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Just news CONFIDENTIAL PRESCRIPTIONS DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME AL-721, Polio Vaccine, Zovirax • Insurance Assignment Billing (in most cases no up-front cost to patient) • All Prescriptions Covered • Patient Counseling • 24-48 hr. Delivery throughout the USA (no extra charge) AIDS and women People are realizing that AIDS is a pandemic, it can hit anyone needle-sharing, not by having sex. BY A N N D E E H O C H M A N “ I think it is very, very slowly changing,” she said. “ I think people are realizing that it is a pandemic, it can hit anyone . . . . thinking, ny hope for stopping the spread ot AIDS ‘Maybe I’m at risk, too.’ ” lies not with government policy hut in community standards, Ines Rieder, an editor of In several Western European countries, she said, explicit advertisements are used to AIDS: The Women, said in a lecture here educate about AIDS. A Dutch television ad last month. shows a man with an erect penis putting on a Rieder, whose book compiled essays and condom, she noted. “ We cannot continue to interviews with 41 women affected in some say things like, ‘Use condoms,’ and not tell way by AIDS, said that safer sex — and people how to use them .” uninhibited discussion of it — must become In non-industrialized countries, though, a social standard. encouraging condom use may be unrealistic. In “ We have to lose some of our inhibitions Zimbabwe, for instance, an imported condom and be able to talk about condoms and dental costs more than $1, an exorbitant sum for dams and latex gloves,“ she said. “ It has to be people whose average yearly income amounts totally unacceptable to have sex with someone to $400 or $500. without protecting yourself.“ Rieder spoke to an audience of about 25, mostly women, at “ What are you going to tell people in other countries, outside the industrialized world?” Metropolitan Community Church in N t Portland. she said. “ What are you going to propose to AIDS: The Women included interviews from them? What kind of message can we give these countries but — be monogamous?” women in Africa, Brazil, the Netherlands, and West Germany, as well as throughout the Rieder, who lives in Oakland, stressed that United S tat^. In comparison to some other people who work on AIDS issues must form countries, R ^der said, people in the US are coalitions, develop long-term strategies, and complacent about “ official” AIDS policies, become a political force. If health workers or including statistics, advertising standards, and others have access to clean needles that may laws on needle distribution. prevent HIV transmission, they should give She suggested that the number of women them out, whether they have government with AIDS may be much higher than the sanction or not, she said. “ Why wait for federal Centers for Disease Control figures indicate. funds to be approved; why wait for the govern Currently, women account for nine percent of ment to say, okay?” AIDS cases in the US, according to the CDC. She praised the efforts of ACT UP to jostle a However, Rieder said, many women who are public, and a government, that is often com sick never seek medical care and never receive placent about AIDS. “ ACT UP has, at least, an AIDS diagnosis. In some cities she visited disturbed people,” she said. “ And people need on a nationwide tour, people minimized the to be disturbed. There are too many people in threat of AIDS to women and suggested that this country who are comfortable and they need women could only become infected through to be made uncomfortable.” ^ A • PILL BOX TIMER $24.95 (for timing and storage of medication) Louise L. Hay to appear at Civic Auditorium The most important thing is to love yourself B CALL FOR INFORMATION 1 - 800 - 752-5721 P.X. DRUGSTORE 4 7 5 8 Lankershim Blvd. North H ollyw ood, CA 91602 / lis to n i ^M2 Y May L I N D R O S S t started in a living room and grew to a weekly event. It was a support group of six men living with AIDS. It is still a support group with over seven hundred participants. The group includes people with AIDS, their families, their friends, and their loved ones. The atmosphere is cheerful. The message is simple It's a message of love, a message of hope. Most of all, it's a message that works. On Thursday. May 18, Louise L. Hay will be in Portland. She will share her experiences and ideas. Her ideas focus on transforming negative beliefs into ones of wholeness, health, and well-being. “ Healing Your Life, An Evening with Louise Hay" is sponsored by the Living Enrichment Center of Beaverton. It will begin at 7:30 pm at Portland Civic Auditorium. Hay is the author of You t an Heal Your Life. With over one million copies in print. Hay’s book has been on both The New York Times and Publisher v Weekly bestseller lists. It is available in ten languages. Hay has also appeared on the Oprah Winfrey and Phil Donahue shows. In all her workshops, tapes, and books. Hay shares one message: you can change your life by loving yourself. “ What you give out you get back,” she says. “ You change your life by changing what you believe You change your life by changing what you believe. The most important thing is to love yourself. Forgive I everyone and love yourself. Your whole life is just perfect.” “ Forgiveness is the hardest part,” she added. “ The more trouble someone has loving one’s self, the more you know they have some one to forgive. Forgiveness opens the door to love, it dissolves bitterness and self-righteous ness and the need for revenge.” Hay speaks through her experiences. She was physically and sexually abused from the age of five until she ran away from home at 15. After giving up a child for adoption, she went on to become a high-fashion model in New York, working for names like Bill Blass and Oleg Cassini. After the end of her 14 year marriage. Hay began studying healing. She became a minister and wrote the booklet, “ Heal Your Body.” She had an opportunity to put her philosophy to work when doctors diagnosed her with cervical cancer. The alternative healing methods she applied included dietary changes, reflexology, and visualizations. Within six months, her cancer was gone. When asked about her troubled years, she simply says, “ It all led me to where I am ." Her message is simple, “ Love yourself. You have power and control over your life. Tickets at $9.50. $12.50 and $14.50. are available at the Living Enrichment Center in Beaverton. Civic Auditorium, and Stiles for Relaxation. For more information, call 292-2050. y