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February 12. Fees (including lunch) are $40 physician, $25 other
professionals, $15 persons with HIV and all others, but no one will
be turned away for lack of funds. This conference is sponsored by
several AIDS, vision, and hearing organizations.
For more information, call Kathy Abrahamson at 415/431 -1481.

Resource List, January 1993:
ACT UP Affiliates, Buyers'
Clubs, and PWA Coalitions

San Francisco:
"Caring for HIV Naturally" Forum
The Traditional, Holistic, and Alternative Treatment Committee of ACT UP/San Francisco is sponsoring a four-part forum on adP olit
alternative treatments, on four Saturdays between January 30 and individualw
March 3. individuals who
those seeking e
The first session, "Nutrition and Exercise," includes four speak- services. We ha
ers: holistic physician Jon Kaiser, M.D., on diet and food supple- verify; some of 1
ments; Parris Kidd, Ph.D., author of Living with the AIDS Virus -
A Strategy for Long-Term Survival, on anti-oxidants and the For information
treatment of HIV; David Merriweather, assistant to Jonathan Network, 414/48
Wright, M.D. (who received widespread publicity after an FDA tions, contact th
raid on Dr. Wright's clinic in Kent, Washington) on issues of AIDS (NAPWA
digestion and assimilation; and Tom Riccobuono, on exercise for which you think
people with HIV. This session will take place Saturday, January contact this writ
30, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., in the Davies Medical Center, Castro Street and
Duboce Avenue, in the Gazebo room. The classificatio
Later sessions are: Body-Mind-Spirituality, Feb. 13; Cross- "A" - local act
Cultural Therapies, February 27; and Long-Term Survivors, March "B" - buyers' c
13. "C" - coalition
For more info, o c ec oca to io people li
call ACT an Francisco's information hotline at 415/62 -
029
ALABAMA
AIDS Czar Issue: Report to President Birmingham
or Report to HHS? Huntsville
ACT UP/New York has begun a letter writing campaign after
hearing reports that the Donna Shalala, the new Secretary of Health IZONA
and Human Services (HHS) wants the new "AIDS czar" promised Phoenix
by Clinton to report to her, instead of directly to the president. ACT Phoenix
UP believes that the decision may be made soon. No "AIDS czar" Tucson...."...........!Tucson
has been appointed yet.
There has been widespread consensus that such a position Tucson
should report directly to the president - one reason being that
AIDS issues involve many departments, not only HHS. "The
rationale for the position requires the immediate attention and ARKANSAS
direct access to the president, with special powers to coordinate,, Little Rock
across all governmental agencies and branches, the federal government's response to AIDS. It also requires the full commitment of
the president to use his office as a 'bully pulpit," to ensure a timel CALIFORNIA
response to AIDS" (quote from ACT UP/New York letter t Fresno
President-Elect Clinton). Lompoc
As this issue went to press, United for AIDS Action also j ned Long Beach
the effort to have an AIDS coordinator in the White Hou. Los Angeles
For more information on this issue and on how you c elp, call Los Angeles
ACT UP/New York, 212/564-AIDS, or Eric Sawy, 212/864- Oakland
5672. Orange Cty
Palm Desert

Updated by Tadd Tobias

a directory of AIDS activist groups, buyers' clubs,
ions. It includes local and regional contacts for
want to get involved with AIDS activism or for
xperimental treatments or community support
ve only listed phone numbers which we could
these are home telephones, not offices.
about new ACT UP affiliates, contact the ACT UP
3-0376. For information about new PWA coalite National Association of People Living With
), 202/898-0414. If you know of organizations
should be included in our next directory, please
er at 415/255-0836.
ns are:
ivist and direct action groups;
lubs for alternative or experimental treatments;
s and community networks organized by and for
ving with AIDS.
Birmingham AIDS Outreach 205/322-4197C
AIDS Action Coalition 205/533-2437 C

ACT UP/Phoenix
Phoenix Body Positive
La Frontera Center/
Positively Native
PWA Coalition Tucson
Arkansas AIDS Brigade

602/433-4966 A
602/264-7414 C
602/770-7418 C
602/770-1710 BC
501/372-7473 A

ACT UP/Fresno 209/843-2748
ACT UP/Lompoc 805/736-5136
Being Alive Long Beach 310/495-3422
ACT UP/Los Angeles 213/669-7301
Being Alive 310/667-3262
ACT UP/East Bay 510/836-4401
ACT UP/Orange County 714/253-0185
Alternative Supplem. Club619/568-1725
ch Being Alive South Bay 310/544-2702
ACT UP/San Diego 619/280-2961
Being Alive San Diego 619/291-1400
o Healing Alternatives 415/626-2316
o ACT UP/Golden Gate 415/252-9200
) ACT UP/San Francisco 415/621-0291

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