TALLAHASSEE - Members of a special dental commission studying ways to prevent the spread of the HIV and Hepatitis B viruses say current methods are effective, but could be better. Allan Grossman, a member of the study panel and attorney for the Board of Dentistry, said the medical experts agreed that rules requiring th
ATLANTA - A rare form of the AIDS virus could slip into the nation s blood supply, but officials at the federal Centers for Disease Control said Friday that it wasn t worth the cost to try to detect it. Only 18 known cases of the virus, known as HIV-2, exist in the United States . Tests for the more common AIDS virus,
SAN FRANCISCO - A new analysis of the sexual behavior of dozens of men infected with the AIDS virus has implicated oral sex between men as a greater risk than many scientists had assumed. The researchers looked at 82 men who tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Of the 82 -- all of them part of three con
The Associated Press; 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 - 2 September 1990.
Lisa Levitt Ryckman; Associated Press
NEW YORK - Young love blossomed two years ago at a hospital detox center. Sara and Rafael were both 20, both shooting heroin and cocaine, both looking for a way out. They found each other. When we started, he was determined to stop drugs, said Sara, who didn t want her real name used. I would go get high, and I would c
The Associated Press; 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 - Sunday, 1 July 1990.
Charlene L. Fu; Associated Press
KUNMING, China - Xiong Rucheng remembers the day he and his colleagues at the Yunnan Public Health Bureau learned that drug addicts near the border with Burma had contracted AIDS. No one could believe it, said Xiong, chairman of the bureau s foreign affairs office. How could China have AIDS? In September, they se
The Associated Press; 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 - Thursday, 29 March 1990.
ARLINGTON, Va. - President Bush, proclaiming the government on a wartime footing to find a cure for AIDS, today urged an end to discrimination against AIDS sufferers in the workplace. We re in a fight against a disease, not a fight against people. And we will not and we must not tolerate discrimination, he said in a sp
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