Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 10:42:52 -0500
From: "Flynn Mclean" <Flynn_Mclean_at_NAC__PO@smtpinet.aspensys.com>
Subject: New Educational Materials 11/01/96

                 CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse
                 Educational Materials Database

                          NEW MATERIALS
                         November 1, 1996

The Clearinghouse's Educational Materials Databases contain
bibliographic information about more than 14,000 brochures,
videos, booklets, and other materials with education/prevention
messages.

NAC ONLINE users can search these databases by selecting
"Clearinghouse Databases" from the NAC ONLINE main menu.  When
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unpublished materials) to search all materials, regardless of
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given full access to NAC ONLINE and the NAC databases.

Over the weekend, 11 newly catalogued materials were loaded to
the UNPB Educational Materials Database. This brings the total
number of materials on the Database to 17,678.  

     Document 1
AN   AD0020247.
TI   And The Band Played On.
FM   84 - Videorecording.  Audiovisual Material.
AC   117 - Researchers.
     200 - Community Service Professionals.
     300 - General Public, Consumers.
     630 - Government Agencies.
AV   Home Box Office, Incorporated
     1100 Ave. of the Americas
     New York, NY 10036.
     (212) 512-1000.
     Cat. no. 90962; ISBN: 0-7831-0531-2; Price: $17.99 per copy.
AB   This feature film chronicles the AIDS epidemic from the
     first reported cases in Europe to 1993. The story is told
     from the perspective of Dr. Don Francis, now retired
     researcher from the Centers for Disease Control and
     Prevention (CDC) who had worked on the hepatitis B virus
     among gay men and the ebola virus in Africa.  The film uses
     a combination of real and fictional characters as well as
     actual news footage to record the series of decisions,
     discoveries, controversies, and progress from 1981 on.
     Researchers at the CDC were faced with the dilemma of having
     to prove that HIV was a virus before they could establish a
     blood test. This required the approval and funding of a case
     control study and appropriate laboratory equipment and
     support. HIV was first known as gay cancer and then Gay
     Related Immune Disorder (GRID). The concurrent reports of
     the condition causing the deaths of 19 people in 3 years in
     France, an outbreak among Haitian heterosexuals in Miami,
     and 11 cases among newborn babies brought the disease into
     the forefront.  The film highlights the interaction and
     conflict between Dr. Don Francis, researchers at the
     Institute Pasteur, and Dr. Robert Gallo of the National
     Institutes of Health. The struggle to mandate testing and
     screening for all blood donors is also depicted.
MJ   Epidemics.  Diagnosis.  Public policies.  Professional
     responsibility.  Antibody tests.  Diseases or disorders.