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April 4, 2000
Blood Supply Largely Safe,
Play Raises End-of-Life Issues
NIH Commits to Plainspokenness
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
Infection Rates Rising in Women HIV/AIDS Epidemic 'Still Advancing,' Panel Warns By Carla Garnett
Even with all the weapons heightened public awareness
campaigns, safe sex advisories, needle exchange programs,
treatments such as zidovudine (AZT), protease inhibitor "cocktails"
and most recently, highly active antiretroviral therapy
(HAART) deployed against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in two
decades, the disease is still winning, according to panelists at a
recent women's health seminar. Further, they point out, the
epidemic's relentless advance is no more increasingly evident than in
the world's women and children. Real-Life Lifesaver Still Saving Lives By Carla Garnett
When Congress needed a role model for its annual blood drive
competition, who did they call? When U.S. Surgeon General David
Satcher wanted to team up to tape public service announcements on
the importance of blood donation, who did he tag? Howard Drew,
the same man who has donated more than 200 units of blood over
the last 50 years and whose phone number might as well be on
speed dial at the Clinical Center's department of transfusion
medicine. Drew is a former reference librarian at the National
Library of Medicine and the first inductee in the NIH blood donor
Hall of Fame.
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