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AIDS DOESN'T DISCRIMINATEOUR GOVERNMENT DOES!
The HHS and the FDA must be held accountable for the exclusion of
women and people of color from access to treatment and drug protocols.
FACTS/REALITY:
A People of color account for only 17% of the total enrollment in 29 active protocols, while 54% of all
PWAs are people of color, according to the CDC.
A The CDC has no transm ission categories for
lesbians or bisexual women with AIDS, making
these women's lives invisible.
A Women are excluded from AIDS drug trials simply
on the basis of sex, or are forced to be sterilized in
order to receive drugs while men are not.
A When women and people of color can get into trials,
they are often forced into placebo trials, historically often the only source of care for poor people.
A Women's deaths from pneumonia in many urban
areas have increased as much as I00% while this
and other potential AIDS connections are ignored.
A Drug protocols require potential participants to
have a primary physician, effectively disqualifying
women and people of color who can't afford one.
A The FDA still supports the enrollment of babies,
mostly children of color, in painful, dangerous and
prolonged placebo trials. IVIG (intravenous immunoglobulin) placebo trials expose babies to opportunistic infections, hastening their deaths. The FDA
will soon approve another placebo trial for children.
A As the AIDS crisis changes, cases of women
infected with HIV are increasing; at the same time,
women continue to die sooner after diagnosis than
the average man with Al DS.
A HHS-funded AIDS research almost completely
ignores any co-factors in AIDS other than HIV.
Risk factors that especially affect poor people and
people of color-such as the skyrocketing syphilis
and tuberculosis epidemics in inner cities, nutritional aspects, and the full range of drug use ( not
just IV-drugs)-are barel y studied.
A The FDA is responsible for every drug trial's Institutional Review Board (IRB). These IRBs are usually
made up of professionals, thus closing off access to
groups who are working in affected communities,
and self-help groups of women, people of color,
and PWAs. People who are affected by AIDS have
a right to be part of dete rmining drug protocols
and trial participants.
A Prisoners deserve access to treatment, and for full
informed consent to experimental drugs. Of New
York state prison deaths last year, 2 out of 3 were
AIDS-related. The survival time for prisoners is
only half as long as for t hose in the same demographic categories (like IV drug users) outside.
IT'S NOT JUST A VIRUS THAT'S KILLING US!!
FDA = INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM & SEXISM
IN THE AIDS CRISIS.
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ACT UP/NY WOMEN'S CAUCUS & MAJORITY ACTION COMMITTEE
We recognize that every AIDS death is an act of racist, sexist and homophobic violence!
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The 1987 March On Washington For Lesbian Gay Rights, Flier "AIDS DOESN'T DISCRIMINATE - OUR GOVERNMENT DOES!"
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Sexual minorities -- Nebraska -- Omaha
Queer Omaha Archives
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1987
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Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library
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Terry Sweeney and Pat Phalen Papers finding aid at: <a title="finding aid" href="https://archives.nebraska.edu/repositories/4/resources/558" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://archives.nebraska.edu/repositories/4/resources/558</a>
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ACT UP
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March on Washington