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It is our mission to bring integrity and trust into the real estate profession while creating tremendously satisfying and fulfilling lifelong relationships with the people in our community. hough the death rate for people living The treatment, however, can cost thousands of with AIDS in the United States con dollars a year per patient, thus making it prohibi tinues to fall, tough challenges remain tive for many living with the disease. when it comes to actually controlling Winnie Fairchild, a Washington, D.C., resi the epidemic. That according to AIDS dent living with AIDS, spoke at the event. She talked about how protease inhibitors boosted her specialists who gathered for the annual State o f T cells from 146 to 388. AIDS Forum, held July 14 at the National Press “[But] just last month I had a new doctor who Club in Washington, D C . wanted to take me off because the medication was According to the Centers for Disease Control too expensive for Medicaid to pay for,” she said. and Prevention, during the first nine months o f “He said it was not his policy to tax the public. I 1996, 30,700 people in the U.S. died from AIDS told him it was not my policy to die for them, complications— a 19 percent decline from the either.” first nine months o f 1995. Christine Lubinski, lobbyist with the AIDS Dr. Helene Gayle, director o f the CDC’s na Action Council, said expanding Medicaid eligi tional center that deals with AIDS prevention, bility “could contrib told a news confer ute to reducing the ence, “We really are disparity in death entering a new era.” rates between men Despite the over and women” as well all decline, however, as am ong ethnic G ayle and others groups. raised concerns that Dr. V ictoria w om en and Sharp, medical direc marginalized com tor o f St. Luke’s- munities are not ben- Roosevelt Hospital efitin g from new in New York, offered treatments which are another insight into extending the lives the racial disparity: o f some. “Riker’slslandisour According to the city’s jail system— CDC, the death rate 100,000 people a for men fell 22 per year pass through cent in the first nine there. People behind months o f 1996 ver ^bars in our state are sus the same time primarily people of period in 1995. By color. Up until three co m p a riso n , the days ago if you were death rate for H IV -p o sitive and women fell only 7 found to be someone percent. The death rate for European Dr. Helene Gayle, director ofthe CDC’s National Center who clinically should Americans fell 28 f ° r HIV, STD and TB Prevention be on protease therapy, you did not have access to that therapy.” percent compared to only 10 percent for African Other issues were also addressed. Dr. Linda Americans and 16 percent for Latino/as. Frank o f the Pennsylvania AIDS Education and The new cases o f AIDS broke down in part to Training Center, warned about the potential dan 40 percent gay, 25 percent injection drug users, gers to people with AIDS in a managed-care and 13 percent heterosexual. environment. Women make up 20 percent o f newly reported “This limitation o f time and increased frag cases, and for the first time, African Americans mentation can lead surpassed European to ineffective com Americans in gross m unications at a num bers o f new time when this com cases. It is estimated munication is more that there are at least im portant than 40,000 new infec ever,” she said. tions each year in the . . , r “We are in the United States. eye o f the storm,” “ A ID S is not over,” says Daniel Zingale, executive director of the AIDS of the Treatment Ac Action Council, the tion Group. “We chief sponsor of the have bought our forum. “If we treat it selves som e time like it is over, it never [due to protease in will b e ” hibitors], but the Specialists say the epidemic is slowing, due in 20th century has been one of incredible hubris part to people engaging in safer sexual practices, when it comes to pestilence. We thought we had as well as the wider use o f protease inhibitors, a beaten common bacterial infections and defeated drug treatment that, combined with previous treat things like tuberculosis with antibiotics, and ma ments such as the well-known AZT, appears to be laria with drugs and pesticides. But in each of prolonging and improving the li\^ s o f some tak those cases it is the bug that has had the last laugh ing the regimen. and roared back with a most sophisticated attack.” T Women make up 20 percent of newly reported cases, and for the first time, African Ameri cans surpassed European Americans in gross numbers of new cases. It is estimated that ^Grtg^Gons^ivIs there are at least 40,000 new infections each year in the United States.