NEW YORK - Successes and failures in the war against AIDS show that concern for patients rights is essential if health authorities hope to stem the epidemic, the director of the World Health Organization s AIDS program says. Dr. Jonathan Mann says many of the discriminatory laws put in place during the initial panic ea
TALLAHASSEE - Rape victims could find out whether their accused attackers were infected with the AIDS virus under legislation proposed Monday by Attorney General Bob Butterworth. Butterworth, while acknowledging that apparently no one in Florida has contracted AIDS from a sexual assault, said the legislation was import
Boston - Eleven women caught the AIDS virus from the same man, demonstrating the potential hazards of sexual relations even for those at seemingly low risk of AIDS, researchers report. Doctors said the cluster of infection, spotted in Belgium and originating with a man from Africa, is the largest to be documented among
Vatican City - Pope John Paul II yesterday pledged the church s support for AIDS sufferers, but he said people must change high-risk lifestyles and not resort to morally illicit means of prevention. It is morally illicit to champion a prevention of the AIDS sickness based on recourse to means and remedies that violate
Washington - A World Health Organization official said yesterday that a dangerous complacency threatens to cripple efforts to counter an expected tenfold increase in AIDS cases during the next decade. Jonathan Mann, director of WHO s AIDS program, said the number of AIDS cases worldwide, now believed to be about 600,00
SACRAMENTO - An unusual public-private clinic that offers early treatment of HIV-infected individuals is bracing for the second wave of AIDS--in the heterosexual population. Thus far, AIDS victims have been mostly homosexuals. Some heterosexuals have caught the virus from intravenous drug needles, or from transfusions
SAN JUAN, P.R. - Puerto Rico is experiencing one of the most serious AIDS epidemics in the Western world. Since 1982, there have been 2,940 reported cases of AIDS among the Caribbean island s 3.3 million residents and authorities estimate 10 times that number may be infected with the virus. Among U.S. cities, only
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Marisa Blay was content keeping house as a wife and mother until she had a dream that changed her life. As a result, she became guardian of some of the youngest and most-abused victims of the AIDS epidemic. In my dream, I was in heaven and God told me I was going to hell because he had given me
Los Angeles - The first western U.S. case of a rare type of AIDS infection was diagnosed in a West African man who had sex with 20 to 40 women in the Los Angeles area since 1979, but the risk to his sex partners is fairly low, doctors said yesterday. Dr. Thomas O Brien, an epidemiologist at the national Centers for Dis
The Associated Press - Tuesday, September 19, 1989
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Burroughs Wellcome Co. said Monday that it had cut 20 percent from the wholesale price of AZT , the only drug approved in the United States for fighting AIDS. The company said, however, that it could not guarantee that the full savings would be passed on to consumers, who have been payin
The Associated Press - Saturday, September 16, 1989
WASHINGTON - A simple 10-minute test expected to be licensed later this year uses colors to tell patients if they are infected with the AIDS virus -- white for no and blue for yes. The test, now undergoing trials at nine centers, will enable people worried about AIDS virus exposure to be tested within minutes at their
The Associated Press - Wednesday, September 13, 1989
Washington - The nation s leading researchers are proposing laboratory tests that measure how fast the AIDS virus progresses in humans, and experts said yesterday that using the tests could speed the human trials of new AIDS drugs. About 300 researchers from federal, university and commercial laboratories met at the Na
The Associated Press; Wednesday, September 6, 1989
WASHINGTON - AIDS victims should not be isolated or given special treatment in U.S. schools, according to a new guide released today that says up-to-date knowledge about the disease should quiet fears that the virus can be easily transmitted. Until now, many people have been fearful that (AIDS) could be transmitted at
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Juan Luis Merced takes his message about AIDS to park benches, gay bars, soup kitchens and crack houses. He goes door to door in mostly Latino neighborhoods handing out flyers about where to go for information and testing for El Sida--AIDS in Spanish. As the AIDS virus seeps into the nation s smal
WASHINGTON - Seven newborns lie sleeping, swaddled in pink and blue blankets and tucked into bassinets in a hospital nursery. Six were born to mothers addicted to crack cocaine and then abandoned. In the same pale yellow room with green curtains, a 6-month-old girl smiles and gurgles in a swing near two children in pla
NEW YORK - A strain of the AIDS virus that s widespread in west Africa but is rare in the United States has infected at least four people in New York City, authorities said. The four confirmed and two unconfirmed but likely cases of HIV-2 infections represent the largest concentration of such infections in North Americ
BOSTON - The federal government will spend nearly as much this year on AIDS research and prevention as it will for cancer or heart disease and far more than it devotes to other major killers, an analysis shows. And if current trends continue, such spending on AIDS will surpass that of all other diseases for the first t
Washington - AZT will be given for the first time to pregnant women infected with AIDS in an experiment to determine whether the drug can protect newborns from the disease, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced yesterday. The drug zidovudine, more commonly known as AZT, will be given in th
CHICAGO - Blood plasma tainted with the AIDS virus has been discovered in commercial supplies, after a standard blood screening process failed to detect it, researchers said Friday. The discovery means blood contaminated by the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, could infect transfusion patients, said Dr. Jean Pierr
WETUMPKA, Ala. - Carmen Harris, isolated with other female Alabama prisoners carrying the AIDS virus, feared that she would bleed to death in her cell. Stitches from routine uterine surgery had torn open, but nurses on three shifts failed to answer her pleas for help in November, 1987, she said. They was afraid of the
ALBANY, N.Y. - Scientists at the world s busiest AIDS testing laboratory face not only blood samples contaminated with a deadly disease, but peeling paint, exploding light bulbs and a sink with no drain. There s even a sign on the elevator warning not to use it; it gets stuck. New York, a leader in AIDS testing and res
NEW YORK - A group of middle-class men, concerned that friends were dying and nothing was being done, met in Greenwich Village eight years ago. They called themselves Gay Men s Health Crisis. They had little money and less clout; there was no name for the disease that brought them together. Today, Gay Men s Health Cris
HUDSON, Fla. - The tranquil life style many people came here to enjoy in their later years is coming to a jarring end for a growing number of retirees whose grown children want to move back in--and have AIDS. Some parents find out for the first time their child is gay, and at the same time that he also has AIDS. This i
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A federal judge on Friday overrode U.S. immigration officials and ordered a Dutch visitor suffering from AIDS to be released from prison so he can attend a conference in San Francisco on the disease. Immigration Judge Robert Vinikoor said Hans Paul Verhoef had met standards required to be granted a wa
ATLANTA--In a wooded corner of Emory University s suburban campus, the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center has long exuded an air of mystery. Those who find the way down a winding two-lane road behind the Emory dorms and offices, through the woods and past a secluded lake, find fences and Private Property signs aro
Los Angeles - The lawyer for Rock Hudson s lover asked a jury yesterday to double its $14.5 million award as a message to the world that those with AIDS have a duty to warn their sexual partners. If you bring in a verdict like the one you brought in yesterday, you know the world is going to know about it, said attorney
Sacramento - A gay San Francisco lawyer s hunger strike to protest alleged job discrimination against gays and people infected with AIDS, got a boost yesterday from three Democratic legislators. Assemblymen John Burton of San Francisco, Terry Friedman of Sherman Oaks and John Vasconcellos of San Jose called a Capitol p
Washington - A genetic test of cells in the blood of multiple sclerosis patients shows that the crippling disease is associated with a virus similar to the AIDS virus, researchers report. E. Prem Kumar Reddy, a researcher at Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, said the genetic study of blood samples from six multiple scl
Boston - A drug intended to stop the spread of the AIDS virus in the body has proved to be highly effective in experimental use on monkeys, experts report. The animal research provides the first clear evidence outside the test tube that the strategy has a chance of slowing and perhaps arresting the disease in people.
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