The two children are happily playing, one sitting on the floor in a blue-and-white dress, the other pounding the buttons on a toy keyboard. They look up with bright brown eyes to greet visitors. Those two are HIV-positive, said Teresa Herrmann, coordinator of the Kids In Distress Infant & Toddler Emergency Shelter
Margaret Heckler stood behind the podium in the auditorium of the Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C. Lights flooded her face, cameras rolled, reporters clutched their notebooks expectantly. Today we add another miracle to the long honor roll of American medicine and science, announced the secretary of Heal
Rachel Warner is awed by the enormity of it all: first hemophilia, from which people literally bled to death; and now, when hemophilia seemed finally in control, AIDS. You can t imagine what these families go through, she says. They need so much, so much counseling, services, specialized treatment. That s what makes th
WASHINGTON - As the mayors of Boston and Charlotte were telling a press conference here Wednesday about the growing hordes of hungry, homeless Americans haunting the nation s cities this Christmas, two blocks away John McCann sat on a park bench opposite the White House. McCann, 67, sports a dirty white beard, a tatter
Though the Good Book says it is better to give than receive, a 41-year-old AIDS patient decided it was better first to receive, then take, according to police. Jeanette Martinez, whose tragic tale touched the hearts of South Floridians when it appeared Nov. 18 in The Herald s Wish Book, was arrested Thursday night on c
The Riviera Beach woman, her body wracked with AIDS, didn t much care if she got a Christmas present. All she wanted were gifts for her daughter and mother. Santa came through. Not with the latest in electronic wizardry or the newest in flowery perfumes. Jim Sugarman s gifts were ones of comfort. Dressed in a Santa Cla
A federal ban on blood donations from Haitians that has plagued South Florida blood collection efforts will be rescinded today, The New York Times reported. The government will abandon the blanket ban on Haitians in favor of more questioning of potential donors about their sexual history in an effort to screen for AIDS
DADE COUNTY stands to get $1.89 million in Federal disaster relief grants that will go to agencies that help AIDS patients. The funds are part of the Ryan White AIDS Resources Emergency Act of 1990. Through it, the Federal Government is helping to provide comprehensive health and social services for people who have tes
About 40 members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) staged a die-in Saturday afternoon to quietly demonstrate the numbers of people dying from AIDS. We want to indicate to people how tragic, how horrible, how needless these deaths are, said Joe Rapoport, a spokesman for the newly formed Miami chapter. ACT-
Q. How often must a baby who is being breast-fed be nursed? I am now pregnant and plan to breast-feed the baby if I can. -- Margaret, Orem, Utah A. If they are permitted to do so, breast-fed babies may feed as often as every two hours during most of their first year. If this is very inconvenient, your pediatrician may
The first AIDS counseling center in Liberty City is not much different from any other AIDS support center: Group therapy session are held regularly, one-on-one counseling is provided and AIDS prevention is the top priority. But one thing that makes the Community Outreach Prevention and Education (COPE) center different
WASHINGTON - An experimental AIDS vaccine that closely imitates the HIV-1 virus that causes the fatal disease has been approved by the government for testing in humans. Scientists from Immuno-U.S. Inc. of Rochester, Mich., and from a government-sponsored AIDS steering committee said Tuesday that the Food and Drug Admin
The Dade School Board approved measures Wednesday to improve AIDS education, particularly in elementary schools, where a recent report found many teachers aren t complying with requirements for AIDS instruction. The School Board also told its staff to speed up revision of the AIDS curriculum to deal more openly with st
When Pedro told his father the news, Hector Zamora s body went rigid. It was news mainstream Miami can t fathom: teen-age AIDS. I looked at my son -- my lovely, 17-year-old son -- and I saw a cadaver, the Hialeah gardener recalls softly. Zamora asked God: Why not me? I m an old man. * The price of sex in America is sky
Dr. Margaret Fischl was 32, one year out of residency - an obscure assistant professor at an obscure medical school in Miami. She was a hard-working, serious young woman without any particular spark or brillance. She had been a good student at the University of Miami, and looked to be on course for an average career in
She wanted him. He was gorgeous, she said. They had met at a party and decided, in her words, to get together. They did not discuss their pasts or the safety of what they were about to do. They just did it. It was the only time they ever had sex. The man, a recovering drug addict, gave the woman the AIDS virus. My
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