Federal AIDS policy emergencies.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
Biomedical subjects
John S James
Publications and source records attributed to John S James.
AIDS, computers, and organizing: Part I, toward a revolution in fundraising? A report from the Planetwork conference.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
Surprising causes of death in Texas hospital study: safety net questions.
Pneumocystis is still one of the leading causes of death of people with HIV in at least some parts of the U.S. Such statistics can show where medical care access is working and where it is not.
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections↗
Funding alert: wake up and support WORLD.
As governments cut back, the AIDS community must fund information and advocacy or lose control of its future. We need activists who can be credible with both service providers and donors, and serve as diplomats between them.
Drug Industry↗
Huge price variations in generic drugs.
Huge, secret price variations create huge profits for the well connected, raising prices for patients and the public. One drug with an "average wholesale price" of $2.66 per pill was actually sold to pharmacies for 5 cents per pill.
Drug Costs↗
SARS Web information.
Where to find current information about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a new disease that can cause severe or fatal pneumonia.
Hong Kong↗
Abacavir arm stopped in clinical trial.
A government clinical trial stopped treatment with abacavir plus AZT plus 3TC, due to more viral rebound than other treatments in the study. Many unknowns remain.
Anti-HIV Agents↗
Huge Medicaid cuts weighed in Washington.
A $92 billion Medicaid cut passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, and a plan by the Bush Administration to reduce entitlement funding of medical care for the poor and elderly and give states more power to choose whose benefits are ended, could seriously reduce HIV care in the coming decade.
Budgets↗
First AIDS vaccine tested did not protect, but gives scientific leads.
AIDSVAX, the first HIV preventive vaccine to finish a human efficacy trial, did not protect against infection, but is likely to provide much information on designing better vaccines.
AIDS Vaccines↗
T-20: most expensive AIDS drug ever at $25,000 per year?
A new kind of HIV treatment will probably cost several times as much as other AIDS drugs and be unavailable to many who need it.
Anti-HIV Agents↗
Clinton team lowers drug price 7-fold in Caribbean.
At a recent Retroviruses conference, President Clinton told how his organization lowered the price the government of the Bahamas paid for HIV treatment, from $3600 to $500 per year.
Anti-HIV Agents↗
Antibiotic-resistant skin infections spreading among gay men, also in prisons.
An outbreak of staphylococcus skin infection, causing large boils that are difficult to treat because these bacteria are resistant to many antibiotics, has spread recently among gay men in some cities, and also in certain prisons. In the past this infection occurred mainly in hospitals.
Drug Resistance↗
Building grassroots support for AIDS.
Citizen-action campaigns (like getting people to call Congress or their state representatives to support Medicaid, ADAP, or other program for access to medical care) could get much more response if they were made accessible to the millions of people who are already supportive but not already involved. We suggest several ways to make action alerts and other citizen organizing work better.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
Bush proposes near tripling of U.S. commitment on global HIV epidemic.
The presidential initiative to increase funding for global AIDS prevention and treatment is widely seen as a groundbreaking advance. But critical time will be lost if the U.S. focuses so heavily on building its own new system, instead of using multinational organizations like the Global Fund that are ready now.
Budgets↗
ADAP and Medicaid financial emergencies growing.
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Anti-HIV Agents↗
Smallpox vaccination followup: IOM suggests changes, widespread civilian vaccinations to begin.
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Contraindications↗
Smallpox vaccination begins in U.S.--precautions needed.
People with HIV and certain other medical conditions must avoid smallpox vaccination, and also vaccinia infections from others who have been vaccinated recently.
Contraindications↗
U.S. blocks trade agreement on generic drug access in poor countries.
Governments can override patents for legitimate purposes, including public health. But many small or poor countries hve no pharmaceutical industry to manufacture medicines themselves, and global trade rules being phased in will prevent others from exporting to them without the patent holder's permission. Negotiations to solve this problem broke down when the U.S. insisted that any agreement apply only to AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and similar major epidemics--excluding cancer, heart disease, and hundreds of other diseases.
Commerce↗