Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!apple!usc!ucla-cs!Rob.Bates@p1.f381.n634.z3.fidonet.org From: Rob.Bates@p1.f381.n634.z3.fidonet.org (Rob Bates) Newsgroups: sci.med.aids Subject: Australian AIDS News Message-ID: <27502@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 27 Sep 89 19:47:09 GMT Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Organization: FidoNet node 3:634/381.1 - Big Tedd's BBS, Armadale Vic Aust Lines: 46 Approved: aids@cs.ucla.edu Archive-number: 1266 The following items of Australian AIDS News are reproduced with permission from Melbourne Star Observer #105, 22 September 1989 (C) MSO, and OZ Media Ltd. FIRST NATIONAL QUILT TOUR The Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt is to go on its first national tour starting with an unfoldng ceremony at the Fitzroy Town Hall in Melbourne on Saturday October 7. The National Tour will finish on World AIDS Day, December 1, in Sydney. The Quilt comprises panels made by friends and relatives of those who have died of AIDS. WOMEN AND AIDS BOOK LAUNCHED Women have been largely ignored as a group requiring specialised AIDS information. A booklet recently launched in Victoria by the Women & AIDS Project aims to counter this. The need for specific information was identified through a national phone-in information campaign. As well as basic information on HIV and infection control, the booklet discusses discrimination, talking to your doctor, pregnancy and breastfeeding, educating children about AIDS and living with HIV infection. The booklet is available through the Women & AIDS Project +61 3 654 6831. DINNER FOR AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION OF AIDS ORGANISATIONS MEDIA AWARDS The 1989 AFAO/AIDS Trust of Australia Media Awards, for excellence in electronic and printed media coverage of AIDS, will take place at a dinner to be held in Melbourne on Saturday October 7. The night will provide an opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge the positive role played by some media workers in AIDS prevention and general community awareness. A number of prominent speakers are being lined-up, including Justice Michael Kirby, an international authority on the legal and human rights implications of AIDS. The dinner is to be held at the Exhibition Buildings with ticket prices at $50 ($90 for couples) by telephoning Laurie Martin on +61 3 419 9877. -- Uucp: ...{gatech,ames,rutgers}!ncar!noao!asuvax!stjhmc!3!634!381.1!Rob.Bates Internet: Rob.Bates@p1.f381.n634.z3.fidonet.org