Word: hiv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their editorial, the doctors warned, "If HIV-1 infection continues to penetrate the poor and less advantaged populations of Latin America and the Caribbean, there is the potential for a massive epidemic in the Americas that may parallel the situation in Africa, where many cases remain unrecognized and unreported...
...researchers also found five people who were infected with HIV-2, an apparently less virulent relative of the primary AIDS virus that until now has been confined largely to West Africa...
...That child is getting fat as a butterball," Bonnie had declared happily ; that very morning at a meeting of other families whose foster children carry HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. Tina's doctors have lately totted up her symptoms and moved her into the category called AIDS-related complex, or ARC. Bonnie takes this as a hopeful sign: the child has a whole stage to go before full-blown AIDS. Tina's birth mother, a drug addict with AIDS, is less optimistic. She phoned not long ago and remarked, "Tina's going...
...With these children, you have to push a little harder," a woman named Helen is saying in a fervent voice at that morning's session of foster families. Connecticut has a policy against letting HIV-positive children languish in hospitals or boarding institutions. What it has instead are these 18 foster families, a kind of loose-knit secret society dedicated to giving the children normal lives. Some of them got started as foster parents because they knew the birth mother, or because they came to know the children in their jobs as nurses or social workers. They got together...
There is one other remarkable thing about these families. By 18 months, children normally lose the antibodies acquired from their mothers, and about half of them become HIV-negative. "I was so happy I could've gone and shouted on the rooftops," says one mother, whose child tested negative. "But you can't." The practice, when children turn out healthy, is to move them away from the AIDS foster families into permanent homes, making room for more AIDS babies. Thus what the foster parents risk is loving the children and having to give them away, or keeping them to love...