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FAIRFIELD JOINS BOYCOTT

Melbourne, Australia, 1 June 1990 (MSO)

The Board of Victoria's main AIDS hospital have voted to support
the boycott of the Sixth International AIDS Conference in San
Francisco in protest at the discriminatory visa policy of the US
government toward people with HIV.

Fairfield staff will not now be eligible for financial assistance
from the hospital to attend the conference, nor will they be
granted leave with pay to attend.

Fairfield Executive Director Chris Richards said the decision was
made "firstly because the concessions by the US government have
not gone far enough and is still discriminatory; and secondly to
express our solidarity with our client group."

Some doctors at the hospital are known to oppose the boycott.
Richards denied that the quality of AIDS treatment at Fairfield
would suffer as a result of the Board's decision, saying that
some hospital staff might still attend.

Hospital Board and GMHC staff member Maureen O'Brien told MSO
that "When places like Fairfield boycott the conference, it
really brings home to conference organisers and the US government
that Fairfield takes seriously the violation of human rights of
people with AIDS."

Fairfield joins AIDS Councils and community groups around
Australia and the world in staying away from the 1990 conference.

[ (C) 1990 Oz Media Ltd. Melbourne Australia. Used By Permission ]

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