The Barbara Mc Clintock Project to Cure AIDS: Act Up’s Detailed Plan for an All Out Research Effort to Find a Cure for AIDS

3. To ensure that the most open and productive research paths are pursued, and to produce a cure
accessible to and usable by all affected people:
a. Equal consideration shall be given to conventional and other medical approaches and scientific
theories, and researchers representing divergent approaches shall be on the primary research staff
as well as be contributing researchers. [see page 15]
b. The Project's study of AIDS pathogenesis and manifestations must focus on all populations of
people with AIDS and HIV. Equal consideration shall be given to the differences between these
populations as to their similarities or "norms." This includes women, gay men, lesbians, people
of color (of various affected national-cultural groups), injection drug users, hemophiliacs and
people with inadequate medical care and/or nutrition. [see page 171
c. Basic science investigations and therapeutic results will be geared to people at every point on
the spectrum of AIDS and HIV - form the sickest to the healthiest. Saving people considered "near
death" must be considered as important as early intervention.
d. Information generated by the Project shall be made freely available to researchers, health care
providers, people with AIDS and HIV and their advocates as soon as it is available, without being
inhibited by professional publication practices.
e. Curatives ultimately released due primarily to project research shall not result in financial gain
to any private organization, and shall be made available to all affected people regardless of ability
to pay. [see page 181
4. In order to accomplish its goals, the Project shall have extraordinary powers to:
a. direct the utilization of any and all existing U.S. government funded research entities and their
facilities to clinically test promising cures developed on the basis of its research and to direct the
manner in which such research shall proceed, including staffing, participants, location and timing.
Such research will be funded by the McClintock Project. [see page 19]
b. exercise the right of eminent domain to: [see page 20]
* obtain from public and private organizations - with just compensation - samples of all
potential curatives and all data regarding their development (including safety and efficacy
data) as well as other information, materials or products deemed crucial to the Project.
* implement clinical testing for potential curatives owned by private companies, whether
under development or not, unless said companies adhere to an approved time frame and
are forthcoming with their data as such work proceeds.
* use existing pharmaceutical company facilities (with just compensation) for the
production of promising curatives to be utilized in McClintock research and, if effective,
to produce such curatives in sufficient amounts to be disseminated to all people needing
them.
5. A seed budget must be allocated immediately to be used for project planning (including creating
facilities, selection of staff, funding, structure and schedules), so that the Project can begin functioning
as soon as possible.