[Memo to PACHA Members from Bruce Weniger]

I hope all will keep in mind the need for brevity,
directness, and strictness with the time allocations, which
contributed to the success of our first conference-call briefings
on 4 April 1996, when we heard from Dani Bolognesi (Duke), MaryLou Clements (Johns Hopkins), Jos, Esparza (UNAIDS), Donald
Francis (Genentech), Maurice Hilleman (Merck), Margaret Johnston
(IAVI), and Jack Killen (NIAID).
If they wish, guest experts are invited to fax in advance to
the Research Committee members (and to SSS, Inc. by 4 pm EDT,
Friday 20 September, for forwarding to other Council members
participating in the call) written statements or brief documents
summarizing, expanding, or supplementing their oral statements.
They may also provide additional biodata, if needed, to
supplement the brief sketches provided below.
Below please find the schedule for the 90-minute session.
Each guest expert is allocated 10 minutes for a statement and 5
minutes for questions and discussion. If their schedules permit,
guests are welcome to listen to all or part of the call and to
participate in the questions, answers, and discussion with
Council members.
Because AT&T conference-call ports are limited, guests are
requested to use only one incoming phone line to connect to the
session and not to divulge the 800 number and code. However,
others at their location may listen to the call using handset
extensions or a speakerphone on the same telephone circuit. To
minimize noise problems, all participants are requested to "mute"
the telephone handset or speakerphone when not speaking. If you
must receive or make a separate call on the phone, please hang up
from the conference call and reconnect afterwards, rather than
putting the conference call on "hold". Some phone systems emit
interfering music or tones while on "hold".
SCHEDULE (Eastern Daylight Time) Tuesday, 24 September 1996
9:55 - 10:00 AM Committee Housekeeping; Announcements
10:00 - 10:15 CHRIS COLLINS (7:00 - 7:15 am PDT)
Study Project Director, Center for AIDS
Prevention Studies, UC San Francisco. AIDS
activist in San Francisco for many years,
affiliated with the Mobilization Against
AIDS, VACT-UP (Vaccine Advocates Committed to
Universal Protection), and other communitybased organizations. Former staff member of
the San Francisco Mayor's HIV Task Force, and
member of the Community Advisory Board for
HIVNET-SF. Author of "Sustaining Support for
DOmestic HIV Vaccine Research: Social Issues
Over the Long Haul of Human Trials."
10:15 - 10:30 STEN VERMUND, MD, PhD (9:15 - 9:30 am CDT)
Professor of Epidemiology, University of
Alabama, president Gorgas Memorial Institute
for Tropical and Geographic Medicine. A