Sue Ellen Christian and Steve Kloehn, Tribune Staff Writers
Evelyn Jackson felt abandoned by her South Side Methodist church when her 26-year-old son was dying of AIDS. My son was ill and dying, and I was not able to go talk to my own pastor because of the discrimination against AIDS, recalled Jackson, a 60-something South Side resident who no longer attends that church. There
The international public health community could help reduce HIV infection rates in Africa and Asia and potentially save millions of lives by promoting the use of male circumcision there, according to an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Robert Bailey, a professor of epidemiology and anthropology
A Willowbrook man who is infected with the virus that causes AIDS was sentenced to 5 years in prison Wednesday for splattering two police officers with his blood and for making verbal threats about giving them AIDS as they tried to help him following a suicide attempt. He is the only person in DuPage ever charged with
The Lake County Health Department, its Community Health Center unit and the Pediatric AIDS Foundation of Chicago are sponsoring the fifth annual World AIDS Day Poster Contest for county elementary, middle and high school students. Students will have the opportunity to express their creativity and help build awareness o
CHICAGO -- The AIDS Foundation of Chicago awarded $1.1 million Tuesday to 57 organizations that provide HIV/AIDS care and services. The awards, in amounts from $5,000 to $50,000, are coveted by agencies because they give them choices in deciding how best to spend the money. The grants arrive at a time when private and
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals this week overturned a lower court decision and ruled that Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. did not violate the Americans With Disabilities Act when it placed a lower cap on coverage for AIDS and AIDS-related medical treatment. The ruling, handed down late Wednesday, said the federal law d
In the largest deal yet by its new management team, Abbott Laboratories announced a $335 million alliance Thursday with a North Carolina firm that will allow Abbott to market AIDS cocktails from one source. Currently, Abbott has one way to combat HIV, but the venture with Triangle Pharmaceuticals Inc. allows the North
As human populations continue to move into and defile the world s last, pristine wild environments, the animals they displace have been passing on to humans new, deadly, difficult-to-conquer infections such as AIDS, Ebola fever and Lyme disease. Chicago is emerging as a world center for research on how such diseases ar
HOLLYWOOD -- America has become absorbed in a debate over what some people consider to be an epidemic of violence in the media. It s an argument that has been going on for decades -- remember when Congress took on TV westerns in the early 60s? -- and isn t likely to be settled in the months before the next election.
WASHINGTON -- Though the AIDS epidemic is taking its steepest toll in some of the poorest regions of the world, the U.S. government and the nation s pharmaceuticals industry are fighting efforts to make the latest life-saving drugs more widely available there. The battle pits the drug firms and their desire to maintain
EVANSTON An Evanston man with AIDS filed suit Monday against Osco Drug Stores and its parent companies, charging that the drugstore chain violated his privacy by distributing copies of a thank-you letter that he sent the firm. The letter commended Osco pharmacists for their help in obtaining hard-to-find drugs used to
The spending cap for many patients who get their AIDS drugs free from the government was doubled by Illinois public health officials Thursday, a move activists say should keep powerful yet expensive treatments within reach of most people. Maximum payments will rise from $1,000 to $2,000 per month, effective immediately
BETHESDA, Md. -- It has been 203 years since Edward Jenner gave an 8-year-old boy the first vaccine ever created: for smallpox, derived from a dairy maid s cowpox lesions. Now researchers are developing vaccines for everything from AIDS to cancer to diabetes, but they re also seeking ways to deliver them other than by
Vera Rodriguez s husband, David, was in the final stages of liver failure when he went to live, and die, in the city s only hospice set up to care for AIDS patients in the last months of their lives. When Rodriguez, who also is HIV-positive, reaches that same point, she will not have that option. When I heard it was cl
In a finding that helps resolve the longstanding mystery of how the virus that causes AIDS first infected humans, a team of researchers announced on Sunday that the major strain of the virus almost certainly came from a type of African chimpanzee. The results may one day yield insight into why chimpanzees do not get il
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