Nobody wanted it to get so big. In 1987, when the AIDS Memorial Quilt was first displayed at the Mall in Washington, it had 1,920 panels representing people who had died of the disease since it was identified in 1981. By 1996, the last time the quilt was displayed in Washington, it had 40,000 panels and was big enough
LONDON -- The most profound and immediate threat to life on earth is the AIDS epidemic. According to the National Institutes of Health, more than 36 million people in the world now have H.I.V. or full-blown AIDS. Every day about 15,000 are newly infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. The grimmest figures are
Thousands of the Romanian children who contracted the virus that causes AIDS from needless blood transfusions a decade ago are still alive, but hundreds are now at risk of dying rapidly because they can no longer get the medicine they need. The high prices charged by Western drug companies, Romania s deep poverty and t
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