Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1989 Page: 5 of 28
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Dr. Daniel Barbaro
they’re going to ask us what kind of results we
have had in the past. We haven’t had any
results, because we haven’t done any studies
[yet]. The drug companies put a lot of money
into these drugs trials, and they want some
kind of assurance that they won't be wasting
that money.”
The clinic also needs funding just to get set
up to be prepared to execute clinical trials,
and to conduct other studies, such as epidem-
iological studies, which Barbaro termed
“crucial.”
“We won’t be getting the NIH [National
Institutes of Health ] grant we applied for, and
we’ve got to find some way to come up with
that money. We’ll apply for that grant again
next year, but we need money now,” Barbaro
said.
The clinic also needs experienced phy-
sicians and staff members to man the clinic,
the doctor said, explaining that clinical trials
demand a great deal of time and effort.
Barbaro currently is donating his time and
energy to the clinic.
Describing new AIDS treatments now be-
ing developed, Barbaro was optimistic about
the prospects for the next two years. “It’s
been a rough few years. But now, for the first
time, I am hopeful about prospects for the
next two years,” he said. “We came back from
the CRI conference with good news and bad
news. The good news is about what to expect
in the way of AIDS drugs in the next year to 18
months. The bad news is how hard it will be
for us to get those drugs to you here in
Dallas.”
There are “two, maybe three” anti virals
which should be tested and approved as AIDS
treatments in the next 18 months, he said.
The first is ddC, “a sister drug to AZT [the only
drug officially approved to treat AIDS] ” which
Nelson-Tebedo clinic officials hope will be
its first drug study. The anti viral drug ddl
should start Phase 2 trials — the first phase in
which the drug is administered to human
subjects — in three to six months, and it
“looks very safe, almost too good to be true,”
Barbaro commented.
A drug called CD-4, which coats T-4
lymphocyte blood cells and works to keep
the HIV virus from attaching to these cells, is
now in the “Phase 1, early Phase 2” stages of
testing, “but we should see it out for clinical
trials also in the next 18 months to two years,”
he stated.
All thesb experimental anti virals will have
“very stringent restrictions” as far as who may
participate in the clinical trials, Barbaro con-
tinued, explaining that only patients with
AIDS or T 4 lymphocite counts below 200
who have not taken AZT may participate. “The
drug companies want to have real proofthat it
is their drug and not the AZT someone took
before that is what’s working,” Barbaro
explained. Also, since placebos no longer are
used in trials of AIDS drugs, the experimental
medications will be evaluated in comparison
with the safety and effectiveness of AZT.
Most of the experimental antivirals are
expected to cost less than AZT, officials said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National
Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases,
indicated to conference-goers that he would
like to see “parallel tracks” in addition to the
clinical trials with these drugs. Parallel track-
ing refers to the concept of releasing experi-
mental drugs to physicians to administer to
PWAs for whom AZT has proved ineffective or
intolerable.
Barbaro endorsed the concept of parallel
tracking, but added that he didn’t expect to
see the concept put into practice anytime
soon.
“It costs the drug companies a great deal of
money without giving them any recorded
results;" he said.
Clinical trials at the Nelson-Tebedo clinic
will open “as soon as we get a protocol
approved,” Barbaro said. “We have a protocol
ready to submit to Hoffman-LaRoche [Phar
maceutical Company] for a study with ddC.”
But the clinic can begin other studies even
before then, he said.
The clinic can work on prophylaxis studies,
such as an investigation to determine the most
effective dosage of aerosolized pentamidine,
which already has proved effective in pre
venting pneumocystis carinii pneumonia,
once the leading killer of PWAs.
The Nelson-Tebedo clinic will be a “refer
ral-type clinic” instead of a primary care
facility, Barbaro explained “We can’t be in
volved with your primary care right now. We
won’t be taking away from your relationship
with your doctor. As a matter of fact, we want
to add to that relationship,” he said. The clinic
also hopes to be an information base to keep
Dallas-area PWAs up-to date on other clinical
studies going on around the country for
which residents might qualify.
“I don’t see AIDS being ’cured’ perhaps
until the turn of the century, not any time in
our near future,” Barbaro concluded. “What
we’re going to see is an approach to treating
AIDS similar to treating cancer or diabetes,
where a number of different drugs are used to
treat AIDS in order to get the optimal results.
We aren’t going to cure AIDS any time in the
near future, and I would strongly suggest that
you be very skeptical of any drug or treatment
someone starts saying will cure the disease.
We are looking to prolong life and enhance
the quality of life for PWAs, to make it where
the disease is chronic, but not devastating,”
Barbaro stated. ▼
LGPC will oppose
10-4-1 council plan
BUT WILL TAKE NO POSITION ON HIV SURVEY
By DENNIS VERCHER
>T*he Lesbian/Gay Political Coalition of
X Dallas will not officially endorse or op-
pose the Dallas HIV Household Seropreva-
lence Survey, but encourages gay/lesbian
citizens to educate themselves and make an
informed choice as to whether they will
participate in the pilot project, scheduled to
get underway in August.
LGPC members also voted to oppose the
10-4-1 City Council restructuring plan, which
is one of several city charter changes which
will go before voters next month. LGPC
members will actively work to encourage
gay/lesbian voters to cast vallots against the
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Despite Problem, Parade Still On
MEMBERS OF THE DALLAS TAVERN GUILD vow that the Texas Freedom Parade, set for
Sunday, Sept. 24, will go on as scheduled despite a serious financial problem which arose
last week.
Tavern Guild officials discovered Monday, July 3 that DTG’s bank account, which carried a
balance of more than $4,000, had been garnished of all but $01 as partial payment of a
judgment won by the American Gay Atheists against the group, which Is composed ol
owners of about two-thirds ol the gay and lesbian nightclubs In Dallas.
The Tavem Guild annually sponsors the Texas Freedom Parade and Celebration In Lee
Park held each September.
The Houston-based AGA and Its president, Don Sanders, sought and obtained a nearly
$4500 Judgment against the Tavem Guild In January 1989, following DTG's attempt lo
prohibit AGA from participating In last year’s Texas Freedom Parade. The judgment was
based on AGA's legal lees, court costs and other expenses Incurred In obtaining a temporary
restraining order on Sept 23, 1988, which directed DTG to allow the organization of gay and
lesbian atheists to place an entry In the parade.
DTG members compiled with the order and AGA was allowed lo Insert its entry, a pick-up
truck with a banner stating the group's name, into the parade line-up.
Tavern Guild members had originally denied the AGA entry because they feared “some
disruptive incident” could arise over negative crowd reaction to the entry, according lo a
letter written to Sanders by DTG executive director Alan Ross.
But following a DTG meeting held l8St Wednesday, Ross was Bble to promise, “The parade
will continue on. More money will be raised, and if enough funds are not raised then the
Tavern Guild members said they will personally take care of outstanding finances."
But Ross also maintained that DTG was not properly notified that the January judgment
had occurred, which could be a basis for voiding the garnishment order Issued June 29. Ross
confirmed that DTG and the attorney lor AGA, M. William Nelson of Dallas, are engaged in
attempts lo settle the matter out of court.
Ross also restated his assurance that the parade will be unaffected regardless of the
outcome of the ongoing negotiations. “The parade will go on," he vowed. “Applications are
being completed this week, and we’ve had Lee Park reserved since last September."
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Vercher, Dennis. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1989, newspaper, July 14, 1989; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth615778/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.