Word: outreaching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reeves, who meets periodically with Rudenstine, says friendliness is fine, but more concrete outreach by Harvard is needed...
...board is as concerned with outreach as it is with activism. Clarke says the group will work to "reunite with the Black community at large" by bringing together students with Harvard alumni, community leaders and politicians...
...officers also said they hope to increase membership and engage in community outreach...
James' hospital called in Stephan Kennedy, an outreach worker who deals exclusively with HIV-infected and AIDS patients such as James. To Kennedy the young man's incomprehension was painfully familiar. "I used a lot of analogies," Kennedy recalls. "I said, 'The HIV is a worm, and the apple is your body. The worm gets into your body, eats a little and then goes to sleep. Then it wakes up again and starts eating some more and some more and some more, until the apple becomes rotten. And that is what is happening...
...about 100 activists across the country formed the National Coalition on HIV and the Deaf Community. Its members work at a scattering of clinics and outreach programs for the deaf. Some have drafted pamphlets using sign- language pictographs and explicit illustration to overcome the literacy problem. (A sample title: "AIDS -- WHAT MEANS? AIDS -- HOW STOP? LEARN ABOUT AIDS!") Others, noting, as one put it, that "the written language of ASL is videotape," have taken to camcorders. An HIV-AIDS hot line accessible to the deaf using small teletypes called TTYs can be reached at 800-243-7889. But few activists...