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The AIDS Civil War 

The promise of a new treatment has opened a painful divide

Wednesday, Feb 19 1997
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The line goes silent. Then:
"I'm beginning to think," he says, steadying himself with a chuckle, "what's next?"

What's next is that Joey is going to be needing a lot more help than can be found inside a pill bottle. Joey's going to be keeping a small corner of the AIDS social service structure very busy. With any hope, for a long time.

Joey Richardson is a pseudonym for a San Francisco man living with

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