Catherine Walker does not have AIDS, but the illness has turned her life inside out, deprived her of her home and job, left her heartbroken and burdened. In some ways, it has made her stronger. Walker, 57, lost her grown daughter, Cathleen, to AIDS and inherited the responsibility for Cathleen s three young children, o
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Miami Herald (MH) - Thursday, December 26, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Neighbors KE Page: 2 Word Count: 357
Sarah Sutton, Herald Writer
MEMO: See WEB ADDRESS at end of text TEXT: Miami Beach High senior Bensin Joseph doesn t think his peers take AIDS seriously enough. So he used his computer talents to build a web site designed to teach teenagers about the deadly effects of the HIV virus. His message is pretty simple: The AIDS virus kills. He hopes his
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Sunday, December 22, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Neighbors MB Page: 2 Word Count: 547
Rick Jervis; Herald Staff Writer
The Stanley C. Myers Community Center, which offers affordable health care at its South Beach site, is trying to spread its services to North Beach. But not if its future neighbors have any say in it. A group of 20 or so irate North Beach neighbors on Wednesday asked Miami Beach commissioners to revoke an October Desig
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Sunday, December 22, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Local Page: 1C Word Count: 483
Donna Gehrke; Herald Staff Writer
Wesley Alphonse doesn t understand why he always has to go to the doctor, why his guardian anxiously looks when he coughs, why she checks if his lymph glands are swollen -- an indication of infection. But then, Wesley won t be 5 years old until New Year s Eve. And he doesn t know much about HIV. The virus that killed h
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Sunday, December 22, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Front Page: 1A Word Count: 2,761
Peggy Rogers and Stephen Smith , Herald Staff Writers
MEMO: LIVING WITH AIDS; See APPROVED DRUGS at end of text TEXT: Five years ago, Mitchell Ciminelli thought he was dying. He closed his construction company, gave away his home and spent $130,000 living out his dreams. Then something miraculous, and terrifying, happened. Death granted Ciminelli a reprieve. Reinvigorated
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Saturday, December 21, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Local Page: 1B Word Count: 643
Amy Driscoll; Herald Staff Writer
Ignacio Perea stood in a Miami courtroom Friday, an HIV-positive, twice-convicted rapist of little boys, and spat out the words. I did not commit these crimes, he said, directing a hard stare at prosecutor Susan Dechovitz. I will keep fighting until I prove my innocence. His defiant speech came moments after a Dade jur
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Thursday, December 19, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Local Page: 2B Word Count: 243
Amy Driscoll; Herald Staff Writer
Wyn Morris, arrested last year in a traffic altercation that blew into a public controversy over an HIV-positive Miami Beach police officer, will attend anger management classes so prosecutors will drop charges, her attorney said Wednesday. But when she completes the program, she is still planning to sue the police dep
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Tuesday, December 10, 1996 Edition: Broward Section: Broward News Page: 6BR Word Count: 270
Herald Staff
FREDERICTON - A successful program in AIDS education carried out behind the grim, stone walls of Dorchester Penitentiary will become a prototype for Canada s prison system. Organizers of a yearlong pilot project in which prisoners taught fellow prisoners about HIV infection said Monday there s an urgent need for better
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Thursday, December 5, 1996 Edition: State Section: Local Page: 5B Word Count: 518
Jacqueline Charles; Herald Staff Writer
With his blue jeans, sneakers and silver hoop earrings in each ear, Stephen Fallon doesn t look like your typical school lecturer. Good thing. His message is anything but typical. Fallon uses comedy routines, teenage slang and real-life dating scenarios to help students identify with his message about AIDS. Take the is
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Tuesday, December 3, 1996 Edition: Broward Section: Broward News Page: 1BR Word Count: 845
Audrey Ross; Herald Staff Writer
MEMO: WISH BOOK See WISH LIST box at end of text TEXT: Just last year, Katherine Smith* was panhandling on the streets with her young son at her side. She had the virus that causes AIDS and her life was a cycle of drug abuse and drinking in a crack-infested section of Dayton, Ohio. I remember I looked back and I said I
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Monday, December 2, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Front Page: 1A Word Count: 796
Frances Robles; Herald Staff Writer
In a massive open-air room filled with men dressed in white, a droning voice filled the air. It talked about purple skin spots, taking overloads of medicine and enduring invasive tests. It mused about families that care and governments that don t. It bemoaned a life with AIDS. Meanwhile, music thumped and drinks were m
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Sunday, December 1, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Neighbors MB Page: 14 Word Count: 661
Eugene J. Patron, Herald Staff Writer
South Beach knows how to attract the limelight, though the reasons are not always something to crow about. A recently released study by Florida International University, showing sexual risk-taking among gay men in South Beach to be happening at an alarming rate, has attracted a wide range of media attention. Professor
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Sunday, December 1, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Neighbors KE Page: 20 Word Count: 187
Herald Staff
The Florida International University community will be United in Hope as they commemorate World Aids Day Monday with programs all day long. Free HIV testing will be offered at the FIU Health and Wellness Center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. At noon, a moment of silence will be observed followed by a performance by Voice United
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Miami Herald (MH) - Saturday, November 30, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Front Page: 1A Word Count: 707
Peggy Rogers, Herald Staff Writer
Forget the vibrant scenes of outdoor cafe life and well-muscled Rollerbladers that make South Beach an icon for paradise. The community is killing itself, a group of gay activists and South Beach leaders warned Friday, calling attention to a study of national import that documents the extraordinarily high rate of HIV a
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Miami Herald (MH) - Sunday, November 24, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Neighbors NE Page: 3 Word Count: 296
Ivonne Perez, Herald Staff Writer
In fashion show style, fine chairs, rugs, mirrors and chandeliers will be auctioned to raise money for the United Foundation for AIDS Model Community Program at South Shore Hospital. It started off as being a selfish thing, said Barrie Livingstone, part owner of the South Beach Design Group, Creative Interiors, one of
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Miami Herald (MH) - Saturday, November 23, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Editorial Page: 26A Word Count: 447
Herald Staff
MEMO: AMONG YOUNG ADULTS TEXT: Two disturbing studies report gay youths are blithely putting themselves at risk. A just-released report by AIDS expert William Darrow is disturbing enough: On South Beach, considered the nerve center of this region s gay community, nearly two of every five older gay or bisexual men are i
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Miami Herald (MH) - Saturday, November 23, 1996 Edition: Keys Section: Local Page: 1B Word Count: 687
Jacqueline Charles, Herald Staff Writer
Most had never even sewn a stitch, let alone a quilt. But knowing that a simple patchwork could provide love and comfort to a baby born with the virus that causes AIDS was enough motivation for some Cooper City High students in the Early Childhood Education program. So with needle and thread and yards of fabric decorat
Miami Herald (MH) - Thursday, November 21, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Front Page: 1A Word Count: 763
Stephen Smith, Herald Health Writer
MEMO: THE AIDS VIRUS TEXT: The AIDS virus has cut a devastatingly broad swath across South Beach, infecting nearly two of every five older gay and bisexual men, disease trackers reported Wednesday. For the first time, epidemiologists have taken the full measure of AIDS march in South Beach, epicenter of the region s ga
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Miami Herald (MH) - Thursday, November 21, 1996 Edition: Broward Section: Broward News Page: 4BR Word Count: 401
Christina A. Samuels; Herald Staff Writer
MEMO: See AIDS DAY EVENTS box at end of text TEXT: For a high school graphic arts class, Carrie Lobacz was given this assignment: Draw a poster based on the theme, Winning the Fight Against AIDS. While classmates turned to red ribbons and other familiar symbols, Carrie, a 17-year-old senior at Plantation High School, c
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Miami Herald (MH) - Thursday, November 14, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Neighbors NW Page: 3 Word Count: 703
Maria Camacho; Herald Staff Writer
MEMO: See IF YOU GO and WHO TO CONTACT at end of text TEXT: Ada Arias recalls hiding the leaflets about AIDS from her parents and her two teenage sons. For almost a year she stealthily shielded the pamphlets -- all to keep her HIV-positive status under wraps. I was hiding all the information I was getting, she said. I
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Miami Herald (MH) - Tuesday, October 29, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Living Page: 1D Word Count: 733
Leslie Casimir and Stephen Smith, Herald Staff Writers
Tangela Sears has buried her brother and her best friend, mortally infected by AIDS. Tangela Sears is tired of burying people. So when African-American leaders gathered at Harvard last week to exhort a war on the disease, they could look to Miami and see a woman whose life has become a mission. She wants to stop a kill
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Monday, October 28, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Front Page: 1A Word Count: 1,177
Katherine Ellison, Herald Staff Writer
RIO DE JANEIRO - In a controversial experiment starting next month, Brazil will be the first among the nations hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic to offer the newest, most promising drugs free to those who need them. The AIDS cocktail, a mix of medications hailed by many patients as the most promising development to date
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Friday, October 25, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Local Page: 1B Word Count: 504
Stephen Smith, Herald Health Writer
At first blush, you wouldn t think there s a whole lot similar about being the boss at the region s biggest private home for the elderly and the biggest private AIDS service agency. Take another look. Today, they share a common ethos: life. Buoyed by medical advances and rejuvenated attitudes about chronic illnesses, o
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Thursday, October 17, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Local Page: 1B Word Count: 593
Peggy Rogers, Herald Staff Writer
Sick immigrants will seek illegal treatment or allow contagious diseases to go unchecked if new federal measures force public hospitals and clinics to ask each patient s immigrant status, state medical authorities are predicting. I do not want to see people driven underground, Dr. James Howell, secretary of Florida s n
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Sunday, October 13, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Editorial Page: 2L Word Count: 430
Herald Staff
The potential nightmare that always has cast a cloud over state-mandated reporting of AIDS cases came true recently. A health investigator compiling on computer disks the names of people with AIDS used those confidential files for personal reasons. Then it got worse: Someone made copies of those disks, which contained
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Sunday, October 13, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Sports Page: 9C Word Count: 327
Dan Le Batard, Herald Sports Writer
MEMO: PRO / CON TEXT: Please stay out of the boxing ring, Tommy Morrison. It s sad enough that your past is slowly killing you; don t allow your future to put someone else in danger, too. I m all for HIV-positive people having equal rights, mind you. If Tommy Morrison wants to earn money for charity by doing any kind o
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Saturday, October 12, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Front Page: 1A Word Count: 859
Carol Rosenberg, Herald Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - Rafael Pernas left Cuba because he was gay. He moved to Miami because it felt like home. Friday, the man who died a year ago was remembered in his adopted nation s capital -- a patch in a mammoth monument to Americans who died of AIDS, called The Quilt. I closed his eyes. I was there at the end, said Tony
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Sunday, September 29, 1996 Edition: Final Section: Local Page: 4B Word Count: 566
Stephen Smith, Herald Health Writer
It is the word that so many enlisted in the war on AIDS have waited so long to hear: cure. And it was spoken Saturday in Miami Beach, with authority, by the doctor whose research is credited with first unlocking the viral code of AIDS. While refusing to circle a date on a calendar, Dr. Robert Gallo predicted that curre
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Saturday, September 28, 1996
Liz Balmaseda, Herald Columnist
Alvaro Funes did not live long enough to see two of the world s top HIV scientists walk the corridors of the AIDS ward at Mercy Hospital, where he was a long-loved presence. He died Wednesday at 29, his body purpled by Kaposi s sarcoma. He was not only a patient in the eighth-floor AIDS unit, he also was an energetic v
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Friday, September 27, 1996
Tony Pugh Herald Staff Writer
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded a three-year grant totaling $1.09 million to a local nonprofit agency to provide services for homeless people with AIDS. Housing and Services of South Florida, an affiliate of Housing Services, Inc. of New York City, will use the money to fund efforts wit
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Sunday, September 22, 1996
Leslie Casimir; Herald Staff Writer
The state Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services is investigating a North Miami Beach physician s assistant for alleged abuse of an AIDS patient. The inquiry was prompted by a hospice nurse who earlier this month visited the patient and was alarmed to find him lying in his own feces with oozing sores all over
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Sunday, September 22, 1996
Cecile Betancourt; Herald Staff Writer
Shades of purples and oranges on a sheet of paper depict the hospital room where one child infected with the AIDS virus spends his remaining days. Another child s drawing of a family guarded by angels is inscribed with a note explaining that she was sad because her mother died of AIDS, but she was happy because through
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Thursday, September 19, 1996
Herald Staff
If all people did as they are supposed to, and if all computers were as secure as their software designers believed, then perhaps there might be a way to have a national medical index without threatening privacy. Unfortunately, diseases and accidents carry stigma and bitter consequences beyond the mere ailment. Add to
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Thursday, September 12, 1996
Rick Jervis; Herald StaffWriter
Soon, Bernando Salazar will no longer have to wake up at 5 a.m. for the bus that took him across the bay to his chemo- and pneumonia therapies. Salazar, diagnosed with full-blown AIDS a year ago, will strollacross the street to treatments. Salazar, 41, will be one of the first tenants of the Godparent House, 16 apartme
MEMO: ADVICE FOR THE WORKPLACE: WORKING WISDOM Mark La Fontaine thought he had it pretty good working for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Oakland Park. Making about $8.50 an hour as a medical records clerk wasn t the best deal. But the hours allowed him to go to college at night. And the the benefits were comfort
Sheri Kaplan knows about adversity. Kaplan, executive director and founder of the Center for Positive Connections, a support group for HIV-positive heterosexuals, has been dealing with challenges every day since she was diagnosed HIV-positive two and a half years ago. So it was just another obstacle to overcome when sh
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Saturday, September 7, 1996
Karen Rafinski, Herald Staff Writer
While Florida waits for a response to a request for millions in federal funding, the state has commissioned a task force to explore alternative ways of offering a promising but costly new class of AIDS drugs to those who can t afford them. It s not a question of whether to offer them because we need to have equal acces
For those who think of older people as asexual, here s a dose of hard reality: Americans over 50 are getting AIDS in increasing numbers. Nationally, the number of AIDS cases among people 50 and over increased by 11 percent in 1994 over the previous year, according to the most recent statistics from the U.S. Centers for
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Thursday, September 5, 1996
Karen Rafinski, Herald Staff Writer
Florida seems to have won the battle against the sexually transmitted diseases that crested in the late 1980s, putting victims at greater risk for AIDS. But some public health officials fear they could lose the war. They fear their success could lead the chronically cash- strapped state Legislature to cut their budget,
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Tuesday, January 16, 1996 Edition: FINAL Section: LOCAL Page: 1B Word Count: 659
Stephen Smith; Herald Staff Writer
In a rare meeting convened on a Miami Beach estate, AIDS experts from across the world hunkered down for two days to share treatment secrets and to pledge cooperation over competition in a field tainted by rancor and dissension. Presiding over two dozen researchers and physicians: Dr. Robert C. Gallo, both lauded and v
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Thursday, January 11, 1996 Edition: FINAL Section: NEIGHBORS MB Page: 15 Word Count: 494
By Herald Staff
MEMO: See IF YOU GO at end of text TEXT: The advice and counseling will come from inside the square bar at the Loading Zone, a Miami Beach gay bar. Randy Jansen, executive director of the South Beach AIDS Project, will offer the same message he has repeated for the past several years, one born in the mid- 80s following
The Miami Herald, Inc.; a Knight Ridder publication. One Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132-1693 - Sunday, January 7, 1996 Edition: FINAL Section: NEIGHBORS KE Page: 2 Word Count: 750
Bea Moss. Herald Columnist
Because of the efforts and concern of Richmond Heights Rep. Larcenia Bullard, D-South Dade, the women at the Agape Women s Center were able to have Brendia Vecenty-Blanding, the Atlanta founder and director of Angels in Training, present a workshop on AIDS prevention. Bullard called the center at 22790 SW 112th Ave. to
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