The Boston AIDS Conference That Never Was -- And Other Grim Tales By David Barr A Sick Lymph Node Makes Its Début TAGline catches up with its peripatetic international scribe as he negotiates a perilous course around canals and through…
January: amfAR's Paul Corser dies after a nine-year struggle with AIDS. FDA approves Glaxo's atovaquone (Mepron) for the prevention of PCP pneumonia. ACT UP/Needle Exchange activist Rod Sorge dies. Retrovirus conference, Chicago. Beatrice Hahn presents on the HIV-1's chimp origins;…
Storming Montréal's Palais de Congrès, and Makeshift Battle Stations in Fortress San Francisco By David Barr Bodyguarded Investigators It could be said that NIH-activist relations reached their untenable nadir in 1990. Nearly 30,000 Americans had died of AIDS the previous…
January: TAG community meeting at which John Moore gives update on vaccine research. TAG board member Marvin Shulman says farewell to New York life and heads for a full-time residency in South Miami Beach. FDA approves dental dams. Monica Lewinsky…
Feel Good, "Why Can't We Just All Be Friends?" Executive Reunion Ends in Promises Aplenty By Mark Harrington "This Man's Gonna Cure AIDS" AIDS policy people from across the country convened in Washington, D.C. recently where they met with representatives…
Nattering Nabobs' Noxious Spin, And the Imperiled Future of STI Research By Richard Jefferys The ELISpot Conundrum When an investigational drug causes a 0.4 log drop in viral load, it's evidence of biological activity. When the first large auto-vaccination study…
Jan 22 Treatment Action Group (TAG) splits off from the Treatment + Data (T+D) Committee of ACT UP/New York. Our media debut: Catherine Woodard's "AIDS Hit Squad Seeks More Than Attention," Newsday, 1.22.92. Jan 27 Eight Treatment Action Guerillas…
Jan 8: TAG meets with NIH Director Bernadine Healy re: the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR) legislation. She's non-committal. Jan 16: Hoffmann-La Roche community meeting disrupted by ACT UP and TAG. Shrimp cocktail goes flying. Two arrests. Jan 20:…
Jan 7: FDA approves Bactrim and Septra (trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole) for prevention against PCP -- fourteen years after the first AIDS PCP cases were reported. Jan 18: TAG meets with Genetics Institute about IL-12 study results. (The IL-12 treated monkeys had died.)…
Jan. 4: Memorial service for writer and ACT UP member David Feinberg. Jan. 8: TAG board decides to bring on Michael Marco and Spencer Cox full-time beginning in April 1995. Jan. 11: Activist and film-maker Steve Brown dies of progressive…