From: MPetrelis@aol.com Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:56:00 EDT Subject: CDC cancels August HIV prevention meeting in SF From: lxa3@cdc.gov (Ogden, Lydia) To: mpetrelis@aol.com ('mpetrelis@aol.com') CC: lxa3@cdc.gov (Ogden, Lydia) Michael -- I thought by now you'd heard that, based on the recommendations of the Advisory Committee for HIV and STD Prevention at the meeting you attending in June, we're holding off on the public meetings to discuss the HIV prevention strategic plan. We're refining the document in-house as the committee recommended, so that it's more unified and less a product of four different workgroups. We hope to reschedule the public meetings in September. Please let your contacts know this ASAP. I'll let you know the revised meeting date. Thanks so much. Lydia Lydia Ogden, MA, MPP Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention 1600 Clifton Road, NE (E07) Atlanta, GA 30333 Phone: 404-639-8031, 8008 Fax: 404-639-8629 Email: lxa3@cdc.gov * * * Date: 7/25/00 2:00:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: lxa3@cdc.gov (Ogden, Lydia) To: MPetrelis@aol.com ('MPetrelis@aol.com') Hi, back! I just sent you an email about the revised dates for the public meetings -- based on the advisory committee's recommendation. Sorry for the confusion. I thought we'd gotten the word out. I'll see you in September! Lydia Lydia Ogden, MA, MPP Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention 1600 Clifton Road, NE (E07) Atlanta, GA 30333 Phone: 404-639-8031, 8008 Fax: 404-639-8629 Email: lxa3@cdc.gov --- --- [My reply to her.] July 26, 2000 Dear Lydia: No, I hadn't heard the meeting was canceled. Despite providing you and others at the CDC with my phone number, fax number, email address, and snail mail address, I was not informed of your change in meeting plans. In the future, you might want to try carrier pigeons to keep me abreast of CDC plans to deal with HIV prevention in SF. You mention the CDC advisory committee for HIV prevention still might come in September to present the committee's new and improved strategy for stopping HIV in America, and take public comment on the matter. I must inform you that since Dr. Willi McFarland was quoted in the SF Chronicle alleging HIV rates here were surging to "sub-Saharan African levels of transmission," I have prepared for the worst case scenario. Since the Chronicle and McFarland have not retracted the alarmist allegations, we can only assume that San Francisco will be a Botswanan village tomorrow. Totally wiped off the face of the earth. I fear no one may be left in San Francisco in September, if you and the committee make here, to comment on your plan. How sad the CDC can't come to our queer Mecca and help us prepare for more doom and destruction from HIV. If only the CDC had the people power, will and financial resources to show us a plan and how to implement it. Woe, if only Congress had appropriated more money, maybe then the CDC could send us the resources and expertise to grapple with "sub-Saharan African levels of transmission" of HIV. But why dwell on the negative? Have a nice summer. Michael Petrelis Phone: 415-621-6267 --- ---- -----Original Message----- From: MPetrelis@aol.com [mailto:MPetrelis@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 3:34 PM To: lxa3@cdc.gov Cc: MPetrelis@aol.com Subject: Fwd: The CDC will hold an HIV prevention meeting in SF on August 1st Hi - Will I see you next week in SF? Michael Petrelis Welcome to AIDS-STATISTICS www.AIDS-statistics.com 2215-R Market Street, #413 San Francisco, CA 94114