PWA Health Group records, 1990-1991.
Collection Number: 7528

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
PWA Health Group records, 1990-1991.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7528
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.
Creator:
PWA Health Group
Quanitities:
2.2 cubic feet.
Language:
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.
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.
AIDS Box 1
General Boxes 1-2
Notebooks Box 2
Miscellaneous Supporting Materials Box 2
Separated Materials

Periodicals Separated from #7528:
  1. AIDS Surveillance Update: Dec. 1990; Jan. 1991
  2. AIDS Treatment News: no. 108 (1990); nos. 122, 125, 129, 132-133, 138, 140-141 (1991)
  3. AIDS Update: May 4, Aug. 24, Aug. 10, Sept. 21, Nov. 2 1990
  4. Being Alive/Long Beach Newsletter: June, Sept. 1991
  5. BOTA (Bulletin of Experimental Treatment for AIDS): Nov. 1988; June 1989; Aug., Nov. 1990
  6. Bulletin: State Communities AID Association: Dec. 1990
  7. CFIDS Chronicle: Mar. 1991
  8. Dallas Buyer's Club Newsletter: May 1991
  9. Dateline: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: Sept. 1991
  10. 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)
  11. Health Care for All: Mar. 14 1991
  12. HIV/AIDS Surveillance: Mar., July, Aug. 1991
  13. New York Citizens' AIDS Lobby Alert: Apr. 23 1991
  14. News from ICAAC (Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy): 1990
  15. NewSource: Oct. 1991
  16. Notes from the Underground: Jan., July/Aug. 1991
  17. PWA Coalition Newsline: July/Aug. 1991
  18. STNews: Jan. 1991
  19. The Blue Sheet: Feb. 6 1991
  20. Treatment Issues: Nov. 30 1990; Mar. 28, May 15, Aug. 30. 1991
  21. Treatment Issues Bulletins: Oct. 1991
  22. Treatment Issues Report: v.2, no.8; v.2, no.11 1992
  23. Treatment Update: May 1991
  24. U.S. Regulatory Reporter: Apr. 1989
  25. UMTFA (Upper Manhattan Task Force on AIDS): Fall 1991
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Cite As:

PWA Health Group. Records, #7528. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
SUBJECTS

Subjects:
Opportunistic infections.
Pharmaceutical policy.
Drug utilization.
Medical care -- New York (N.Y.)
HIV infections.
AIDS (Disease)
CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 1
Incoming Correspondence, 1992
Box 1 Folder 2
Incoming Correspondence, 1991
Box 1 Folder 3
Outgoing Correspondence, 1991
Box 1 Folder 4
Incoming Correspondence, 1990
Box 1 Folder 5
Outgoing Correspondence, 1989-1990
Box 1 Folder 6
Form letters, n.d.
Series II. Conferences
Box 1 Folder 7
AIDSCOM: 6th International Conference on AIDS, San Francisco, CA, June 1990
Box 1 Folder 8
AIDS Activist Conference--People of Color, 1990 [?]
Box 1 Folder 9
AIDS Clinical Trial Group Meeting, Bethesda, MD, March 5-7, 1990
Box 1 Folder 10
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections: Developing Effective Therapies, April 9-10, 1991
Box 1 Folder 11
ATAC (AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition), Washington, D.C., November 10-11, 1990
Box 1 Folder 12
Anglogenesis Blocking Research (notes re: conference), 1991
Box 1 Folder 13
Clinical Manifestations and Therapeutics, 1990
Box 1 Folder 14
Clinical Trial Design: Efficacy Evaluation of Anti-HIV Agents, Chicago, IL, April 29-30, 1991
Box 1 Folder 15
Women and HIV Infection, Washington, D.C., December 13-14, 1990
Series III. Organizations
Box 1 Folder 16
ACT-UP/Chicago, n.d.
Box 1 Folder 17
ACT-UP/Los Angeles, n.d.
Box 1 Folder 18
ACT-UP/New York, 1991
Box 1 Folder 19
ACT-UP/Seattle, n.d.
Box 1 Folder 20
ACTG Committee (AIDS Clinical Trial Group), 1991
Box 1 Folder 21
Atra Corporation, 1990-1991
Box 1 Folder 22
CDC (Center for Disease Control), n.d.
Box 1 Folder 23
CBCTN (Community Based Clinical Trials Network), 1990
Box 1 Folder 24
CIBA-GEIGY Corporation, 1984
Box 1 Folder 25
Columbia Gay Health Advocacy Project, 1989
Box 1 Folder 26
COMBAT, Southwest (Community Based AIDS Treatment Group), 1990
Box 1 Folder 27
Division of Antiviral Drug Products, 1990
Box 1 Folder 28
Dynamic Information, n.d.
Box 1 Folder 29
F-D-C Reports, Inc., 1991
Box 1 Folder 30
Liposome Corporation, 1989-1990
Box 1 Folder 31
National Committee to Review Current Procedures for Approval of New Drugs for Cancer and AIDS, 1990
Box 1 Folder 32
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 1989
Box 1 Folder 33
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 1990
Box 1 Folder 34
National Library of Medicine, 1988-1990
Box 1 Folder 35
OI Committee (Opportunistic Infections), 1990
Box 1 Folder 36
People of Color Caucus of the Community Constituency Group, 1991
Box 1 Folder 37
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, 1990
Box 1 Folder 38
Planning Council (New York City), 1991
Box 1 Folder 39
Statistical Working Group/Methodology, 1990
Box 1 Folder 40
Treatment and Data Committee: Countdown Eighteen Months Working Group, 1990-1991
Box 1 Folder 41a
Treatment Education, 1991
Box 1 Folder 42a
Women's AIDS Network, 1990
Series IV. Subject Files
AIDS
Box 1 Folder 41b
2-CDA
Box 1 Folder 42b
Alpha-Interferon Therapy
Box 1 Folder 43
B19 Parvovirus
Box 1 Folder 44
B-Carotine+E
Box 1 Folder 45-46
CMV (Cytomegalovirus)
Box 1 Folder 47
CNS Lymphoma
Box 1 Folder 48
DHPG (Ganciclovir)
Box 1 Folder 49
Doxorubicin Solution
Box 1 Folder 50
Kaposi Sarcoma
Box 1 Folder 51-52
Lymphoma
Box 1 Folder 53
Neoplasms
Box 1 Folder 54
Pentosan Polysulfate
Box 1 Folder 55
Peptide T
Box 1 Folder 56
Reiter's Disease
Box 1 Folder 57
Rifabutin
Box 1 Folder 58
WIN57273
General
Box 1 Folder 59
Bibliographies, n.d.
Box 1 Folder 60
Bristol Myers, 1991
Box 1 Folder 61
Cancer, 1990
Box 1 Folder 62
Catalogs, 1990-1991
Box 1 Folder 63
Children, 1990
Box 1 Folder 64
Education, 1989-1990
Box 1 Folder 65
Education: Health Care Workers, 1990-1991
Box 1 Folder 66
FDA (Food and Drug Administration), 1989-1991
Box 1 Folder 67
FDA Action (Food and Drug Administration), 1991
Box 1 Folder 68
HIV, 1989-1991
Box 2 Folder 1
Latinos/Latinas, 1991
Box 2 Folder 2
Miscellaneous Information, 1991-1992
Box 2 Folder 3
Nervous System, n.d.
Box 2 Folder 4
Nutrition, 1990
Box 2 Folder 5
Phase One Now! 1990
Box 2 Folder 6
Policy: costs, 1990-1992
Box 2 Folder 7
Policy: testing and screening, 1990
Box 2 Folder 8
Posters/flyers, 1990
Box 2 Folder 9
Press releases, 1989-1991
Box 2 Folder 10
Prevention, 1990
Box 2 Folder 11
Prisoners: Albany Action, 1991
Box 2 Folder 12
Product List, 1991
Box 2 Folder 13
Project Inform, 1988
Box 2 Folder 14-16
Publications, 1990
Box 2 Folder 17
Transcripts, 1989-1991
Box 2 Folder 18-19
Transmission, 1988-1991
Box 2 Folder 20
Transmission: Perinatal, 1989-1991
Box 2 Folder 21-24
Women, 1988-1991
Box 2 Folder 25
Women: ACTG Protocol 076 (AIDS Clinical Trial Group), 1991
Notebooks
Box 2 Folder 26-27
Notebooks: "General Chemistry," "Fall/Winter:" includes notes from Countdown 18 Months meetings, phone numbers, drafted letters, etc., 1990
Miscellaneous Supporting Materials
Box 2 Folder 28-29
Unlabelled notes, messages, phone lists, etc., 1988-1989