America Living With AIDS

to address all but two of these recommendations-treatment on demand and the creation
of a federal interagency mechanism to coordinate a national plan. The National Commission will continue to monitor the response to its own recommendations in its third year
and identify those areas of the national response that need additional initiatives.
The National Commission on AIDS has attempted to monitor the response to the Presidential Commission recommendations and in the process has brought attention to a
number of deficiencies in the national response to the AIDS epidemic: lack of a comprehensive national plan, absence of federal leadership, and insufficient methods for evaluating HIV-related programs. As the successor to the Presidential Commission, the National
Commission will continue to monitor the national response to the HIV epidemic and call
for action from the federal as well as the state and local government and the private sector.
References
1 National Commission on AIDS, Enabling Legislation, PL 100-607, November 4, 1988.
2 Report of the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic, June 24, 1988, p. vii.
3 Institute of Medicine. 1988. Confronting AIDS: Update 1988. Washington, D.C.:
National Academy Press.
4 "AIDS Drugs, Where are They?" 73rd Report of the Committee on Government
Operations. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
5 White House, Office of the Press Secretary. 1988. Press release, August 2.
6 Ibid.
7 Report of the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic, June 24, 1988, p. 112.
8 White House, Office of the Press Secretary. 1988. Press Release, August 2.
9 Communication with John Rogers, Employee Labor Relations, Office of Personnel
Management; correspondence from Constance Newman, Director, Office of Personnel Management.
10 Report of the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic, June 24, 1988, p. 107.
11 Congressional Research Service. AIDS Discrimination Issues: Legislative and Executive Actions, IB89125, February 28, 1991.
12 Report of the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic, June 24, 1988, p. 156.
13 National Commission on AIDS. 1990. Press release, "Commission Calls for Changes
in U.S. Visa and Immigration Policies." National Commission on AIDS Annual
Report, p. 37.
14 National Commission on AIDS. 1990. "Resolution on U.S. Visa and Immigration
Policy." National Commission on AIDS Annual Report, pp. 39-40.
15 National Commission on AIDS. 1990. Background paper "AIDS and Immigration:
An Overview of United States Policy." National Commission on AIDS Annual
Report, pp. 41-57.
16 Correspondence from Peter West, Senior Medical Advisor, Department of State, July
24, 1990.

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