Word: hiv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mature enough and wise enough to accept that the deepest meaning of solidarity requires that we consider ourselves as if we all were infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), that we are all living with AIDS...
...mood last week as they met in Baltimore to mark the 200th anniversary of the founding of the first American diocese. But their deliberations quickly turned sober as they confronted thorny problems that dominated the agenda. Among their actions: a response to AIDS that urges compassion for those with HIV infection -- and strict chastity as the only sure way to avoid the disease -- but sidesteps the bishops' earlier qualified toleration of condom education; a reiterated call for a Palestinian homeland and security for Israel; and a stepped-up antiabortion campaign...
...Women and Infants HIV Transmission Study (WITS) will examine the frequency of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus' transmission to fetus and its effect on the health of pregnant women and on the outcome of pregnancy, researchers said. The project will also chart the development of the disease in children...
...Sept. 19, Project Inform director Martin Delaney revealed the preliminary results of the underground trials to an intent crowd of some 500 predominantly gay men in San Francisco. Although many of the trial's volunteers, including Barnett, showed a marked decrease in activity of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, Delaney said, Compound Q could not be considered a cure. But the desperation of the epidemic guarantees that underground drug trials will continue; AIDS activists say at least two dozen such experiments are under way across...
Hope flashed through the nation's AIDS community last April, when researchers from the University of California at San Francisco announced that, in test tubes at least, Compound Q could kill HIV-infected cells while leaving healthy cells unaffected. The substance quickly found its way into the U.S. and to desperate AIDS patients, who administered the drug on their own. "Word was out," says Dr. Alan Levin, medical director of the Project Inform trials in San Francisco. "People started getting it and injecting themselves in their kitchens...