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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.