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WNCAP hires executive director
by Dan Van Mourik
Q-Notes Staff
ASHEVILLE, NC—The Western North
Carolina AIDS Project (WNCAP) has hired
Leslie Burnside of Hickory to be its new ex
ecutive director. Burnside is an experienced
prevention educator and has been working with
the HIV community for 10 years.
Burnside has served as an advocate for people
with AIDS through the AIDS Leadership Foot
hills Area Alliance as well as being a board mem
ber of the Ryan White Consortium of
Alexander, Burke, Caldwell and Catawha coun
ties.
Burnside previously served as the executive
director of the Rape Crisis Center of Catawba
County, Inc. She holds a master’s degree in
counseling and human development from the
University of Georgia and a bachelor’s, degree
from Guilford College in Greensboro, NC.
Burnside recently led the Catawba County
Department of Social Service’s Families for Kids
initiative. Under her leadership, the agency
became one of the leading counties in NC to
reduce its foster care population and doubled
its adoption services.
She takes over the agency as some clients
and former clients continue to raise issues of
accountability and question the agency’s policy
of financial assistance to PLWAs (People Liv
ing With AIDS). Client concerns date back to
1993 when WNCAP shifted funds from direct
client financial support to case management of
PLWAs.
Most of the WNCAP controversery seems
to have been raised by a single individual which
led to legal action by both parties. The legal
issues have been resolved and WNCAP feels it
has properly addressed all accusations, although
former executive director Joe Connolly feels the
agency has suffered a public relations crisis.
WN(EAP provides direct services to people
with HIV/AIDS and their families as well as
prevention education. ▼
UNC student to lead national group
by Wanda Pico
Special to Q-Notes
CHAPEL HILL, NC—When leaders for
the National Queer Student Coalition (NQSC)
were elected during the 51st Annual National
Student Congress of the United States Student
Association (USSA), UNC-Chapel Hill student
Christine Williams was selected to become the
group’s chair.
NQSC, an affiliate of USSA, the nation’s
oldest and largest student organization- dedi
cated to achieving educational access for all stu
dents, regardless of race, gender, sexual orien
tation, gender identity, financial status, ability
or religious affiliation, is gearing up for an ex
citing year.
The agenda for the 1998-99 academic year
includes supporting the Employment Non-
Discrimination Act (ENDA) in Congress, as
well as efforts to make the bill more inclusive
of transgender people. Also, NQSC will be a
visible, active supporter of the Equality Begins
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sources are available to do the work.
Ultimately, victory over HIV will require a
vaccine. Although there are many obstacles to
its development, an AIDS vaccine is possible.
We’re probably at least a decade away from
having one. The resources need to come from
the United States Treasury. The United States
is the only country in the world with the re
sources and expertise to develop this kind of
product. ,i\merica is going to have to lead.
One of the most effective prevention strate
gies, needle exchange, has been a political hot
potato in the United States. There was a recent
decision to continue the ban on needle ex
change in spite of evidence that these programs
are effective and don’t encourage drug use.
The AIDS epidemic in New York City is
more than 60 percent related to injection drug
use. Unless you deal with injection drug use,
you will never overcome the epidemic.
The link between care and advocacy is a two-
way street. For example, we have a department
at Home Campaign sponsored by the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Federa
tion of Statewide LGBT Political Organiza
tions. During the National Student Congress,
held August 4-9 at the University of Colorado
in Boulder, the general membership of USSA
voted to support an all-inclusive movement for
the rights of GLBT people and to support the
Equality Begins at Home Campaign.
“We plan to be working closely with our
fellow queer organizers, on both the national
and statewide level, to ensure that students’
voices are included in Equality Begins At Home
actions all over the country in March of 1999,”
Williams said.
Additional positions within NQSC were
filled by Maryanne Cassera, Portland State
University (vice-chair), and Sari Krosinsky, State
University of New York (internal chair).
For more information on USSA or NQSC,
write 1413 K St., 9th Floor, Washington, DC
20005 or call (202) 347-USSA. T
that fights with insurance companies and helps
people get on Medicaid. Their experiences in
form our advocacy work.
At the same time, our advocacy experiences
help shape client services. For example, when
foscarnet became available for treatment of
CMV retinitis, we knew about it in advance
through our advocacy connections and were
able to work with client services to prepare for
it. Foscarnet requires an indwelling catheter and
this raised many issues for client services.
In terms of education, we have a lot to learn
from some countries in Africa. They have de
veloped aggressive educational campaigns,
which we haven t done here. They have aggres
sively promoted condom use. In the United
States, we have almost never had ads on TV
promoting condom use. We have almost never
had public campaigns. That’s something we
desperately need.
In terms of AIDS services, there is a lot that
everybody needs, no matter what country they
live in. Adequate healthcare, adequate shelter
and adequate nutrition are part of the baseline
that everybody needs. ▼
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