                     AIDS Daily Summary 
                       June 28, 1995

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"Teen Fear: Getting AIDS from Doctors"
"Cross-Species Transplants Debated"
"Bill Would Protect Sellers of Houses with Pasts"
"Honoring an Auctioneer with a Benefit for AIDS"
"New Issue Update: Sequus Pharmaceuticals Inc."
"Natural Protection Against HIV-1 Infection Provided by HIV-2"
"HIV-Positive Technician Not 'Otherwise Qualified'"
"Empathic Learning: An Innovative Teaching Strategy to Improve 
Attitudes Toward Caring for Persons with HIV/AIDS"
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"Teen Fear: Getting AIDS from Doctors"
Philadelphia Inquirer (06/28/95) P. A1;  Santiago, Denise-Marie
     A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical 
Association reveals that many teenagers are worried about 
contracting HIV or another disease from their doctors.  The study
asked more than 6,800 ninth graders in Philadelphia to identify 
what they considered important characteristics of health-care 
providers and sites that affect their decision to seek health 
care.  Four of the 10 leading characteristics concerned issues of
cleanliness and infection control.  Follow-up sessions with the 
students revealed that their primary concern was contracting HIV 
and AIDS from their doctors.  Many recalled media reports about 
Kimberly Bergalis, who contracted HIV from her dentist.  The 
students also estimated that between 100,000 and 1 million AIDS 
patients had been infected by health-care providers.  There have,
however, only been six such cases--those involving the Florida 
dentist who infected Bergalis.  The study's authors were 
surprised by the HIV issues, having expected that confidentiality
and respect would be the teens' main concerns.
      
"Cross-Species Transplants Debated"
Philadelphia Inquirer (06/28/95) P. A6;  Neergaard, Lauran
     Last spring, doctors were prepared to inject baboon bone marrow 
into AIDS patients in an attempt to boost their immune systems, 
but the government told them to wait.  Now, some experts say that
such cautious federal conduct with animal organs is overdue, 
especially because it is not known whether such transplants could
promote new diseases.  The question is whether the U.S. Food and 
Drug Administration (FDA) should regulate the increasing number 
of experiments in which Americans are given animal organs or 
cells.  The debate was highlighted when the FDA suspended the 
AIDS-baboon trial until it determines whether the experiment is 
safe.  An FDA panel will make that decision in July.  In the 
meantime, the agency has sought advice from the Institute of 
Medicine.  After three days of debate, scientists reached no 
conclusion, but some suggested a national panel to control 
xenotransplants.
      
"Bill Would Protect Sellers of Houses with Pasts"
New York Times (06/28/95) P. B1;  Fisher, Ian
     New York Gov. George E. Pataki is considering legislation that 
would exempt real estate agents and owners from disclosing the 
histories of the houses they sell or the apartments they rent.  
Both the state Senate and the Assembly have passed the bill, 
siding with the real estate industry over a buyer's right to know
about the murders, the suicides, or the crimes that might be as 
troubling to some buyers as a leaky roof.  The measure has found 
support among the Democrats who control the Assembly because it 
protects sellers who chose not to reveal that a former owner or 
inhabitant had AIDS or HIV.  A number of realtors have said that 
buyers are increasingly asking whether former occupants had AIDS 
or died from the disease.  Federal fair housing laws already 
prohibit brokers from disclosing AIDS- or HIV-related 
information, so this part of the law would essentially protect 
only the sellers.
      
"Honoring an Auctioneer with a Benefit for AIDS"
New York Times (06/28/95) P. B3;  Kaufman, Michael T.
     On Monday evening, Sotheby's held an auction in honor of Robert 
C. Woolley--its director of decorative arts--to benefit 
organizations trying to fight AIDS.  Woolley worked at New York's
famed auction house until just before Christmas last year when he
became too sick from AIDS.  During the event, four auctioneers 
whom he had trained took turns taking bids on artworks, jewelry, 
and furniture contributed by Woolley's friends.  Woolley happily 
looked on from his wing chair, watching as more than $1.2 million
was raised.  All funds raised at the auction will be divided 
among four AIDS organizations: the Community Research Initiative 
on AIDS, Friends in Deed, Gay Men's Health Crisis, and God's Love
We Deliver.
      
"New Issue Update: Sequus Pharmaceuticals Inc."
Investor's Business Daily (06/28/95) P. A6
     Sequus Pharmaceuticals Inc., formerly known as Liposome 
Technology Inc., has appointed L. Scott Minick to the position of
president.  Sequus is responsible for developing Doxil as a 
treatment for AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma.
      
      
"Natural Protection Against HIV-1 Infection Provided by HIV-2"
Science (06/16/95) Vol. 268, No. 5217, P. 1612;  Travers, Karin; 
Mboup, Souleymane;  Marlink, Richard et al.
     During a nine-year period, researchers measured the seroincidence
of HIV-1 and HIV-2 in a cohort of prostitutes in Dakar, Senegal. 
Because people infected with HIV-2 remain asymptomatic for 
extended periods, it was suggested that the less virulent HIV-2 
might protect against ensuing infection with HIV-1.  Despite a 
higher incidence of other sexually transmitted diseases, the 
researchers found a lower HIV incidence rate among HIV-2-infected
women than among the initially HIV-seronegative women.  
Univariate analysis indicated that HIV-2-seropositive women with 
CD4 levels under 800 were more likely to become infected with 
HIV-1 than were those with higher CD4 counts.  Overall, HIV-2 
infection provided approximately 70 percent protection from 
subsequent HIV-1 infection.  Despite the protection potential and
the lower virulence of HIV-2, the risks involved in a live virus 
attenuated vaccine may significantly exceed the possible 
benefits.  The protection observed may be a result of 
cross-reactive immunity to epitopes conserved between HIV and 
HIV-2, the authors conclude.
      
"HIV-Positive Technician Not 'Otherwise Qualified'"
National Law Journal (06/26/95) Vol. 17, No. 43, P. B9
     In Mauro v. Borgess Medical Center, the U.S. District Court for 
the Western District of Michigan ruled that under the Americans 
with Disabilities Act (ADA), an HIV-infected surgical technician 
poses a significant risk to the health and safety of patients.  
William C. Mauro was laid off by Borgess after he was suspected 
of being infected with HIV, and refused to submit to a test or 
accept an alternative position at the hospital.  Mauro sued 
Borgess, claiming the medical center violated the ADA and the 
Rehabilitation Act.  The court noted that HIV is a blood-borne 
disease that can be transmitted by contact with contaminated 
blood from an open wound of another.  Mauro argued, however, that
the likelihood of transmission was so small to bring doubt as to 
the severity of the risk he actually posed.  The court held that 
there is a real possibility of transmission, however small, and 
because the consequence of transmission is death, the threat to 
the patient posed by Mauro's presence in the operating room is 
direct and significant.
      
"Empathic Learning: An Innovative Teaching Strategy to Improve 
Attitudes Toward Caring for Persons with HIV/AIDS"
Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (05/95-06/95) 
Vol. 6, No. 3, P. 19;  Larson-Presswalla, Joyce;  Rose, Molly A.;
Cornett, Patricia
     Larson-Presswalla et al. conducted an experimental study to 
determine the effect of "The Circle of Life" method of improving 
feelings and attitudes about people with AIDS on nursing 
students.  Author Patricia Cornett developed this intervention 
after presenting several traditional HIV education programs to 
audiences, and finding that facts and data did not change the way
people felt about HIV.  "The Circle of Life" uses dramatization, 
role play, and music to help participants feel the experience of 
an individual progressing from HIV seropositivity to an AIDS 
diagnosis.  The students were assigned to either the intervention
group or to only a lecture on HIV.  Both before and after the 
intervention or the lecture, they also completed the Damrosch 
AIDS knowledge, attitudes, and concerns tool--a questionnaire 
relating to concerns about caring for persons with AIDS.  In 
terms of AIDS knowledge, there were significant improvements in 
both groups.  The intervention group, however, also showed a 
significant improvement in AIDS-related attitudes, which 
indicates that "The Circle of Life" simulation had a beneficial 
effect on the participants' attitudes.
      
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