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| Collection Overview | |||||||||
| Title: | ACT UP / Boston (Raymond Schmidt and Stephen Skuce) collection | ||||||||
| Date: | 1987-2007 (bulk 1988-1995) | ||||||||
| Location Code: | 57/1, FF4/D1-2, RS11/51 | ||||||||
| Reference Code: | M149 | ||||||||
| Extent: | 12.35 cubic ft. (11 boxes, 2 flat file drawers, 1 rolled tube) | ||||||||
| Scope and Content Abstract: | The material, dating from 1987-2007, documents the organization's founding; the work of the Treatment Issues Committee, particularly its efforts to improve the treatment and prevention of HIV-related opportunistic infections; the planning of demonstrations and campaigns targeting pharmaceutical and insurance companies, hospitals and medical schools, and the Catholic Church; collaborations with other AIDS groups; and clinical trial reviews and protocols. Subjects such as women and AIDS, AIDS prevention, clinical trials, insurance coverage reform, and community activism are documented, in addition to issues pertaining to accelerated approval of experimental drugs, compassionate-use protocols for drugs in development, needle exchange programs, and demonstrations. The records comprise meeting minutes, notes, correspondence, ACT UP / Boston publications, newspaper clippings, flyers, clinical trial reviews and protocols, and articles from medical and scientific journals. The collection also contains fact sheets, statistics, newsletters from other AIDS organizations, photographs, banners, buttons, posters, and T-shirts. | ||||||||
| Historical Abstract: | The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP / Boston) was founded in 1987 by activists Raymond Schmidt, Stephen Skuce, Donald Smith, and Paul Wychules to focus local efforts to speed up the development of AIDS treatments, educational programs, and prevention strategies. The membership was a diverse, nonpartisan group of people united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis in Boston and throughout the country. The organization was most active from 1988 – 1994 during which time it held demonstrations, die-ins, sleep-ins, and vigils to increase public awareness of the AIDS epidemic. Through its efforts, Astra, a major pharmaceutical manufacturer was persuaded to allow expanded access to its experimental drug outside the clinical trial setting, and the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company changed its policy to cover the cost of off-label use of a medication for people with AIDS. Moreover, ACT UP / Boston was responsible for making the City of Boston one of the first cities in the country to institute a needle exchange program for IV drug users. | ||||||||
| Language and Scripts: | The material is mainly in English with the exception of some documents in Spanish. | ||||||||
| System of Arrangement: | Arranged in five series: 1. Administration; 2. Campaigns and Demonstrations; 3. Clinical Trial Protocols; 4. Collaborations; and 5. Audio-visual material and Memorabilia. | ||||||||
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| Conditions Governing Access: | The collection is unrestricted. | ||||||||
| Immediate Source of Acquisition: | Received from Raymond Schmidt and Stephen Skuce of Cambridge, MA in two installments on 29 November 2007 and 5 February 2008. | ||||||||
| Related Archival Materials: | Leno, Harry W. Personal Papers Collection at the Boston Public Library. |
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| Processor: | Finding aid prepared by Kimberly Reynolds, February 2008; updated by Hanna Clutterbuck, July 2009. Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by Raymond Schmidt and Stephen Skuce. | ||||||||
| Scope and Content Note |
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| The material, dating from 1987-2007, documents the organization's founding; the work of the Treatment Issues Committee, particularly its efforts to improve the treatment and prevention of HIV-related opportunistic infections (Boxes 1-4, 6, and 10-11); planning of demonstrations and campaigns against pharmaceutical and insurance companies, hospitals and medical schools, and the Catholic Church (Boxes 1-4, 10 and 11); collaborations with other AIDS groups, especially the AIDS Action Committee in Boston and ACT UP /New York (Boxes 2, 6-9 and 11); and clinical trial protocols, along with critical reviews by the Treatment Issues Committee of selected protocols (Boxes 5-7). Subjects such as women and AIDS (Box 4); AIDS prevention (Boxes 1-5, and 10-11); clinical trials (2, and 5-8); and community activism (Boxes 1-4 and 6-10) are covered, in addition to issues pertaining to accelerated approval of experimental drugs (Boxes 5-6 and 6-8), needle exchange programs (Boxes 1 and 11); and planning public demonstrations (Boxes 1-4, 10 and 11); and its role as training ground for AIDS / HIV activists (Boxes 1-4, 6-10, and 11). The records comprise meeting minutes, notes, correspondence, ACT UP publications, budgets, newspaper clippings, flyers, clinical trial protocols, along with critical reviews by the Treatment Issues Committee of selected protocols, and articles from medical and scientific journals. The collection also contains fact sheets, statistics, newsletters from other AIDS organizations, photographs, banners, buttons, posters, and T-shirts.
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| Historical Note |
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| The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP / Boston) was founded in December 1987 by activists Raymond Schmidt, Stephen Skuce, Donald Smith, and Paul Wychules to focus local efforts to speed up the development of AIDS treatments, educational programs, and prevention strategies. The membership was a diverse, nonpartisan group of people united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis. The organization negotiated with government officials, public health policymakers, medical personnel, researchers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and others to bring about changes to meet the demands of the AIDS crisis. When negotiations failed, they held dramatic demonstrations, sometimes employing civil disobedience, to effect changes to save lives. The organization's motto was "Silence = Death." In January 1988, the group held its first protest at the Boston offices of the Department of Health and Human Services, regarding delays and red tape surrounding approval of AIDS treatment drugs. ACT UP / Boston's agenda included demands for a compassionate and comprehensive national policy on AIDS; a national emergency AIDS project; ethical drug testing and access to experimental drugs outside of clinical trials; intensified research, and treatment efforts; and a full-scale national educational program within reach of all. The organization held die-ins and sleep-ins, provided “freshman orientation” for Harvard Medical School students, negotiated successfully with a major pharmaceutical corporation, affected state and national AIDS polices, pressured health care insurers to provide coverage for people with AIDS, influenced the thinking of some of the nation's most influential researchers, served on the Commonwealth committee that created the nation's first online registry of clinical trials for AIDS treatments, distributed information and condoms to the congregation at Cardinal Law's Confirmation Sunday services at Holy Cross Cathedral in Boston, and made aerosolized pentamidine an accessible treatment in New England. Moreover, ACT UP / Boston was responsible for one of the first needle exchange programs for IV drug users in the country. Members voted in 1996 to cease holding their weekly meetings.
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| Chronology | |||||||||
| 1987 | Small group of activists meet in December to plan ways to save the lives of people with AIDS. | ||||||||
| 1988 | ACT UP / Boston holds its first public meeting on January 6. | ||||||||
| First demonstration calling attention to the federal government's refusal to release promising AIDS treatment takes place on January 26. | |||||||||
| Demonstrates with ACT UP / New York, Mass ACT OUT, and Cure Aids Now in New Hampshire at the Democratic and Republican presidential debates.Discovers that all clinical trials at Massachusetts General Hospital expressly prohibit the use aerosolized pentamidine (AP), a drug used to prevent Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia (PCP).Organizes “Die-in” at Massachusetts General Hospital to focus on the issue of aerosolized pentamidine.Meets with representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Human Services, Department of Public Health, and Governor Dukakis' national campaign staff. ACT UP / Boston is invited to meetings of the Governor's Task Force on AIDS. | |||||||||
| Sets up mock hospital unit in front of the home of Michael Dukakis, the Democratic presidential candidate. | |||||||||
| During “Take Back the Church” rally, members distribute condoms and bilingual safe sex leaflets after Confirmation services at Holy Cross Cathedral. | |||||||||
| Celebrates Gay Pride Day with visual display of an IV unit labeled “placebo” feeding into a coffin. | |||||||||
| Holds round-the-clock vigil at the Names Project site. | |||||||||
| Collaborates with ACT UP / New York to confront Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Frank Young at 2nd International Lesbian/Gay Health Conference and AIDS Symposium. | |||||||||
| Builds mock cemetery on Fisons Pharmaceutical Company's property prior to delivering its demands. Fison agrees to list its AP protocol in the AmFAR Directory for the first time and provides ACT UP / Boston with detailed information on the nebulizer used in trials. | |||||||||
| “Instructs” first-year Harvard Medical School students on medical elitism, research ethics, failure of the current clinical trial system, doctor and patient relationships, and the problems with AZT. Holds demonstration outside of Medical School illustrating the true facts regarding Harvard's clinical trial system. | |||||||||
| Protests against Anti-Defamation League's presentation of humanitarian award to Bernard Cardinal Francis Law. | |||||||||
| Commits first act of civil disobedience against John Hancock Insurance Company for its reluctance to confirm the efficacy of the drug AP in treating Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia. Demonstration brings the question of who should pay for AIDS treatment to national attention. | |||||||||
| 1989 | Presents proposals on several AIDS related issues at the day-long retreat held by the Department of Public Health. | ||||||||
| Continues to apply pressure to insurance industry by sending “holiday greeting card” from thousands of people who died after initial bout with Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia. | |||||||||
| Crashes John Hancock's premier of AIDS film “Mother, Mother” and hands out leaflets entitled “A Word about Your Sponsor”. | |||||||||
| In late January, John Hancock Insurance Company changes policy and agrees to pay for AP as primary prophylaxis. | |||||||||
| Convinces Harvard teaching hospitals to institute Community Advisory Board to oversee Harvard's clinical trials of experimental AIDS treatments. | |||||||||
| 1990-1992 | Pressures drug manufacturer Astra to offer experimental drug Foscarnet that treats AIDS opportunistic infection CMV Retinitis free of charge. | ||||||||
| Helps create first online Clinical Trial Registry for experimental AIDS therapies. | |||||||||
| Sit-in at offices of Commonwealth of Massachusetts Health and Human Services initiates action for a state-wide education campaign. | |||||||||
| Publishes ATTITUDE! newsletter. | |||||||||
| Stops traffic on Huntington Avenue during a major demonstration at the Harvard Medical School, demanding that the FDA immediately approve the antiviral drug ddI. | |||||||||
| Successfully negotiates with the pharmaceutical giant Burroughs Wellcome to provide access to the anti-pneumonia drug 566C80, before it received full FDA approval. | |||||||||
| 1995-1996 | Holds a "die-in" at Deaconess Hospital to call attention to Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) and the fact that approved drugs such as alpha and beta interferon, acyclovir, and heparin are effective against PML but not used because they aren't approved for that purpose. | ||||||||
| ACT UP, the Reproductive Rights Network, and the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights protest Cardinal Law's stance on safe-sex education and reproductive rights during ordination service at the Holy Cross Cathedral. | |||||||||
| ACT UP / Boston's Women's Group pressures Center For Disease Control to redefine AIDS to include certain infections that primarily affect women living with AIDS. | |||||||||
| Rubber Fairies distribute condoms and other prevention materials in public places in Boston.IV League distributes clean needles and prevention materials to IV drug users. | |||||||||
| Convenes a full-day “summit meeting” in Boston on the topic of increasing pre-approval access to HIV treatments. The meeting is attended by representatives from the world's largest pharmaceutical companies as well as the FDA. | |||||||||
| ACT UP / Boston membership decides to stop holding general meetings. | |||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| Treatment Issues Committee Meeting Minutes, (Box 1). ACT UP / Boston website, http://web.archive.org/web/20050509042913/home.comcast.net/%7elexdave/WhatsLeft/ACTUP_Boston/map.htm. (accessed March 2008). |
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Series: |
Administrative, 1987-1998 |
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| Volume: | 1.30 cu. ft. | ||||||||
| Arrangement: |
Alphabetical |
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| Summary: |
This series documents the founding of ACT UP / Boston, its organizational strategies, and the meetings held by its general membership, the IV League, and the Treatment Issues Committee. Also documented are the organization's fundraising efforts and its role as the training ground for AIDS / HIV activists. Records consist of meeting minutes, the ATTITUDE! newsletter, correspondence, budgets, newspaper clippings, and publications. Of interest are the files on the history of the organization which explain its role in AIDS activism, and the Treatment Issues Committee meeting minutes, which describe the organization's philosophy and contain information regarding its successful campaigns targeting the medical profession, insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and the federal government. |
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| Box | Title | Date | |||||||
| 1 | Articles of Organization and Bylaws | 1990-1992 | |||||||
| Committees | |||||||||
| 1 | Agendas and Notes | 1988-1989 | |||||||
| 1 | Announcements, Meeting | n.d. | |||||||
| 1 | General Body: Meeting Minutes (7 folders) | 1988-1994 | |||||||
| 1 | IV League (4 folders) | 1991-1994 | |||||||
| 1 | Other Meetings: Minutes | 1989-1994 | |||||||
| 1 | Treatment Issues (6 folders) | 1990-1992 | |||||||
| 1 | Correspondence (2 folders) | 1990-1994 | |||||||
| 1 | Donors | n.d., 1991-1992 | |||||||
| Financial | |||||||||
| 1 | Haymarket Grant | 1991, 1994 | |||||||
| 1 | Statements, Annual | 1990-1993 | |||||||
| 1 | Tax Returns | 1988-1996 | |||||||
| 1 | Fundraising (2 folders) | 1991- | |||||||
| 1 | History | n.d., 1988-1989 | |||||||
| 1 | New Member Information Packet | n.d. | |||||||
| 10 | Newspaper Clippings (5 folders) | n.d., 1988-1998 | |||||||
| 1 | NEXT: Articles | 1988-1989 | |||||||
| Notes | |||||||||
| 1 | Raymond Schmidt | n.d. | |||||||
| 1 | Stephen Skuce | n.d., 1991 | |||||||
| Publications | 1988-1989 | ||||||||
| 1 | General | n.d., 1989-1991 | |||||||
| 1 | Newsletter: ATTITUDE! (2 folders) | n.d., 1989-1990 | |||||||
| 1 | Obituaries | 1991-1995 | |||||||
| 1 | Recognitions and Awards | 1991-1992 | |||||||
| 2 | Speeches and Writings | n.d., 1994 | |||||||
| 2 | Strategies | n.d., 1993 | |||||||
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Series: |
Campaigns and Demonstrations, 1988-1997 |
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| Volume: | 2.35 cubic ft. | ||||||||
| Arrangement: |
By type of campaign; then alphabetical |
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| Summary: |
This series documents the efforts of ACT UP / Boston to heighten public awareness of the failure of the government, medical, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries to address the AIDS crisis in Boston and throughout the country through its public appearances, demonstrations, and acts of civil disobedience. The Public Appearances subseries documents meetings, events, and conferences in which members participated. The Treatment Related subseries documents the medical problems experienced by people with AIDS, research that was being done on drugs such as ddC and ddI, and the demonstrations that were held in response to these issues. The effect of AIDS in populations other than gay men, including women and IV drug users, is also documented. The Public Awareness Subseries documents the methods by which the organization sought to raise public awareness of AIDS, including demonstrations held at Holy Cross Cathedral and work with state officials to fund AIDS research and treatment. Records include reports, newspaper clippings, flyers, clinical trial reviews, meeting notes, and newspaper clippings. Of special interest are the Women and AIDS folders, which detail the problems specifically encountered by women with HIV, and the Prison Issues folders, which describe the plight of inmates with AIDS and ACT UP's advocacy efforts on behalf of that population. Also of special interest are the AZT, Astra / Foscarnet, and "Approve ddI now" demonstration material, which provide insight into the radical strategies used by the organization, and the notes in the Clinical Trial Reviews, Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy, and Mycobacterium Avium complex folders, which illustrate the efforts ACT UP / Boston members made to educate themselves so they could effectively and articulately advocate for change within the medical establishment. See also Series 1, Administrative, Treatment and Issues Committee Meeting Minutes for discussions regarding campaigns and demonstrations and Series 5, Audio-Visual Material and Memorabilia, for photographs, posters, buttons, and T-shirts that either document, or were used during the campaigns and demonstrations. |
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| Box | Title | Date | |||||||
| Public Appearances | |||||||||
| 2 | General: List of Activities | 1988-1990 | |||||||
| 2 | Burroughs-Wellcome: Day of Dialogue | 1992-1993 | |||||||
| 2 | Fluconazole | 1989-1990 | |||||||
| 10 | Flyers | n.d. | |||||||
| 2 | Names Project | n.d., 1993 | |||||||
| 2 | National Commission: Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic Rally | 1988-1990 | |||||||
| 2 | National Institutes of Health | 1990 | |||||||
| 2 | Prevention of Opportunistic Infections: Update | 1991 | |||||||
| 2 | PRIM&R: AIDS Clinical Research and Care: Meeting the Challenges of an Epidemic in Flux Conference | 1992 | |||||||
| 2 | Tufts: Dealing with Uncertainty (3 folders) | 1994 | |||||||
| Treatment-Related | |||||||||
| 2 | ACTG 076 / Prenatal and Informed Consent | n.d., 1990 | |||||||
| 2 | ACTG 175 | 1991 | |||||||
| 2 | AIDS Action Committee (3 folders) | 1995-1996 | |||||||
| 2 | Astra / Foscarnet (8 folders) | 1989-1992 | |||||||
| 2 | AZT Price: Demonstration material | n.d. | |||||||
| 2 | Boston City Hospital | 1989-1993 | |||||||
| 2, 10 | Burroughs-Wellcome Bill (2 folders) | 1990 | |||||||
| 2 | Clinical Trial Reviews (6 folders) | n.d., 1994-1997 | |||||||
| 2, 3 | ddC (3 folders) | 1990-1993 | |||||||
| 3 | ddI: "Approve ddI Now" | 1990 | |||||||
| 3 | Jerome Groopman: Articles | n.d., 1989-1990 | |||||||
| 3 | H. 226 Compromise Bill | 1989 | |||||||
| 3 | Harvard Medical School | 1988, 1990 | |||||||
| 3 | Kaposi's Sarcoma (2 folders) | 1992 | |||||||
| 3 | Mycobacterium Avium Complex (3 folders) | 1990-1996 | |||||||
| 3 | Massachusetts General Hospital | 1991 | |||||||
| 3 | Neuropsych: Position Paper | 1991-1992 | |||||||
| 3 | Parallel Track (3 folders) | n.d., 1991-1992 | |||||||
| 3 | Parallel Track and Accelerated Approval | 1993-1995 | |||||||
| 3 | Peptide T (5 folders) | 1989, 1991 | |||||||
| 3 | Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia (12 folders) | n.d., 1988-1991 | |||||||
| 3, 4 | Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (6 folders) | 1989-1997 | |||||||
| 4 | Standard of Care (2 folders) | 1989-1992 | |||||||
| 4 | Summit with Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and Key Drug Companies (5 folders) | 1993-1995 | |||||||
| 4 | Vaccines | 1990-1993 | |||||||
| 4 | Women and AIDS (3 folders) | 1990-1993 | |||||||
| Public Awareness | |||||||||
| 10 | Boston Politics | n.d., 1992 | |||||||
| 4 | Catholic Church (4 folders) | 1988-1990 | |||||||
| 4 | Commonwealth of Massachusetts: State AIDS Budget (2 folders) | 1988-1991 | |||||||
| 4 | Federal Government | 1991 | |||||||
| 4 | Gay Community News | 1988 | |||||||
| 4 | Governor Michael Dukakis House | 1988 | |||||||
| 4 | HIV Testing: Newspaper Clippings | 1989-1992 | |||||||
| 4 | HIV Treatment Networking Day: Conference Summary and Agency Contacts | 1995 | |||||||
| 4 | Housing: CARE Act | n.d., 1990-1994 | |||||||
| 4 | Immigration: "AIDS State of Emergency" | 1991 | |||||||
| 4 | Insurance (2 folders) | 1990-1991 | |||||||
| 4 | International Conference on AIDS: Boston Planning (2 folders) | 1990-1992 | |||||||
| 4 | Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination | 1990-1992 | |||||||
| 4, 5 | Prison Issues (6 folders) | 1992-1994 | |||||||
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Series: |
Clinical Trial Protocols, 1988-1997 |
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| Volume: | 2 cubic ft. | ||||||||
| Arrangement: |
Alphabetical |
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| Summary: |
This series documents ACT UP / Boston's involvement in monitoring the progress of drug testing in several clinical trial groups. Also documented, under the heading “Related Articles and Documentation”, are results of other clinical trials being performed throughout the country, opportunistic infections and experimental drugs, and the Madison Project, which was developed by researchers and activists in response to the disappointing lack of progress reported in AIDS biomedical research at the IX International Conference on AIDS. Records consist of clinical trial reviews, correspondence, articles, newspaper clippings, and newsletters from the Fenway Community Health Center and the People with AIDS Coalition. See also Series 4, Collaborations, for additional clinical trial reviews. |
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| Box | Title | Date | |||||||
| AIDS Clinical Trials Group | |||||||||
| 5 | 071: IV Ganciclovir for CMV | 1988 | |||||||
| 5 | 100: SC-48334 Proposal | 1988-1989 | |||||||
| 5 | 116, 117, 118: ddI Compassionate Use, Treatment IND Summaries | n.d., 1988-1989 | |||||||
| 5 | 209: Vaccine | 1992 | |||||||
| 5 | 230 | 1994 | |||||||
| 5 | 243 | 1994 | |||||||
| 5 | 261 | 1994 | |||||||
| 5 | 343 | 1990 | |||||||
| 5 | 1343-506: Viracept Protease Inhibitor | 1995 | |||||||
| ASTRA | |||||||||
| 5 | 88-FOS-02 | 1988 | |||||||
| 5 | 89-FOS-09A | 1989 | |||||||
| 5 | 90-FOS-16 | 1990 | |||||||
| 5 | 90-FOS-17 | 1990 | |||||||
| 5 | BI#742 | 1991 | |||||||
| 5 | CBCT P001: Pyrimethamine for Toxo Prevention (2 folders) | 1990, 1993 | |||||||
| Community Research Initiative | |||||||||
| 5 | 91-04: Pentoxifylline | 1991 | |||||||
| 5 | Acupuncture / Chinese Herbs Efficacy Study | n.d. | |||||||
| 5 | Continued Use of Peptide T by Phase I Participants: draft | n.d. | |||||||
| 5 | Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Rifabutin for Mycobacterium avium complex | 1990 | |||||||
| Related Articles and Documentation | |||||||||
| 5 | 1592 Compassionate Use | 1997 | |||||||
| 5 | Acyclovir | 1991-1995 | |||||||
| 5 | Albendazole / microsporidiosis: Notes | 1991-1995 | |||||||
| 5 | Atovaquone | 1992 | |||||||
| 5 | AZT | n.d., 1986-1989 | |||||||
| 5 | Burroughs-Wellcome | 1991-1992 | |||||||
| Clinical Trial Design | |||||||||
| 5 | General | n.d., 1979-1995 | |||||||
| 5 | Placebos | n.d., 1958, 1987-1991 | |||||||
| 5 | Compound Q | 1989-1991 | |||||||
| 5 | Curcumin | n.d, 1993 | |||||||
| 5 | D4T | 1993-1994 | |||||||
| 5 | Drugs: General | n.d., 1992-1993 | |||||||
| 5 | Experimental Treatments | n.d., 1988-1994 | |||||||
| 5 | Food and Drug Administration: Accelerated Approval Update | n. d. | |||||||
| 5 | Fungal | n.d., 1991 | |||||||
| 5 | Hoffmann-LaRoche | n.d., 1992-1993 | |||||||
| 5 | Hybridon, Inc. GEM 91 Information Package | 1994 | |||||||
| 5 | Immune System | n.d., 1990-1994 | |||||||
| 5 | Inter-Company Collaboration for AIDS Drug Development: Meeting Minutes | 1993 | |||||||
| 5 | Madison Project | 1994 | |||||||
| 5 | Minority Communities: Newspaper Clippings | 1989-1992 | |||||||
| 5 | National Commission on AIDS: Reports | 1988-1991 | |||||||
| 6 | National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases: AIDS Agenda Newsletter | 1990 | |||||||
| 6 | National Task Force on AIDS: Notes | 1995 | |||||||
| 6 | Nucleosides | 1990-1991 | |||||||
| 6 | Oncology / Lymphoma | n.d., 1989 | |||||||
| 6 | Opportunism | 1989-1994 | |||||||
| 6 | Opportunistic Infections | n.d., 1990-1991 | |||||||
| 6 | Passive Immunotherapy | 1988-1989 | |||||||
| 6 | Pharmaceutical Companies: Ethics | 1990-1994 | |||||||
| 6 | Prevention: Newspaper Clippings | 1989-1993 | |||||||
| 6 | Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) | 1992-1996 | |||||||
| 6 | Prosorba Column | 1986-1989 | |||||||
| 6 | Protease Inhibitors | n.d., 1994-1996 | |||||||
| 6 | Researchers: Medical Organizations | 1990-1993 | |||||||
| 6 | Tuberculosis | 1990-1992 | |||||||
| 6 | Toxoplasmosis | 1987-1992 | |||||||
| 6 | Underground: Buyer's Clubs | n.d., 1989-1997 | |||||||
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Series: |
Collaborations, 1988-2007 |
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| Volume: | 3 cubic ft. | ||||||||
| Arrangement: |
Alphabetical |
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| Summary: |
This series documents ACT UP / Boston's efforts to expedite drug testing through collaboration with other non-profit AIDS organizations and government departments both locally and throughout the United States. Records contain clinical trial results, correspondence, reports, newsletters from other AIDS organizations, fact sheets, and flyers. Of interest is the Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS material and ACT UP / New York's files, which chronicle both the activism of ACT UP / New York, especially its Treatment & Data Committee, and its close working relationship with ACT UP / Boston. Also of interest is the Massachusetts Clinical Trials Directory, which was published as a result of meetings between ACT UP / Boston and the Commonwealth Department of Public Health. |
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| Box | Title | Date | |||||||
| 6 | AIDS Action Committee (4 folders) | n.d., 1988-1994 | |||||||
| 6 | AIDS Clinical Trials Group (7 folders) | 1988-1995 | |||||||
| 6 | AIDS Coalition to Network, Organize, and Win (ACT / NOW) (3 folders) | 1987-1995 | |||||||
| AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power | |||||||||
| 6, 7, 10 | New York (ACT UP / New York) (17 folders) | n.d., 1987-1995 | |||||||
| 7, 11 | Other ACT UP's (3 folders) | n.d., 1988-1997 | |||||||
| 7 | AIDS Community Television | n.d., 1994 | |||||||
| 7 | AIDS Treatment Activist Conference, Washington, DC., 1990: Notebook | 1990 | |||||||
| 7-8 | AIDS Treatment News (12 folders) | 1986-2007 | |||||||
| 8 | Cambridge Cares About Aids | n.d, 1988-1989 | |||||||
| 8 | Catholic Church | n.d., 1988-1994 | |||||||
| 8 | Centers for Disease Control | 1991-1992 | |||||||
| Commonwealth of Massachusetts | |||||||||
| 8 | Department of Public Health (2 folders) | 1988-1989 | |||||||
| 11 | Division of Public Charities | 1989-1991 | |||||||
| 8 | Governor's Task Force on AIDS (2 folders) | 1988-1990 | |||||||
| 8 | Community Research Initiative of New England (5 folders) | n.d., 1989-1992 | |||||||
| 8 | Community Research Initiative on AIDS: New York (2 folders) | 1987-1997 | |||||||
| 8 | Fenway Community Health Center | 1989-1992 | |||||||
| 8 | Harvard AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (2 folders) | 1989-1990 | |||||||
| 8 | March on Washington | 1987 | |||||||
| 11 | Mass ACT OUT | 1985-1990 | |||||||
| 8 | Monthly Medical Consortium | n.d., 1991-1992 | |||||||
| 8 | Multicultural AIDS Coalition: Information Package | 1993 | |||||||
| 8 | National Task Force for AIDS Drug Development | 1995 | |||||||
| People With AIDS Coalition | |||||||||
| 8, FF4/D2 | Boston (2 folders) | n.d., 1989-1990 | |||||||
| 8, FF4/D2 | New York (2 folders) | n.d., 1987, 1993 | |||||||
| 8 | Positive Directions: Newsletters | 1988-1990 | |||||||
| 8, 9 | Project Inform: PI Perspectives (3 folders) | 1986-2002 | |||||||
| 9 | Statistical Data Center of the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit: Meeting Minutes and Reports | n.d., 1990 | |||||||
| 9 | Statistics: AIDS Newsletter | n.d., 1993-1997 | |||||||
| 9 | United States Department of Health and Human Services: (4 folders) | 1993-1997 | |||||||
| 9 | United States Food and Drug Administration (9 folders) | n.d., 1988-1997 | |||||||
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Series: |
Audio-Visual Material and Memorabilia, 1989-1992 |
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| Volume: | 3.7 cubic ft. | ||||||||
| Arrangement: |
Alphabetical by format |
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| Summary: |
This series documents ACT UP / Boston's efforts to raise public awareness of the AIDS epidemic visually through its campaigns and demonstrations. It includes banners, buttons, photographs, and T-shirts. Of interest are the photographs of a Political Funeral in Washington, which capture ACT UP / Boston members throwing the ashes of deceased members onto the White House lawn; the banners used at vigils at Lars Bildman's home, depicting a diseased eye; and the WBUR news segment reporting on ACT UP / Boston's effectiveness in negotiating with pharmaceutical companies. See also Series 1, Administrative and Series 2, Campaigns and Demonstrations, for additional information. |
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| Box | Title | Date | |||||||
| 9 | Audio Cassette: WBUR Interview | n.d. | |||||||
| 9 | Contact Sheet: People Act Up Press Writing Group | 1989 | |||||||
| Memorabilia | |||||||||
| FF4/D2, Rolled | Banners (5) | n.d. | |||||||
| 9 | Buttons | n.d. | |||||||
| 9 | Citation: City of Cambridge | 1990 | |||||||
| 9 | Matchbooks: "Condoms: Get into 'em" | n.d. | |||||||
| 9 | Ping pong eyeballs | 1989 | |||||||
| FF4/D1 | Posters (2) | n.d. | |||||||
| 9 | Stickers: Silence=Death | n.d | |||||||
| 9 | T-shirts (8) | n.d. | |||||||
| Negatives | |||||||||
| 9 | ASTRA Pharmaceuticals, Westboro, Mass | 1989 | |||||||
| 9 | Attitude! Newsletter | n.d. | |||||||
| Photographic Prints | |||||||||
| 9 | AIDS Action Committee Award | 1990 | |||||||
| 9 | Attitude! Newsletter | n.d. | |||||||
| 9 | Burroughs-Wellcome Working Group | 1990 | |||||||
| Campaigns and Demonstrations | |||||||||
| 9 | ASTRA Pharmaceuticals (3 folders) | 1989, 1992 | |||||||
| 9 | “The FDA Has Blood on Its Hands” | 1989 | |||||||
| 9 | Harvard School of Public Health: "Approve ddI Now" | 1992 | |||||||
| FF4/D1 | John Hancock | n.d. | |||||||
| 9 | Hands Around the White House | 1992 | |||||||
| FF4/D1 | Recognition Awards Dinner | 1992 | |||||||
| 9 | Washington, D.C.: Political Funeral (2 folders) | 1992 | |||||||
| 9 | Members | n. d. | |||||||
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