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President's
Advisory
Commission
on
AIDS
to
Meet
Next
Week
3/13/98
For four days beginning on Sunday (3/15), the President's Commission
on AIDS will meet at the Madison Hotel in ashington DC. The meeting is
expected to focus heavily on the continued federal ban on the use of AIDS-prevention
funding for syringe exchange. Last year it was revealed that members of
the commission had introduced -- and subsequently withdrawn -- a resolution
threatening the resignation of commission members if no action was taken
to lift the ban. At their last meeting in December, the council passed
a resolution calling on Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala
to formulate a plan for the lifting of the ban. That plan was to have been
ready by this past January 27, the date of the President's State of the
Union Address. As of this time, no such plan has been presented.
The National Coalition to Save Lives Now (NCSLN) is pressing the council
to take strong action at their meeting this week. Among their demands are
that the Council either pass a resolution stating that they will resign,
or else publicly call for Shalala's resignation. Chris Lanier, NCSLN's
national coordinator, told The week Online, "We are aware that some
members of the Council are angry with us for publicly demanding that they
act. But the reality is that from our perspective they should have walked
two years ago. Even taking the step of calling for Secretary Shalala's
resignation deflects from the main issue. That is, the Council is in essence
part of the administration, and the administration, by its inaction on
this issue, has allowed people to become infected with a deadly but preventable
virus. Hopefully, the Council will use the opportunity of this meeting
to take action which is both public and severe."
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Issue #33, 3/13/98
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