Word: viruses
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Street Beat ministers to the most vulnerable in an area where the high school dropout rate approaches 30% and where 1 out of every 43 babies is born with the AIDS virus. It focuses on children and young adults 13 to 25, but will assist anyone who requests help. "When you are on the streets, you can't be selective," says Russo. "You have to service everyone out there or else they will isolate you." Eighty-five percent of Street Beat's clients are female; some have up to 20 clients a night. "The girls out here work; they...
...around in a minivan and a 31-ft.-long recreational vehicle, a wheeled medical-office-cum-rest-area equipped with an examination room, bathroom, shower and kitchen. The unit handles everything from minor scrapes and pregnancy screening to gunshot wounds. Forty-five percent of those tested for the AIDS virus are positive. "These kids operate outside the law and the health-care and social systems to such a degree that when they get on this van, they have no ID, no address, no nothing," says Ellen Flynn, 44, Street Beat's nurse practitioner. "We try to handle everything on their...
...board the van to see Flynn, eat one of the free sandwiches or look through the clothes bag. A young girl named Susan in a tight leopard-pattern top anxiously awaits the result of her test for the AIDS virus. "You are lucky this time," Zayas says as he puts his arm around her and walks her back across the street. "But you have to keep using condoms...
...this month, 94,770 men, women and children are dead from AIDS. Thousands of these deaths could have been prevented if these people had known how to prevent transmission of the virus by practicing safe sex, including the use of condoms during anal and vaginal intercourse...
...executive John A. Armstrong '56 and Michael Crichton '64, author of the science fiction novel The Andromeda Strain, which described high-tech efforts to battle a mutating extraterrestrial virus, showed a particular interest in the use of computers for teaching, one overseer said...