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- Baltimore Alternative, February 1992
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- ["AIDS activists","LGBTQIA","LGBTQ issues","LGBTQ life","AIDS (Disease)","Baltimore (Md.)","Maryland"]
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- The Baltimore Alternative newspaper February 1992 issue.
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- 01 February 1992
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Baltimore Alternative, February 1992
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ALTERNATIVE
February 1992 ▼ Volume 7, Number 2 ▼ Serving The Baltimore /Washington Community Since 1986
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Hopkins,
Georgetown Win
Major AIDS
Research Grant
BY GAREY LAMBERT
THE ALTERNATIVE
The Baltimore/Washington area maintained and
enhanced its status as a center for AIDS research
with the announcement on Thursday, January 30
that Johns Hopkins University had been re-funded as a
member of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), and
that Georgetown University had been awarded a grant to
establish a new AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (ACTU) there.
The AIDS Clinical Trials Group is the federally funded
organization that conducts most of the clinical (human)
research in AIDS. The ACTG operates under the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a
branch of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.
The federal grant awards nearly S60 million per year for
the next four years to AIDS Clinical Trials Units in 27
cities across the country.
For Baltimore, the award to Johns Hopkins means that
the institution will continue its broad program of clinical
research in AIDS for at least the next four years. The
ACTU is the centerpiece of the Hopkins AIDS program,
and includes research into drugs that attack HIV, the virus
believed to cause AIDS, as well as a plethora of major
studies into drugs designed to control the opportunistic
infections. Virtually all of the clinical studies at the Johns
Hopkins Moore Clinic are conducted through the Hopkins
ACTU.
For Washington, the award to Georgetown University
means that the city will not be left without an ACTU.
George Washington University elected to close its ACTU
last year, and studies there were being phased out. But,
establishing an ACTU is a complex process, and
Georgetown is not expected to be conducting research
until summer at the soonest.
For PWAs in Baltimore and Washington, this funding
means that the opportunities for participating in meaning¬
ful clinical studies are greater than ever. Extensive clinical
research is now being conducted at Johns Hopkins and at
the National Institutes of Health. New opportunities for
access to clinical trials will soon be a reality at the new
ACTU at Georgetown University. Also, community-based
clinical research is underway in Washington through the
Whitman-Walker Clinic, and will soon begin through the
Baltimore Community Research Initiative in this city.
The funding also includes money for clinical research in
AIDS in children. The Children’s Hospital in Washington,
DC has been selected as a site for pediatric AIDS research.
Additionally, some cities with large HTV-positive popu¬
lations that had not had an ACTU site received awards,
including Philadelphia, Denver, and Birmingham,
Alabama. The ACTU in Philadelphia will be at the
University of Pennsylvania.
BY SCOTT ABEL _
JMR NEWS FEATURES
wo lovers fight. One ends up with a black eye.
The violence is not reported nor treated, and
roost likely wifi happen again. This couple, like
others nationwide, is caught up in a cycle of domestic
violence that is more prevalent in the gay community
than most care to realize.
They, along with an estimated 500, 000 gay male
couples, suffer from an enormous, yet seldom dis¬
cussed issue that is out-paced only by substance
abuse and AIDS as the largest health problem facing
homosexuals today.
Although it is commonly believed women are its
primary victims, domestic violence affects both men
and women, homosexuals and heterosexuals. And,
while there are many theories, researchers are not
sure what causes people to hurt the ones they love.
Mental health professionals agree on one point —
domestic violence is shrouded in secrecy by both the
gay and straight communities. It’s a taboo topic,
something both federal agencies and many health
care professionals tend to ignore.
The reason? Acts of domestic violence, although
well-documented, have a long history of being swept
under the rug. Public opinion polls indicate some
Americans condone violence in families, saying such
matters are private and of no concern to law enforce¬
ment officials.
Domestic violence, according to researchers David
Island and Patrick Letellier, is “any unwanted physi¬
cal force, psychological abuse, destruction of material
or property inflicted by one man (or woman) on
another" within the context of a relationship between
two consenting adults.
According to Island and Letellier, authors of the
first book on gay men and domestic violence, “Men
Who Beat The Men Who Love Them,” the incidence
of domestic violence in gay male relationships is
nearly double that of the heterosexual population.
They say that because men in heterosexual couples
commit 95 percent of the battering and there are two
men present in gay relationships, the probability of
violence occurring in a gay male relationship is dou¬
bled.
See Domestic Violence page 14
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