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Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (Black CAP) - "Black Women Get AIDS Too!"

A flyer from Toronto's Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (Black CAP) promoting a talk entitled "Black Women Get AIDS Too!" by Wendi Modeste.

Tags: Black CAP, Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention, People of Colour, Toronto, Wendi Modeste, Women

AIDS ACTION NOW! - "Testing AIDS"

An AIDS ACTION NOW! booklet providing information on AIDS testing.

The cover states:
"a Lab service requisition form: a familiar sight for people getting tested in Ontario.

Inside: HIV related tests / Calculating your absolute T4 count /…

Tags: AIDS ACTION NOW!, AIDS testing, Anonymous testing, Toronto, Women

Queer Anarchist Network - People Livid With AIDS: Some Political Thoughts

A zine produced by Queer Anarchist Network discussing safe sex, safe drug use, treatments and research privilege, prisoners living with AIDS, demystifying drug use, living on the street, women living with AIDS, and psychiatric abuse of PLWAs.

Tags: dementia, IV drug use, Michael Smith, People Livid With AIDS, Person Livid with AIDS, Prisoners, psychiatric abuse, Queer Anarchist Network, Women

AIDS ACTION NOW! - AIDS Activism Teach-In Poster

A poster promoting an AIDS ACTION NOW! teach-in at Toronto City Hall. Featuring workshops on: Women and AIDS; Testing Issues; Taking control of your own health; Current treatments; HIV transmission; Treatment strategies; Promising new developments;…

Tags: AIDS ACTION NOW!, AZT, Teach-in, testing, Toronto, Treatment, Women

"Women get AIDS"

An AIDS ACTION NOW! flyer that highlights issues associated with women and AIDS.

Tags: AIDS ACTION NOW!, Toronto, Women

"This AIDS pamphlet is about Women"

An AIDS ACTION NOW! pamphlet addressing women's issues.

Tags: AIDS ACTION NOW!, Toronto, Women

"Government Disappearing Act"

An AIDS ACTION NOW! flyer that raises concerns about the neglect of women and AIDS by different levels of government.

Tags: AIDS ACTION NOW!, Toronto, Women

"Women get AIDS too!"

An AIDS ACTION NOW! poster promoting a World AIDS Day demonstration with a focus on women's issues.

Tags: AIDS ACTION NOW!, Toronto, Women, World AIDS Day

"Policy Options '90"

A policy document prepared for AIDS ACTION NOW!'s Annual General Meeting setting out policy issues for discussion in planning for the year ahead. The document is broken down into three broad categories: I) Political Organization; II) The Politics of…

Tags: AIDS ACTION NOW!, Anonymous testing, Catastrophic Rights, drug funding, Emergency Drug Release Program, National Treatment Registry, Policy, Political organization, Representation, Third World, Treatment, Treatment Information Exchange, Trials, V International AIDS Conference, Women

"Policy Options '91"

A report setting out policy issues for AIDS ACTION NOW! The report highlights five core areas: 1) Political organization; 2) Politics of treatment; 3) Politics of clinical trials; 4) Politics of social services; 5) Politics of affected/infected…

Tags: AIDS ACTION NOW!, Anonymous testing, drug funding, drug trials and testing, Emergency Drug Release Program, human rights, Montreal Manifesto, National Treatment Registry, Pharmaceutical industry, Political organization, Representation, Third World, Treatment Information Exchange, Women

"Health Care is a Right* except if you are a woman living with AIDS"

An AIDS ACTION NOW! flyer that draws attention to issues facing women living with HIV/AIDS.

Tags: AIDS ACTION NOW!, health care, Women

"Treatment Update 19"

"Treatment Update" was a regular publication by Sean Hosein, focusing on latest news on AIDS treatments from around the world. This issue features discussion on the drug AZT, steroids, and fungal infections among women.

Tags: AIDS ACTION NOW!, AZT, Steroids, Treatment Update, Women

AIDS ACTION NEWS!, Issue 19

The 19th Issue of AIDS ACTION NEWS! features highlights from the 10th International AIDS Conference in Berlin. It also includes a list of events that the organization was involved in (May to October 1993), a discussion of insurance issues, drug…

Tags: AIDS ACTION NEWS!, AIDS ACTION NOW!, Elections, insurance, International AIDS Conference, Women

"200 CD4 Count Planned as New U.S. Definition for AIDS"

An article from "Positively Aware" discussing the implications of redefining AIDS with a CD count of 200 or less, with a focus on women.

Tags: Medical classifications, Women

Notes from AIDS ACTION NOW! Annual Retreat (1990)

Notes from the 1990 Annual Retreat of AIDS ACTION NOW! including strategic planning for the coming year.

Tags: AIDS ACTION NOW!, drug funding, Planning, Retreat, Women

AAN! Steering Committee Draft Annual Report to Membership (1990)

A draft annual report by the AIDS ACTION NOW! Steering Committee to the membership for the AGM. Includes discussion of restructuring to ensure greater PLWA/HIV representation, in addition to discussions of prisons, women and the third world.

Tags: AIDS ACTION NOW!, General Meeting, Prisons, Quarantine, Representation, Third World, Women

"A Rational Look at AIDS"

An article from "Vitality," the quarterly publication of the Women's Health Education Network, which addresses the topic of AIDS and explains how it affects women.

Tags: Research, testing, Women