A.I.D.S. victim paints in blood
NZPA-Reuter Porto Alegre, Brazil A haemophiliac painter who has developed A.I.D.S. is making a record of his suffering in paintings drawn with his own blood. Mr Luis Cardoso, aged 29, attracted widespread attention three years ago when he married a woman, aged 19, even though he was carrying the A.I.D.S. virus. Since then he has developed the disease. On his bedroom wall Mr Cardoso has hung one of his works “as a symbol of my own suffering.” At his home in a poor suburb of this southern
city, he told Reuters, “The haemophiliac in Brazil practises a real Russian roulette with every transfusion of blood, running the risk of contracting A.1.D.5.” Brazilian health authorities have admitted they are unable to control private blood banks and there has been uproar over the number of haemophiliacs contracting A.I.D.S. Cardoso’s wife, Lurdes, and their son, Craviano, aged seven months, have shown no signs of developing A.1.D.5., which can be sexually transmitted and which breaks down the body’s biological defences. 4°
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