AIDS hotlines were flooded with calls after his photo was released.

Mr. Johnson was coordinator of the organization's AIDS hotline.

The critics also say that caller identification will make the public less likely to use confidential social services like AIDS hotlines or shelters for battered women.

Education pamphlets and service organization guides, printed in various languages, bear the names of TV stations as well as the numbers of AIDS hotlines.

When Jeffrey was first diagnosed he decided to move back to New York City and worked at the AIDS Hotline whenever he felt well enough.

Health officials said the comic strip had been enormously popular, prompting an increase in calls to the city's AIDS hotline and hundreds of letters to the agency with suggestions for new characters.

Bubblehead's point would be clear if the phone number at the bottom of the mural were visible: (800) 342-AIDS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's AIDS hotline.

One day at work, I dialed the AIDS hotline and was referred to a number at the New York City Department of Health for the AIDS antibody blood test.

Calls to Hotlines Double News of the Federal recommendations caused telephone inquiries to city and state AIDS hotline numbers to more than double yesterday as fear of possible exposure to the deadly virus grew.

HIV/AIDS Hotlines AIDS hotlines are invaluable for basic HIV/AIDS information.

But no sooner does one begin to feel misgivings about this judgment, when Ivan, Amanda's father, calls an AIDS hotline, and through it meets Brian, a dying musician who has picked up the virus either from love making or shooting cocaine with an infected needle.

Then-NBC affiliate KRON-TV in San Francisco ran a disclaimer before the show with an AIDS hotline number and aired a half-hour live special, Midnight Caller: The Response during which activists and public health officials aired their grievances.

Advocates like Mr. Dobbs say that the city has failed to address serious problems in its AIDS programs, including delays in the city's AIDS hotline and testing program, a stalled needle-exchange program and poor housing and medical care for AIDS patients.