President Clinton Signs Executive Order for Creation of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and Announces Twenty-Three Members of the Council

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Steve Lew of California is the Executive Director of the Gay Asian Pacific
Alliance Community HIV Project and serves as Co-Chair of the San Francisco
Ryan White Planning Council. He is living with HI.
Altagracia Perez of Califovnia islhe Rtactor of the Church of Saint Philip the
Evangelist, Episcopal. She is an active member of HDI Inc., Educational Leadership
Council on Latinas and AIDS, and has served as Writer and Consultant for "Teens for
AIDS Prevention." --
H. Alexander Robinson of the District of Columbia is President of the
National Task Force on AIDS Prwvatlortnd the Senior Legislative
Representative for the American Civil Liberties Union AIDS and Lesbian and
Gay Rights Projects. Mr. Robinuon ia liviug with HIV.
Debbie Runions of Tennessee is. a freelance writer and has written a chapter
in AIDS and Women's Exoeriene: Emrna Poliey Agenda to be published
this year. She also serves on Tezuonesi1V Prevention Community Planning
Group.
Benjamin Schatz of California serves as Executive Director of the Gay and Lesbian
Medical Association. He was the firs attorney to work full time on issues of AIDSrelated discrimination on a national birby establishing the AIDS Civil Rights
Project at the National Gay Right -Avoctes.
Denise Stokes of Georgia is a f 4*-lIaneADS and substance abuse
educational consultant and former Lead Peer Counselor for OUTREACH Inc.,
the first HIV organization based inthe Atican American Community in the
Southeast.
Charles Quincy Troupe of Missouar who is a Missouri State Representative,
is nationally respected for his prentations on minority health issues- focusing
on the impact of AIDS on woman and minorities.
Sandra Thurman of Georgia is the Director of Advocacy Programs for the
Task Force for Child Survival and Development at the Carter Center in Atlanta.
She previously served as Executive Director of AIDS Atlanta, the Southeast's
largest and oldest community based AIDS service organization.
Bruce G. Weniger of Georgia is a medical epidemiologist with international research
and training experience on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia and South America. He
works at the United States Center fbr Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

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