 
HIV/AIDS Epidemic"
Lancet (06/15/96) Vol. 347, No. 9016, P. 1673; Merson, Michael H.
     In an essay in the British medical journal the Lancet, Dr. 
Michael Merson of the Yale University medical school, comments on 
the United States' response to AIDS and how it can be improved.  
Merson worked for the World Health Organization for 18 years--for 
five years as director of the agency's Global Program on AIDS.  
He says he was surprised when he returned to the United States at 
the ignorance he encountered among many Americans about how HIV 
is spread, and the fear among school systems about teaching HIV 
prevention.  Merson suggests that condoms should be more readily 
available and advertised in the media.  He also criticizes the 
government's policy of not allowing federal funds to be used for 
syringe exchange programs and recommends that states address the 
financial needs of AIDS patients in their Medicaid plans.  Merson 
says the United States' poor response to AIDS is due in part to 
the reluctance to discuss sexual behavior and to the 
stigmatization associated with AIDS.  He advises community-based 
organizations to implement AIDS prevention programs and says AIDS 
services need to be available to all segments of the population. 
Removing the stigma of HIV is important, Merson concludes, as is 
minimizing debates about AIDS education and prevention campaigns.
     
"Anti-AIDS Ads Back Gay Community"
Advertising Age (06/17/96) Vol. 67, No. 25; P. 38
     In a new public service campaign geared to the gay
community, AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) and BBDO West remind 
young men that "There's life after sex."  The campaign is 
designed to encourage young gay men not to throw their lives away 
with unsafe sex.  Allen Carrier, APLA communications director, 
said that some stations or viewers may object to the campaign 
because it endorses the gay community.
     
     
