Spring 1999            Volume 3, Issue 2

Spring Has Returned

What's New For Visit 10?

by Nancy Hessol, Project Director

by Charles Haseloff

Spring has returned.  The earth is
like a child who knows poems.
Many, many ….She gets the prize
for the hardship of extensive learning.

Her teacher was strict.
We liked the white in the old man's beard.
Now, as to what the blue is, the green.
we can ask her: She knows, she knows.

Earth, off from work, lucky one, play now
with us children.  We want to catch you,
jubilant earth.  The most joyous succeeds.

Ah, what the old man taught her - the manifold
and what is written in roots and in long,
difficult stems: She sings, she sings.

Our core WIHS study visits are now on 6-month cycles, which means that new forms and study protocols occur every 6 months while old protocol get retired.  Visit 9 began 10/1/98 and ended 3/31/99 and so visit 10 began 4/1/99 and will end 9/30/99.

What's ending?  For visit 10, we stopped doing the tuberculosis (TB) test (call PPD) and the skin anergy tests.  These skin tests were placed on your forearms and you needed to return 48-72 hours later to have us read the skin results.  The TB test will be done again at visit 11 (every odd numbered study visit).

We also stopped the "butt" study interview and specimen collection (oral rinse and anal swabs).  In the future, if more funding is received for this study then we may start it back up.

What's starting?  For visit 10, we are adding a pregnancy protocol for women who are or have been pregnant within 6 months of their visit 10-

(Continued on page 2)

Taken from: World Poetry, Washburn, K and Majors, JS, eds., 1998, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Poem - Spring Has Returned   page 1
  What's New for Visit 10?   page 1
  Directions to UCSF/Mt. Zion Medical Center   page 2
  Update on Fat Redistribution  page 3
  CAB Corner  page 5
  Sixth Conference on Retroviruses & Opportunistic Infections  page 6
  WIHS Words  page 7

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