The Associated Press; 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 - Sunday, December 26, 1993 - Word Count: 938
Judy Daubenmier; Associated Press
LANSING, Mich. - Patricia Villegas has delivered sad news to many people, but she can t forget one 22-year-old woman: She was pregnant, and she was infected with the AIDS virus. Villegas points to the straight side chair next to her desk in a tiny, windowless office, closes her eyes and pauses as the ache resurfaces.
The Associated Press; 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 - Friday, December 24, 1993 - Word Count: 634
Jim Patterson; Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Country-music stars step into a new era of frank talk in a series of AIDS-awareness advertisements that address sex education, condoms and other ways to protect against the deadly AIDS virus. Mary-Chapin Carpenter and Mark Chesnutt are co-chairs of the Country Music AIDS Awareness Campaign and are tw
Washington - American women say they are changing their sexual behavior to avoid becoming infected with the AIDS virus but still are not insisting on proper condom use by their sexual partners, according to federal studies released yesterday. There is a group out there that isn t being reached, said Dr. William Mosher
LOS ANGELES - The 9-month-old boy arrived in a full body cast. His father had thrown him across a room. A 16-month-old girl toddled around her first home that wasn t a car or a cardboard box. She came here after her drug-addicted mother was sent to jail. These tiny victims of abuse and neglect also were born to HIV-inf
The Associated Press; Wednesday, December 15, 1993
WASHINGTON - Researchers are racing to develop the first simple, widely available and exquisitely sensitive blood tests that will disclose how much AIDS virus people harbor inside their bodies. The tests, when they reach the market, should help doctors monitor the effects of AIDS treatment and also may provide earlier
The Associated Press; 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 - Sunday, December 12, 1993 - Word Count: 1,297
Dan Sewell; Associated Press
MIAMI - For more than an hour, Michel talked animatedly and enthusiastically, waving his fork over his plate as he recounted the incredible events of the last two years. There was a lot to relate--his political activism for Jean-Bertrand Aristide, his days in hiding after a military coup exiled Haiti s first freely ele
BETHESDA, Md. - An experimental vaccine that uses a mouse virus to help the human body fight the AIDS virus was approved for testing Friday by an advisory committee to the National Institutes of Health. The lead investigator on the project, Dr. Richard Haubrich of the University of California, San Diego, said the vacci
The Associated Press; 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 - Sunday, December 26, 1993 - Word Count: 1,613
Leslie Dreyfous; Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. - William Bell Jr. is finally home. His one-room apartment is decorated with paper cutouts and holly, a lavish Christmas tree and photos of his girlfriend s grandchildren. He is like a kid, bouncing here and there, grinning broadly, talking nonstop. The man is alive, whole, feeling strong. And it s a small
San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, November 13, 1993
Bonn - Germany will pay $15 million in aid over the next three years to AIDS patients infected by transfusions, officials said yesterday, as the government moved to counter criticism of its handling of the tainted blood scandal. The country is in the throes of a major AIDS scare after two companies were recently discov
San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, November 6, 1993
Clare Nullis, Associated Press
Geneva - From prosperous Western Europe to the world s poorest nations, contaminated blood supplies are spreading fear that life-saving transfusions could actually lead to death from AIDS. Evidence that a German company distributed plasma products tainted with the AIDS virus has spread panic and sent other European cou
San Francisco Chronicle - FRIDAY, November 5, 1993
Larry Thorson, Associated Press
Berlin - Thousands of people who have had transfusions are now demanding AIDS tests, terrified that they may have received tainted blood from a company accused of improper testing for the deadly virus. Berlin s health department said yesterday that its hot line is being bombarded with calls, and similar reports came fr
The Associated Press; 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 - Sunday, May 23, 1993, Word Count: 1,132
Ted Anthony; Associated Press
HINTON Va. - Linda Rudisill was killed by three bullets and her body was dumped along a remote road. Mary Young was beaten to death, run over by a car and left in the gutter. Each woman had AIDS and told people so. Each had a criminal record and a history of violent behavior. And each, authorities say, was killed by a
NEW YORK - Joey s mother watched him blow out the seven candles on his birthday cake with mingled feelings of pleasure and apprehension: Could this birthday be his last? It s heaven-sent to me because you never know what to expect, she said. Every birthday is a celebration to us. Joey has AIDS. His mother already has w
A British study has confirmed suspicions that smokers who are infected with HIV develop full-blown AIDS twice as quickly as people with the virus who do not smoke. Cigarettes and HIV together double the insult on the immune system, said Dr. Richard Nieman, who performed the study. He is a research fellow at the Nationa
The Associated Press; 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 - Saturday, April 3, 1993 Word Count: 913
David Briggs; Associated Press
The rule is love the sinner, hate the sin. But if the sinner has AIDS--and the sin is homosexuality or sex outside of marriage--can compassion be reconciled with religious doctrine? If you believe that God condemns homosexual behavior, how do you spread that moral teaching without casting aspersions on people who contr
The Associated Press; 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 - Friday, April 2, 1993, Word Count: 83
WASHINGTON - Thirty-six of some 250 Haitian refugees infected with the AIDS virus and detained at the U.S. naval base in Cuba will be brought to the United States for treatment, the Justice Department announced Thursday. The department added, however, that the action was taken to comply with a court order issued last w
The Associated Press; 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 - Friday, April 2, 1993, Word Count: 442
Preliminary results of a large European study cast doubt on the widespread practice of giving a powerful anti-AIDS drug to people who have the virus but no symptoms of the disease. Four U.S. studies swayed many doctors to give the drug AZT to infected but symptom-free patients. These one-year studies indicated that the
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