The nearly forgotten plague

published on March 15, 2008 in The Globe and Mail

Cutting-edge AIDS medications have lengthened patients' lives and given many a better existence than they would have had 10 years ago, but these advances have helped push the disease out of mainstream consciousness. Health-care workers point to continuing problems that need attention: 'premature aging,' lack of bed space and failure to make sure everyone - especially the poor - gets medicine

VANCOUVER -- In the lobby of the gleaming Dr. Peter Centre for patients with AIDS, a man of indeterminate age is moaning.

"If I go out there, I'll die," he says to himself.

Another man shuffles past, his face pinched and gaunt. He looks 75 years old but isn't.

Later, a third man, Tom Griffin, came into a room to talk. Or rather, he was wheeled in by his friend, Spencer Dane. He has difficulty keeping his head up. His voice is weak. Conversation often drops off from fatigue and emotion. And this is a good day for the once-vigorous restaurateur, Mr. Dane said. More >>

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