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  • This started another rumor—that he might have died of AIDS.†   (source)
  • And Liberace's manager denied that the entertainer was a victim of AIDS; Liberace's recent weight loss was the result, the manager said, of a watermelon-only diet.†   (source)
  • Some sort of AIDS regulation.†   (source)
  • My dad, in particular, was afraid of transfusions because he had read about people getting AIDS or other diseases from tainted blood.†   (source)
  • He could have AIDS.†   (source)
  • Need I remind you that this was the age of the R-strain syphilis and also of the infamous AIDS epidemic, which, once they spread to the population at large, eliminated many young sexually active people from the reproductive pool?†   (source)
  • When she found out scientists had been using HeLa cells to study viruses like AIDS and Ebola, Deborah imagined her mother eternally suffering the symptoms of each disease: bone-crushing pain, bleeding eyes, suffocation.†   (source)
  • It's the way people catch AIDS, right?"†   (source)
  • I have AIDS.†   (source)
  • I have made important discoveries about the AIDS and Ebola viruses.†   (source)
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  • Whoever… whatever… attacked me used a type of weapon known in the Core as an AIDS II virus.†   (source)
  • We'll talk later about what heart disease means in a story, or tuberculosis or cancer or AIDS.†   (source)
  • Mothers with AIDS can spread the disease to their babies by breast-feeding them.†   (source)
  • Like the multiple sex partners that helped spread the AIDS epidemic, the huge admixture of animals in most American ground beef plants has played a crucial role in spreading E. coli 0157:H7.†   (source)
  • They could have been on a dynamite diet but the first thing that came to mind was they got AIDS.†   (source)
  • Even today, there are a lot of people who believe that some diseases—AIDS, for example—are God's punishment.†   (source)
  • This was thanks to a growing worldwide campaign for treating AIDS wherever it occurred.†   (source)
  • Americans were dropping like flies from AIDS.†   (source)
  • AIDS had already fallen like a shadow over the population, although no one yet knew it existed.†   (source)
  • I'm surprised the AIDS ain't bit your dick off yet, he says.†   (source)
  • He is known to have infected at least sixteen of his former girlfriends with the AIDS virus.†   (source)
  • AIDS wasn't a factor then.†   (source)
  • "AIDS," Edgar said, Gracie studied old Edgar.†   (source)
  • It's because of encouragement from evangelicals ... that George W. Bush sponsored his presidential initiative to fight AIDS—the best single thing he ever did, arguably saving more than 9 million lives.†   (source)
  • All that poking, prodding, and analysis, in search of AIDS or Hep C, netted that information.†   (source)
  • I was startled for a moment, immediately I thought, AIDS, then I did what I had become good at: played the odds.†   (source)
  • It's like AIDS.†   (source)
  • Still, every time I passed the HELP table, taking in that day's cause'Upcoming AIDS walk!†   (source)
  • Two years had passed since his youngest daughter, Corina, had died of autoimmune disease after mistakenly being administered a new AIDS vaccine.†   (source)
  • The doctors say I won't die from AIDS—I'll die from pneumonia or TB or a bacterial infection in the brain; but if you ask me, that's just semantics.†   (source)
  • A secret, like cancer, AIDS, equal rights, and lots of other things were not supposed to be discussed, either out of embarrassment, shame, or whatever the reason.†   (source)
  • There's no mention of AIDS.†   (source)
  • I have spent all of my professional life in public service, most of it involved in research, care of patients, and public health policy concerning the HIV-AIDS epidemic.†   (source)
  • She inherited the apartment from her uncle Steven, who loved her and lived alone and died of AIDS.†   (source)
  • I'VE GOT AIDS.†   (source)
  • Don't you think it a little ironic that what follows sexual immorality is herpes, chlamydia, AIDS, syphilis, and gonorrhea?†   (source)
  • Africa, with all its AIDS problems, was being hit particularly hard.†   (source)
  • I wasn't usually scared of AIDS or of crack unless it came near me.†   (source)
  • "AIDS II was a human plague disease back long before the Hegira," said Johnny."†   (source)
  • Women, Poverty, and AIDS, it was called.†   (source)
  • The Romantics and Victorians had consumption; we have AIDS.†   (source)
  • Now AIDS, on the other hand, has been an epidemic that does occupy the writers of its time.†   (source)
  • Crack was like being sick, like having AIDS.†   (source)
  • They now had the equipment and trained personnel to do some of their own high-tech AIDS diagnostics.†   (source)
  • AIDS had come to Cange about two years after he had, back in 1985.†   (source)
  • AIDS is the mother lode of symbol and metaphor.†   (source)
  • When you see somebody wasted on crack it even looks like they got AIDS.†   (source)
  • His suicide, therefore, is a patient with very advanced AIDS.†   (source)
  • He was a former Cuban soldier who had contracted AIDS in Africa, a patient of Pérez's.†   (source)
  • They opened the door to a cell reserved for patients with AIDS.†   (source)
  • Then he entered "AIDS and women," and only a handful of studies appeared.†   (source)
  • Now we were heading to Cuba for an AIDS conference.†   (source)
  • That was what the AIDS sanatorium had been called in a New York Times op-ed.†   (source)
  • "Cambridge cares about AIDS," he told them.†   (source)
  • Pérez went on: "Gustavo said, 'AIDS has no importance.'†   (source)
  • At the AIDS conference he met a woman who might be able to help, if she would.†   (source)
  • TB and AIDS loomed over the new millennium.†   (source)
  • Unlike the uninfected, many of the ones with AIDS had worked as servants in Port-au-Prince.†   (source)
  • It contains indinavir, one of the new protease inhibitors used for treating AIDS.†   (source)
  • In poor countries, TB was the most common proximate cause of death among people who died with AIDS.†   (source)
  • He went on, "Both Guantánamo and Cuba's AIDS sanitorium were quarantines."†   (source)
  • Over there near the road was the house where Anita Joseph had died of AIDS, slowly.†   (source)
  • We left the cell of the fifty AIDS patients, and the door clanged shut behind us.†   (source)
  • A few months ago, he gave a speech to a group in Massachusetts called Cambridge Cares About AIDS.†   (source)
  • There, near the top, was the house of Dieudonné, empty now because he'd died of AIDS last October.†   (source)
  • He didn't approve of quarantine for AIDS.†   (source)
  • At Zanmi Lasante, in 1993, the number of patients with AIDS had increased by about 60 percent.†   (source)
  • He entered "AIDS," and the names of thousands of studies came up on his computer screen.†   (source)
  • The virus had progressed to AIDS in 1,003 of those people, and 653 had died.†   (source)
  • "AIDS and Accusation," he'd call it, the first of his alliterative titles.†   (source)
  • But if we want to stop AIDS, we better find out about this.†   (source)
  • Not long after that, he was in Barcelona, addressing the annual international conference on AIDS.†   (source)
  • She was in charge of the United Nations' project on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, for the Caribbean.†   (source)
  • What do they do about AIDS, these girls?†   (source)
  • Dr. M. says it strikes about 20 percent of AIDS patients.†   (source)
  • I sat at the bedside of a young man in a morphine coma to blunt the pain of his AIDS-related dying.†   (source)
  • Jaap Goudsmit, Viral Sex: The Nature of AIDS (New York: Oxford Press, 1997), pp.†   (source)
  • You have sex one time, you can get AIDS, so you just don't do it.†   (source)
  • I knew about the AIDS pairs, I knew about the Raison Strain, and I knew how to find you.†   (source)
  • All right, this area is an AIDS disaster.†   (source)
  • Indeed, one third of AIDS prevention spending was funneled by law to abstinence-only education.†   (source)
  • I suspect that AIDS might not be Nature's preeminent display of power.†   (source)
  • She had died asking his forgiveness for having given him AIDS.†   (source)
  • The AIDS patient; I'd heard about him on the news.†   (source)
  • In Bonang, AIDS kills so many so fast that families like mine get scattered everywhere.†   (source)
  • For lepers, or AIDS victims, there are organizations that help.†   (source)
  • Yes, the vaccine to the AIDS virus has 375,200 base pairs …. isn't that what this Hunter told you?†   (source)
  • It's what someone who doesn't have AIDS would look like if we drew his blood.†   (source)
  • This was the era of AIDS, and Deo felt more worried than disapproving, though he did disapprove.†   (source)
  • I'm going to read everything that has ever been written about the HIV virus and full-blown AIDS.†   (source)
  • Did AIDS come from an island in Lake Victoria?†   (source)
  • He advises the government on the global AIDS crisis and threats related to bioterrorism.†   (source)
  • This one adult could have died from AIDS with little notice….†   (source)
  • The AIDS virus is a fast mutator; it changes constantly.†   (source)
  • Meena is healthy for now, but she has never had an AIDS test.†   (source)
  • I don't know ...I don't think animals can get AIDS—actually, I know they can't ...I think!†   (source)
  • AIDS is arguably the worst environmental disaster of the twentieth century.†   (source)
  • He probably knows as much as anyone about AIDS.†   (source)
  • She seemed already to have contracted full-blown AIDS.†   (source)
  • All told, some 25 percent of AIDS care worldwide is provided by church-related groups.†   (source)
  • I want to be JUST ME, not the girl with AIDS!†   (source)
  • "This was not like AIDS," she later recalled to me.†   (source)
  • We've never had anyone in our school with AIDS before, that anyone knew about.†   (source)
  • Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.†   (source)
  • A third reason for the worsening situation is AIDS.†   (source)
  • Another study found that each $1 million spent on condoms saved $466 million in AIDS-related costs.†   (source)
  • Kasensero was one of the first places in the world where AIDS appeared.†   (source)
  • I'm beginning to see the really black side of AIDS that everyone tries to hide.†   (source)
  • In a larger sense, it means that the AIDS virus is a natural survivor of changes in ecosystems.†   (source)
  • She went to a clinic in Battambang, and the staff gave her a routine AIDS test.†   (source)
  • I didn't even understand what AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) meant before.†   (source)
  • Then I heard someone say an AIDS patient had just died there.†   (source)
  • Many of their newborn children will also contract AIDS and die of the virus in childhood.†   (source)
  • And these prevention methods are much cheaper than treating an AIDS patient for years.†   (source)
  • This way ...I don't know ...this is worse than AIDS or anything!†   (source)
  • The Bush administration focused its AIDS prevention campaign on abstinence-only programs.†   (source)
  • The AIDS virus survives for only a few minutes when exposed to air.†   (source)
  • What would have happened if someone had noticed AIDS when it first began to spread?†   (source)
  • Maybe they will find a cure for AIDS soon.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, suppose AIDS had been noticed?†   (source)
  • Aunt Thelma told Melvin about my having AIDS and said he didn't seem to mind either.†   (source)
  • But when you have AIDS, your body won't fight off infection hardly at all.†   (source)
  • In the years since the AIDS virus emerged, the village of Kasensero has been devastated.†   (source)
  • The AIDS virus is called HIV, which means human immunodeficiency virus.†   (source)
  • People didn't realize that the AIDS thing had only just begun.†   (source)
  • They are the usually harmless germs that attack people with AIDS-weakened immune defenses.†   (source)
  • Perhaps AIDS is the first step in a natural process of clearance.†   (source)
  • The book says that about 30 percent of people who have AIDS are diagnosed in their twenties, WOW!†   (source)
  • I'm so glad I get to see AIDS from their side.†   (source)
  • If AIDS is not as contagious as they say, then how come all that's necessary?†   (source)
  • Actually, Dr. S. doesn't even call it HIV anymore; he calls it AIDS.†   (source)
  • AIDS is a tiny germ or a virus that can live inside a living cell.†   (source)
  • The thought of little Margie having AIDS makes me sick.†   (source)
  • I guess AIDS isn't the boogey-boo I let myself believe it was.†   (source)
  • My real, real, real, real, real AIDS self with.†   (source)
  • I wasn't prepared for the look on Mrs. Maggleby's face when I told her I had AIDS.†   (source)
  • I'm reading a brochure, Teenagers and AIDS.†   (source)
  • Much like the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) responsible for causing AIDS, the E. coli 0157:H7 bacterium is a newly emerged pathogen whose spread has been facilitated by recent social and technological changes.†   (source)
  • He quit when the researchers started talking about injections, because he thought they'd infect him with AIDS.†   (source)
  • "Not always benign," Hiro says, remembering a friend of his who died of AIDS-related complications; in the last days, he had iio herpes lesions from his lips all the way down his throat.†   (source)
  • The AIDS warning that girls write on their chests is from Olivia Ruiz, a cultural anthropologist at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, who researches the dangers migrants face riding trains through Chiapas.†   (source)
  • More AIDS II?†   (source)
  • From her cells came all these different creations—medical miracles like polio vaccines, some cure for cancer and other things, even AIDS.†   (source)
  • Although cases of AIDS date back at least to the late 1950s, the disease did not reach epidemic proportions in the United States until increased air travel and sexual promiscuity helped transmit the virus far and wide.†   (source)
  • They also carried a rare virus called HTLV, a distant cousin of the HIV virus, which researchers hoped to use to create a vaccine that could stop the AIDS epidemic.†   (source)
  • I thought I might get messed around with some chick and pick up AIDS, but I wasn't that worried about it because I knew how it spread around.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, a group of researchers—including a molecular biologist named Richard Axel, who would go on to win a Nobel Prize—infected HeLa cells with HIV.†   (source)
  • He volunteered for research on alcoholism to pay for a new job-training program, then signed up for an AIDS study that would have let him sleep in a bed for nearly a week.†   (source)
  • Because of the demographic distribution of its infection history, AIDS adds another property to its literary usage: the political angle.†   (source)
  • Given the highly charged nature of the public experience, we would expect to see AIDS show up in places occupied by other ailments in earlier times.†   (source)
  • For media reports on the case, see Susan Okie, "Suit Filed Against Tests Using AIDS Virus Genes; Environmental Impact Studies Requested," Washington Post, December 16, 1987; and William Booth, "Of Mice, Oncogenes and Rifkin," Science 239, no.†   (source)
  • Once Axel infected HeLa cells with HIV, Rifkin said, they could infect other cells and expose lab researchers around the world to HIV, "thus increasing the virus' host range and potentially leading to the further hazardous dissemination of the AIDS virus genome."†   (source)
  • Nearly everybody who wants to can find something in HIV/AIDS that somehow works into their political view.†   (source)
  • Social and religious conservatives almost immediately saw the element of divine retribution, while AIDS activists saw the slow response of government as evidence of official hostility to ethnic and sexual constituencies hardest hit by the disease.†   (source)
  • What about AIDS?†   (source)
  • He'd gone to the home of an AIDS patient whom he had treated at the Brigham and found out the man was about to be evicted.†   (source)
  • The Cuban doctor who was running the AIDS conference, an old friend of Farmer's named Jorge Pérez, had sent a car for him.†   (source)
  • When I worked with the Secretary General to help launch the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Paul's work was a key example.†   (source)
  • It's going to be the disease of the century, and it is your responsibility, Gustavo, to stop AIDS from spreading in Cuba.†   (source)
  • What seemed like a revitalized Haitian Ministry of Health had begun collaborating with Zanmi Lasante on  AIDS-prevention work in the central plateau.†   (source)
  • Ti Ofa, the young man who told Farmer that he wanted to give him a chicken or a pig, has gained eight pounds since he started taking anti--AIDS drugs.†   (source)
  • "You should go to the courts and stand up for the rights of the AIDS-infected on trial," said one of the inmates.†   (source)
  • Alarming, because rising syphilis announces the imminence of AIDS, which would grossly magnify the TB epidemic.†   (source)
  • The twin pandemics of AIDS and tuberculosis raged on, of course, magnifying each other, in Africa and Asia, eastern Europe and Latin America.†   (source)
  • Not the wisest thing, during the reign of a military junta, to show a movie that blames AIDS on soldiers.†   (source)
  • Jim Kim had often said that the world's response to AIDS and tb would define the moral standing of his generation.†   (source)
  • Ever since the advent of effective treatments for AIDS, in the latter 1990s, there had been debate on how and where to use the antiretroviral drugs.†   (source)
  • Some prominent voices, some in the U.S. government, still argued that AIDS could not be treated in desperately impoverished places.†   (source)
  • According to the plan, Zanmi Lasante would direct a thorough AIDS-treatment-and-prevention program through most of the central plateau.†   (source)
  • And when I crossed 'AIDS, women, and poverty,' the message said, 'There are no studies meeting those specifications.'†   (source)
  • Farmer made a note—"AIDS patients get longer prison sentences?"—and said he'd pass it on to the World Bank's AIDS specialist.†   (source)
  • Leaving aside all other objections, the new AIDS drugs could cost Zanmi Lasante about five thousand dollars a year per patient.†   (source)
  • And pih sold its headquarters building in Cambridge, and Farmer spent most of the proceeds on drugs for treating AIDS in Cange.†   (source)
  • He said that he and his boss, Gustavo Kouri, were giving Fidel Castro a report about malaria in Africa when Castro asked, "What are you going to do to stop AIDS from entering Cuba?"†   (source)
  • Farmer was looking in Cuba, first of all, for money to stockpile antiretroviral drugs, enough to treat twenty-five patients with full-blown AIDS back in Cange—twenty-five patients for starters.†   (source)
  • As we walked around, I told myself it was too easy to pass judgment now on the way various societies had responded to AIDS in the first panicky years of a terrifying public health emergency.†   (source)
  • The junta had focused most of its terror on the urban slums, because some of Aristide's most ardent support was concentrated in them, and the slums were also at the center of Haiti's AIDS epidemic.†   (source)
  • Even some of Farmer's friends in the Haitian medical establishment have told him he's crazy to take on AIDS this way in Cange, and certainly many experts in international health would agree.†   (source)
  • If they tried to do too much and projects faltered, there would be no end of people pointing out the failures, saying they'd shown that mdr and AIDS could not be treated in impoverished settings.†   (source)
  • He'd tell the story of how, early in the AIDS epidemic in the United States, sociologists and even medical people had hypothesized that HIV had come from Africa to Haiti, then to the United States.†   (source)
  • And if mdr, then why not AIDS?†   (source)
  • Since its revolution Cuba had achieved real control over diseases still burgeoning ninety miles away in Haiti, such as dengue fever, typhoid, tuberculosis, AIDS.†   (source)
  • He went to dozens of American and Canadian universities and colleges, preaching his O for the P gospel, and to South Africa, where he debated a World Bank official at an international AIDS conference.†   (source)
  • Individual donations and Tom White's dwindling fortune still were the main support for Cange, where nonetheless Farmer went on expanding his anti--AIDS campaign.†   (source)
  • Though the woman he'd met in Cuba worked ardently on his behalf, unaids turned down the application he'd submitted, on the grounds that his AIDS-treatment program failed to meet "sustainability criteria."†   (source)
  • At the end of the twentieth century, tb was still killing about two million people a year, more adults than any other infectious disease, except for AIDS, and TB shared what Farmer called "a noxious synergy" with AIDS, since an active case of one often makes a latent case of the other active, too.†   (source)
  • By 2000 the overall rates of HIV infection and deaths from AIDS were dropping in the United States, but infections and deaths had claimed a much larger percentage of the population than in Cuba, and HIV had become mainly a heterosexual disease concentrated among the American poor.†   (source)
  • They managed an AIDS-prevention program for Haitian teenagers in Boston and, in the run-down neighborhoods right next to the Brigham, a program for providing medical and social services to people who weren't getting any.†   (source)
  • Other small AIDS-treatment and -prevention programs were under way in poor countries, but Zanmi Lasante's was the only one in an impoverished rural area that chose its patients solely on medical grounds and not on their ability to pay, the only one that provided expert care and treatment for free.†   (source)
  • Countries with the steepest grades of inequality and the greatest poverty have the biggest AIDS problems, and I'm sure Professor Montagnier would agree that while coinfections are important cofactors, they're not as important as these.†   (source)
  • A younger man whom Farmer refers to as Lazarus, who arrived some months ago on a bed frame carried by relatives, wasted by AIDS and TB to about 90 pounds, now weighing in at about 150, cured of TB and his  AIDS arrested thanks to medications.†   (source)
  • Say that to Farmer and he'd reply, "If so, it's surely the most inclusive damn club in the world, being full of people with AIDS, wl's galore, tons of students, church ladies, lots of patients, and it's a club that grows and never shrinks."†   (source)
  • And the reason he was hurrying through the streets of San Cristóbal at that moment was to get back to our hotel in time for a scheduled telephone interview with a radio station in Los Angeles, which wanted his views on AIDS.†   (source)
  • I take a long swig of water as we stride across a ridge through yellow grass, Farmer pointing out "the peculiarly steep and conical hill" on which he sat in solitude years ago, writing AIDS and Accusation.†   (source)
  • In trying to control tb and AIDS in the central plateau, he had ended up wrangling, not much with third world myths, like beliefs in sorcery, but usually with first world ones, like expert theories that exaggerated the power poor women had to protect themselves from AIDS.†   (source)
  • He had singled out Ludmilla because she'd told him a story about an Italian human rights activist who had inspected the prison and accused her of mistreating AIDS patients by keeping them isolated from the other inmates.†   (source)
  • It had launched programs for women's literacy and for the prevention of AIDS, and in its catchment area had reduced the rate of HIV transmission from mothers to babies to 4 percent—about half the current rate in the United States.†   (source)
  • He wondered if he'd gone too far, but afterward, at his suggestion, health workers in the audience and people who themselves had AIDS collected a bunch of unused drugs, and he ended up with enough to treat a few more of his patients here in Cange.†   (source)
  • Uniformly, the infected women named that kind of desperation, deep poverty and illiteracy, as their reason for having taken what appeared to be the real risk for AIDS, which was cohabiting with truck drivers or soldiers.†   (source)
  • "But since I'm not a Russian citizen …." One prisoner, older than the rest, evidently something like a spokesman, declared that he had merely been a witness to the killing of a man, but because he had AIDS he got a sentence of five years.†   (source)
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