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The supply of the drug is limited and an ex tensive series of hoops must be passed through to obtain the drug, said Dale Curry, a pharmacist at Maker's Pharmacy in Eugene When the drug was released. Eugene physi cian Kirk (acobson prescribed it for a patient he was treating The patient recently died. "But he had several months of good quality of life," Jacobson said. "Whether that was related to A/.T them's no way to tell. The only way you can tell is by comparing thousands of patients " The drug's manufacturer. Burroughs Wellcome Co.. conducted a broad test of the drug last year with 282 subjects. The subjects were divided into two greups: 145 subjects received Kutmvir and 137 received a placebo. After eight months of testing, 18 of the pa tients receiving the placebo had died compared to only one of the patients receiving Retrovir. Those; patients receiving the drug showed significantly fewer AIDS-related difficulties. The FDA approved the drug for wider use after the test. Retrovir "is clearly not a cure." said Dr. John Allcott of the West laine Health Clinic. “It may be useful for prolonging the life or improving the quality of life for some AIDS patients, but it does have significant side effects that limit its usefulness." Portland's Dr. Mark Loveless said the side ef fects of Retrovir have be«>n a serious concern in the cases for which he has prescribed the drug since it was made available. He has prescribed Retrovir as treatment for bImihI 15 patients since November of 1986. he said "The fact is that most |>eople end up with toxicity, so the results are discouraging,” Loveless said. The main side effect of the drug is anemia, a type of blood deficiency, he said. "And after three to four months, the people who need it most tend to not tolerate it very well." Although studies have shown that Retrovir results in significant improvement for AIDS pa tients over a six- to eight-month period, Loveless said the drug’s long-term effectiveness is unknown. "Now. after a year, we re seeing peo ple (on Retrovir) have further deterioration of the immune system." ho said. "We need a marker for how well the medication is inhibiting the AIDS virus. "It's no cure. It maybe stems the tide of im mune damage for some period, but the question of How long?' is difficult to predict — probably not forever," he added. Nevertheless. Retrovir is the only medication available to reduce the acitivity of the AIDS causing virus, loveless said. The key to Retrovir's successful use may be found in patients with AIDS-Related Complex, Ixrveless said. Retrovir may be most effective for those patients with mild to moderate immune system damage, he said. lacobson currently knows of three patients in lame County being treated with Retrovir, he said. The drug is used only for AIDS patients who develop a rare form of pneumonia that is often associated with AIDS. The pneumonia affects about one half of AIDS victims. Currently in Oregon, there are about 75 AIDS patients and about 100 with ARC who would fit the criteria for treatment with Retrovir, loveless estimated. The manufacturer of Retrovir has established a series of requirements that patients must fulfill to receivu the drug because of its limited supply, (lurry said. "They want to make sure they don’t start patients on therapy and then are unable to continue to supply them with the drug.” The limited supply of Retrovir also is resulting in astronomical costs for treatment of aids victims. Curry said. He estimated that treat ment with the drug costs betwrren $H,(H)U ami $10,000 per patient each year. Gov. Neil Goldschmidt has recommended that money be adder! to the Medicaid budget specifically for the treatment of AIDS patients. Sister city project limits choices By Janet Paulson (N III* hnetald hugeno moved one step closer to choosing a sister city in the Soviet Union on Monday night. Members of the Soviet Sister City Project (SSCP) selected two potential cities to present to the Sister City International Com mittee, which will make the final decision. Nal'chik. near the resort I E S All Day Every Day Mon.-Fri. 8:30-A :00pm Sat. 10#pm Print America SIS i. 13th US-1940 region of the Black Sea. was unanimously selected as the committee's first choice for sister city. The second choice is Irkutsk in central Siberia, near Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world. Members of Eugene's Soviet Sister City Committee, which includes the presidents of both the University of Oregon and Un« Community College, con ducted research on 149 poten tial sister cities for five months Indore narrowing the choice down to Nal'chik and Irkutsk. According to Chairwoman kate dessert, both Nal’chik and Irkutsk are representative of the committee's criteria, including the existence of a gund-si/.ed univursitv or other higher learn ing institution, local agriculture, some lumber areas and a history "that would not be offensive to people in our community." Several SSCP members will attend the Soviet-American Sister Cities Conference in Seat tle this week where they will present the potential cities to Sister Cities International. The SSCP has organized an informa tion package to introduce and "advertise” Eugene to potential Soviet sister cities. dessert said that it is not known when Sister Cities Inter national will muke the final decision for Eugene's sister city. Six U S. cities have had fairly long-term Soviet sister city rela tionships. the longest being that of Seattle and Tashkent in the U.S.S.K Of the original six. about four have become inactive in the past few years, dessert said. As a result, the Soviet Union has been slow to accept new sister cities, although about 10 U.S. cities have reached the for mal stage of negotiating sister city ties in the past year. The Soviet Union is expected to ap prove a new batch of sister cities in the next year or two. she said. The SSCP was organized about six months ago with the goal of creating “greater understanding, appreciation and friendship between the peoples of the United States and the Soviet Union.” On May 13 the Eugene City Council formally designated the existing committee as the for mal decision-making body to organize and oversee the Soviet sister city project. RESUMES Give your resume i professional look by having it typeset at the Oregon Daily Emerald a tetter Perfect Oraphtee located In Suite 300, EMU, or call 686 5511
