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FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1991

New York (JTA) — One
decade ago when a
mysterious new disease was
first reported to have in-
capacitated five gay men in
Los Angeles, the American
Jewish community knew
little about what would later
come to be called acquired
immune deficiency syn-
drome.
Today, the Jewish com-
munity knows a whole lot
more about the deadly
disease and, according to one -\
leading Jewish AIDS ac-
tivist, it could be doing a
whole lot more to help people
touched by it.
While AIDS has been on
the communal agenda for
the last five or six years, it
has never been a priority,
says Andrew Rose, a social
worker who set up the first
AIDS program in the coun-
try sponsored by a Jewish
community federation.
And now, he said sadly in ,\
an interview, it has been
relegated to the bottom of
the list of communal con-
N
cerns.
People with AIDS can turn
to non-Jewish organizations,
such as New York's Gay
Men's Health Crisis or AIDS
Project Los Angeles, for sup-
N
port. But it is their parents,
siblings and other loved ones
who suffer the most without
the support of the Jewish
community, Mr. Rose said.
The stigma of AIDS has
not significantly diminished
in 10 years, and many Jews
continue to think it is not a
problem that affects them,
he pointed out.
And now that people with
AIDS are surviving longer,
with the help of new
N
treatments, "there is more
need for people to have their
spirits strengthened by
everyone, including the Jew-
ish community," Mr. Rose
said.
There is little hard data
available about how many
Jews have AIDS or are in-
fected with HIV, the virus
that causes the chronic im-
mune deficiency, since
public health statistics do
not include information
about religion.
But extrapolating from
what information is
available, some 4,500 Jews
are believed to have been di-
agnosed with AIDS to date,
and 2,500 to 3,000 American
Jews are believed to have
died of complications from
the disease.
The over37helming
majority of
-ish people
with AIDS are gay and
bisexual men, Mr. Rose said.

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