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AIDS is the target of a massive international effort as researchers seek a cure at key facilities around the world the Pasteur Institute in Paris, the National Cancer Institute in the United States, McGill University in Montreal 0 one has collected figures on worldwide spen. ding on AIDS, but the United States is allocating hun: dreds of millions on AIDS research and Britain has ear marked the quivalent of almost $100 million Cdn this year alone. Canada’s efforts are on a smaller scald, with Ottawa budgeting $129 million for research, education and community programs over the next five years The goal is obvious **AIDS is potentially fatal,’’ said Timothy Mc Caskell, a spokesman for a Toronto AIDS group. ‘‘But potentially controllable. BAFFLES DOCTORS A decade ago, when the first AIDS cases appeared, doctdrs were absolutely stymied. Patients came in suffering from rare cancers, ob- scure pneumonias and other exotic symptoms. Conven tional treatment made little headway and patients died quickly “It was like the 14th century when the bubonic plague went through, there was nothing we could do,”’ one doctor said. Today, while AIDS is still incurable, sufferers are living two orree times as long as they once did, their lives prolonged by new drugs. The drug AZT, which helps prevent the AIDS virus from reproducing, is one of the key tools doctors use against the disease. AZT, however, has side-effects that can debilitate patients. A newcompound, called DDI, is being tested in the United States. Preliminary results seem to indicate that it is as effective as AZT, without the side-effects. Don Hughes, a Toronto man who has taken AZT, says the accompanying nausea and headaches depress him at times. “But it’s better than the alternative,"” he says with a it isalso wry grin Other drugs, including the recently approved aerosol called pentamidine, are used against the pneumonia that often afflicts people with AIDS, And some newly developed compounds help fight off other opportunistic infections that strike when the immune system is weakened TRY ANYTHING People with AIDS are quick to hear of any poten tial treatment and most are eager to try experimental compounds “Sure you want to try anything,” said Barry Mack of Ottawa in a voice made harsh by AIDS-related lung infections. ‘*You never know if the new drug is going to be the wonder drug.” There are problems in different parts of Canada, though. For instance, pentamidine is blown into the lungs by a special machine. In most provinces, medicare covers the $200 to $300 cost-of the machine. In British Columbia, however, the patient pays There’s an AIDS grape-vine across Canada Doctors are in constant communication with each other, checking reports of new treatments or drugs. Ot tawa physicians are in touch with Vancouver clinics and Toronto hospitals passing on the latest news. Patients and AIDS support groups also keep in contact, monitoring the latest medical developments OFFERS REWARDS The effort to find effective treatments or even a cure for AIDS offers many rewards: lives saved, perhaps a Nobel Prize and, not least of all, money Thousands of technicians are working on ways to beat the human im: munodeficiency virus, or HIV, which is thought to cause AIDS Dr. Allan Ronald of the University. of Manitoba says there are about a dozen solid AIDS researchers in Canada, but work started slowly because Ottawa didn’t react quickly when AIDS first became a problem “Our problem is not lack of money,"” said mark Wainberg, a microbiologist who works on AIDS at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital. “* lack of trained people with sufficient ability to make a difference quickly.’ The federal HealttrDepartment, in an effort to help both AIDS sufferers and) the cause of research, has decided that people with AIDS will be able to obtain new drugs before they are officially approved For drug companies, millions of dollars in profits are linked to the AIDS epidemic Burroughs Welcome Co--of North Carolina is the sole supplier of AZT and expects to sell $210 million US worth of the drug this year IAF BioChem International Inc. of Montreal is working on a pair of compounds similar to AZT, but without its nasty side-effects. PROMISES PROFIT If the worst predictions about the spread of AIDS come true, the market for drugs will-sear ‘into the billions. Even themoderate spread of the disease will mean lucrative markets for drug companies Firms selling testing kits and improved test procedures are also in for big profits. AIDS research generally goes in two directions One arm aims at HLV itself. Scientists hope to develop a vaccine that will arm the body against the virus in the very early stages, before it is established Drugs like AZT preventihe virus from reproducing itself. Another approach uses synthetic compounds that will decoy HIV away from the cells of the immune system The second area of research deals with the oppor tunistic infections that are the real killers. Pentamidine has helped fight pneumonia which afflicts about half of all those with AIDS, while gancyclovir fights a blinding researchers, chemists and Our problem is a eye infection Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris continued on <3 AIDS rable history hits highs and lows Almost eight years after the first AIDS case was reported in Canada, there is-stillno cure for the disease Those infected are living longer but swollen By JOHN WARD dealing with. It The Canadian Press The story of AIDS is a pendulum swinging from hope to despair and back and nervous syst immune system, The pendulum ticks on a hopeful diseases swing: AIDS is a hard disease to catch. weakened If it spread like the flu, another viral _ Strength, eatir infection, it would be a catastrophe. It yes, at internal organs and muscles takes the exchange of body fluids Death followed semen or blood — to spread the in sidious virus. 1,600 of the The pendulum swoops to. the AIDS can lie hidden without symptoms for years. Scientists pessimistic side: now say the incubation period could be as long as 14 years. Those infected can pass on the virus all through the latent period Another swing up: Some researchers argue that the disease has hit a plateau in Canada, that it never really spread beyond those most at risk homosexual men who practice anal in tercourse and intravenous drug users who share tainted needles — and that the current total of 2,850 cases Won't The grow much larger And back: The Health Department estimates that as many as 30,000 Canadians are infected with the AIDS virus and most are unaware they have it cancer coma, federal systems haven't Up again: New drugs and treatments Schering € have been developed to alleviate some of the symptoms. Life expectancy for Researchers say a vaccine may be possible within a few years. And back: They caution, though, ye: that the AIDS. virus medical chameleon — and vaccines may have only short-lived effects The pendulum was definitely on the bad side when Canada’s first AIDS case was reported in February 1982. It stayed there as more patients began reporting the early changes — a nually symptoms glands mysterious “rashes struck at the body’s mist to the complex network of cells designed to fight invading ger- _ fection ms and viruses. If struck at the brain In its wake, other infiltrated the defence away at the lungs and In the intervening years m 2,850 diagnosed as having AIDS have died New drug given a pproval cher, adds a chilling observation TORONTO (CP) genetically engineered form of inter feron, has been given government ap: proval for use in treating a form of skin cancer associated with AIDS. called Kaposi's sar produces reddish-purplish Intron A has been these lesions and lesions on the skin shown to reduce prolong life in people whose immune been greatly sup. pressed by the virus that causes AIDS. anada Inc turer of Intron A, has placed a cap on the cost of the drug AIDS patients has more than doubled The most a person with acquired immune deficiency have to pay for the drug is $12,000 pe , says a release from the company Without the price ceiling therapy could cost up to $40,000 an Earlier this year Roche Ltd. began marketing its inter feron drug, Roferon-A, treatment and also placed a $12,000 cap on the cost for people with AIDS. night sweats, Where do things stand? Where are Doctors were they going helpless to stop the disease Well, there are now drugs to treat PUZZLING VIRUS the peripheral diseases that sap the they face a bleak future. It was a strange virus they were strength of AIDS patients; aerosol fight fungus-caused pneumonia; drugs to arrest retinal in ; powerful chemotherapies-to deal with some of the cancers; even compounds that strike at the AIDS virus itself But there body sapping the no cure and those infec d face a bleak future Wroare the patients? AIDS is a disease of the young, with ¢ than the vast majority of victims under 35 Canadians Most are homosexual or bisexual men, although the proportion of in travenous drug users, once only one per cent of cases in Canada, has quadrupled in recent years. Female partners of drug users or bisexuals are also at risk Robert Milko, an Ottawa resear ‘There is strong evidence that the virus is spreading into the heterosexual Indeed, heterosexual already Intron A. a population transmission -may emerged as an important mode of tran. smission in some areas of the United have States. When AIDS was first identified, some in North America declared it God’s judgment on diviant sexuality it was dubbed the gay plague But people given transfusions of contaminated blood developed AIDS. Infants caught it in the womb. the manufac . Hemophiliacs who took tainted blood products developed AIDS About 40 per cent of Canada’s 2,300 hemophiliacs carry the virus; more than 80 have symptoms of the disease syndrome would The *‘good riddance down * reaction died interferon However, myth, fear and suspicion Hoffmann-La _ Stillcloud the issue It’s clear many people still suspect that AIDS can spread by casual con tact. Doctors are adamant that it can for Kaposi's continued on page C3 Compensation requested for ‘hidden disaster’ By KATE DUNN Montreal Gazett MONTREAL (CP) — At 33 autumn of his life. Roger Roy is in the As scarlet leaves float down in the bracing late Sep tember air, he'll celebrate his birthday with his family in Buckingham “*T don’t know if I'll get sick tomorrow, or next week, or die at Christmas, or live another good 10 years,”” he said adding that he didn’t know what he’s getting for his birth day, but he knows what he wants to give He’s going public with the story of how he contracted HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS Roy isa hemophiliac. His blood doesn’t A cut on his finger isa serious problem He contracted the deadly HIV virus taminated blood products which are to hemophiliacs lik Roy as necessary as ‘‘water and air,”’ the Canadian Hemophilia Society says Since Aug. 15, 1988, the federal government has studied the society's request for $340 million in compen sation forthe 1,000: Canadian hemophiliacs almost half the hemophiliacs in the country — who contracted HIV through blood products. jot normally through con The society believes it has a rock-solid case that gover nment negligence led to importation of clotting Factor VIII from the United States that was infected with HIV tends that it’s up to Ottawa to compensate for what the Itcon society calls the ‘hidden disaster."* CLAIMS DISASTER It's a hidden disaster because until now hemophiliacs have been too shocked and too afraid to discuss the problem publicly. They generally prefer that the hemophilia society speak for them It is speaking very softly I will probably be criticized by other hemophiliacs said Roy, a softspoken,- plain-living man whose chief delight seems to be his family As his sons Mathieu, four, and Sebastien, six, for speaking out, roughhouse to see who can dominate the living-room chair, he chides them so gently its surprising they pay attention So far, the Canadian Hemophilia Society has refused to pressure the government publicly. Diplomacy might be the best route, but people like Roy say time is running out Their other options are, however, limited: Lawsuits cost too much and drag on while people are dying; a march on Parliament Hill might embarrass the government into action, but who would go? Individual hemophiliacs shun the glare of publicity In a pamphlet to members of the society, the CHA executive asked they not speak to the media so that coverage could be controlled and misinterpretations about hemophilia and HIV and AIDS avoided HIV-positive hemophiliacs don’t want to talk about the virus for fear of discrimination, losing friends and jobs The virus weakens the body's immune system so that it’s continued on page C2 Facts about AIDS and HIV By The Canadian Press Some facts about AIDS * AIDS is the acronym for acquired immune deficiency syndrome © Itis believed to be caused by the organism HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus. © HIV was first identified in 1981 by Robert Gallo of the U.S. National Cancer Institute and Luc Mon tagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris ¢ AIDS spreads through the exchange of body fluids — blood or semen. It can be transmitted through anal sex, by sharing contaminated intravenous needles and through transfusions of tainted blood. It can also be passed by an infected mother to a child in the womb, although this doesn’t always happen ‘ © The origin of the disease is unknown, although it is thought the progenitor of the virus may have arisen in Africa * AIDS affects the immune system, the complex network that protects the body from disease ¢ The incubation period of the virus is thought to be as long as 14 years, although it is usually much less * Although AIDS itself can attack the brain and central nervous system, it is rarely the direct cause of death. Most patients die from other diseases which strike once the immune system is weakened * The number of AIDS cases around the world has been estimated at $00,000, but primitive medical facilities in some areas and delayed reports in other countries make the figure a guess at best © Africa has been hardest hit by AIDS. It is estimated that ip to one-fifth of the people in some cen: tral African cities have been exposed to the AIDS virus