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Lubbock AIDS case
prompts discussion
on student policy
Lubbock school officials announced
that a student who attended summer
school for two days has AIDS. The
officials said they disclosed the case
to end rumors and begin work on a
policy to deal with the issue.
“Last Wednesday (June 11) we
learned from an unknown source that
there was a child with AIDS,” Lub-
bock school Supt. E.C. Leslie said.
“We feared the information would
get out through rumors, so we de-
cided to make a public notice.
“We are seeking the input of the
legal and medical communities be-
cause we want to make a policy re-
garding AIDS before school begins
next fall,” he said at a news confer-
ence June 17.
The child’s identity is being kept
confidential, and is believed to be the
first child in Texas schools to have
AIDS. The child contracted AIDS
from contaminated blood used in a
transfusion more than two years ago
when blood was not routinely screen-
ed for the HTLV-III virus.
The Lubbock announcement came
two days before the American Med-
ical Association said at its annual
meeting in Chicago that children
with AIDS should be allowed to at-
tend public schools.
“There is no reason to exclude these
children from public schools, because
they cannot infect other children,”
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NEWS
said Dr. William R. Hendee, an AM A
vice president. “We know for sure
that the only way the AIDS virus is
transmitted is through semen or an
exchange of blood products.”
The 271,000-member organization
announced the creation of a nation-
wide network to disseminate infor-
mation about AIDS to schools and
communities. The network is being
started in Texas, Pennsylvania and
California, and should be working
nationwide by fall.
Gay sculpture on
display in Madison
A sculpture depicting two homo-
sexual couples, two men and two
women, will be allowed to be dis-
played in a Madison, Wis., park.
The Madison Park Commission
unanimously reaffirmed its decision
to display the statue “Gay Liberation
by George Segal after about 100
people responded to a questionnaire
and said they approved of the sculp
ture.
Critics have called the sculpture
“homosexual propaganda” and an
“insidious means of indoctrination.”
Alderman William Feitlinger,
whose district includes the park
where the art is to be displayed,
called the criticism “incredible
bigotry.”
“This statue will do no harm to our
neighborhood,” he said. “In fact, I
think it could be a positive thing—
two men, two women showing affec
tion.”
AIDS in blood slips
by antibody screen
Researchers have announced the
first case of a patient getting AIDS
from blood that had been screened for
the HTLV-III virus and shown
negative.
The incident happened last year in
Colorado when a donor gave blood so
soon after a homosexual encounter
that he had not yet developed anti-
bodies to AIDS when the screening
test was administered.
Doctors don’t know how long the
body takes to develop antibodies after
being exposed to AIDS, but say it
might take weeks to several months.
Health officials, therefore, have
warned men who have had a homo-
sexual encounter since 1977 to avoid
donating blood.
A 60-year-old heterosexual who
was married for 30 years was expos-
ed to AIDS from the blood transfu-
sion. The donor was 31 years old and
tested negative to the AIDS virus in
April 1985 and gave blood in August,
shortly after he began having sex
with a 22-year-old man. It was his
first homosexual contact in 11 years.
The donor gave blood again in Nov-
ember, but this time the test showed
exposure to the AIDS virus and was
rejected.
Another patient got blood from the
August donation and has been in-
fected with AIDS. However, he is gay
and reported multiple sexual part-
ners so doctors aren’t sure of the
source of his infection.
Neither patient has developed the
full-blown disease.
Doctors say 50,000
AIDS cases in Africa
Africa may have 50,000 AIDS
cases and 1 million to 2 million Afri-
cans may be infected by the HTLV-
III virus, says a report to be released
Saturday (June 28).
The World Health Organization
has made the new estimates that
differ greatly from official figures in
individual African countries, many
of which have denied the existence of
the disease.
The new estimates are based on
“serious” scientific studies in Africa,
according to The New York Times.
“If 1 million persons are assumed to
be infected and the most conservative
rate of annual progression to clinical
AIDS is utilized—one percent per
year—a minimum of 10,000 AIDS
cases annually may be occurring in
Africa,” the report said.
Over a five-year period, the toll
would be at least 50,000 cases.
That is maore than double the
number of AIDS cases reported in
the United States, which stands at
21,000, with between 500,000 and 1
million people suspected of being
carriers.
“While only nine African countries
have officially reported a total of 378
AIDS cases, the AIDS incidence in
several Central African cities is
known to equal or exceed incidence
rates in New York or San Francisco,”
the report said.
Gay pride rally is
okayed at St. Pat’s
Up to 100 members of a New York
City gay-rights group will be allowed
to demonstrate this weekend (June
29) outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
A federal judge cleared the way for
the peaceful demonstration to take
place during the Gay Pride Parade
Sunday.
YOU KN(W THe WAY—
JUST FALLOW THE SIGN®).
Friday, June 27, 1986
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