Word: treatments
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...rivals were alarmingly distant from. Today, Jackson is the only candidate who openly welcomes gays and lesbians into his coalition, welcoming to Congress the current Lesbian and Gay Rights Bill, which forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation. On the AIDS question, Jackson advocates more federal funding for research and treatment. Only Jackson, among all the presidential candidates, marched in last year's gay march on Washington...
Perhaps most striking was Watkins' insistence that stemming the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. depends on providing treatment for the nation's often neglected, mostly minority intravenous drug users. Although the rate of new AIDS infection among homosexuals has plummeted in recent years, the virus is spreading virtually unchecked among the 1.2 million addicts. Intravenous drug users now constitute a quarter of all AIDS patients in the U.S. Watkins noted that they are also responsible for 70% of heterosexually transmitted cases and AIDS cases among newborns. Yet only 12% currently receive help at treatment centers, where waiting lists...
...provides the Assemblies of God with an awkward precedent as it ponders what to do about Swaggart. After Swaggart demanded that leaders of the denomination's Louisiana district act, he summoned Gorman to his home in Baton Rouge for a confrontation. Swaggart insisted that Gorman be given no special treatment just because he ran a big church. Gorman was immediately defrocked...
...Summers; as shown by the clips, even Zayak's athletic talent was backfiring. Zayak continued on her streak of bad luck; she fell during the Olympics and didn't place, while Summers won the silver medal. The former World Champion later criticized the sports press for according her disrespectful treatment...
Councillor Alice K. Wolf said she was unhappy with the council's treatment of the issue...