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Subject: Re: Get tested
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Date: 26 Oct 89 01:54:28 GMT
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Dear Wounded.Bird:

I don't know about your area of the country, but in Dallas, folks
are surviving their bouts with HIV management problems.  There are
fewer deaths and fewer hospitalizations because local physicians are
beginning to understand the "balancing act" of medications, nutrition,
exercise (physical/mental), and just plain ol' positive thinking.

I don't recall stating that NO ONE DIES.  Not being a physician, I
cannot repeat, with impunity, the details of each and every protocol
or therapy provided to the HIV+ folks here.  I *DO* know (being associated
with the local community-based clinic as a trained/certified peer
counselor) that my HIV+/PWARC/PWA friends and associates are SURVIVING!
 
The quality of life here for those afflicted with this disease is
becoming much better than ever before.  It's not magic... just caring!

-- 
Steve Giammarco
AIDS Resource Center
Dallas TX 75219
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