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person a day dies from acquired
immune deficiency syndrome.
"The program chosen is excel-
lent," said Bill Nelson, a former
president of the Dallas Gay Alli-
ance. "But it still does not ad-
dress the issue of local funding
itself."
For the current year, city offi-
cials allocated $55,000 to AIDS,
but Brown said the money was
spent to hire a bilingual educator
and a nurse to help Dallas Coun-
ty and Parkland Memorial Hospi-
with testing.
thoughh plans for AIDS fund-
in 1988-89 have not been de-
termined, an advisory group
working with City Council mem-
bers Lori Palmer and Craig Hol-
comb is in the process of devel-
oping proposals for city-backed
projects to be included in next
year's budget.
Donald Baker, an educational
consultant for a computer com-
pany, said the advisory group
wants $500,000 set aside for such
programs as a voucher system
for AIDS patients to make rent
payments, respite care and
health and dental care.
Although city health officials
would like to start providing
more of these services, Brown
said the department's philosophy
is that it can best fight AIDS b1
educating high-risk groups such
as minorities, their children and
intravenous drug users.
"If Dallas follows national
trends, then more minorities"
will become infected with the vi-
rus, Brown said. "We need to
have the foresight to get in and
event that from happening five
ears from now. We feel that per-
haps that minorities and their
children should be the city's
-iche and target."
One way the city is trying to
reach these groups is by helping
distribute 10,000 copies of the
Kderal government's recently
published AIDS information bro-
chure, Brown said. In June, the
qty will distribute 7,000 copies of
the pamphlet in English and
3.000 copies in Spanish at soup
kitchens, centers for the home-
less and other city facilities.
According to statistics from the
Dallas County Health Depart-
eent, 1,116 county residents had
contracted AIDS as of May 20.
About 60 percent, or 670 people,
have died.
AIDS is a virus that attacks the
ody's immune system and is
most often transmitted through
sexual contact or from contami-
nated hypodermic needles. Most
of the victims have been homo-
sexual men and intravenous-drug
abusers.
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