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...many scientists supported by large research universities and the grants they command, however, funding the airfare to Amsterdam may not be a problem. Essex says that senior researchers often have a budget for traveling to meetings...
When Harvard takes a stand, it rarely goes unnoticed. And with the decision to move the 1992 International AIDS Conference from Boston to Amsterdam, the Harvard AIDS Institute is declaring its opposition to what they term a discriminatory U.S. government policy restricting travel by those infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS...
...decision to move it to Amsterdam was announced September 11 by the institute, after consultation with top University officials, including President Neil L. Rudenstine, says Harvey V. Fineberg '67, dean of Harvard's School of Public Health (SPH) and a force behind the creation of the Institute. The Netherlands currently has no travel restrictions for HIV-positive individuals...
Although the decision to move the conference will enable the participation of HIV-infected people, it may limit the participation of some researchers as well as community health organizations and some AIDS activists, who lack the resources to travel to Amsterdam...
...local activists to participate in the proceedings," says Thomas McNaught, a spokesperson for the AIDS Action Committee, a New England community-based AIDS service organization. "It is also a blow to people with AIDS who live in Boston who can't afford to go to the conference in Amsterdam and participate in the formal and ancillary proceedings...