f—The Daily Collegian Friday, Nov. 22, 1085 National study is tracking spread of AIDS By KATHI DODSON Collegian Science Writer Throughout the country, 5,000 gay men are participating in a study to help researchers track the devel opment of,AIDS to gain an under standing of why some people develop the disease and others do not, one study leader said. Robin Fox, director of the Johns Hopkins University branch of the study, said the research is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases both part of the National Institutes of Health. Lawrence Kingsley, an epidemiolo gist with the University of Pitts burgh’s department of medicine who leads the Pittsburgh branch of the study, said researchers are looking at factors that increase a person’s risk of contracting acquired immune defi ciency syndrome. The study will a’lso examine how the disease is transmitted, how AIDS spreads through the population, how the disease affects victims and people around them and how society is cop ing with the fear of AIDS, said Kings ley, who heads the Pitt men’s study. The NIII is collecting the final information and disbursing it to re searchers throughout the country, Fox said. Come join the V 1 annual 4 Kappa Delta Soakathon 4 at Nittany Hot Springs! 2 Sunday, November 24 lh £ 12 p.m.—l2 a.m. 2 .g Live broadcast by UJQIUK and % Penn State celebrities between 6—7 p.m. & # BCNCFITS SPCCIBL OLYMPICS 0154 & iflif 11111^= Good morning, Penn State from Fast Break in the HUB Eateries. Every day this week get a free order of hash browns with a special breakfast. Offer good 7:OOAM-B:3OAM only. A $1.70 value for $1.25. No substitutions, please. rjpKrERiES') M onday, November 25,8:00 pm Recital Hall Mozart S'mfonia Concertante Members of /'-■ ■. ; the Pennsylvania Quintet ■. 'Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 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The information is used by other researchers to analyze specific groups of individuals within the stu dy, Fox said. One such group is men who have been infected by the HTVL III virus which has been linked to AIDS since the study began. Johns Hopkins, in Baltimore, calls its phase of the study SHARE the Study to Help the AIDS Research Effort, she said. The national study called the Multicenter AIDS Cohorts Study began in 1983. Researchers are sur veying gay and bisexual men at four centers: Pittsburgh, Johns-Hopkins, the University of California at Los Angeles and Northwestern Universi ty in Chicago, Kingsley said. The MACS study was founded by the National Institute of Health to study the iife cycle of HTVL-111 virus. The HTVL-111 virus is only one factor causing AIDS. The study focuses .on why some people infected with the HTVL-111 virus develop AIDS while others do not, Fox said. Fox said the four groups in the study use the same interview ques tionnaires and run very similar lab tests. That enables the group to sur vey about a thousand people in each area and still have a total survey of about 5,000 people. Interviewers ask questions from a standard questionnaire focusing on the medical history, drug use, psy chology and sexual practices of the participants, she said. The participants also receive a physical examination and laborato ries collect and freeze specimens including blood and semen, Fox said. If a man later develops HTVL-111 infection or AIDS, the specimens can be analyzed to trace the development of the virus, she said. The specimens are also used by the researchers to search for AIDS pre cursors, she said. Kingsley said gay men from Pitts burgh, Ohio and northern West Vir ginia are participating in the Pittsburgh study. EAT ® AEO ® SAT ® Al ® EAT ® AEO ® EAT ® AEO • w Delta Sig Going to the Cabaret was great You guys really are top rate! 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