Which Way, L.A.?
AIDS
Deaths from AIDS are on the way down, but the drugs that keep people alive longer are expensive and inaccessible to many. And ethnic minority groups are being diagnosed at rates up to seven times higher than whites. What does living with AIDS mean at this stage in the epidemic? Meanwhile, President Clinton makes an impassioned call for finding a vaccine within 10 years. How realistic is that and what are the risks involved? Is the right amount of money behind the effort? Should ad campaigns retreat or fight?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readMs. Sandy Thurman : White House Director of AIDS policy Dr. David Baltimore : 1975 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology of Medicine. Chair, National Institutes of Health AIDS vaccine committee. Professor of Molecular Biology at MIT; incoming head of California Institute of Technology. Jeff Trewhitt : Assistant Vice President, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. Eric Sawyer: Founding member of ACT UP: the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. Gabriel Rottello: Writer, columnist, author of new book Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men Dr. Lee Klosinski: Director of Education, AIDS Project Los Angeles. Shepard Smith: Founder and President, Americans for a Sound AIDS Policy. Dr. Gary Richwald: Director, LA County Sexually transmitted diseases program. Curt Livesay: Attorney in private practice; held multiple managment positions with the Los Angeles District Attorney's office in a 27 year career there, including Chief Deputy DA.
