David Barr, assistant director of policy at the Gay Men's Health Crisis
S.P. is a 23-year-old Hispanic woman, who tested positive for HIV, the virus associated with AIDS. She applied for Social Security disability benefits when she was no longer able to work due to weight loss and increasingly painful episodes of pelvic inflammatory disease and and nausea. Despite two hospitalizations for
THE SCOURGE OF AIDS HAS given new visibility -- and determination to be visible -- to gay men in America. Artists have dealt passionately with the disease, forcing their audiences to pay attention to its emotional and physical ravages. But few artists have incorporated their lives as homosexuals so early and so boldly
Keith Haring, an artist whose graphic talents made him one of the stars of the youthful 1980 s art scene and whose images could be found as often on T-shirts as in museums, died of AIDS yesterday During his brief but meteoric career, Mr. Haring invented a cartoonish universe inhabited by crawling children, barking dogs
BUCHAREST, Romania -- The babies, about 60 of them, are on the third floor of the drab gray hospital, the only AIDS clinic in Romania. In some rooms, there are two babies to a crib. In one small cubicle, four infants, close to death, lie in a row under a single blanket. Amid the wailing and quiet moans of the children,
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