While fish and snakes floated up Route 1 in Homestead, Renita Miller frantically swept creeping water out of her front room and away from her bedridden daughter Tamika, 24, living her final days with AIDS. Hurricane Katrina couldn t have come at a more desperate time for the Miller-Taylor household. Renita, whose eight
Forty-one million children in Latin America won t cheer the holidays. They live in extreme poverty, i.e., on less than a dollar a day. These boys and girls are born to exclusion -- often literally, as up to 20 percent are never officially registered -- and are virtually destined for a life of abuse, forced labor, prost
Bono and Jesse Helms? Not only are they friends, but the Irish rocker and archconservative former North Carolina senator also share a common cause: fighting AIDS in Africa. Before U2 opened to a raucous crowd of 17,000 at the new downtown arena in Charlotte, N.C., Bono had dinner with Helms. Bono called us a couple of
Teachers throughout Miami-Dade gathered last week for an intense discussion on HIV and the toll it takes on the lives of their students. There are times when the middle-school classroom becomes a forum on life and death, when teachers are asked to discuss oral sex and one-night stands -- topics often left to adult conv
Gov. Jeb Bush s plan to make Medicaid operate more like private insurance won approval from the Legislature. It will be tested in Broward. TALLAHASSEE - From people with AIDS and diabetes to children and the seriously disabled, most of Broward County s poorest and most fragile residents will be subjects of a nationally
A conference at FIU will help grandparents who are raising children learn how to cope with their situation, find helpful resources and simply vent. Lee Ann Smith, 64, begins her days by 6:30 a.m. She rouses her five great-grandchildren up for school, fixes them breakfast, gets them dressed and out the door. Then she cl
Some motorists try to avoid eye contact with the woman walking in the middle of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Others roll up their windows and speed off when the light turns green. Wearing a red shirt, Renita D C Holmes waves a home made sign declaring World AIDS Day at the passing drivers. Do you know your sta
Prosecutors announced four arrests in an AIDS drug scam, but others involved may be hard to convict. In what could be the start of a massive crackdown on scams involving HIV/AIDS patients, law enforcement officials announced the arrest of four persons, including two doctors, charged with illegally diverting millions of
There is good news today on World AIDS Day. The annual United Nations report on the killer disease shows that HIV-infection rates have dropped in some countries, notably in the Caribbean where the number of people living with HIV/AIDS has stopped increasing. This is a testament to the power of prevention and treatment,
The first large-scale AIDS drug study in Haiti showed significant increases in survival, in spite of a political upheaval typical of poorer nations. Antiretroviral drugs have achieved spectacular success in prolonging the lives of Americans with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. But can they work equally well in a co
Darran Simon, dsimon@herald.com and Andrea Robinson
Several times a month, Samantha Kuryla lays out her life on a blackboard. She uses chalk and scribbles to tell Broward schoolchildren and others in the community about the shock of learning she had contracted HIV 14 years ago. She talks about the denial, a miscarriage, a second pregnancy, then, a precious little boy na
Persons living with HIV/AIDS, their friends and families need to feel the warmth and caring of their Catholic brothers and sisters throughout their journey of living with this disease. Florida ranks No. 3 among all the states in the incidence of HIV/AIDS. The Florida Division of Disease Control July 2005 Surveillance R
* Yesterday, 9-10:30 tonight, HBO The young woman, seeking relief from a persistent, racking cough, is surprised when the medicine woman in her Zulu village tells her it s brought on by anger. I have no anger, says the perplexed young woman. Soon enough, she will. Her life is about to be cut short by the AIDS epidemic
As World AIDS Day approaches on Thursday, the epidemic is posing special challenges to youth. Across the United States , people under 25 make up nearly half of all new HIV cases -- although they represent only one-third of the population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Across the U.S.,
Flu and pneumonia vaccines will be available free to seniors 65 and older from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Sunny Isles Beach Government Center, 18070 Collins Ave. High-risk individuals who should be vaccinated against influenza include persons 65 and older, children 6 months to 35 months and residents and employees
An otherwise bleak new report on the global AIDS epidemic delivers this encouraging news: The spread of the disease may have plateaued in the Caribbean. The number of people living with HIV and the number of people dying from AIDS is holding steady in the region, even as caseloads increase in every other part of the de
To borrow from the lyrics of the best-known song in Rent, it took nearly 525,600 minutes -- times 10 -- for Jonathan Larson s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical to make it from the Broadway stage to the movie screen. Now a vastly larger audience has the chance to experience the masterwork of a prodigiously talented man who
A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that appears to say AIDS cases per capita increased 48 percent in Broward and 28 percent in Miami-Dade between 2003 and 2004 is entirely due to more aggressive testing and does not indicate any increase in actual AIDS cases, Florida s chief epidemiologist s
Putting a fun face on a topic that s deadly serious, University of Miami students held a sex carnival to teach how to protect against sexual diseases. In some ways, it was your typical carnival -- music, dancing, games, and cotton candy. But there were twists -- condoms, lubricant, and penis replicas everywhere. Univ
Family is the backbone of American society and the crippler of our culture. It s the entity that binds us together and to which we cling when we should reach out. Like the characters in the first scene of the musical Rent, who screen out and cringe at a phone call from dear old Mom and Dad, we run away from family, eve
Richard Milstein, prominent Miami lawyer and civic activist, had the dream life: A beautiful wife, great kids, profession. But something was going on in my life and I just wasn t sure. At 41, Milstein realized he was gay. PROTECTED HIMSELF When I first came out, I was not necessarily waving a flag. I was circumspect ab
Francois Leconte went from handing out AIDS information from the trunk of his car to establishing reach-out centers in two counties and a staff of 50. Francois Leconte, 41, is married with three kids but he made the most of his single days. As a bachelor, Leconte says he saved enough to form the social services agency
New HIV cases remained stable across a broad swath of the U.S. population from 2001 through 2004, with small decreases among blacks and small increases in gay and bisexual men, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. The new statistics, covering 33 states, are the most comprehensive ever released
In the nearly 20 years since playwright and activist Larry Kramer s powerful AIDS drama, The Normal Heart, first took the stage, gay issues have gone mainstream. From the popularity of the Emmy award-winning television show Will & Grace to the national debate over gay marriage, few topics remain taboo. But, to quot
* High blood pressure: Women who consume high doses of non-aspirin painkillers are much more likely to develop high blood pressure than women who don t use them, according to research reported in August in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. Women who took 500 mg or more of acetaminophen per day on
The New York based hip hop group J ADORE will visit Homestead this week to perform and talk to teens about the dangers of unprotected sex. J ADORE, which stands for Just Another Day Of Real Emotions, is a group of five male singer/songwriters from Harlem who write catchy music that also delivers important messages to t
A church-based organization that seeks to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS has named a new executive director. MOVERS - Minorities Overcoming the Virus through Education, Responsibility, and Spirituality -- has appointed the Rev. Arthur Gatlin as its new executive director. Gatlin is director of Pastoral Care for Black Ch
-- State health department officials are banking on new testing programs to help stem new HIV cases among Hispanics. HIV and AIDS have a disproportionate impact on Latinos. Diana Wasserman-Rubin hadn t seen her favorite cousin, Luisito, in years. Her aunt kept putting her off, telling her he was too busy. Then he died,
-- Weaving a message into their songs, a Fort Lauderdale couple is using music to urge hispanics to get tested for HIV With conga drums and soulful voices, Louis and Rosalia Curbelo are trying to save the lives of Hispanic men and women at risk for HIV and AIDS. Louis was diagnosed with HIV in 1987. He met Rosalia -- w
-- Florida social service administrators took $200,000 from an AIDS program to pay the bills of a Broward child with autism, a state report said. Favoritism may have been a factor. Faced with a long waiting list and short on dollars to meet the needs of disabled Floridians, state administrators went shopping for the mo
The wrath of God hardly needs forecasting. That would ruin the surprise now, wouldn t it? Sure, the Bush administration could fix what ails NOAA s hurricane research program. The Bushies could find money to fix broken buoys, replace faulty weather balloons, repair radar stations and upgrade the obsolete computers emplo
When Lois Ramunni learned to make mosaics eight years ago, she started off decorating picture frames. These days, her projects are a bit bigger. Her art has brought color and life to people s homes, churches and restaurants -- and now it s brightening the walls of the West Perrine Health Center,18255 Homestead Ave., a
In the beginning, she could not see her way out of the pain. No matter how much she searched for answers, Barbara Gaynor could not understand why her middle son, Johnny Coleman, had died of AIDS. This was not supposed to happen to him. To them. Then, almost by happenstance, she picked up some literature about a new gro
It was a moment of joy at Community Health of South Dade Inc., when a South Miami-Dade woman with HIV gave birth to a healthy, uninfected baby. She began coming in for medications during her first trimester, and the course of treatment successfully protected her baby from the disease. The woman continues to come to CHI
The Rev. William Collins was working with AIDS patients when the illness still had no name. He would see the stricken young men released from Imperial Point Medical Center in the early 1980s, their condition deteriorating, with no home to return to and no food to eat. Collins, a Catholic priest, began feeding them with
The Dade Community Foundation has awarded $425,000 in grants to 11 nonprofit organizations dedicated to preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS through its Community AIDS Partnership Foundation. The Community AIDS Partnership is a collaboration between private funders and the public sector, with significant funding support f
It was a great summer party for children in a pavilion marked only as Sheri s Group in Oleta River State Park in North Miami. Volunteers painted faces, put on a magic show and taught kids to tempt fish with bits of squid at the fishing pier. The purpose is just to put some smiles on these kids faces, said Sheri Kaplan,
Blacks in the county are seeing gains in the fight against HIV infections. The number of new HIV infections among blacks in Broward is tapering off significantly. In 2003, 542 blacks were diagnosed with HIV. The number dipped to 450 in 2004, according to recent figures from the Broward County Health Department. There w
The woman sitting here at the Clevelander on Ocean Drive, making easy conversation in a pressed button-down, diamonds in her ears, has a soft but steady stare. It s the kind that says she s looked so hard at herself, she s not afraid what anybody else might see. Not so long ago, she was running crazy through Harlem, pi
KEY WEST - On the heels of whistle-blower complaints from a Key West company, state Attorney General Charlie Crist on Wednesday sued three generic-drug makers who allegedly defrauded taxpayers of $25 million by inflating Medicaid drug prices. The suit follows legal action recently taken against the drug companies by a
The Urban League of Broward County is seeking adults who are looking to make a difference in children s lives. The league is trying to find more people to work in its mentoring program to help at-risk youth. It is having a kickoff program at 6:30 p.m. today at the league s headquarters. The event will feature free food
The newlyweds would hold newly ringed hands under the trellis in the rehab center dining room. Nurses would cry. There would be dancing and cake. The wedding was in the afternoon. In the morning the bride and groom walked down the HIV wing to a room they called the honeymoon suite. Thrush, pneumonia, sores, she was say
The Group of Eight (G-8) summit that begins today in Gleneagles, Scotland, could be a watershed. Topping the agenda are global warming and Africa s poverty, two daunting challenges with enormous implications for future generations. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, current G-8 president, is pushing aggressive response
In the past five years, without much fanfare, a syphilis epidemic has emerged among gay men in South Florida and around the country. Nationwide, rates of drug-resistant gonorrhea have risen rapidly in gay men. And a rare form of chlamydia has spread among gay men in Europe, moved to Canada and New England, and
GAINESVILLE -- Thomas Emmel was 8 years old when he netted his first Western Tiger Swallowtail near the sycamore trees of his Southern California home. The catch began a romance with butterflies and moths that has continued for 55 years. For them, he has built a home, won over thousands of admirers, traveled through la
A woman who ran an agency that was supposed to provide food and services for the poor and sick was arrested and charged with misappropriating thousands of dollars. The director of a South Miami-Dade food pantry for the needy faces charges she stole $28,000 in taxpayer money and used it to pay her own personal expenses,
Homeless people with HIV/AIDS are being used by storefront clinics to make millions off Medicare, activists and healthcare experts said. Some storefront clinics are paying Broward homeless people with HIV/AIDS $100 to $300 a pop to get expensive, probably useless treatments that are costing Medicare huge sums of money.
* Florida Department of Health figures show that 1 in 46 blacks, compared with 1 in 176 Hispanics and 1 in 346 whites, are infected with HIV. * REACH 2010 research showed that 12 of 53 zip codes in Broward County accounted for about 73 percent the reported AIDS cases among the county s black and Hispanic population fro
Veronica Wade walked into the Fresh Cuts barbershop with a bag full of condoms. Wade dumped them in a box that already had a few. In between the stop-and-go din of barber clippers, she drummed home to a customer that condoms are a must during sex. Wade is one of four outreach workers with REACH 2010, an effort to reduc
The FDA gave accelerated approval to a new anti-HIV drug called APTIVUS, which when used with other drugs was twice as effective as other drug combinations. A powerful new anti-HIV drug was unveiled Thursday to help patients in whom the virus has overcome other drugs and begun to replicate again. APTIVUS, when used
President Bush has championed the fight against AIDS in Africa and recently agreed to support a plan to cancel more than $40 billion in debt owed by desperately poor African countries. Those are good and laudable efforts, yet they are only a pittance compared to what is needed to break the cycle of extreme poverty and
Steven Steiner, chairman of AIDS Project Florida, has joined his brothers as a defendant in the fraud case against Mutual Benefits. Steven Steiner, who was an executive with Mutual Benefits Corp., has been added as a defendant in the civil fraud case against the shuttered Fort Lauderdale viatical-settlement company.
Family tragedy led lobbyist Ron Book to get involved in sexual offender legislation. That involvement now takes him from city hall to city hall. In the halls of the state Capitol, veteran lobbyist Ron Book is a powerful man -- in some ways, larger than life. At home, he suffers the same limitations as any other father
More aggressive testing has led to a significant drop in HIV cases among black men and women in Florida. The virus that causes AIDS is still increasing in other parts of the population, however. Florida s black population, for years hit disproportionately by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, is finally making gains against it, th
WASHINGTON - Colombia s request for an additional $150 million to strengthen its anti-coca spraying program was rebuffed Thursday by a House appropriations subcommittee. It comes soon after new data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime indicated Colombia achieved only a modest reduction in coca cultivation
A new program at FIU uses culture-specific storytelling to counsel Hispanic women about HIV prevention. It s not easy being young, female and Hispanic -- in other words, una senorita -- at Florida International University, or any college. Your family expects you to meet a future husband. They presume he will be sexuall
The number of new HIV cases in the U.S. has topped a million. In the Miami area, a new study shows black men who have sex with men have higher infection rates. The number of people living with HIV in the United States has passed one million, the highest mark since the worst days of the epidemic in the 1980s. It s a ref
A look at a few of the new young faces of the NAACP. During car trips to NAACP meetings last year, Arielle Banks would tell her younger twin brothers that the NAACP needs them, even if they were only 8 years old. Arielle, 16, of Miramar, joined the Fort Lauderdale NAACP youth council two years ago. Her brothers, Amon-R
Training three hours a day after school is the norm for Chris Gonzalez, 14, an aspiring Olympian from Campbell Drive Middle School. The seventh grader is one of several young men training at the South Dade Boxing Gym in Homestead. He is heading to the Southeast Coast USA Boxing Regional Junior Olympic Tournament in Geo
Q: I just saw on TV a program on a new filler called Sculptra. What is it, how is it used and what s the big deal? A: Sculptra is a relatively new facial filler. It is made up of a material called poly-L lactic acid, which is one of the chemicals that makes up suture material that is used in surgery. The material diffe
A former math teacher learned Thursday that he won t be going to prison. The Broward State Attorney s Office agreed to withhold adjudication against Robert Gimilaro in connection with a 2004 run-in with a Hollywood police officer. Gimilaro had been charged with aggravated assault against a law-enforcement officer -- a
for AIDS foundation Sin City star Jessica Alba has displayed her generous side at the Cannes Film Festival by offering her acting talents for free to raise money for AIDS charity Amfar, reports IMDB.com. The French industry event, which finished Saturday, held a benefit for the U.S. research foundation and raised a sta
Revelers in leather, lace and body paint strutted down a red carpet and into Vienna s Gothic-style City Hall for the Life Ball, a charity gala headlined by Liza Minnelli, Elton John, Heidi Klum and Donatella Versace. Versace entered Saturday s campy costume party differently than most of the guests -- driving down the
Six-inch sausages, salt, beans, batteries, soft drinks, cold beer, potato chips, T-shirts bearing the face of Martin Luther King Jr. -- and a 43-year history in Liberty City. These are the hallmarks of Michelle s Grocery. The goods are nothing out of the usual but its history can t be found at any Publix or Winn-Dixie.
Residents of four trailer parks in Melrose got a visit from a health team. In an attempt to bring much needed health, medical and social services to the needy, Team Metro Melrose and Borinquen Health Care Center visited four Melrose-area trailer parks during the first week of May as part of the national observance of
Youth leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean met during a weeklong summit in Brazil to discuss ways to combat problems facing the region. BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil - For 25-year-old Goldie Scott of Guyana , the issues confronting her country are many: the spread of HIV/AIDS, brain drain and lack of jobs.
Last year, college student Devin Robinson went to a seminar about AIDS that was hosted by the Florida Department of Health. And he was bored out of his mind. I couldn t relate to what they were telling me; it just wasn t hitting, he said, pulling at his baggy Nautica shorts and impatiently tapping red and blue Converse
A Miami-Dade schoolteacher faces three years in prison for a run-in with Hollywood police. He said he is innocent and that his pain drugs left him confused and impaired. Math teacher Robert Gimilaro says he was in a medical fog during a near-crash with a Hollywood police car. The state has charged the Miami-Dade school
Students were recognized for their academic accomplishments and community service. Among them, they speak half a dozen languages, have spent more than 13,000 hours volunteering and have aced almost every honors and advanced-placement class their schools offer. To say the least, Broward County s 2005 winners of The Hera
Action film star Jackie Chan visited Vietnam for the first time as a United Nations goodwill ambassador, promoting HIV/AIDS awareness in a nation where health experts warn infection rates are on the verge of exploding. Chan, 51, visited a communal health center as well as a support group session for family members cari
The 17th Annual AIDS Walk raised more than $182,000 for a South Florida AIDS organization. The money will fund education programs. Tall, tan, well-built, Volmir Menezes is the picture of robust health and vitality. But appearances can be deceiving, the 37-year-old Miami Beach resident frankly admitted. Look at my back,
The 3.1-mile AIDS Walk Miami, to raise money to provide services for people with HIV, will start at 8 a.m. Sunday at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Contribution is $25. Actress, choreographer and producer Rosie Perez will serve as grand marshal for Sunday s 17th annual AIDS Walk Miami -- Run, Walk, Blade for the cu
The system for distributing more than $100 million from investors in the seized Mutual Benefits Corp. is yet to be determined. At a hearing this morning before U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno, Curtis Minor, acting on behalf of company receiver Roberto Martinez, said it appeared a claims adjuster needed to be hired
Yao Ming will travel to China and Dikembe Mutombo to South Africa for Basketball without Borders, the NBA s international-basketball and community-relations outreach program. Yao, the Houston Rockets center, will lead the first Basketball without Borders in Asia, the NBA announced Tuesday. Yao will be in Beijing on
Magic Johnson and Yao Ming were featured Saturday in a television public service announcement that urges people not to fear or discriminate against those with AIDS. The 30-second clip, released in Hong Kong , begins with footage of Johnson playing for the Los Angeles Lakers. The former NBA star was diagnosed with HIV,
-- Working-class tenants days in apartments numbered: A condo is coming. The letters appeared one morning in mid-March, slipped into mailboxes at Bayfront Manor, a modest but well-kept apartment complex on Biscayne Bay and 31st Street. Please be advised that on April 4, 2005, our company, CG Miami Partners II LLC, will
Hortencia Donaldson Deliford always wanted to be a star. In the world of black people living with HIV, where silence often is the rule, she became the brightest star as an activist who urged anyone who would listen to practice safe sex and avoid illegal drugs. Deliford, who was as comfortable in inner-city hovels as sh
The inspiration for gay activist Keith Boykin s new book came from sensational news accounts about the down low -- black husbands who secretly sleep with other men and then infect their wives with the AIDS virus. Almost everything we were told about the down low wasn t true, said Boykin, who wrote Beyond the Down Low:
-- Artist Trina Collins is once again working with her neighbors to organize the annual Gifford Lane Art Stroll, where works will be on sale to benefit an AIDS ministry Booming construction in Coconut Grove means that Trina Collins has plenty to paint on. Digging through dumpsters on construction sites, she salvages sl
Five people from South Florida are being honored as African-American Achievers for their contributions to education, arts, business and health and family services. From a high school honor student to the president of a college, the five people who will be honored as African-American Achievers later this month cover all
The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS says HIV/AIDS is making young black and Hispanic women an endangered species. In theory, the traditional AIDS-fighters mantra of ABC -- abstinence, be faithful, use condoms -- seems sound. In the real world it often doesn t work, and might even be dangerous, a group of women from
A Miami program sends HIV-positive peers to show high-risk teenagers the realities of surviving with it. Yuri was diagnosed with HIV two years ago, when he was 17. He has a theory for why teenagers tune out warnings about the disease. They re sick of hearing the same thing: Use a condom, use a condom, use a condom.
South Florida s tightknit Ghanaian community will celebrate Ghana s independence, gained in 1957. A group of Ghanaians in South Florida will gather tonight to celebrate the 48th anniversary of their homeland, the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain independence. The Ghanaian Association of South Florid
An attorney for a former University of Miami researcher accused of padding expense reports said the charge is an attempt to ruin his reputation because she works at FIU. Marianna K. Baum, a prominent Florida International University AIDS researcher and former assistant dean of the University of Miami medical school, ap
Straight from San Francisco, The Kinsey Sicks -- self-described as America s Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet -- are styling songs for three nights this week in Fort Lauderdale. These are four men with big hair and big voices. There s a lot of what we do that undermines people s expectations, said Irwin Keller, w
An hour before dawn, Jamal Houston has just finished 30 minutes of inhaling a lung-clearing nebulizer and is halfway through a tube-fed liquid breakfast of protein shakes and a dozen drugs managing his cerebral palsy, AIDS, congestive heart trouble and asthma. A nurse, beating cupped hands on Jamal s back to knock loos
Students at Miami Central High, worried about increasing rates of HIV/AIDS, staged a rally to protest the absence of a health clinic at their school. It wasn t a pep rally for an athletics event that had more than 200 students staying after school to fill up the auditorium at Miami Central High School Wednesday with sp
Calvin Roberts, an HIV and AIDS activist and co-chairman of the Community Coalition committee for the Miami-Dade HIV and AIDS Partnership, died of complications from AIDS. His body was discovered in his Miami apartment on Sunday. He was 44. Roberts was diagnosed with HIV and AIDS in 1996. In 2000, his activism began in
The fight against AIDS won t be won soon without more education and access to drugs, researcher Robert Gallo told a group of medical students in Miami. Mankind and its scientists are at a stalemate with AIDS -- winning some battles, losing others -- in a long-term battle that won t end soon, Dr. Robert C. Gallo said in
At the end of the rainbow there isn t a pot of gold, but there is $11 million. That s how much South Florida tourism officials expect will be raked in during the 12th annual Winter Party Festival, a March 2 to 7 convergence of high-spending gays and lesbians from all over the world. Thousand of folks will come in and s
A student initiative against HIV/AIDS is pushing for a school-based health clinic at Miami Central High. The student-led Rocket Awareness Program at Miami Central High School that targets HIV/AIDS is launching a We re No. 1 (in HIV/AIDS) campaign to push for a school-based health clinic. The group will hold a pep rally
Get tested has been the message continuously proclaimed by HIV/AIDS agencies in Miami-Dade in an effort to reduce the spread of the deadly disease. The target audience: African-American communities that have high rates of HIV/AIDS. Such Organizations as Empower U, a nonprofit group that provides HIV testing, counselin
Florida health officials are crediting an aggressive statewide testing program with boosting the number of new AIDS cases reported in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. New AIDS cases jumped one-third in Miami-Dade County and nearly one-half in Broward in 2004, the first increase after a decade of decline. State official
Artists will flock to St. Stephen s Episcopal Church in Coconut Grove this weekend to sell their works -- and get a blessing from above. This weekend in Coconut Grove, exhausted and sunburned artists will present their work to perhaps the most feared judge of all time: God. The idea could easily make a painter tremble.
A Miami Beach philanthropist s documentary examines the medical crisis in Haiti . Despite the grim statistics, the film argues there is a ray of hope. Her first encounter with Haiti s inadequate healthcare came in a remote rural village where even curable maladies like diarrhea, malnutrition and
Turns out Sweet was close to the mark on its old pop hit Love Is Like Oxygen. Some may recall the song s hook: Love is like oxygen / Not enough and you re gonna die. That may be a tad dramatic but a growing body of evidence suggests finding the right mate could boost your physical and mental health -- and help you live
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will lead a HIV/AIDS awareness forum for black people, who suffer disproportionately. Felicia White and her partner knew she had HIV. But they had sex once without a condom anyway, and she got pregnant. Fortunately, neither the baby girl nor the father contracted the viru
The city of Miami Department of Community Development will hold public hearings regarding fiscal year 2005-06 funding for the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS program which the city administers for the county. Hearings will be at the South Florida Workforce, Flamingo Room, 4690 NW 183rd St., 5-7 p.m., Tuesda
The incidence of HIV and AIDS on the southwest coast of Ecuador is much higher than in the rest of the nation. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador - In this city, it sometimes seems as if AIDS sneaks up on people. The illness was already ravaging her neighborhood, but Michele Alvarado had never really heard anyone talk about it before
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador - In this city, it sometimes seems as if AIDS sneaks up on people. The illness was already ravaging her neighborhood, but Michele Alvarado had never really heard anyone talk about it before her husband came down with tuberculosis and
Hundreds of orchids in all their colorful and graceful glory will be on display next weekend during the second annual Miami Orchid Festival. Orchid growers from around the world will showcase their flowers at next weekend s Miami Orchid Festival at the Tamiami Fair Expo Center. Exhibits will include flowers from Asia,
At long last, tax relief for the slacker. Bottoms up. Now even a lapsed liberal can drink to the Republican Revolution. Admittedly, Jeb Bush s proposed budget, soberly examined in the harsh morning light, initially seemed unkind. The governor suggested, for example, that Florida rid itself of a costly program to help t
A South Florida hospice care center launches a campaign to educate more blacks about hospice care. Gladys Johnson fought pancreatic cancer for more than a year after she was expected to die. Doctors said surgery was unlikely to help. Chemotherapy hadn t worked. Last November, her doctor suggested that her final days wo
The Centers for Disease Control recommended immediate use of antiretroviral drugs for those who suspect they have been exposed to HIV. People who fear they have been exposed to HIV should consider immediately starting a monthlong drug regimen to reduce the risk of infection, public health officials said Thursday. Th
Makgatho Mandela died last week of illnesses related to AIDS. We know this because his father, Nelson, announced it to the world Thursday. As you surely know, Nelson Mandela won a Nobel Prize and international acclaim for a struggle against South African apartheid that included 27 years of incarceration. He is a world
Just weeks before submitting a bid to provide services to the Broward County Jail system, new healthcare-provider executives worked for a competing firm. When Sheriff Ken Jenne brought in a newly formed company to provide medical care to Broward County Jail inmates, he said he was seeking new blood to improve one of hi
Fred Tasker, ftasker@herald.com; and Jacob Goldstein
A study by the AMA found that not taking anti-HIV drugs as prescribed can increase the risk of drug resistance. Near-perfect compliance with anti-HIV medications is vitally important in preventing viral mutations that result in resistance to drug therapies, according to a study released Thursday by the
Gov. Jeb Bush said he will propose an overhaul of Medicaid that would give private companies a larger role. But critics fear the plan would shortchange the needy. TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Jeb Bush asked state lawmakers Tuesday to overhaul the state s unsustainable healthcare system for the poor by making it run more like a p
Makgatho Mandela died last week of illnesses related to AIDS. We know this because his father, Nelson Mandela, announced it to the world Thursday. As you surely know, Nelson Mandela won a Nobel Prize and international acclaim for a struggle against South African apartheid that included 27 years of incarceration. He is
A forum and two health events are scheduled to help parents get their children into a state plan for low-income families. Open enrollment in Florida KidCare is taking place this month for those who have never been enrolled. A number of events are planned to help parents get their kids into the program, which offers hea
--Our Opinion: Recovery Effort Should Be Matched In Other Calamities Secretary of State Colin Powell seemed almost overwhelmed when trying to describe the scale of destruction that he has seen during his and Gov. Jeb Bush s tour of the tsunami-stricken region. Struggling, Mr. Powell said that nothing can be likened to
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