Border portraits – From the corporate life to the quiet life
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Editor’s note: This is another in a series of people and places that are an important part of our border. A series that we named Border portraits/Retratos de la frontera.
The border culture makes fighting HIV more difficult
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EL PASO — Jorge “Sasha” Garcia sat in a sterile, impersonal doctor’s office in the summer of 1995 and watched the clock tick away as he waited for the results of his HIV test. He had sought treatment two weeks earlier for an unrelated infection and decided to submit to the HIV test on the advice of his doctor. “This was back in the day before we had the 20-minute test, which allows you to find out right away. So, I waited two weeks and of course those two weeks were grueling,” Garcia said. Finally, the doctor strode into the office with Garcia’s results.
Northeast El Paso – Audio Slideshow
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Editor’s note: This is another in a series of El Pasoans sharing their favorite places in El Paso. A series that we named Mi querido El Paso.