UNC clinic to celebrate patients who have survived HIV for two decades
Published in the Durham Herald-Sun, 9/9/14
CHAPEL HILL — When Lynda Bell worked with patients with HIV in the early 1990s, the number of deaths that she saw was terrifying. But across her years of working with HIV patients as a nurse practitioner, she said she’s seen improvements in treatment and in her patients’ health and life expectancy.
In an effort to recognize her patients’ courage and success in fighting the infection, Bell, the associate director of the University of North Carolina Infectious Diseases Clinic, has helped to organize a celebration on Friday. With dancing, a meal and remarks from physicians and dignitaries, the event will celebrate the clinic’s 349 patients who have survived the infection for two decades or more. Seventy-two patients had planned to attend as of Friday.
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