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availability of health care for
people living with H1V/A1DS.
Title II provides funding to
states for services such as test
ing, education, prevention and
drugs.
A ccording to th e 1999
annual report of O regon Pub
lic H ealth Services, 4,586 res
idents have been reported
with A ID S since the begin
ning of the epidemic. A t that
tim e, total deaths stood at
2,654, leaving about 1,932
people living w ith A ID S
statewide.
The number of people living
with HIV was estimated to he
3,800 to 8,600. During 1999,
222 O regonians were newly
reported with AIDS and 47
died of AIDS.
HRC H onors
100 P ercent
C lub
U nion
E ndorses
G ood
G overnment
I nitiative
P
Sue Hyde energizes volunteers during the first Creating Change 2002 H ost Committee meeting Feb. 27
he H um an Rights C am
paign recently saluted U .S Sen. R on
W yden, D-O re., and 25 o th er members of
Congress who have earned 100 percent on its
scorecard since 1989, w hen the organization
started ranking the legislators.
“T h e heroes we honor today have cham pi
oned our cause and courageously stood by our
side in good times and had,” political director
W in n ie S tach elh erg said at a recep tio n
M arch 7. “T h eir unw avering support has
T
been crucial to our ability to defeat anti-gay
hills and push forward toward equality. We
thank these brave, principled individuals for
all they have done.”
H ost C ommittee
W ill M eet
r ¥ he next meeting of the Creating Change
JL 2002 Host Committee will he held from 7
to 9 p.m. April 17 in the first floor conference
room at 123 N.E. Third Ave.
Attendees will launch community organiz
ing projects, form working subcommittees that
will tackle specific tasks and meet the four co
chairs. The conference is set for Nov. 6 to 10 at
the Jantzen Beach DoubleTree Hotel.
For more information contact Sue Hyde at
617-492-6393 or shyde@ngltf.org.
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ortland’s Metropolitan
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nounced March 21 it has
voted to endorse the Good
G overnment Initiative.
G ay businessman Rob
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b allo t m easure, w hich
would shift responsibility
o f city departm ents to
ex p erien ced
managers
hired by the mayor. In
a d d itio n , seven of th e
n in e council m embers
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neighborhoods.
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believe
the
Good Government Initia
tive... will strengthen ac
countability between the
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Employees Local 189. “Currently the commis
sioners who vote on bureau budgets have a vest
ed interest in seeing those budgets passed as they
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