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HOWE APPOINTS PLWA TO ANCA

Melbourne, Australia, 13 July 1990 (MSO)

The Federal Minister for Health, Brian Howe, has decided to appoint a
person with HIV to the Australian National Council on AIDS (ANCA).

When the new membership of ANCA was announced last month, the National
People With AIDS Coalition (NPLWAC) and community AIDS groups strongly
criticised Howe for not including a person living with AIDS.

At its first meeting on June 22, ANCA overwhelmingly agreed that a
person with HIV infection should be appointed to the Committee. This
view was strongly put to Howe when he met with ANCA later that day. He
indicated he would reconsider the matter.

At a June 29 meeting at the offices of the AIDS Council of NSW (ACON), a
meeting picketed by ACT-UP demonstrators protesting delays in drug
availability, Howe met with ACON and NPLWAC representatives.
Immediate-past Executive Director of ACON, Bill Whittaker, was
reportedly asked by Howe to be the PLWA representative on the ANCA
Committee.

Whittaker refused the appointment, reportedly on the grounds that he did
not wish to be a de facto community AIDS organisation as well as a PLWA
representative. NPLWAC has nominated either Robert Arris or Robert
Jarman from PLWA NSW. At time of going to press it was not known which,
if either, of the two would be appointed.

On June 29, Howe also accepted a recommendation from ANCA to establish a
working party on the evaluation processes for HIV- related drugs. The
working party will be chaired by Professor Peter McDonald and will
include Dr Anne Mitch from Fairfield Hospital AIDS Unit and Dr David
Bradford, a Melbourne GP who treats a number of AIDS patients in private
practise.

[In part from Sydney Star Observer]

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

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