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LETTERS, Page 6AIDS Research
Your article on AIDS notes that "new drugs are giving hope
but also raising difficult questions" about treatment (MEDICINE,
June 19). You used a photo of me captioned, "Callen has fought
the disease for seven years," followed by an implicit but and
the sentence, "The bill for medical care will be staggering."
Do you question whether my life is worthy of the meager federal
AIDS research efforts? As someone who each day faces the very
real possibility of early death, "merely postponing (it) by a
few years," as you so glibly say, is precious beyond measure.
I am also offended by your reference to irresponsible sexual
activity by AIDS victims. In my work as an AIDS activist, I have
met hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people with AIDS, and I am
convinced the vast majority have sex safely and responsibly.
Michael Callen New York City