DANBURY - The network stretches around the world, hopscotching along the information superhighway. It s aim is to give people with AIDS as much information - and help - as possible. In the Danbury area, people with a computer, a phone and a modem can hook up to Hatter s Park - a free computer bulletin board that specia
Being Alive/Orange County, Vol. 2, No. 6 - August/September 1994
Brent Korvus
Sister Mary Elizabeth has connections. Her AIDS Education General Information System (AEGIS), a local computer information service, hooks it callers to thousands of HIV and AIDS resources across the nation including local and national HIV/AIDS news, an ACT UP discussion group, and full access to Internet HIV- related n
In a high-tech spin on the biblical tale of David and Goliath, an Episcopal nun and computer whiz has taken on the behemoths of the AIDS community -- and won. Fifty-year-old Sister Mary Elizabeth fought for the right to gather and publicize, for free, the gossip, trends and breaking scientific discoveries from thousand
SAN FRANCISCO In an industrial neighborhood of the Bay area, two men work late into the night in an illegal laboratory, using flasks of acid and ether to purify a powder they believe slows the pace of AIDS. Motivated by the death of a friend, these amateur chemists are making and selling a drug that Swiss pharmaceutica
Is it possible that a cheap chemical from a photo-supply house might control the HIV virus? Is it also possible that this treatment has largely remained unknown because of the profit motive of our health-care system? These are the questions posed by a little-known substance whose use in AIDS cases dates back ten years,
Hartford Advocate, January 20, 1994 - January 27, 1994
Janet Reynolds
As the AIDS epidemic slowly clenches its death grip around more and more of this nation, many AIDS activists say people would do well to keep this notion in mind: Since 1986, a drug has been available that just might have saved countless thousands. Not only that but the chemical is nontoxic, it s cheap--a truckload cou
- At least every thirteen minutes another American is infected with HIV, and every 17 minutes someone dies of AIDS. - Conservative estimates are that one in every 250 Americans carries HIV. - AIDS is now the third leading cause of death among all adults between the ages of 25 and 44. In many areas of the country-- incl
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