WASHINGTON - The number of hard-core cocaine and heroin users in Cook County is three times higher than previous estimates, according to an unreleased study by President Clinton s drug czar. The finding appears to confirm what many experts have long believed, that traditional methods substantially undercount hard-core
The AIDS epidemic took yet another twist recently when it was learned that one Upstate New York man--21-year-old Nushawn Williams--was suspected of sexually infecting nine girls and young women with the AIDS virus and exposing many more, who may have gone on to spread it to other males. Despite privacy issues, official
Talking about AIDS was one thing. But when Tony, a 33-year-old HIV-positive patient, raised a small plastic bag of pills into the air, explained that he took 23 of them a day, that they sometimes made him sick, and that they cost $2,100 a month, that s when the teenagers snapped to attention. You don t want to go throu
Although the federal government has been reporting 14 percent annual increases in the number of HIV-infected prison inmates in recent years, Illinois stands out as a relatively safe haven, according to Odie Washington, director of the state s Department of Corrections. On Thursday, he tried to convince a skeptical pane
WASHINGTON - Americans consider AIDS the country s most urgent health problem and strongly support more government spending on research, treatment and prevention programs such as needle exchanges, one of the nation s largest private health foundations reported Thursday. The survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation said 8
The message was clear: Here is the information. Deal with it, because if you don t, you will die. Presenters at the Kane County Health Department s World AIDS Day Teen/Youth Conference this week laid out facts about AIDS for 125 pupils from five Aurora middle schools. The conference was held Monday at the Township of A
Activists throughout Chicago marked World AIDS Day on Monday by underscoring the importance of continuing efforts to fight the disease, especially in light of a small but nagging backlash against safer sex. With the much-publicized advances in AIDS treatments and a decade of constant safe-sex messages, a small populati
Henry Moore s Large Interior Form, the very large, inscrutable sculpture that sits in the Art Institute s north garden, will be shrouded in black on Monday. And at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, lights will be lowered throughout the galleries. Terrence Karpowicz s 8-foot wood-and-stone piece, On the Edge of Aw
Sixteen years after the AIDS epidemic was recognized, more than 5 million people have died. Every day around the world 8,500 adults and 1,000 children are newly infected with HIV, and experts warn that the worst is yet to come. Can the epidemic be stopped? In theory, the answer is yes. An anti-AIDS vaccine could halt t
When T.J. Sullivan and Joel Goldman step before an audience of college students, what happens is not the typical didactic lecture on the prevention of AIDS. They usually have students laughing in a matter of minutes at their stand-up comedy routine, which is frank, explicit and sometimes risque. But they believe that a
Eviction Court Judge Robert Gordon had just been warning an out-of-work schoolteacher and a young woman with a baby in her arms and two other children in tow that the sheriff would come and throw them and their furniture out in the street if they didn t leave their homes. Then he had told an HIV-positive ex-drug addict
The Chicago Tribune, Thursday, November 13, 1997, Page 2
China had 7,253 reported cases of the human immunodeficiency virus by the end of June and faces a serious challenge in controlling the spread of the virus that causes AIDS, the China Daily said on Thursday. China s official figures show the country had 5,990 reported carriers of HIV at the end of 1996. Data from the Mi
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY, November 12, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 3 Word Count: 919
Ronald Kotulak, Tribune Staff Writer.
WASHINGTON - A group of AIDS care doctors set a timetable Tuesday for an experimental and potentially risky vaccine trial next year in which they have volunteered to serve as the guinea pigs. The federal government has not yet approved the trial. If it goes ahead and there are no adverse reactions, researchers say the
Chicago Tribune (CT) - FRIDAY, November 7, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 18 Word Count: 651
Laurie Goering, Tribune Staff Writer.
RIO DE JANEIRO - Less than 10 percent of people infected with the AIDS virus worldwide live in Latin America, but the disease s deadly spread in the region is more varied and less understood than anywhere else, AIDS experts meeting in Rio de Janeiro said Thursday. The situation is not exploding as in
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, October 28, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 8 Word Count: 473
Uli Schmetzer, Tribune Staff Writer.
MANILA - An American scientist announced Monday that the first mass testing of a vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS may be conducted in Thailand within three years. But even if the tests are successful, it could be another 10 years before a vaccine to immunize people against the virus is commercially available,
Chicago Tribune (CT) - MONDAY, October 20, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: EDITORIAL Page: 12 Word Count: 580
Have American researchers committed another Tuskegee with an anti-AIDS experiment on women in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean? Or are they merely doing what grim circumstance requires, sacrificing ethical punctilio in favor of seeking results that conceivably could save thousands, and hundreds of thousands, of lives in
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, October 19, 1997 Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL Section: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Page: 2 Word Count: 688
Cheryl Lavin, Tribune Staff Writer.
All that heavy breathing coming from the next apartment; it s that sexy pair you see in the elevator. They re up all night again. Moving furniture! Or washing walls! Or polishing silver! Anything but having sex. From your letters, it appears we may be in the midst of a non-sexual revolution. When was the last time you
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, October 16, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 3 Word Count: 113
SPRINGFIELD - The number of deaths caused by AIDS or the HIV virus in Illinois declined last year for the first time since 1981. State public health officials released figures Wednesday showing there were 1,186 AIDS/HIV deaths in the state in 1996, down nearly 21 percent from the 1,494 deaths reported the prior year.
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY, October 8, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 1 Word Count: 782
Rohan B Preston, Tribune Staff Writer.
In a first-ever collaboration, 10 of the area s leading theatres have joined forces to raise funds for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, which supports AIDS prevention and awareness efforts as well as care for those afflicted by the illness. Conceived by actor Amy Landecker, who was an understudy in Steppenwolf s present
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, September 30, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: BUSINESS Page: 3 Word Count: 304
Judith Graham, Tribune Staff Writer.
An important new study shows that children with AIDS can benefit substantially from treatment with protease inhibitors , the newest generation of AIDS drugs, which includes an Abbott Laboratories pharmaceutical. The study by the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trial Group is the first to find that large numbers of children tre
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, September 25, 1997 Edition: NORTHWEST SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO NORTHWEST Page: 7 Word Count: 293
Suzy Frisch, Tribune Staff Writer.
An organization that provides food and other resources to people with HIV and AIDS in suburban Chicago has been told that it must vacate the desperately needed warehouse space it has occupied free in a Rolling Meadows mall storefront. The HIV Coalition, or HIVCO, provides resources such as food, support and education t
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, September 21, 1997 Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 1,635
Sue Ellen Christian, Tribune Staff Writer.
MEMO: CORRECTION: Additional material published Sept. 25, 1997: Corrections and clarifications. Gordon Nary and Joe Zuniga were misidentified in a caption for a photo that appeared Sunday with a story about an AIDS vaccine. Nary is executive director of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care. Zuniga i
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - Saturday, September 20, 1997 10:05 pm CST
Sue Ellen Christian, Tribune Staff Writer
In a controversial effort to propel research toward developing an AIDS vaccine, a group of physicians and public health advocates based in Chicago are planning to be the first human guinea pigs to test a vaccine consisting of a live but weakened strain of the HIV virus. The 50 volunteers from around the world, includin
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - Friday, September 12, 1997 Edition: LAKE SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO LAKE Page: 2 Word Count: 163
John Flink; Tribune Staff Writer
MEMO: A digest of late news reports, compiled by Joan Giangrasse-Kates. COLUMN: Lake overnight. TEXT: WAUKEGAN - A planned residential treatment facility for HIV-AIDS patients with substance-abuse problems was given a lukewarm reception by future neighbors Thursday night at a community meeting hosted by the facility s
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - Monday, September 1, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 1 Word Count: 1,119
Sue Ellen Christian, Tribune Staff Writer.
Thanks to a new class of drugs that combats the AIDS virus, city health officials say the number of deaths in Chicago from the disease has experienced a historic drop--part of a national trend in heavily hit urban areas that could indicate the country is turning the corner in the fight against AIDS. The decline in mort
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - Saturday, August 30, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 5 Word Count: 493
Carolyn Starks, Tribune Staff Writer. Tribune staff writers Christi Parsons and Joseph Sjostrom contributed to this article.
EAST ST. LOUIS - A federal jury Friday awarded no damages and found there was insufficient evidence against five prison employees who are accused of allowing a former Menard Correctional Center inmate to be raped repeatedly. Yet the former inmate, Michael Blucker, 28, of Crystal Lake claimed a partial victory after jur
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - Friday, August 29, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 6 Word Count: 599
Terry Wilson, Tribune Staff Writer.
Members of the People of Color Coalition, a group of HIV/AIDS activists from minority communities, called Thursday for a boycott of the Chicago AIDS Walk to protest insensitive policies held by the AIDS Walk board. The 25 or so protesters asked people to support agencies that provide HIV/AIDS services in underserved mi
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - Friday, August 29, 1997 Edition: MCHENRY COUNTY Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 919
Carolyn Starks, Tribune Staff Writer.
EAST ST. LOUIS - A federal jury deliberated for five hours Thursday without reaching a verdict in the case of a Crystal Lake man who says he was raped and contracted the AIDS virus while serving a sentence for burglary and theft in the Illinois prison system. The jury was lodged in a local hotel for the night and was s
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - Monday, August 25, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 1 Word Count: 726
Carolyn Starks, Tribune Staff Writer.
Though the steel bars are gone, Michael Blucker says he remains imprisoned by fear that the AIDS virus he alleges he contracted in a jail rape will one day become a death sentence. In a federal lawsuit scheduled to go to trial Monday, the Crystal Lake resident claims he contracted the AIDS virus when he was sexually as
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - Sunday, August 24, 1997 Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL Section: COMMENTARY Page: 19 Word Count: 751
Clarence Page.
WASHINGTON - Holding up a fist full of hypodermic syringes, Gary Bauer, president of the Family Research Council, declared needle-exchange programs to be a dopey idea. If so, there must be a lot of dopey people around these days. Take, for example, the American Medical Association , the American Public Health Associ
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - Tuesday, August 19, 1997 Edition: LAKE SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO LAKE Page: 1 Word Count: 915
Casey Bukro, Tribune Staff Writer.
Chris Rudolph walked out of the Lake County Tuberculosis Clinic in Waukegan with a small puncture wound on his right arm. I just got a job yesterday, and they said, Get a TB test, said Rudolph of Libertyville, who will teach physical education at St. Gilbert s School in Grayslake. The injection of an antigen under his
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - TUESDAY, July 29, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 5 Word Count: 216
Terry Wilson, Tribune Staff Writer.
The AIDS Walk Chicago board of directors is seeking proposals from HIV/AIDS care service providers run by minorities based in minority communities for two $37,500 grants, it was announced Monday. It also has decided to increase the amount of AIDS Walk proceeds it gives the AIDS Foundation of Chicago to $340,000--up fro
Chicago Tribune (CT) - SUNDAY, July 20, 1997 Edition: DU PAGE FINAL Section: METRO DU PAGE Page: 3 Word Count: 929
Lynn Van Matre, Tribune Staff Writer.
Frances Mosier could be considered an unlikely role model. The Aurora woman s past includes prostitution, drug and alcohol addictions, and penitentiary stints for burglary and armed robbery. Her three children, the first conceived when Mosier was 15, were raised by a relative. Not even a devastating diagnosis of carryi
Chicago Tribune (CT) - THURSDAY, July 3, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 4 Word Count: 359
Terry Wilson, Tribune Staff Writer
In an environment where money to provide services for people with HIV/AIDS seems to be getting more difficult to find, 51 local agencies Wednesday were the recipients of more than $1 million in much-needed funds for their work. Representatives from the different service providers gathered for breakfast in the Walnut Ro
Chicago Tribune (CT) - WEDNESDAY, July 2, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO CHICAGO Page: 3 Word Count: 615
Terry Wilson, Tribune Staff Writer.
President Clinton s recent apology to the surviving participants and families of those involved in the Tuskegee syphilis study has done little to rebuild many minorities confidence in medical science, authorities said Tuesday. Medical experts and care-givers, who gathered at Malcolm X College for a seminar titled Tusk
Chicago Tribune (CT) - TUESDAY, July 1, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 1 Word Count: 969
Cindy Schreuder, Tribune Staff Writer.
The dry statistical data show that nearly half of new AIDS cases in Chicago can be linked in some way to contaminated needles passed among intravenous drug users. But the wary voices of people in neighborhoods hit hardest by drug abuse and AIDS cases are skeptical of one solution health experts offer: permitting drug u
Chicago Tribune (CT) - Edition: DU PAGE SPORTS FINAL Section: METRO DU PAGE Page: 1 Word Count: 1,041 - WEDNESDAY, June 18, 1997
Darlene Gavron Stevens, Tribune Staff Writer
Steven Totura sifted through the massive freezer at the science field station, shoving aside packs of hamburger buns meant for the university picnic in search of the staff s latest discovery. Here they are, he said, triumphantly lifting out three vials of dark-brown plant extract. The syrupy substance might look like u
For poor people with HIV and AIDS, clinic visits in Chicago can be frustrating and depressing even before they see a doctor. Those who cannot afford the city s more expensive treatment facilities crowd into Cook County Hospital s hot, cramped waiting rooms--spaces usually borrowed for the day from other hospital purpos
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: TEMPO Page: 1 Word Count: 1,015 MONDAY, June 2, 1997
Graeme Zielinski, Tribune Staff Writer.
Hans Sagan was spluttering in the ether. Arght! Pfah! Urgk! Sppt! Hmph! he babbled in a message that, at the touch of a button, had catapulted from his computer in North Carolina to a friend s terminal in Minnesota. A lovelorn graduate student in Chapel Hill, Sagan had returned days earlier from a frustrating visit wit
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - Wednesday, 7 May 1997.
Chuck Hutchcraft, Chicago Tribune
May 7--About 6,200 hemophiliacs who contracted the AIDS virus through blood products will receive more than $600 million from four health-care companies under a deal approved Tuesday by a federal judge in Chicago. The settlement brings to a close a battle waged for more than a decade by hemophiliacs who contracted the
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 -
Apr. 19--The cheapest and most effective way to combat AIDS is to keep people from becoming infected. Yet prevention requires straight talk about a host of topics that make many people squirm, particularly politicians. So forgive our skepticism regarding President Clinton s eloquent introduction of his third AIDS czar
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - Friday, 4 April 1997.
Laurie Goering, Chicago Tribune
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil--Apr. 4--In a nation where the president kisses drag queens and the country s most beautiful woman once was a man, violence against homosexuals is a growing problem. The reasons are as complex as Brazil itself, a country torn between its mild form of Latin machismo and its reputation for Carnival
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - Wednesday, 3 April 1997
Christi Parsons, Chicago Tribune
SPRINGFIELD--An entire class of powerful, new AIDS-fighting drugs will become available to many Illinoisans through a dramatic increase in state subsidies this week. The state will help pay for all four of the new protease inhibitor drugs for about 1,550 people with AIDS and the AIDS virus. Use of the four drugs has be
Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - MONDAY, March 24, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: BUSINESS Page: 1 Word Count: 1,271
Chuck Hutchcraft, Tribune Staff Writer.
Every 10 days, Adam Beebe undergoes treatment for his hemophilia, at a cost of about $8,000. This is in addition to the high-powered, and expensive (at least $1,000 a month just for the drugs), regimen he is undergoing to battle the AIDS virus. Beebe learned in 1985, when he was 25, that he had contracted the virus fro
Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - SUNDAY, March 23, 1997 Edition: DU PAGE FINAL Section: METRO DU PAGE Page: 1 Word Count: 945
Lynn Van Matre, Tribune Staff Writer.
With nearly 20,000 5th graders attending the Life Begins class annually at the Robert Crown Center for Health Education in Hinsdale, instructor Jon Scoles figured he had heard every question or comment kids could come up with concerning human reproduction. But even Scoles was surprised recently when he held up a plasti
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 -- SATURDAY, March 15, 1997 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: BUSINESS Page: 1 Word Count: 435
Chuck Hutchcraft, Tribune Staff Writer.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday for the first time gave the green light to use HIV protease inhibitors , the powerful new class of AIDS drug, in the treatment of children. The FDA approved the use of North Chicago-based Abbott Laboratories Norvi
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - 10 March 1997
Mar. 10--The Feb. 18 memo by Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala, forwarding to Congress a report on the latest research on the effectiveness of needle-exchange programs in reducing HIV infections among drug users, is a triumph of pusillanimous politics and double talk over facts and sound public polic
The Chicago Tribune, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 - Saturday, 8 March 1997
Mar. 8--To the extent that the deaths of 21,700 people can be described as good news, a recent announcement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was indeed encouraging. During the first six months of 1996, the number of people who died of AIDS declined by 12 percent, down from 24,700 during a similar perio
A singing cherub designed by Marie Claude Lalique is the second in a series of angelic collectibles launched by the prestigious French crystal and luxury goods house in collaboration with singer Elton John to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation. The first numbered, limited-edition figurine of a petite cherub came ou
SPRINGFIELD - The number of new cases of AIDS reported in the state increased by 1 percent last year, bringing the total number of cases reported in Illinois in the last 15 years to 18,528--the sixth highest in the nation. Federally mandated statistics compiled by the Illinois Department of Public Health also showed Th
If Abbott Laboratories were looking for an ardent spokesman to tout its AIDS drug, Dr. Andrew M. Pavlatos would fit the bill. Abbott s Norvir , he decrees, decreases the viral load better than all other protease inhibitors , the new class of AIDS drugs that is
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