MONTREAL - Sporting the self-satisfied smile of a child about to collect big money for his cache of pop bottles, the man in the brown coat strode in and plunked 19 used syringes, one by one, into the plastic jug on the counter. He has been here before and he knows what to expect: Five clean needles and, invariably, the
BOSTON - People infected with the AIDS virus apparently have hundreds of times more virus in their blood than previously thought -- undermining the position of skeptics who question whether the virus causes the disease, researchers say. Dr. David Ho and colleagues at the University of California at Los Angeles measured
HALLANDALE - A career fire-rescue worker has filed a worker s compensation claim with the city, saying he contracted an illness common to AIDS patients because he was exposed to the blood and body fluids of people suffering from the deadly virus. The 18-year firefighter filed a worker s compensation claim Monday, sayin
WASHINGTON - Researchers have developed a vaccine that prevents monkeys from getting AIDS, an achievement that scientists have hailed as the first truly promising step toward creating a human AIDS vaccine. Until recently, pessimism has dominated the field, and many of the world s most prominent AIDS researchers doubted
GAINESVILLE - Interim University of Florida President Robert Bryan has approved a task force s recommendation to install condom machines in campus restrooms. Though school administrators have rejected similar recommendations the last two years, Bryan said UF must show the nation it is interested in combating AIDS.
TODAY is World AIDS Day, when people all over the globe should assess their knowledge of the disease and commit to avoiding behaviors that put them at risk. And if they are healthy, it would be wonderful if they would help those who aren t, and remember those who have died. AIDS is so widespread that it s almost imposs
If Mary Bryant has an abundance of anything, it is faith. Bryant, 48, relies heavily on it to care for her five grandchildren -- including the youngest, a baby who tests HIV-positive for the AIDS virus -- and her disabled brother. The Pompano Beach grandmother has custody of the youngsters, ages 3 months to 10 years, b
Eight years after the first Florida prison inmate was diagnosed with AIDS, the disease has become the No. 1 killer behind bars -- an executioner that could cost the state $14 million next year. Since 1981, 114 inmates have died from AIDS. In the same period, only 19 prisoners were put to death by the state. Now a study
A vaccine developed to prevent AIDS in people who don t yet have it might be useful in treating people already stricken with the fatal disease, a drug company and researchers announced Monday. That s what tests involving a small group of AIDS patients have shown at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washingt
It s time to start talking openly in minority communities about homosexuality, bisexuality and AIDS. At Center One/Anyone in Distress, 60 percent of the cases that came in during one recent week were minorities, said executive director Juliette Love. The center provides outreach services to people who test positive for
The first major motion picture built on a plot involving heterosexual AIDS purports to be more than Just Another Major Motion Picture. We as a nation must make the public aware about this devastating epidemic, said Moshe Israel , president of Mochon, Inc., the Miami-based production company that made the film. We
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KEY WEST -- Social worker Jaye Harkow moved to Key West a year ago to counsel people with AIDS. She has no trouble finding them. On this tiny island, I live a block away from the grocery, she said. I always run into someone with it on my way to the grocery store. Ana Weekley runs a downtown grocery. From her customer s
As a two-year sufferer of AIDS, Harry Sutton says he could give up and just lie down and die. Instead, the Miami man is leaving this week on his bicycle from the southernmost point of the U.S. mainland for San Francisco. He hopes to arrive there by mid-1990 for an international conference on acquired immune deficiency
The headquarters for Center One/Anyone in Distress, the hub of Broward s AIDS awareness and support network, is a sparsely furnished suite in an out-of-the-way arcade off West Oakland Park Boulevard. The deadly disease is spreading from the homosexual to the heterosexual community. So is information about its causes, s
MONTREAL - Two themes ran through the Fifth International Conference on AIDS, which ended Friday: an upbeat message about promising vaccines and treatments and an underlying grumble that the annual meeting has outgrown its purpose and is too big for meaningful scientific exchange. This was the year that people with AID
MONTREAL - Dr. Jonas Salk, the creator of the polio vaccine, announced Thursday the development of an experimental AIDS vaccine that appears to have wiped out infection in three chimpanzees carrying the human immunodeficiency virus, a finding that top molecular scientists say is significant. Salk, a Nobel laureate, sai
MONTREAL - The odds of living 18 months or more after getting an AIDS diagnosis have increased dramatically in recent years, from 30 percent in 1982 to more than 60 percent today, the head of the National Cancer Institute said Wednesday at the Fifth International Conference on AIDS. NCI director Dr. Samuel Broder broug
MONTREAL - U.S. health officials plan to urge doctors to treat people infected with the AIDS virus -- but who do not have symptoms -- by testing their blood twice yearly so they can use an experimental drug that prevents an often-fatal pneumonia. By conservative estimates, the new care strategy will cost $2 billion a y
MONTREAL - Contrary to some frightening predictions about the spread of AIDS in the United States , a series of studies released Monday show that the virus has not broken loose in the heterosexual population and that inner-city minorities remain at highest risk. Between 1.2 million and 1.5 million Americans are infecte
MONTREAL - About 250 protesters stormed the stage on the opening day of the Fifth International Conference on AIDS. With chants, placards and stomping feet, they blasted the world s response to an epidemic that researchers say is continuing to rage. The epidemic has not plateaued. It has not peaked. It is still continu
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