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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, Aug. 30, 1985
Ads stress AIDS facts and education
The Associated Press
Radio advertisements urging officials to let an AIDS-striken seventh-grader return to classes were broadcast yesterday in Indiana, while in California authorities made plans to teach prevention of the deadly disease as part of sex education.
"I think there should be a full observance of what is true about the disease," said Roger Cunningham, general manager of the AIDS Medical Foundation, which sponsored the broadcast spots in Kokomo, Ind. "And the truth is it is not spread by casual contact."
That message was repeated by doctors in New York, where officials were deciding whether to admit four AIDS-struck elementary school
pupils, and by health officials in other states confronting the dilemma as schools reopen.
Cunningham said his New York-based group was broadcasting the ads to try to persuade officials of Western School Corp., outside Kokomo, Ind., to reconsider their decision to bar 13-year-old Ryan White from school.
Parents have signed a petition supporting the school's decision to bar Ryan from attending classes because of questions about the communicability of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, which destroys the body's ability to fight disease.
The parents have threatened to sue if Ryan is allowed into the classroom and another child gets AIDS.
A suit was also threatened by the guardian of a 4-year-old girl in Plainfield, N.J., if educators bar her from regular kindergarten classes next week.
The Plainfield Board of Education is waiting for state guidelines on whether the 17 AIDS-afflicted children in New Jersey should attend public schools.
"They've already deprived her of enough. They're irrationally considering it," the girl's foster mother, Doris Williams, said Wednesday. "The Department of Health says it's not a communicable disease so she should be able to go to school."
Three Connecticut schoolchildren have been identified as being exposed to the virus blamed for the disease, and it will be up to local
school boards to decide whether they are admitted to regular classes, said state Department of Education Deputy Commissioner Lorraine Arronson.
"From the point of view of transmission of infection to other children there's no general reason for them not to be in school. We don't expect the type of interaction children have in school to transmit the virus," said Connecticut's chief of epidemiology, Dr. James Hadler.
The federal Centers for Disease Control recommended yesterday that in most cases, a child with AIDS virus should be admitted to regular classes, saying, "Casual person-to-person contact, as would occur among schoolchildren, appears to pose no risk."
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