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Miami Herald - Sunday, December 2, 1990
Herald Staff
"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-UP, which is critical of the way the U.S. government has handled the epidemic, often uses loud and large demonstrations.
"This is a very visual thing, a very silent thing," said Rapoport. Members of the group also chalked body outlines on the sidewalk outside Bayside Marketplace.
The demonstration was part of the third annual World AIDS Day. Later, ACT-UP and other AIDS activist groups marched through downtown Miami and held a candlelight vigil at the Bayfront Amphitheater.
The World Health Organization estimates that more than eight million people worldwide are infected with the HIV virus. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control reported 154,917 cases of AIDS and 95,774 AIDS-related deaths since 1980. Florida has reported 13,568 AIDS cases since 1980.
This year's World AIDS Day focus was on women. AIDS groups claim that little clinical research has been done to benefit women, and little attention paid to features of HIV disease in women. More than a third of all reported AIDS cases in the world are women.
CAPTION: PHOTO Eric Brooks has his body traced at Torch of Freedom (AIDS)
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