ATLANTA - Thousands more Americans will have AIDS -- officially -- on Friday, when a new definition goes into effect. Activists and doctors are bracing for a higher demand for treatment and social services as more of those infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are added to the ranks of those with AIDS. The s
LAKELAND, Fla. - It was the second Christmas an HIV-infected prostitute spent in the Polk County Jail where she finds shelter, food and medical treatment to prolong her life. The knowledge that she had contracted the AIDS virus on the streets hasn t been enough to keep Donna Redmond from selling sex to support her crac
NEW YORK - He sleeps in a men s shelter or in a doorway at Rockefeller Center. He begs outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is HIV-positive, an ex-convict, a recovering drug addict, just another homeless person. Every December, Joseph J.R. Reyes, 61, pulls on a red suit and black boots, attaches a woolly white be
TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Lawton Chiles says the panel he appointed to recommend bills dealing with AIDS should focus on bolstering the state s existing education and prevention programs. He also wants the 11-member panel to examine housing, care and other needs of those who have acquired immune deficiency syndrome or the HIV
LONDON - The viruses that cause AIDS and hepatitis B can survive within dental tools that are washed with disinfectant but not heat-sterilized, posing a potential risk of disease transmission, according to a new study. Experts said the findings of the study, to be published in Saturday s issue of The Lancet, are plausi
WASHINGTON - Frequent or persistent vaginal yeast infections could be an early warning of infection with the virus that causes AIDS, the Public Health Service said Monday. But a government expert on AIDS said that the warning applied only to a tiny minority of yeast infection cases that stand out for their severity or
NEW YORK - After Silieses Success parents were killed by Haitian soldiers, she and her husband set out for the United States . In the nine months since, her newborn child has died, she has been taken from her husband, and the government claims she is HIV-positive. She is now in a New York refugee detention center, wait
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