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Between 1983 and 1992, the Blood Sisters hosted 12 blood drives, demonstrating sustained commitment for nearly a decade.
In September 2005, I was a patient at St. Bartholomew’s hospital in East London being treated for AIDS-associated illnesses. There seemed to be no light at the end of the tunnel as I approached ...
Learn how AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) – the world’s largest, nonprofit HIV/AIDS healthcare organization—adopted ...
A dying patient inspired this doctor to follow his dream to become a ... and was well known for treating people living with AIDS. He became close to many of his patients, including a man named Frank.
Doctors around the world who treat patients with antiretroviral therapy (A.R.T.), a course of treatment taken every day by people living with H.I.V./AIDS, have borne witness to the “Lazarus ...
Photo: Aaron Yoshino Name: Joseph Eppink Job: Death Doula Beginnings: When he was a public school teacher, Joseph Eppink found his passion as a hospice volunteer, caring for dying AIDS patients and ...
A special gift from a dying AIDS patient. It's far different from when Weissbach worked in an HIV/AIDS clinic at the University of Rochester in upstate New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
In October 1988, at the height of the AIDS crisis, people around the country received white envelopes in their mailboxes. Vibrant purple and magenta letters spelled out “National Coming Out Day ...
When patient zero was first used in relation to a person living with AIDS, it was as if that person contained the kinetic energy and evil of an atomic weapon.And when it was invoked decades later ...
At the time, less than 50,000 people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa were on treatment, despite an estimated 2.75 million people dying from AIDS globally the previous year.