Today, the Liberty City Health Service Center is commemorating World AIDS Day with a fair. The event will offer educational literature on the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, with at least 60 health vendors and some guest speakers present. Jill Tracey from HOT 105 will be mater of ceremonies for the event. Several
Each face has a story. There s Thanniel, the 18-month-old baby girl with AIDS. Her honey-brown eyes harbor so much distress that when she cries, they make her look much older. Nearby, Denny is on his deathbed, his eyes as wide as a scared deer s. Some are gaunt and frowning. Eyes that cringe in pain. Others have chins
The jalousie windows of Michael McCord s bedroom are open to the world where he was a player, a force in the theater. The late-afternoon shadows are moving in on the lush garden where his dogs are playing. Lying in his sickbed, the veteran Fort Lauderdale theater director and longtime AIDS activist knows that death is
Two forums concerning AIDS and HIV will be held in Liberty City in the next week. The Health Council of South Florida will host a town hall meeting from noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday at Liberty Square Community Center, 6304 NW 14th Ave., to gather information about what treatment and care are needed in the area. The meeting i
KEY WEST - An island that saw the ravages of AIDS early and far too often stopped Monday to remember those it has lost -- and renewed vows to continue fighting the disease. A new memorial to Key Westers who have died of AIDS was dedicated with sorrow -- but also with determination to remember the lost with joy and appr
In observation of World AIDS Day Monday, these area programs are planned: Florida International University will have Arts for Life: AIDS Awareness Project from noon to night, including The Faces of AIDS, an exhibition depicting AIDS patients by retired oncologist Dr. Wilma Bulkin Siegel. Siegel s art will be on display
When he was a child, Lee Hesselbacher s mother would give him injections containing a blood-clotting substance. Hesselbacher has hemophilia, and his mother, Peggy, thought she was helping to save the life of her only son. Instead, like thousands of hemophilia patients across the country, Lee became infected with HIV th
Luis Sierra made the first wish four years ago. I d just like to meet a celebrity, said the 34-year-old man who was dying of AIDS. Marc Cohen, a healer of pain whose only medicine is peace of mind, called Nestor Torres, who came and played his flute at Sierra s bedside. Days later, Sierra passed away. The latest wish c
Florida International University s department of student activities is presenting a program entitled Friendship in the Age of AIDS. Indiana University alumni and fraternity brothers Joel Goldman, who is HIV-positive, and T.J. Sullivan teach college students how to reduce the risk of becoming infected with the AIDS viru
United Foundation for AIDS president Al Evans gave all he could to help those afflicted with AIDS. Now, South Shore Hospital is honoring him for it. The board of directors at South Shore, 600 Alton Rd., voted unanimously Tuesday to name its Model Community AIDS Program after Evans, who died Monday of a heart attack. Th
World AIDS Day - World AIDS Day -- observed Dec. 1 -- is coming early to Liberty City. AIDS awareness agencies that serve the neighborhood want to stage a march on Nov. 15 to emphasize how hard the virus is hitting the black community. While blacks make up 14 percent of the state population, they make up more than two
Hoping to raise a million dollars this time out, the Health Crisis Network has changed the location of its annual AIDS Walk from South Beach to downtown Miami. The move, organizers say, will offer better parking and accessibility, especially for those who will be able to use the People Mover. AIDS Walk Miami 98 will ta
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Thursday, September 25, 1997
Brigid Schulte, Herald Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - It is a terrifying proposition: Allow yourself to be injected with a weakened AIDS virus in the hope it will become not the deadly disease, but the vaccine for it. Yet at least 50 doctors and activists this week offered themselves up as human guinea pigs, largely to protest the glacial pace of vaccine rese
The Miami Herald, Inc.: Sunday, September 21, 1997
Stephen Smith, Herald Health Writer
The father of the drug cocktails that dramatically altered the landscape of AIDS predicted Saturday that within six months some patients could be taking a single pill a day from the newest, most potent class of medications. And that could have profound implications for the course of the epidemic: Now, patients find it
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Saturday, 20 September 1997.
Stephen Smith, Herald Health Writer
You have to know your audience, whether you re trying to sell groceries or stop a killer. With AIDS, failing to do that can mean the difference between life and death. As America s AIDS divide widens, as the epidemic ravages African-American and Hispanic communities, the determination to reach those audiences has turne
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Friday, 19 September 1997.
Stephen Smith, Herald Health Writer
Despite a flurry of reports trumpeting the potency of drug cocktails, America s new AIDS czar refused Thursday to declare the war over. The enemy remains wily as ever, Sandra L. Thurman said in Miami Beach. The epidemic marches on. Only the faces are different, now increasingly black, Hispanic and female. There is ever
Amy Driscoll, Gail Epstein, Lisa Getter and Rick Jervis; Herald Staff Writers
Andrew Cunanan was not infected with the AIDS virus when he killed himself aboard a Miami Beach houseboat, three law enforcement sources told The Herald Thursday. The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said tests performed on Cunanan s body at the Dade County Medical Examiner s Office after his death Jul
Was he, or wasn t he? In the quest to make comprehensible the incomprehensible -- the murderous rampage allegedly executed by Andrew Cunanan -- succor was sought in certainty, in attaching reason to a frenzy of unreasonable acts. So in the week after the assassination of Gianni Versace, media coverage swirled around th
TALLAHASSEE -- Despite agonizing illness and certain death, a Floridian has no constitutional right to a doctor s help with suicide, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The 5-1 ruling echoes a recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that states can outlaw physician-assisted suicide if they choose. And it may lay
Like it or not, alternative medicine is here to stay: More people visit alternative healers in the United States than go to conventional primary care physicians, according to a recent study. Many doctors don t like it. But more and more they re being urged to consider it in their mainstream practices -- by patients who
County can better administer now-unwieldy health, housing, and other services under one roof. Though sometimes fractious, Dade s AIDS social-service agencies agree that they are working, if not at cross purposes, then in each other s shadow, duplicating efforts that are costly to administer. Such rare consensus alone d
When one wants to help children with AIDS and those who are HIV-positive, there are daunting hurdles to jump. One must protect the identity of the child, offer help without being patronizing, treat the family involved with dignity. Still, agencies succeed. The Fort Lauderdale s Children s Diagnostic Treatment Center se
To keep up as an AIDS activist and patient, Gene Suarez attends some 20 government AIDS advisory meetings a month. Advocate Joey Wynn has gone to as many as 57 Dade committee meetings in one month. Sometimes I get so frustrated with the system, I feel sick, said Suarez, a prominent Miami Beach activist appointed to thr
The state of Florida now is collecting the names of residents who test positive for the AIDS virus, HIV. The policy is a good one. It will help health workers find people who have had sexual relations with an infected person. In turn, it will encourage them to get tested, too. This could stem the virus s spread. Unfo
An agency that provides coordination, integration and monitoring of services for HIV-positive people in Dade County will halt operations July 31. Its administrators attributed the closing to the diminishing role of anti-AIDS groups and to budget cutbacks. At a meeting Tuesday night, Margaret Paternek, executive directo
Cristina Llado and Peggy Rogers; Herald Staff Writers
State health authorities in Dade have struggled for years with shrinking budgets and the growing threat of infectious diseases, ranging from typhoid to TB. Something had to give: Two state health clinics are expected to either close or be turned over to other operators by July 31. It s part of a process the state began
The Dade County health department is considering closing two primary-care centers for AIDS, tuberculosis and venereal diseases, and laying off 140 employees to cope with a $4 million budget shortfall. The Prevention, Education and Treatment center on South Beach (PET) and the Quail Roost Drive center in South Dade may
SOSUA, Dominican Republic - On an idyllic beach where necklaces of white sand and coconut trees ring a half-moon bay, tourists can find prostitutes ranging from young women to even younger boys. They pay anything from $15 for a quick tryst in a beachside shack to $60 for rooms in brothels and $100 for the more upscale
MEMO: THE AMERICAS; See HOW TO HELP at end; 1st of two parts TEXT: ANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - First of two parts The Catholic nun leaned over and with the back of her hand softly stroked the cheek of the young woman dying of AIDS, 20 years old and no more than 70 pounds. How beautiful! How sweet! the nun
MEMO: THE AMERICAS TEXT: ANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic To be HIV-positive anywhere in the world is bad enough. To be HIV-positive in a poor country is pure hell. Thirteen percent of the people here still believe that AIDS is spread by mosquitoes, according to a recent Health Ministry survey.
The Dade Community Foundation awarded $75,500 in grant money last week to several AIDS prevention education programs and service agencies for people living with HIV and AIDS. The grants were funded by the Foundation s South Florida Community AIDS Partnership, Dade County s largest source of private funding for HIV/AIDS
Hialeah s first Hispanic AIDS Theater, a showcase of three Spanish-language plays with AIDS- or HIV-related themes, will be postponed until at least July. Organizers blame a lack of funding for the delay of the six-day production, which benefits the Latin American AIDS Coalition. Some money that was earmarked for the p
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Tucked away in a closet in the mansion Sonia Boguzinskas shares with 20 HIV-infected infants and children is a fossil from her former life: a pair of gold, leopard-print spike-heel shoes. The six-foot former model once strode runways in them, in her heady years of French champagne and serial marriag
Encouraging news on the scientific front should open fresh debate on public policies. The number of obituaries mentioning AIDS as a contributor to death is diminishing. AIDS deaths fell to 3,296 in 1996 from 4,381 in 1995, and new cases of HIV infection have been tapering off. Education apparently has helped stem the i
Liberty City residents peered from behind curtains and stepped onto porches Saturday morning when they heard people singing and chanting as they passed through the neighborhood. Though there were no floats or bands, a small group of adults and children carrying red ribbons and signs created a paradelike atmosphere whil
Sometimes it is a mother s sorrow, her voice raised in painful plea, that grabs our attention, forcing us to consider what we d like to forget. And that, after all, is what mothers have been doing since the beginning of time -- serving as moral compass and powerful reminder of everything we should be doing but aren t.
More than 1,200 cyclists are preparing to do their part in the fight against AIDS, and it s more than just donating money or time. On May 16-18, riders from throughout the state will participate in Florida AIDS Ride 2, a 275-mile trek from Orlando to Miami to raise money for the Florida AIDS Consortium. The Consortium
Some blacks are denying themselves effective AIDS medicine because of deeply felt distrust. African Americans now account for a higher proportion of newly diagnosed AIDS cases across the country than whites -- 41 percent to 38 percent, with Hispanics making up 19 percent. But at the same time, many blacks with HIV purp
ORLANDO - When death lurks, convention is abandoned and alternatives are sought. That s been especially true for people living with AIDS and the virus that causes it. Since the dawn of the epidemic, AIDS patients have embraced alternative medical therapies -- everything from acupuncture to ozone treatments -- with a de
MEMO: See IF YOU GO box at end of text TEXT: When Barbara Gaynor learned her beloved son Johnny had AIDS, her despair had no bounds. Her oldest child, Charles, had been living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, for a decade. Now, hearing about Johnny, Gaynor turned to the most natural of places for solace -- her com
The Key West community has raised $75,000 to match an equal amount pledged by the Helmerich Foundation of Tulsa, Okla., to provide housing for people with AIDS. The combined $150,000 will allow AIDS Help to begin rehabilitating a residential complex acquired with funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Deve
A sick, aging immigrant opts for suicide rather than face the prospect of a termination in government benefits. Was this just the desperate act of an irrational individual? Or was it a meaningful indictment of efforts to balance the budget of the world s richest economy on the backs of helpless and poor legal immigrant
MEMO: See microfilm for box TEXT: Alfredo Linares, a Cuban immigrant, knew he could live with AIDS. What he couldn t live with was the fear of losing his medical care and being deported. He tried to kill himself last week, swallowing bottles of the pills meant to keep him alive. On Saturday, the Miami Beach man lay in
MEMO: See HELP FOR TEENS at end of text TEXT: Teens with questions can now turn to other teens for answers -- thanks to the Health Crisis Network s new teen hotline. Starting this week, teenagers can call peer counselors four days a week at 751-9167. Forty high school students, ages 14 to 19, answer questions on AIDS/H
Julie Degrandy, a local playwright, says Hispanic media usually shies away from AIDS, but after reading her friend s AIDS-related play, she wrote one of her own. It s a social dilemma, and it s a writer s responsibility to illustrate society and its problems, she said. Degrandy and her friend Marcos Miranda decided to
Scott Page had just ended a four-year tour of duty in the Air Force and was looking for a career when a friend asked for help. The friend, diagnosed with AIDS, was broke and forced to decide whether to pay rent, buy groceries or honor his doctor s bills. While reviewing the friend s finances, Page saw that he was makin
After months of searching for a free place to meet, Positive Hispanic Women, a support group for women living with HIV, has found a kinship with a church in Northwest Dade. Vida Abundante Church, or abundant life in Spanish, is letting the group use its reception area to hold their monthly meetings. Ada Arias, the supp
For 16 years, all the news about AIDS had been death. And more death. Then, a few weeks ago, came a shimmering ray of hope: For the first time since the start of the epidemic, the virus claimed fewer people in 1996 than the year before, largely thanks to promising new drugs. But the good news was not spread evenly.
Long before my oldest children became teenagers, I used to joke that the most relevant class I took in college was Human Sexuality, a science course that explained our reproductive biology in no-nonsense terms. The joke was as much about my early ignorance as my strict parents ineptitude in explaining the birds and the
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Luiz Sergio Forster was sick and scared, and ready to take a chance. So when his HIV infection led to AIDS two years ago, the 31-year-old businessman joined more than 900 other Brazilians in a study sponsored by the giant U.S. drug firm, Merck & Co. Merck was testing an exciting n
BEVERLY HILLS, Fla. - The philosophy of death doesn t interest Charles Hall. The search for the meaning of it all, the tantalizing stories about the bright white light seen by the dying, the mystery of what is on the other side -- none if that intrigues him. For someone who has fought so hard to die, Hall shows remarka
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Thursday, February 27, 1997
Leslie Casimir; Herald Staff Writer
Soon, Toussaint L Ouverture Elementary students will have a doctor to provide them with prescriptions on campus. And Little Haiti residents will have their own free-service clinic at the Center for Haitian Studies to tend to their health needs, as well. At the end of April, the school at 120 NE 59th St., is scheduled t
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Wednesday, February 26, 1997
Stephen Smith; Herald Health Writer
A new arsenal of weapons - A new arsenal of weapons -- medication and research expertise -- is bound for South Florida to bolster the war on AIDS. The University of Miami/Jackson Children s Hospital was among 21 pediatric AIDS treatment and research centers that learned Tuesday that they will share $32 million awarded
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Saturday, February 22, 1997
Herald Staff
Thousands will put on their walking shoes Sunday for the ninth annual AIDS WALK Miami in Miami Beach. Parking will be available at Watson Island, off Interstate 395, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Shuttle buses will take walkers to and from South Pointe Park, 1 Washington Ave., for $1 a person. South Beach residents are
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Thursday, February 20, 1997
Fabiola Santiago; Herald Staff Writer
Tucked between poetic sentences about love and healing, between lines that speak of death sentences and life choices, is the story of the little boy Rafael Campo used to be. So intertwined are the pain of growing up a gay man in a macho culture and a Cuban in an Anglo world that his memories of alienation meld into one
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Thursday, February 20, 1997
Cristina Llado; Herald Staff Writer
MEMO: See EVENT SCHEDULE at end of text TEXT: Almost 100 people carrying 45 commemorative quilts formed a procession across campus Monday to mark the beginning of AIDS week at the University of Miami. We have more than 70 quilts, but the wind kept us from taking out all of them, said Gisela Munoz, president of the orga
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Thursday, February 20, 1997
Jose Cassola; Herald Writer
MEMO: See TO SWIM at end of text TEXT: Normally, it is a swimmer s goal to go as far as possible. On April 5, swimmers on Miami Beach have another goal. Swimmers from around the world are gathering to raise funds for a special cause. The International Swim for Life, a fund-raising organization established in 1988, is p
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Tuesday, February 18, 1997
Herald Staff
To prevent neglect, closely monitor Metro-Dade s health-care charges to jail inmates. The decision by Metro-Dade Corrections officials to charge jail inmates who can afford it a $5 fee for every sick call must be implemented with great care, a built-in time clock, and realistic goals. Otherwise, it won t work. As it is
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Saturday, February 15, 1997
Herald Staff
Fewer people died last year, but the rate of HIV infection must remain a cause for concern. It s dramatic and long-awaited news: Last year in Florida, fewer people died from AIDS than during the year before. This decrease not only is a first, it reversed a steady, 15-year-long increase in the number of AIDS deaths.
Peggy Rogers and Stephen Smith; Herald Staff Writers
MEMO: See Microfilm for chart - correction ran February 15, 1997, see end of text TEXT: A relentless killer for 15 years, AIDS has claimed a greater number of Florida residents with every passing year. Mark 1996 as the turning point. The state recorded its first-ever decline in AIDS deaths. For a state bearing the nati
How does an HIV-positive mother deal with her children? How does an HIV-positive woman have safe romantic relationships? These are some of the issues that the Positive Women Support group at the Stanley C. Myers Community Health Center in Miami Beach wants to address. Beginning at 2 p.m. Thursday and continuing every s
Sex is something almost everyone agrees is a private and personal thing. And yet people never seem to tire of making sex and sexual practices a public issue. Discussions about sex -- sex with whom, how, where, when and why -- abound in courtroom dramas and are plastered on tabloid headlines. Lately, however, the subjec
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Saturday, February 1, 1997
Lori Rozsa; Herald Staff Writer
WEST PALM BEACH - A man in the final throes of AIDS has a right to commit suicide with the help of a doctor, a circuit judge ruled Friday. The ruling marks the first time any state judge in the nation has supported doctor-assisted suicide, and propels Florida to the forefront of one of the most emotionally divisive iss
The Helmerich Foundation has awarded a grant of $15,000 to AIDS Help of Monroe County. At the same time, the foundation, based in Tulsa, Okla., has pledged to match up to $75,000 in a $150,000 capital campaign. The money would be used to renovate an 11-unit housing complex in Key West for people with HIV. We generally
A Miami man disabled by AIDS had a dilemma: While preparing to cash in his $200,000 life insurance policy, he began taking the newest drug treatment -- and improving. No longer expected to die any time soon, he couldn t find a buyer for his policy. Instead of rejoicing, he recently went off the drugs so his prognosis w
The Miami Herald, Inc.; Thursday, January 2, 1997 Edition: Final Section: Neighbors KE Page: 3 Word Count: 346
Grace Lim , Herald Staff Writer
People too embarrassed to ask questions about the AIDS virus now have a virtually anonymous forum -- a live call-in television talk show. PWAC Weekly AIDS Update will air from 8 to 9 p.m. Mondays starting Jan. 13 on WLRN-Cable-Tap 36. It aims to give callers straightforward answers about the fatal disease. Cable-TAP is
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