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...fear that he might have received the virus that causes AIDS from contaminated blood serum prescribed by a controversial cancer clinic in the Bahamas. At a New York City television station, technicians announced that they would not work in the studio during a scheduled live interview with an AIDS patient. The interview was dropped. Federal scientists announced that screening tests being used at blood banks around the country have been "highly successful" in eliminating the AIDS virus from the nation's blood supply. In Kokomo, Ind., a 13-year-old hemophiliac was denied permission to attend the local middle school...
...spread so fast." In the process of rampant replication, the AIDS virus destroys its home, the T cell. Thus it is a peculiar feature of this disease that as it progresses, the helper T cells disappear and so does the virus. By then, however, the patient is invariably beyond recovery...
AIDS victims are treated like lepers even by some in the medical community. Ambulance workers in several cities have refused to transport desperately ill patients to hospitals. Hospital orderlies are reluctant to clean their rooms. Nurses are wary. When a friend visiting an AIDS patient in a Los Angeles hospital stepped out into the corridor to fill a water pitcher for him, he was shouted at by a nurse. "That pitcher should never leave that damn room!" she screamed. "How dare you jeopardize...
...help AIDS patients cope, volunteer organizations like GMHC have popped up around the country, most of them organized by gay-community leaders. GMHC, founded in 1982, provides various services, including crisis intervention, a hot line that answers 3,000 calls a month, group-therapy sessions for patients and their survivors, and financial and legal services. Most successful of all, and widely emulated, is GMHC's buddy program, which assigns a volunteer to befriend an AIDS patient, helping him to shop, cook, clean his apartment and to feel less forgotten and shunned...
...Angeles, Carol Archer, 40, was assigned by the Shanti Foundation, another AIDS support group, to attend to the needs of a dying 31-year-old patient. He was alone; family and friends had withdrawn from him as lesions spread over most of his body. When Archer helped him with his will and funeral arrangements, he began to sob. She reached out, hugged him and rocked him in her arms. "He cried all the harder," she recalls, "then he looked up at me and said, 'No one's touched me in so long...