America Living With AIDS

May 24 Letters to Senators Kennedy and Hatch underscoring support for the Americans with Disabilities Act and declaring the amendment concerning food handlers bad public health policy.
June 6 Letters to Speaker of the House Foley and House Minority Leader Michel urging Congress to resist attempts to impose a federal mandate on states for name
reporting.
June 27 Testimony of Commissioner Donald S. Goldman before the Subcommittee on
Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce of
the United States House of Representatives regarding immigration and visa
policies and the Rowland Bill (H.R. 4506).
July 9-10 Hearing by the Working Group on Social and Human Issues to examine early
intervention and HIV testing from the public health perspective, as well as the
range of social and human services needed by people affected by the HIV/AIDS
epidemic. Dallas, Texas.
July 17-19 Hearings to review current health care personnel and work force issues. Washington, D.C.
July 30-31 Working Group on Social and Human Issues hearing and site visits to examine
the range of services needed by people affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the
partnerships and coalitions necessary to provide these services, and the social
and human services programs established in the Seattle-King County Region.
Seattle, Washington.
August 16-17 Hearings and site visits to examine HIV infection and AIDS in correctional
facilities. New York State.
August 21 Third interim report to President Bush and the Congress: "Research, the Work
Force, and the HIV Epidemic in Rural America."
August First Annual Report to the President and the Congress documenting and
describing the work of the Commission over the past year.
September 17-18 Hearings on public health and the HIV epidemic. Washington, D.C.
September 18 Letter to President Bush and Members of Congress calling for full funding of
the Ryan White CARE Act.
November 27-28 Hearings and site visits to assess the impact of the HIV epidemic in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
December 17-18 Hearings on HIV disease in African-American communities. Baltimore, Maryland.