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Compassion and awareness will be key to helping AIDS victims and preventing the spread of the disease in years to come, National Commission on AIDS member Mary D. Fisher said last night in a speech at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
...Fisher, an AIDS patient who spoke at the Republican National Convention earlier this year, asked the audience of approximately 200 both to exercise compassion for those who have the disease and to press research efforts forward...
...Hope thrives where there is compassion. But the story of AIDS in America is a history in which compassion has played far too small a role," said Fisher, who later noted that the families of AIDS patients have "listened to a decade of debate about the morality of their dying loved ones...
...Fisher was optimistic about the future of AIDS research, saying, "I'm here to remind you that there is a direct correlation between scientific research and human hope...With hope we create our own boundaries...
However, Professor of Pathology and of Cancer Biology William A. Haseltine, who introduced Fisher, painted a grimmer picture...