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Friends, family honor life of former UNC medical professor who died in NY swimming race


Friends and family gathered at Beth El Synagogue Tuesday to remember the life of Dr. Charles van der Horst. He died over the weekend while swimming in a race in New York. In the early 1980s, when the HIV/AIDS epidemic was filled with uncertainty and stigma, van der Horst, who was a medical professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, was there from the beginning. (CBS 17)

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