A documentary about children in Uganda orphaned by war and AIDS brought a sobering message to students at Mater Academy Charter School. Thousands of children orphaned by war or AIDS in Uganda are largely invisible to most Americans. That is no longer the case for some students at Mater Academy Charter School in Hialeah
I m living with AIDS, not dying from it, John Muhammad wrote in 1999. He still lives, 21 years after his HIV diagnosis in 1987. All they had at that time was AZT , he says, referring to the first drug approved for treating HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. As more medications hit the market, Muha
The baskets tell a story of possibility. Hanging from the newly painted wall inside his kitchen, Wilfred McNeil s collection hails from places as far away as Ghana . They show what men can do with their hands, explained McNeil, 55, one recent morning at his Overtown one-bedroom apartment. For the past year McNeil s
When Rosalyn Allen got up to give her testimonial at an HIV/AIDS awareness program recently sponsored by faith-based organizations, it was to tell about living with HIV and how God and members of her church, Mount Tabor Baptist, helped transform her life. The transition that took place in Allen s life, she told a forum
Seven local healthcare providers were indicted Wednesday on charges of defrauding the federal Medicare program of $11 million by billing bogus claims for HIV infusion drugs, according to the U.S. attorney s office in Miami. The ring allegedly carried out its scam on the government s elderly healthcare insurance program
First lady Laura Bush visited Haiti and called for the continuation of U.S. funding for AIDS programs in this country. PORT-AU-PRINCE -- The visit lasted only a few hours, but that s all first lady Laura Bush needed to conclude that major U.S. funding for AIDS programs, which has helped dramatically reduce the rate of
First lady Laura Bush is scheduled to visit Haiti Thursday as part of a two-day trip abroad to highlight U.S. efforts to promote healthcare and education. She will spend all her time in the capital city, Port-au-Prince, meeting with President René Préval at the national palace and later visiting the GHESKIO HIV/AIDS Ce
One in four U.S. teenage girls has an STD, a study found. For those who work with adolescents in South Florida, the numbers only enforced what they already knew. To those who work with teenage health issues in South Florida, the news of one in four adolescent girls being infected with a sexually transmitted disease is
The adoring crowds that recently hailed President Bush in Africa did so because the AIDS program he championed five years ago has helped more than 1.4 million people. Those crowds may have more to cheer in another five years, thanks to a compromise bill in Congress that would boost the AIDS-program funding and effectiv
The manufacturers of the over-the-counter drugs Tetrasil, Genisil, Aviralex, OXi-MED, Imulux, Beta-mannan, Micronutrient, Qina, and SlicPlus, which are intended to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, have been warned by the Food and Drug Administration to stop claiming they have FDA approval; they don t. Accord
Earvin Magic Johnson spoke to about 300 people at a town hall meeting, as part of a campaign to reduce the spread of HIV among blacks. Los Angeles Lakers star-turned-AIDS-activist Earvin Magic Johnson told a crowd Tuesday night that society needs to remove the stigma from people who are diagnosed with HIV. Then he impl
U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez on Tuesday trumpeted his proposal to stiffen criminal and civil penalties for people who abuse the nation s healthcare system, bringing his message to South Florida, the nation s worst haven for Medicare fraud. In Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties we probably have three of the busiest c
The empty blue casket with flowers on top stood prominently in the room, symbol of a community s anguish, as the mournful notes of the Taps slowly hung in the air. Dwight Jackson, funeral director of Richardson Mortuary, read out loud the obituary of a 16-year-old boy, affectionately called Little Dog, who had been pop
A Silence is Death Community March and other activities slated for today will be a highlight of the observance of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day to draw attention to the virus and the deadly disease it causes. The event will start at the NFL YET Center, 7090 NW 22nd Ave., with people gathering between 8 and 10 a
Privacy and confidentiality are the main reasons that lead people to choose home-testing kits to find out if they re infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the Food and Drug Administration says. It s reminding consumers that there s only one product currently approved by the FDA and legally sold in the
A registered nurse helped two clinics plunder millions of dollars from Medicare by altering the blood samples of HIV patients so the clinics could bill the program for expensive treatments they didn t need, state investigators said Thursday. Alexis Dagnesses, 43, was arrested at his Southwest Miami-Dade home and charge
Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents arrested a South Florida man Thursday for his alleged role in a clinic-billing scheme. Alexis Dagnesses, 43, a registered nurse, was arrested at his house and charged with one count of organized scheme to defraud. In the scheme, a clinic was billed for unnecessary HIV medica
A special Medical Fraud Task Force helped to try and sentence nine Miami-Dade residents for Medicare fraud. According to data, Miami-Dade County accounts for more in claims than most small American states combined. Owners of nine Miami healthcare companies have been sentenced to prison in the past two weeks in a string
Their vacation was supposed to be about sightseeing and relaxation in Johannesburg, South Africa . But the day before Joanne Young and daughter Brittany were to return to their Coconut Creek home, they traveled 200 miles from their hotel to the rural town of Acornhoek for a glimpse of real life in one of the country
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