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women who have a variety of opportunistic
infections which do not fall into their defini
tion of AIDS or ARC.
"R.I.P.," read one woman’s tombstone
shaped sign as she and the others lay in front
of the building's entrance. "Another woman
dead of HTV not counted. Died of cervical
cancer."
"The CDC doesn't even want to consider
the possibility of woman-to-woman transmis
sion of HIV," stated Emily Nahmanson of
New York's AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
(ACT UP/NY).
Among the demands of the demonstrators
demand by pounding loudly on the building's
glass doors while shouting, "Hey! Hey, CDC!
Give us 200-T", much to the shock of the
curious occupants of the building.
Tossing handfuls of round cardboard cards
and plastic ping-pong balls marked as "T-
cells", the demonstrators sought to draw atten
tion to their demand that the CDC also alter
the AIDS definition to include all persons
with under 200 T-cells.
T-cells, key indicators of a body's immune
system function, range in healthy individuals
from 800-1,200. Although the CDC has
guidelines calling on all persons with under
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was that the CDC stop classifying AIDS
patients in "risk groups", as they may identify
themselves, but instead segregate cases into
transmission routes, which they insist would
provide a clearer picture of how the disease is
spread and how to educate against it.
Part of that, the activists demanded, is a
listing of what HTV infections were spread by
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An "affinity group" called "200-T" sought
to drive home another demand by pounding
loudly on the building's glass doors while
shouting. "Hey! Hey, CDC! Give us 200-T"
what specific sexual acts. To call attention to
that, another group of the demonstrators ran a
large black banner up the building's flagpole
reading, "Cunnilingus Counts. AIDS Won't
Wait”.
"CDC, tell us why you sit back while
women die?", they shouted.
Another "affinity group", this one called
"200-T", later sought to drive home another
200 T-cells to immediately begin taking medi
cations intended to stave off AIDS-related
infections, they do not classify those with
under 200 T-cells who have not yet had those
infections as having AIDS. That, the activists
state, closes out hundreds of thousands of
HIV-infected people from the CDC's defini
tion and, consequently, from most treatment
protocols and financial and housing assis
tance.
After police declined to arrest the "T-200"
group once they lay down in the street-as they
had already closed off the street to traffic-the
group then moved to an adjoining CDC office
building and took over a small office where
they then held a cramped press conference.
Halfway into the demonstration, a group of
ten demonstrators climbed a ladder to the roof
of the main building to hang a banner reading,
"CDC Kills". As they had taken the ladder up
with them and had previously staked out the
building, they managed to leave the roof
before police could reach them by the stairs.
Another group-called the "Costas", after a
member who died recently-climbed the lad
der to the building, but were detained by
police who then took the rest of the afternoon
in negotiating how to lower the protesters to
awaiting paddy wagons.
Causing mild consternation for some of the
protesters, three anti-gay counter-demonstra
tors stood in the thick of the action carrying
signs saying "Gay is Not OK". When one of
the men sought to place himself in the line of
sight of cameras shooting the protesters, a
group of activists surrounded him with their
own signs, following him up and down the
street as he tried to escape them. After a brief
"kiss-in", the group disbursed.
Earlier, one protester, Marly Robinson of
ACT UP/NY, was seen being arrested on bat
tery charges for allegedly assaulting one of
anti-gay counter-demonstrators after a verbal
altercation.