rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams) (06/15/91)
The Advisory Board of the International AIDS Society has sent a letter, signed by its president, Paul A. Volberding, to its membership regarding the US government's plan to continue excluding HIV-infected visitors from entering this country. Apparently the decision to keep HIV on the list of diseases considered to be grounds for exclusion will be made permanent on August 1, unless public input between now and then causes federal officials to change their minds. The International AIDS Society is asking its membership to write to the following people (and also US legislators) to urge them to support the removal of HIV from this list: Charles R. McCance, Director The Honorable Louis Sullivan, M.D. Division of Quarantine Secretary, Health and Human Services Center for Prevention Services Room 615-S, Hubert Humphrey Building Centers for Disease Control 200 Independence Avenue Mail Stop EO3 Washington, DC 20201 Atlanta, GA 30333 William Roper, M.D., M.P.H. The Honorable Richard L. Thornburgh Centers for Disease Control Office of the Attorney General D-14 Main Justice Building 1600 Clifton Road Constitution Avenue Atlanta, GA 30333 Washington, DC 20530 If the exclusion continues, The International AIDS Society will withdraw its endorsement of Boston as the site for the Eighth International Conference on AIDS in 1992, and any further International AIDS Conferences in the United States. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- R O D W I L L I A M S P A C I F I C * B E L L S A N F R A N C I S C O , C A L I F O R N I A =========================================================================