Word: hiv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...missed the point of the present cultural situation," said Mary Ellen Bork, the wife of the failed Supreme Court nominee and a lecturer on Catholic life. "In our view, power is not the goal in life." Added Pat Funderburk Ware, an African-American expert on preventing teenage pregnancy and HIV infection: "So many white women...are so co-opted by the feminist movement because they haven't suffered enough. They really don't know what it is not to have their men there...We've suffered enough...
Helen Miramontes wants a doctor to fill a hypodermic needle with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and inject it into her blood. No, the 66-year-old grandmother and professor of nursing is not crazy. She is part of a group of 50 doctors, nurses and health advocates who are willing to give their bodies to science to help test whether a live but genetically weakened strain of the aids virus is safe enough to be used as a vaccine...
That has not stopped Ronald Desrosiers, a professor of microbiology at Harvard Medical School, from championing the live-virus approach. A year after injecting a handful of chimpanzees with a solution of weakened HIV, Desrosiers exposed them to the full-strength virus. Every chimp had an immune response strong enough to contain the killer virus--at least for a while...
Adding to the urgency is the fact that 8,000 people around the world become infected with HIV every day. "I am a little fearful," admits Jose Zuniga, 28, a Chicago AIDS activist. "But I've lost too many friends and loved ones to this disease...
...rules governing how vaccine trials are conducted in the U.S.--rules that could delay any study by at least two years. Although the volunteers say they might proceed without the blessings of the National Institutes of Health and the FDA, Desrosiers insists he will not make his specially altered HIV strains available to any scientist who does not have government approval...