COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, notes, bibliographies, articles, and conference programs related to AIDS, particularly new drugs for the treatment of opportunistic infections and the specific issues relating to women with AIDS. Includes correspondence with drug companies and files about the Countdown/18 Months Plan of ACT UP/NY's Treatment and Data Committee.
Dates
- 1990-1991.
Creator
- PWA Health Group (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
PWA (People With AIDS) Health Group formed in New York City in 1987 to facilitate access to experimental drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS-related infections. The Countdown/18 Months Plan was a plan to make the five major opportunistic infections which claim the most lives treatable in the next year and one-half.
Extent
2.2 cubic feet. (2.2 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, notes, bibliographies, articles, and conference programs related to AIDS, particularly new drugs for the treatment of opportunistic infections and the specific issues relating to women with AIDS. Includes correspondence with drug companies and files about the Countdown/18 Months Plan of ACT UP/NY's Treatment and Data Committee.
SERIES LIST
- AIDS
- Box 1
- General
- Boxes 1-2
- Notebooks
- Box 2
- Miscellaneous Supporting Materials
- Box 2
Separated Materials
Periodicals Separated from #7528:
- AIDS Surveillance Update: Dec. 1990; Jan. 1991
- AIDS Treatment News: no. 108 (1990); nos. 122, 125, 129, 132-133, 138, 140-141 (1991)
- AIDS Update: May 4, Aug. 24, Aug. 10, Sept. 21, Nov. 2 1990
- Being Alive/Long Beach Newsletter: June, Sept. 1991
- BOTA (Bulletin of Experimental Treatment for AIDS): Nov. 1988; June 1989; Aug., Nov. 1990
- Bulletin: State Communities AID Association: Dec. 1990
- CFIDS Chronicle: Mar. 1991
- Dallas Buyer's Club Newsletter: May 1991
- Dateline: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: Sept. 1991
- Digest: A Review of Issues addressed by ACT UP's T + D committee during its past week of activities: nos. 87-88, 96, 99-103, 105-106, 118-199 (1991)
- Health Care for All: Mar. 14 1991
- HIV/AIDS Surveillance: Mar., July, Aug. 1991
- New York Citizens' AIDS Lobby Alert: Apr. 23 1991
- News from ICAAC (Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy): 1990
- NewSource: Oct. 1991
- Notes from the Underground: Jan., July/Aug. 1991
- PWA Coalition Newsline: July/Aug. 1991
- STNews: Jan. 1991
- The Blue Sheet: Feb. 6 1991
- Treatment Issues: Nov. 30 1990; Mar. 28, May 15, Aug. 30. 1991
- Treatment Issues Bulletins: Oct. 1991
- Treatment Issues Report: v.2, no.8; v.2, no.11 1992
- Treatment Update: May 1991
- U.S. Regulatory Reporter: Apr. 1989
- UMTFA (Upper Manhattan Task Force on AIDS): Fall 1991
Physical Description
Correspondence, notes, bibliographies, articles, conference programs.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- B.C. Beredo
- Date completed:
- July 2000
- EAD encoding:
- Mireille Lee, July 2000
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by B.C. Beredo
- Date
- July 2000
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu