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...Bartholomew's Church, Harvard and Essex...
...Essex's letter was written with the approval of Harvard's top administrators, including President Derek C. Bok, who is chair of the AIDS Institute's policy board, Costa said...
...This policy imposes a discriminatory burden on those infected with the AIDS virus," Max Essex, who is a professor of microbiology at the School of Public Health and chair of the Harvard AIDS Institute, said in the letter. "In doing so it threatens the free and open exchange of information which is critical to international efforts to conquer the AIDS epidemic, and it undermines the international conferences which have been so important in coordinating efforts to combat AIDS...
...There is no sound public health justification for these restrictions," Essex said in his letter...
Besides withdrawing its sponsorship of the conference, Harvard is exploring other ways of urging that the restrictions be lifted, according to University spokesperson Peter Costa. Costa said Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck is coordinating an effort to put pressure on officials in Washington. And Essex promised in his letter that "we will continue to try to effect change in U.S. policy through all avenues available...