Teaching people about AIDS took the form of music, dance, a fashion show and even a Shakespearean soliloquy Thursday in Opa-locka. It was a day of food and fun, but organizers say they were trying to relay a serious message. Our goal was to let people know that there are people in the community with AIDS, said Charles
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Thursday, December 19, 1991
Judy Battista, Herald Staff Writer
The future of the Poverello Center -- a Pompano Beach thrift shop and food bank for people infected with the virus that causes AIDS -- seems clearer now that the center s leadership has found several places where the center can move. Poverello board member Tom Smith said the center is looking at sites in Pompano Beach,
WASHINGTON - As the politics of suffering gets more intense, AIDS researchers are competing for tight federal dollars with those seeking cures for cancer and other medical priorities. And some agree that it s time to organize a common effort in the government s war on high-profile disease. After a decade of steady incr
TAMAQUA, Pa. - The long and tortured journey of Kimberly Ann Bergalis ended Thursday when four burly men lowered her coffin into the cold Pennsylvania earth of her beloved hometown. In a small cemetery on a wooded hill in the heart of coal country, the 23-year-old AIDS victim who died Sunday was laid to rest under a ca
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Thursday, December 12, 1991
Yvette Ousley, Herald Staff Writer
When Charles Young heard the news that Earvin Magic Johnson had the virus that causes AIDS, shock waves ran through his body. Then he cried, regained his composure and went into deep thought. I learned so much from Magic, watching him play, said Young, senior captain of Northwestern High s Bulls basketball team. I jus
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Thursday, December 12, 1991
Olympia Duhart, Herald Staff Writer
The slogan for the Christ Crusade Family Center in Opa-locka reads: A Place of Refuge For All. On Saturday, the church will put its theme into action with a seminar aimed at the healing and education ministry. It is the first seminar for the center 13720 NW 22nd Ave. The purpose of the seminar is to really give a very
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Tuesday, December 10, 1991
Lori Rozsa, Herald Staff Writer
FORT PIERCE - Privacy, the thing Kimberly Bergalis missed most in her life as a very public AIDS victim and crusader, was hers at last Monday night. A closed casket, white tinged with pink, encased the woman whose suffering made her a reluctant martyr for a nation coming to grips with a deadly epidemic. The gaunt, sunk
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Sunday, SUN December 8, 1991
Jon O'Neill, Herald Staff Writer
When Annette Gordon was hospitalized during her recent pregnancy, she had to find someone to care for her three young children. It wasn t easy. The 25-year-old mother had no money to pay for day care. She was separated from the children s father. Her family lives in St. Croix. So she called the Crisis Nursery, the only
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Saturday, December 7, 1991
Rebecca Ross Albers, Herald Staff Writer
PALM BEACH GARDENS - Ten years ago, Dr. Ron Wiewora came to Belle Glade to work in the county s first AIDS clinic. It was a very frustrating time. There was little we could do to treat the disease, he said. Today, the frustrations have been eased a bit by new medicines and knowledge, but Wiewora, 36, director of the co
Postscript, Dec. 3, 1991: A retrospective of the last three months. The nation is facing its worst economic crisis in years: lost jobs, bankruptcies, busted budgets. And what topic seems to be dominating our attention? Sex. There were other stories -- the economy, taxes, Haiti , David Duke. Yet sex often led the news:
SOME South Florida dentists have begun using their HIV-negative status as a marketing tool -- posting test results on office walls and even advertising their status. There s a reason: Five patients of the late David Acer, a Stuart dentist, have been infected with the AIDS virus, and news of this has frightened some den
On Sunday night at 7:45 p.m., the lights of the AmeriFirst Building went out. Then First Union Bank blinked into blackness, the Inter-Continental Hotel, even the neon outlining the Metrorail. For 15 minutes, downtown Miami joined New York and San Francisco, Austin and Chicago in commemoration of World AIDS Day, the 130
Systematic screening for the AIDS virus is moving into the mainstream workplace as insurance companies scramble to control the costs of medical and death claims. It s illegal for Florida employers to AIDS-test workers or to fire or refuse to hire them because they re infected. But state law gives health and medical ins
A new survey of homeless men in Miami may portend a public-health calamity: high rates of HIV infection and regular sexual intercourse without condoms. A considerable number of men also said they had intercourse with partners who used drugs intravenously, compounding their chance of being exposed to the AIDS virus.
Sarah could have been anybody s mother standing in front of the classroom. The 43-year-old woman was pretty and personable, and had a maternal way about her. She scanned the room. Took a deep breath. Sat down. Then began to speak. Visualize what a person who is HIV positive looks like, she told the teen-agers from Cent
Imagine a completely different reaction to the announcement that a world-famous athlete contracted the HIV virus through countless one-night stands. Imagine that the announcement was made by a woman. Insert the name Chris Evert for Magic Johnson. Or Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Or Martina Navratilova. Instead of being canoniz
Magic Johnson s lesson No. 1, which he broadcast with the announcement that he s infected with HIV: Anyone can get it. Lesson No. 2 will come with the bill for the AZT he began taking last week: Not everyone can afford it. Even with medical insurance, getting the treatments you need and the drugs you want is astronomic
Kimberly Crockett and Anthony Faiola; Herald Staff Writers
When Earvin Magic Johnson announced he had contracted the AIDS virus through heterosexual contact, it sent shock waves through college campuses in Dade County. In the two weeks since Johnson s announcement, there has been a dramatic increase in demands for information, testing, counseling and referral services, school
For 30 years, Liberty City pastor George McRae has felt a special calling -- to the bedsides of the sick and dying. But until last summer, AIDS was not his business. As far as he could tell, it was a problem for gay white men. Then a chaplain at Jackson Memorial Hospital invited McRae to visit the AIDS floor. From one
The product: six-packs of condoms in fliptop boxes -- with free introductory Condom Key Chains designed for safe storage of prophylactics. The marketing medium: MTV. Early next year, Ramses Safe Play Condoms, the first condoms marketed directly to teens, may also become the first condoms to appear in commercials broadc
Linda Roach Monroe and Elinor Burkett; Herald Staff Writers
AIDS never was someone else s disease. Eight to 10 million adults worldwide are infected with HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS -- three-quarters of them through heterosexual sex. About 1 in 10 Americans with HIV infection contracted it from the opposite sex, 100,000 men and women since 1985. Over that same period,
HAVANA -- Cuba is the only nation on the planet to halt -- virtually -- the spread of AIDS. The reason is simple enough: Every individual found to carry HIV, sick or not, is locked away. Practically everyone old enough to have sex is tested for the virus. Government decree. No exceptions. As of Oct. 1, the Cuban go
* People feel too safe Five girls -- all Havana high school seniors -- take a study break and gossip about sex. I don t worry about AIDS, says one. Everyone with the virus is locked up in the sanatorium. The attitude is typical. People outside feel too safe, Raul Llanos worries. He and Juan Carlos de la Concepcion run
From boardrooms to basketball courts, a nation is asking the obvious question: Can Magic Johnson -- and the 1 million other Americans who are HIV-positive -- be spared an agonizing death from AIDS? Today, there is no cure for the disease. And there probably won t be one this century. Experts say the most we can expect
Teri Stout never knows what part of the story will make her cry, or when her voice will crack. Tuesday night, that moment occurred 15 minutes into her speech about losing her husband and 3-year-old child to AIDS. An entire classroom at Broward Community College s North Campus was listening as Stout described her son Bl
An iconoclast and luminary of the AIDS research establishment came to Miami Monday, using the occasion to criticize conventional wisdom about the disease. Dr. Luc Montagnier, the French virologist who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus, cast doubt on three of the major tenets of thinking about AIDS. * Is HIV a
Perhaps it is because they are so little that their troubles loom so large. Sometimes, says Mary Louise Cole, the police find them living with their mother in a park, or they end up at Jackson, and you can tell it s abuse. They may be picked up in a drug raid, or sometimes they re found walking in the streets, 2 years
Center One, Broward s largest provider of services to AIDS patients, still hasn t been able to explain to the state how it spent almost $129,000 in grant money that was supposed to be used for housing. After examining about 100 pages of the center s financial records, the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative
The discoverer of the human immunodeficiency virus will visit Miami next week to talk about how HIV alone might not cause AIDS after all. Dr. Luc Montagnier, one of the world s foremost AIDS scientists, and two of his colleagues from the Pasteur Institute will present a trio of lectures on French AIDS research Monday a
No matter who the audience is, Peter Zamora doesn t mince words when he talks about AIDS. For him, the subject is too important and too personal. Zamora, 19, is HIV positive. He knows all about the suffering that comes with the disease. Which is why he was at Centennial Middle School Tuesday. I don t want anyone to go
Until last month, Broward County Commissioner Sylvia Poitier was so terrified by AIDS she refused to eat at her sister s house where her nephew, who had been diagnosed as HIV positive, lived. But three weeks ago, Poitier said, she decided to stop running, to turn around. And fight. On Thursday, with her announcement of
The federal government on Wednesday approved a new drug to fight the deadly AIDS virus despite lingering doubts about its effectiveness and safety. The Food and Drug Administration announced the licensing of DDI, dideoxyinosine, for use by AIDS patients who cannot tolerate or do not respond to
A year ago, Gary Steinsmith was on the defensive. Center One, Broward County s largest agency for people with AIDS, was in trouble. The executive director had been ousted and a hostile board threatened Steinsmith s job as center president. To save Center One s place as a beacon in a ravaged community, Steinsmith made a
The Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services is preparing to take legal action against Club Body Center, seeking to shut down the gay health club or force its owner to remove doors to private booths. But HRS won t be using a local anti-AIDS law passed with much fanfare after revelations about sexual act
From the sore throat to the infected toenail to the undetected case of AIDS, the illnesses of the poor in Monroe County are becoming everybody s problem. Due to the state s tax-revenue shortfall, the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services has recommended cutting the adult walk-in medical clinic located next t
His mother a cocaine addict, the 5-day-old infant boy entered Connor s Nursery in West Palm Beach screaming, hyperactive and HIV-positive. Now he s none of the three. After 16 months at the state s only nursery for babies with AIDS and the virus that leads to AIDS, Steven is now living with a family seeking to adopt hi
ABOUT ONE million Americans unknowingly or secretly carry the AIDS virus, the National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome says. Yet in the decade since AIDS was recognized as a contagious killer, there has been scant public outcry to arrest its spread, no outpouring of empathy for its most common victims
Anne Bartlett and Charles E. Hecker; Herald Staff Writers
Center One, the county s largest provider of services to people with AIDS, must satisfy questions about its finances within a week or the state health department will consult criminal investigators. The Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, which pays the center to provide services to AIDS patients,
Paul Anderson and Elinor Burkett; Herald Staff Writers
MEMO: see FIVE YEARS OF WARNING at end of text WASHINGTON - Warning of relentless, expanding tragedy in the decades ahead unless America comes to grips with AIDS, a government panel demanded Wednesday that Congress and the White House devise a national plan -- the first in 10 years -- to fight the epidemic. The Nationa
Danielle Marie Taylor, the cocaine-addicted prostitute infected with the AIDS virus, gave birth to a baby girl Monday morning. Her name is Tiffany Alisa Taylor, and she weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces at birth. Doctors won t know for a few days whether the child carries HIV, said Taylor s attorney, Chief Assistant Public D
TAMPA - When 3-year-old Julio went to the hospital 10 days ago for a checkup on his heart, he clutched his blankee, the one with little teddy bears around the edges and one big bear in the middle. And when he goes to preschool for medically disabled children this week, his quilt goes, too. He doesn t let his blankee st
The planning for Jim Pruitt s party began in mid-July, although his anniversary is not until October. It s not that anything elaborate is afoot. It s just that Miss Manners gives no guidance on etiquette for celebrating survival of a fatal illness. His friends are worried about the guest list and menu. Pruitt has AIDS
At 23, Danielle Marie Taylor is not the woman she used to be. A month ago, she stood before a judge on prostitution charges -- nearly 8 months pregnant, addicted to crack cocaine and carrying the AIDS virus. Appalled by the tragedy before her, County Judge Kathleen Kearney ordered Taylor held on an extraordinary $100,0
The gloomy prospects of Danielle Taylor brightened a little Friday when a judge ordered her moved from her Broward County Jail cell to a Miami clinic for pregnant women with the AIDS virus. Doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital offered one of their beds to Taylor, who had not seen a physician since entering jail on pros
Addicted to crack, infected with the AIDS virus and carrying a baby, Danielle Taylor became a living challenge to the county s legal system when she was charged with prostitution. In court Thursday, her lawyer revealed that the challenge has not been met. Taylor has yet to see a doctor since she entered jail 34 days ag
Breast-feeding infants can contract the AIDS virus from their mothers milk, according to a report released today by the New England Journal of Medicine -- although the federal Centers for Disease Control said there are no confirmed cases of such transmission in the United States . This is not surprising to physicians i
MEMO: CRISIS IN HEALTH CARE + JACKSON TAX + see micro-film for chart Gabina Fernandez was living on the streets of Miami when she found out she had the AIDS virus. Destitute and despondent, she never got the medical help or social services that could have staved off devastating infections. Only when she could barely wa
MEMO: see end of text for CASES IN POINT TALLAHASSEE - Within the last two years, 17 inmates have died preventable deaths in Florida s prisons, investigators report. Deaths of another 31 of the 190 inmates who died during that time period were deemed problematic. That was just one of the shortcomings court appointed in
Less than a year after suffering a major setback at the polls, gay activists in Broward want a rematch: They re pushing for another countywide referendum to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. The Dolphin Democratic Club on Thursday sent letters to Broward legislators, asking them to support a bill in
MEMO: BROWARD PERSPECTIVE It was the kind of story you almost hate to print, but you know you have to. Hallandale rescue worker Jon Gauthier died of AIDS in July, after winning his battle with the city for an increased pension that will be paid to his family for 10 years. He had argued that he contracted AIDS while on
Worried your dentist has AIDS and might infect you? Looking for reassurance that your pediatrician poses no threat to the kids? You re hardly alone these days. Now, capitalizing on that mood with the entrepreneurial principle that one man s panic is another man s profit, a Tallahassee businessman has created the Nation
Evelyn Bennett believes the battle against the AIDS epidemic must be fought on the streets. Bennett, a state-certified AIDS counselor, distributes more than 1,000 free condoms each month to prostitutes, drug dealers and the homeless in South Dade, as part of the Minority AIDS Prevention Initiative, a program sponsored
The last of five patients known to have contracted the AIDS virus from Stuart dentist David Acer has filed a lawsuit against Acer s estate. Lisa Shoemaker, 35, of Birmingham, Mich., filed the negligence action Tuesday in Martin County Circuit Court. Another former patient, John Yecs Jr., of Stuart, filed a notice of hi
During their first days on campus, University of Miami freshmen can expect a few unusual lessons: Date rape is a crime, alcohol is prohibited in dorms, and AIDS can strike anyone who s not careful. Orientation programs at colleges and universities are no longer limited to the routine campus tour and recitation of schoo
After he was diagnosed with AIDS two years ago, rescue worker Jon Gauthier became a national symbol. He was living proof of the dangers facing emergency medical personnel. The Gauthier crusade stressed this: He was married. He was faithful. He contracted the virus while serving the public. But documents released since
MEMO: see correction from Aug 9, at end of text Authorities searched Wednesday for 100 needles stolen from a lab technician s car, more than half of which are reportedly infected with the AIDS virus. If they were used on people that are HIV positive, they should be considered dangerous, Hialeah police Capt. Steve Andre
WASHINGTON - Charging that the Bush administration has not acted to stem the AIDS epidemic among intravenous drug users, the National Commission on AIDS Tuesday recommended making over-the-counter purchase of syringes legal in every state as a stopgap measure. The administration s national drug strategy has failed to a
Frustrated by the growing hysteria about AIDS and the dental profession, the 1,000 members of the Atlantic Coast District Dental Association bought space in local newspapers over the weekend to tell their side of the story. It was felt that no matter how often we would call newspapers or television stations and tell ou
WEST PALM BEACH - A Loxahatchee doctor is planning one of the newest services stemming from the spread of AIDS: a comprehensive treatment center where people with AIDS can come for all their medical and non-medical needs. Dr. Robert A. Freedman, an immunologist and infectious disease specialist, hopes to open the Insti
Alot of people have anxious questions when they go to the dentist or the doctor these days. Getting those questions answered are a patient s best protection against accidental exposure to the AIDS virus. The issue is not so much the infection status of those who work in a medical office, experts say, but whether the of
Dr. Melton White, whose illness from AIDS added kindling to the growing furor over mandatory testing of medical professionals, died Friday, family members said. He was 66 and had practiced dentistry in the Liberty City area for 32 years. When Dr. White s illness became known earlier this year, it sparked panic among hi
A support group for people with AIDS and those who have tested positive for HIV has been organized by the Jewish Federation of South Broward. The AIDS Wellness Group will hold its first weekly meeting at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Broward General Hospital, 1600 S. Andrews Ave., in Fort Lauderdale. Rabbi Harold Richter, dire
A Palm Beach Community College instructor who claims the school fired him because he has AIDS has lost his last appeal to get his job back. PBCC President Edward Eissey issued a statement Tuesday accepting an administrative hearing officer s recommendation that Dan Duncan not be reappointed to his foreign-language posi
Andres Viglucci and Jacquee Petchel; Herald Staff Writers
MEMO: CRISIS IN HEALTH CARE: JACKSON TAX What the Opa-locka child really needs, his doctors say, is low-cost, preventive medical care and a $150 inhaler his mother can t afford. His hospital bills have cost taxpayers $31,406.91. In Dade County s disjointed health system for the poor, the pattern is re-enacted daily: Fo
MEMO: AIDS: ANOTHER GENERATION; see TO GET HELP at the end of text Juana is nobody s image of AIDS. She s a 57-year-old grandmother, a factory worker who spends her weekends in pursuit of the perfect rumba. If the conventional wisdom about AIDS were correct -- that it is a gay disease, that only the young and promiscuo
Maxine Bender Segal has already lived through AIDS twice. Her body has never suffered toxoplasmosis or pneumonia. She is not infected with HIV. But she is one of thousands of older Americans whose lives have been torn apart by AIDS. For the 59-year-old grandmother, life became dominated by AIDS when her son Doug was di
The woes of Danielle Marie Taylor multiplied Friday, only a day after the pregnant, HIV-infected prostitute was jailed on a $100,000 bond. State prosecutors charged Taylor with prostitution and knowingly spreading the HIV virus, which causes AIDS. She also faces four city violations. Taylor, due to have her baby in les
A veteran Fort Lauderdale hooker carrying the AIDS virus and a soon-to-be-born baby was put out of business Thursday by a Broward judge, who ordered her held on an astounding $100,000 bond. Danielle Marie Taylor, arrested after police say they spotted her turning a trick in the back of a Ford van, was so stunned she co
A Loxahatchee neurosurgeon s response to increasing public concern about AIDS and health care workers is to tell his patients to be tested before he ll treat them. Dr. David M. Baron said Thursday that he is requiring all potential surgical patients to take a test for HIV infection. Anyone who refuses to take the test
One of the state s top AIDS experts Wednesday called on patients of HIV-positive Miami dentist H. Melton White to come forward for testing, reassuring them that the odds of picking up the virus from a health-care worker are minuscule. The risk of transmission is small, very small, said Dr. John J. Witte, assistant stat
State health workers have begun AIDS testing for patients of a well-known Liberty City dentist so debilitated by the virus that he is unable to help authorities figure out who his patients were. With Dr. H. Melton White dying in the Hospice at North Shore Medical Center, investigators from the Florida Department of Hea
With the case of Kimberly Bergalis stirring fear and confusion, the federal Centers for Disease Control wanted to clear things up -- so it issued new rules about AIDS and health workers. But the rules have caused confusion anew for Florida doctors and hospitals, and stoked the long-simmering debate over the need to tes
Robert Harris lover of 18 years died a month ago. His other half, as Harris calls him, had AIDS. So does Harris, who attended a picnic in Fort Lauderdale on Sunday for people infected with HIV, hoping to meet others who understand. This is the first time I m getting out since the funeral, said Harris, 48. If anyone ne
With the case of Kimberly Bergalis stirring fear and confusion, the federal Centers for Disease Control wanted to clear things up -- so it issued new rules about AIDS and health workers. But the rules have caused confusion anew for Florida doctors and hospitals, and stoked the long-simmering debate over the need to tes
When the doctors at Davis Dental opened their Boca Raton practice last April, they were well prepared to assuage their patients concerns about catching AIDS from the dentist. The two dentists each had tested negative for HIV infection and they both used the most high-tech sterilization equipment available. They also ha
WASHINGTON - The Senate voted Thursday to send HIV-infected doctors and nurses to jail for up to 10 years if they know they have the deadly AIDS virus and continue to treat patients without notifying them. The proposal, which passed 81-18, was opposed by the American Medical Association and the American Civil Liber
Broward s AIDS babies, born to mothers who share their fatal illness, will find little easy in their short lives. Many need drugs that cost $200 a month, more than parents can pay. Some get shuttled among several different clinics for care. Even small things like the lack of an infant car seat can mean not getting to t
The federal government Monday issued new guidelines urging -- but not requiring -- health care workers to be tested for the AIDS virus and to stop performing surgical procedures if they are infected. Despite rising public concern that health care workers might infect patients, the Centers for Disease Control did not ca
A Key West man who lost part of his nose to cancer says he can t get reconstructive surgery because he is infected with the virus that leads to AIDS. I look like someone put bubble gum and clear plastic tape over my nose, said Jim Horn, a 46-year-old chef. But a doctor at the Veteran s Administration Medical Center in
Dr. David Acer, the Stuart dentist who transmitted AIDS to several of his patients, could have spread the virus by using a drill handpiece contaminated with infected blood, a top epidemiologist with the national Centers for Disease Control said Friday. It s one of a number of possibilities that we re considering, said
A Metro panel Wednesday recommended freezing a $146,000 grant to Cure AIDS Now, a nonprofit group that provides meals to AIDS patients, until the county completes an audit of its spending. On June 30, The Miami Herald reported that Cure AIDS Now executive director Bob Kunst had used agency funds to travel around the wo
FORT PIERCE - Gov. Lawton Chiles and his wife, Rhea, met with dying AIDS victim Kimberly Bergalis Monday and then urged HIV-infected physicians to disclose their illness to patients. Once someone is reported as a carrier, the patient should be notified, Chiles said at a brief evening news conference before boarding a f
The pilot issue of a slick, colorful magazine went on display Saturday in Miami Beach. The pages brimmed with photos and drawings of attractive young people and the pop celebrities they admire. Most of the articles, though, differed drastically from the fun and fluff of many teen publications. Sex-related diseases, inc
A suburban Detroit woman plans to file suit against a Florida dentist who infected her with the AIDS virus before he died of the disease, her attorney says. Lisa Shoemaker of Birmingham, Mich., was infected through being treated by Dr. David Acer, who died last September of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, said att
Longtime AIDS sufferer George A. Leidal wonders why death has spared him while taking so many of his friends with AIDS. Some people, he says, call it survivor s guilt. I consider it a reward for trying, and I greet each new day with a prayer of thanks and praise. Last summer he had pneumocystis pneumonia (
About four years ago, Georgia Foster of Plantation learned that a cousin from out of state was diagnosed HIV positive. In the years since, she watched his insurance run out, his medical bills mount and his landlord move him out. Today, her cousin lives independently, but because of his deteriorating health, he will soo
The disease detective who investigated one of the most dumbfounding mysteries of the AIDS epidemic -- the case of the Stuart dentist who infected his patients -- delivered his findings last week. Standing before an audience of more than 500 people at the seventh International Conference on AIDS in Florence,
MEMO: See A LETTER FROM KIMBERLY BERGALIS at the end of the story Here are two things you have never seen in AIDS victim Kimberly Bergalis, who was infected by her dentist. Her anger: Do I blame myself? I sure don t . . ., she wrote in a letter to state health officials. I blame (dentist David) Acer and every single on
Starting today, HIV-infected people who can t find a dentist willing to see them will have a place to go: a new state-run clinic in Miami Beach designed especially for them. The new program is intended to broaden the range of medical services at the Dade County public health agency s AIDS clinic at 615 Collins Ave.
Gregory Spears and Tom Webb; Herald Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - An experimental vaccine given to people infected with the AIDS virus has bolstered their immune system and kept the virus in check, according to an article in today s New England Journal of Medicine. However, the U.S. Army researchers who conducted the study caution that the promising results are extremely
The source of the AIDS virus that infected a Hallandale fire fighter remains unidentified, but a board ruled Monday that he probably contracted it on the job and is entitled to disability pay. Jon Gauthier s case has stirred debate over the risks emergency personnel face when they extricate HIV-carriers from wrecked au
Susana Bellido and David Zeman; Herald Staff Writers
Two more patients have been found to have been infected with the AIDS virus by a Stuart dentist, the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services announced Thursday. Genetic tests by the national Centers for Disease Control show that the two, who were not identified, have the same virus strain as three othe
Veterans who go to an Oakland Park clinic for dental work are being told this week that one of their dentists is infected with the AIDS virus and that they can get blood tests if they want. The Veterans Administration Miami hospital, which runs the Broward outpatient clinic, released the news Tuesday -- on the eve of t
MEMO: AIDS DEADLY DECADE WASHINGTON - Ten years and more than 110,000 deaths after the AIDS epidemic began in the United States , scientists, activists and politicians still can t agree whether the government is doing enough to care for victims and find a cure. Despite projections that the number of AIDS deaths will cl
THE JUSTICE Department has reimposed an injustice by prohibiting HIV-infected foreigners from entering this country for any reason. HIV is the virus believed to cause AIDS. It makes sense to add infection with the AIDS virus to the list of conditions that make one ineligible to immigrate to the United States ,
Bush administration officials said Wednesday they have indefinitely postponed a decision on whether to allow immigrants and visitors with the AIDS virus into the United States . The delay leaves in effect the current immigration policy, which bans entry to those carrying the AIDS virus as well as several other communic
MEMO: see end of text for WHAT TO DO Three weeks after he accidentally pricked his finger on a discarded hypodermic syringe, Miami police officer Mario Roman spends his days at home, fighting off the side effects of the anti-AIDS drug AZT . I ve talked with his wife. She said the drug knocks him out physically, ma
MEMO: see end of text for TEACHING ABOUT AIDS Should fifth-graders be told how to use condoms? I m not comfortable with that, Dade School Board member Michael Krop said during a recent School Board discussion of Dade s new AIDS curriculum. Many other adults -- teachers and parents -- are uneasy about explicit AIDS educ
The Dade County Public School system has recruited more than 200 doctors to talk with students at every middle and high school as part of the district s AIDS Awareness Week, Monday through Friday. It s another angle, said board member Michael Krop. Doctors are able to tell stories themselves. This is a medical problem,
Peggy Rogers and Anne Bartlett; Herald Staff Writers
The first Broward clinic dedicated entirely to children stricken with the AIDS virus will open next month in Fort Lauderdale. Broward commissioners Tuesday awarded $143,000 to district and state health authorities to start the clinic. That sum is expected to be bolstered with federal dollars, which were hinged on the c
BUSINESS people who think they can dodge the AIDS crisis are wrong. Cases of AIDS continue to rise. In the 12 months through March, 4,656 cases were reported in Florida. That s 39 percent more than in the previous year, according to the University of Miami s Comprehensive AIDS Program. To help employers grapple with th
Blacks make up less than 21 percent of the population in Dade County, but they account for 45 percent of those testing HIV positive. That figure is cited by Metro Police Maj. Jimmie Brown, who also is pastor of the Kerr Memorial United Methodist Church, as the reason more than 200 black churches are hosting an all-day
Greg Coler arrived in Florida with a great splash. Blunt and aggressive, he was handpicked by the governor to fix one of the state s most unyielding dilemmas: HRS, the giant bureaucracy that grapples with the problems of the sick, destitute and abused. Coler fired top administrators. He conducted surprise inspections.
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