PAGE 8 Q-Notes ■ Septembe r1988
MAP Celebrates Third Anniversary
By Leslie Kooyman
Executive Director, MAP
Special to Q-Notes
This August, Metrolina AIDS Project
(MAP) celebrated its third year anniversary.
A picnic party for volunteers, staff, board of
directors, and friends of MAP was held at the
home of Madon Meginnis, President of the
Board.
MAP began three years ago with a few
■gayanen meetingln my living room. We met
to discuss our own personal fears of AIDS
and to share our primitive knowledge about
the disease. Since those days, MAP has
grown to a fully functioning non-profit AIDS
service organization, providing support and
services to people affected by AIDS.
MAP operates on a fiscal year, which runs
from July 1 to June 30. Having just com
pleted our fiscal year, I would like to share
some information about Metrolina AIDS
Project. The year before last, MAP served an
estimated 50 clients with HIV infection, ARC
or AIDS. This past year MAP provided serv
ices tor 208 clients. Of those, 67% were gay/
bisexual men, 8% were I.V. dmg users, 11 %
were heterosexual and 14% were of unknown
transmission. Of those 208 clients, 20%
v/ere black and 10% were women. As you
can see, MAP is providing services to a
diverse population; however, the majority of
cases still seem to be our brothers in the gay
community.
MAP currently offers the following pro
grams: PWA Support Group; HIV/ARC
Support Group; Friends, Family, Partners
Support Group; Bereavement Support Group;
Buddy Program; Dennis Fund; Social Serv
ices Advocacy/Case Management; AIDS
Hotline; Safer Sex Workshops and Speakers
Bureau.
A listing of programs only tells half of our
story. The real service MAP offers our
community is the opportunity for people
diagnosed or affected by AIDS to meet with
others who are experiencing the same feel-
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ings and to strengthen one another while
improving the quality of their lives. This, to
me, is the real service MAP offers our com
munity.
This year MAP will be operating with a
full-stime staff of four: myself, as Executive
Director, a newly-hired Lori Cardora as
Coordinator of Client Services, and Sherry
Cash as Administrative Assistant. The fourth
position will be a health educator for gay/
bisexual men to develop and manage our
safer sex campaign. We are seeking a gay
man for this position with a health education
background. With this increase in staffing,
we hftpe to provide better quality services, a
strong safer sex campaign, and the assurance
that you will not get our machine when you
call for information or assistance.
As MAP continues to grow, I ask for your
patience and tolerance. We are a young or
ganization which is not perfect, but learning
all the time. So many times, in our commu
nity I see us turn on each other and fight
amongst ourselves. This must stop. There
are plenty of people out there who wish we
never existed. We have enemies. I ask that
we care for one another, and as MAP contin
ues to grow, like other organizations, that we
support that growth and that we become more
unified in our work in caring for each other.
Thank you for your support and time.
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PWA Support Group
HIVIARC Support Group
Friends, Family, Partners
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Bereavement Support Group
Buddy Program
Dennis Fund
Social Services Advocacy
Case Management
AIDS Hotline
Safer Sex Workshops
Speakers Bureau.
His running mate. Senator Dan Quayle,
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the Soviet Union. It is felt that his selection
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right.
The Republican Convention, like the
Democratic, stressed unity of the party and
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In the last few elections, namely since the
election of Lyndon Johnson in 1968, there
has been a new philosophy in politics which
emphasizes the importance of getting the
candidate elected so that the party is in power.
This focus may seem benign and harm-
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