A new approach to AIDS treatment pioneered in Miami has expanded to San Francisco, marking the start of tests into whether the technique is effective against AIDS-related cancer. The method, cell therapy, will be tested in 20 San Francisco General Hospital patients with Kaposi s sarcoma, the otherwise rare cancer that
Since opening three years ago in North Central Dade, Project Impact has educated thousands about HIV infection and AIDS, conducted hundreds of community workshops and distributed more than 65,000 condoms. We tell them everything, step by step, said Eric Rodriguez, a Project Impact health educator. Any question about HI
Since opening three years ago in North Central Dade, Project Impact counselors have educated thousands about HIV infection and AIDS, conducted hundreds of community workshops and distributed more than 65,000 condoms. We tell them everything, step by step, said Eric Rodriguez, a Project Impact health educator. Any quest
The number of healthy U.S. children orphaned by AIDS will double by 1996 and reach more than 80,000 by the turn of the century, threatening social disruption, researchers at City University of New York predict. The vast majority of the orphans will be blacks and Hispanics, said the study, reported in today s Journal of
To protect his frail eyes, Jean-Louis wears dark sunglasses all the time at the Krome Detention Center, indoors and out. It is because of his eyes that Jean-Louis is here, in yet another camp encircled by razor wire, eight months after a friend put him on a boat to escape the Haitian soldiers he says were hunting for h
Twelve years into AIDS, the taboo among many Hispanics is solid. It is still considered a gay disease, the result of loose morals, a blotch on the family name, somebody else s problem. Statistics bear these out as false perceptions, created by lack of information. But no mainstream Hispanic celebrity has stepped in to
For years, the 10,000 hemophiliacs whose life-sustaining blood products gave them HIV hid their deadly infection. But in growing numbers, they are revealing the painful secret of having the virus that causes AIDS. The reason: death. Hemophiliac Ricky Ray s bravery when a small Florida town turned against his family enc
AIDS-infected Florida teenager Ricky Ray, whose precocious wisdom in the face of hysterical persecution helped educate the nation about the disease, died peacefully Sunday at his Orlando home. He was 15. He and his two younger brothers, Robert, 14, and Randy, 13, who also are infected with HIV, were at the center of a
GUANTANAMO NAVAL STATION, Cuba - In a makeshift camp halfway to nowhere, 277 Haitian men, women and children wait out the days amid dust, flies, razor wire and desert scrub. Though the camp is crude, they have all a body needs -- food, clothing, shelter, medicine, even cable TV -- everything, that is, except their free
Belle Glade is once again in the uncomfortable spotlight of the national medical community: A study published in today s New England Journal of Medicine again concludes that heterosexual sex is the primary cause of AIDS in the rural town. The study was led by Dr. Tedd Ellerbrock of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Deadly epidemics have a way of making people do strange things. During the Black Death in the 14th Century, many Christians believed the plague was caused by Jews. In some cities, Jews were tried in court, convicted and executed. Christians testified they saw Jews pouring poison into the wells. In other cities, they di
The inventor of the strongest available anti-AIDS drug said Friday he is still optimistic for the development of better drugs and, eventually, a vaccine to prevent the killer virus. I have a lot of hope in the ability of this country and the world to come up with a vaccine, said Jerome Horwitz, who developed
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