During the last 8-9 months I’ve been sending info from hiv/aids usenet
postings to friends in northern California re. alternative treatments
and whatever other related subjects they requested or seemed useful.

A brief article at < http://www.soos.com/sfbuzz/health.html > gives
the flavor of this info exchange.

While the new info is helping empower patients and caregivers with a
more hopeful attitude (the local press prints minimum-to-nil in this
area), the attitude of medical "professionals" in the area has been to
ignore or resist availing new treatments other than AZT alone.

I’ve thought of pulling together a lengthier piece than this, to
describe the info effort we’ve been carrying out, with the idea that
many other non-metro cities or rural areas must be dealing with the
same kind of resistance to letting in info that would be incovenient
to medicine-as-it-is.

This is especially a problem for persons who’ve been relying at all on
the county health facility staffs.

I thought I would post this just to raise the issue and get a few
responses first, to get a feeling for how difficulties in getting info
out resembles or differs. If this is characteristic of many other
areas, maybe some of the simple steps we’ve been taking would be
useful to duplicate elsewhere.

No need to email me if you post to this group. I’ll be logging back
on. But if you wish to email, that’s fine. Thanks for any feedback.