Bloodbath in Vancouver! Activists Asked To Leave Canada After Crashing AIDS Conference Combo Therapy Promo ACT UP SF members drench panel members Paul Volberding and Margaret Fischl with fake blood to protest promotion of combination antiviral therapies that destroy the immune system Vancouver, B.C. -- Yesterday, nearly ten years after the approval of the first AIDS treatment, AZT, members of the controversial militant AIDS activist group ACT UP San Francisco crashed a panel discussion about the drug's use in combination with other antiviral agents held during the 11th International Conference on AIDS. AIDS activists renounced the "drugs into bodies" credo and demanded that Glaxo-Wellcome, AZT's manufacturer, immediately cease production of the compound and that AIDS researchers shift the focus of anti-HIV treatment from "killing the virus" to strengthening the immune system.
