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Global AIDS stats drop, but only on paper
By Maria Cheng Associated Press WHO, UNAIDS release report using new methodology; lower numbers mainly due to revised stats from India The number of AIDS cases worldwide fell by more than 6 million cases this year to 33.2 million, global health officials sa…
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Health Briefs
UNT diversity group to display 4 panels of NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt The University of North Texas’ Division of Equity and Diversity will present four blocks from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt as part of campus commemoration of World AIDS Da…
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Health listings
By Maria Cheng Associated Press Friday STD Screening, $50 for gonorrhea and chlamydia, free syphlis test, Nelson-Tebedo Health Resource Center, appointments available by calling 214-528-2336; HIV Healing Imagery Group, 6 p.m., Hope Counseling Center, call 2…
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Deaths
Claire Regina Vinck passed away on Thursday, Nov. 8, in Dallas, where she has resided for more 20 years. Vinck was born in Norwalk, Conn. on Sept. 25, 1947. Vinck was a LPN and Vietnam veteran who was stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas where she trained m…
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Dallas' World AIDS Day event to feature past surgeon general
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Bush veto dashes any hope of increase in AIDS funding
By Bob Roehr Contributing Writer President compares Congress to “‘teenager with a new credit card’ as he kills bill that included $84 million for Ryan White CARE Act President Bush No increase in federal funding for AIDS programs is one of the many conseque…
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DFW Leatherboys donate to food pantry
Members of the DFW Leatherboys drop off the first batch of donations collected in their first Holiday Canned Goods and Toiletry Drive. The drive continues through Dec. 19, with donations being accepted at Leather Masters, The Dallas Eagle and the Hidden Doo…
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Deaths
Brian Nicholas Betterton, 35, died Nov. 5 at Parkland Hospital of prostate cancer and AIDS. He was born July 12, 1972, and had lived in the Dallas area for the past 20 years. He is survived by his family of choice, Uncle Buck, Mark, Monique, Blue, Ida and T…
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Deaths
Roy Lee Jeffers, III, 32, died Sunday, Nov. 4, at his home in Dallas. He was born Nov. 4, 1975, to Roy Lee Jeffers Jr. and Roxann West Jeffers, in Bastrop, La., and graduated from Downsville High School. At 14, he was offered a full scholarship to the Nacog…
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LGBT youth might make up almost half of "'sofa surfers'
By John Wright Staff Writer Promise House, shelter for homeless youth, kicks off campaign to raise awareness of issues facing young people who live on the streets Bob Ivancic On any given night, more than 1,000 Dallas youth are either living on the streets…
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Extra factors faced by gay vets add to Post Traumatic Stress
By Bob Roehr Contributing Writer Although military prohibits openly gay, lesbian people from serving, retired gay vets can expect to get fair treatment from VA A U.S. Marine boards a plane to leave Vietnam in 1969. Soldiers today in Iraq and Afghanistan are…
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Deaths
Robbie Walton, 36, of Houston died of complications from AIDS on Oct. 3 at his home in Houston. Walton was born Jan. 22, 1971, in San Antonio. He attended Nacogdoches High School in Nacogdoches, Texas and San Jacinto Junior College in Houston. He had lived…
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