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Health Listings
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 214-351-5657; Anorexia Nervosa an…
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Deaths
Michael “Patrick” Namie, 54, of Dallas, died Nov. 15 in a Dallas hospital. He was born March 17, 1952, to the late Joe Roy Sr. and Madeline Cannon Namie. He graduated from Nevill High School in Monroe, Louisiana in 1971, and attended the University of Louis…
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World AIDS Day observances in North Texas
For more information on the current state of the AIDS epidemic and the 2006 World AIDS Day Campaign, visit www.unaids.org and www.worldaidscampaign.org. Who: Cathedral of Hope What: Remembrance service and “Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens” When:…
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Accountability, responsibility key to fighting AIDS
By Beth Freed – Staff Writer Cost of epidemic, in money and lives, continues to rise along with rate of new infections, amid criticism of government policies, focus on abstinence-only education Don Maison (left), and Raeline Nobles (right). A quarter of a c…
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Health Listings
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 214-351-5657; Anorexia Nervosa an…
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Senators plan to get tested at World AIDS day conference
By Michael R. Blood – AP Political Writer Obama and Brownback want to bring attention to the importance of HIV testing to help prevent the spread of AIDS virus Senator Barack Obama (left), and Senator Sam Brownback (right). LOS ANGELES Another sign of the n…
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Deaths
Richard “Dick” Dufford, 78, of Dallas died at the V.A. Hospital in Dallas on Nov. 10 following several months of declining health. Dufford was born in Connecticut and had lived in the Dallas area for 15 years. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Penn State U…
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Marcus R. Corona, 43, died Monday in Fort Worth. He was a beloved partner, devoted son, loving brother and uncle, and cherished friend passed Nov. 6 in Fort Worth. Corona is survived by his life partner, Richard Bailey; his parents, Louis and Nancy Corona;…
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New gene therapy for HIV to undergo more extensive trial
By Randolph E. Schmid Associated Press Phase II of testing will involve more patients including some whose HIV is controlled by drugs Dr. Carl June, left, and Dr. Bruce Levine, right. The first test of a potential new gene therapy for HIV the virus that cau…
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Health Listings
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 214-351-5657; Anorexia Nervosa an…
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Deaths
John David Haggard, 62, of Irving died of a stroke on Sept. 28 at Baylor Medical Center in Irving. Haggard, a retired accountant graduated from McKinney High School and Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He served in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1968, and had…
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Deaths
Richard G. Jones, 50, of Dallas, died of septic shock on Sept. 10 at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Jones was a native of Hattiesburg, Miss., and had resided in the Dallas area for the past 30 years. He was employed with EDS. Jones is survived by his partner a…
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