Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, July 3, 1987 Page: 4 of 36
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NAMES project begins assembling national ‘AIDS quilt’
Fabric panels, each remembering someone who has died of AIDS, are sewn together
to form the beginning of the national 'AIDS Quilt,' coordinated by the NAMES project.
Organizers of The NAMES Project
have begun to assemble the “AIDS
Quilt”, a massive fabric tribute to Amer-
icans killed by the AIDS epidemic.
Hundreds of cloth panels, each bear-
ing the name of a single person lost to
AIDS, are being collected in San Fran-
cisco and sewn into one vast quilt of
names. Organizers of the Project expect
the quilt to eventually cover several city
blocks and include thousands of indi-
vidually created fabric panels.
The quilt will be displayed across the
Capitol Mall in Washington, DC on the
morning of Sunday, October 11, 1987,
the day of the National March for
Lesbian and Gay Rights.
Completed panels have been received
in a large variety of styles and mater-
ials. According to production coordina-
tor Joseph Durant, no two have been
alike. “We’ve been really impressed
with the quality of the work we’re
seeing,” said Durant. “Even the panels
done with simple techniques show real
thought and loving care.”
Persons wishing to participate in the
NAMES Project are urged to design
and create panels of any light-weight,
durable fabric measuring six feet by
three feet (6’x3’) held horizontally or
vertically.
Project Director Cleve Jones has
asked participants in the memorial to
complete their panels well before the
September 15th deadline. “We need to
allow one month to six weeks to sew the
pieces together and additional time for
travel and public displays,” said Jones.
“People should try to get them finished
and in the mail by August 1.”
Project organizers have received sev-
eral inquiries concerning duplication of
names. Jones and Durant do not con-
sider duplication a problem and will use
all panels received, even if some indi-
viduals are remembered in more than
one panel.
Tax-deductible donations toward pro-
duction and transportation costs can be
senttoTheNAMES ProjectatP.O. Box
14573, San Francisco, CA 94114. For
more information call Mike Smith at
415/863-0767.
Older gays
more likely to
develop AIDS
Among homosexuals, older men in-
fected with the AIDS virus are likely to
develop the full disease more quickly
than younger infected men, California
AIDS researchers reported.
The new finding comes from a study
of AIDS cases occurring among homo-
sexual men from a nineteen-census-
tract area of high AIDS incidence in
central San Francisco.
The scientists found that as of Septem-
ber 1986, older infected men living in
this area were four times as likely as
younger men to have progressed to full-
blown AIDS.
The reason is not that the older men
had become infected any earlier, the
researchers said. The scientists suggest
that age at time of infection may play a
role in a man’s ability to fight off the
disease.
Differences in sexual history and
other health-related behaviors may also
cause age-related variations in the pro-
gression from infection to disease, they
said.
Parkland to
participate
in drug study
Isoprinosine eyed as an
immune system booster
By Dennis Vercher
The AIDS Clinic at Parkland
Memorial Hospital is seeking 30-60
persons to participate in a long-
range study of the effects of an exper-
imental drug, isoprinosine, on
people who test positive for HIV
antibodies but who have not devel-
oped full-blown AIDS.
Effective treatment for AIDS, say
most experts, will probably involve a
dual approach. On one hand, scien-
tists hope to develop a drug to ef-
fectively fight the HIV virus which
causes AIDS; another treatment
regimen will probably be required
to restore immunocompetence in in-
fected individuals. Isoprinosine, an
immunomodulator, is being investi-
gated for its potential role in restor-
ing immune function.
The drug is provided at no cost to
study participants, but Parkland
officials say restrictions specified in
the study mean only about one in
four applicants is accepted. Further-
more, some individuals in the study
will be consigned to a control group
and will be issued a placebo instead
of the actual drug. To qualify for the
study, a person must have a total T-4
lymphocyte count of between 200-
400 per cubic ml., and persons with a
history of gout or other uric acid
problems are not eligible.
“There are very few side effects
with it [isoprinosine],” said Park-
land’s Nish Orcutt. “About the only
thing they have seen in other trials
that they have conducted is an eleva-
tion of uric acid. This is one of the
reasons why someone with gout is
not allowed to participate.”
Orcutt said a person is accepted in
the study only after a screening pro-
cess. “If they’re accepted,” she said,
“they will be followed in the [AIDS]
clinic monthly, with a full physical
exam and multiple blood tests.”
Orcutt said individuals will stay in
that portion of the study for 6
months.
For more information about the
isoprinosine study, contact Nish or
Helen at 590-5632 between 8:30 a.m.
and 3:00 p.m., Monday through
Friday.
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