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VOL.101.NO.56
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1991
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HIV testing expected to increase in Lawrence
Watkins and health department offer free screening options
Kansan staff writer
By Kerrie Gottschalk
Konson staff member
After Magic Johnson announced last week that he had tested positive for HIV, local health officials predicted an increase in the demand for HIV testing at the University of Kansas and in Lawrence.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said he already had seen an increase.
Watkins had several patients walk in Friday and request to be tested, Yockeysaid.
"I think we have done more today than we have all month," he said Friday.
Johnson, who played as a guard for the Los Angeles Lakers for 12 seasons, announced Thursday that he was retiring from basketball because he
had tested positive for HIV, the virus that precedes AIDS. Johnson led the Lakers to five NBA championships.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department reported that requests for HIV testing had not increased on Friday.
"I do think there will be an increase in the near future," said Kay Kent, director of the health department. "It's a situation, we were seeing an increase."
Health department statistics reveal a 39-percent increase in HIV tests administered in July, August and September of 1991 compared to the same months in 1990. October's statistics were not immediately available.
The health department provides HIV testing to the public in which patients do not have to give their real names, Kent said. She said patients
received pre- and post-test counseling appointments and receive test results within two weeks.
Blood samples are tested for free by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in Topeka, Kent said.
Students can be tested two ways at Watkins, Yockey said.
Watkins performs anonymous testing, which is done the same way as the health department's testing.
However, appointments for anonymous testing at Watkins are booked through the middle of the spring semester, Yockey said.
The other form of testing is confidential testing. Patients can walk in and request to have an HIV test. The results are returned within five days.
Confidential testing requires that
personal information be given, but Yockey said the results of the confidential test could not be revealed to anyone unless the patient signed a release form.
"We do have HIV-positive students who know it and who are being treated for it," said Janine Demo, coordinator of Watkins' health education department.
She said from 50 to 60 KU students probably were HIV-positive if national statistics that reported that one in 100 student students had HIV were accurate.
Watkins' health education department provides pamphlets and brochures about HIV testing and AIDS, and health educators also are available to answer student questions. Demosaid.
Spectrum of HIV infection
Being infected with HIV is not the same as having AIDS. HIV causes a spectrum of conditions and symptoms.
Infected No symptoms Mild symptoms AIDS
- The scientific name for HIV is human immunodeficiency virus.
- AIDS is the most severe, life-threatening form of HIV. AIDS attacks the body's immune system and decreases the body's defense against infection. People with AIDS develop a group of related symptoms and disorders, such as cancer or pneumonia.
- On the average, it takes about 10 years from the time HIV is diagnosed to the time when serious symptoms develop.
- HIV may progress slowly or quickly along the spectrum of HIV infection.
- Source: American College Health Association, The Associated Press
- Anti-viral drug therapy can slow significantly the progression of HIV.
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Date Opponent
Nov. 14 German National
Nov. 23 Illinois-Chicago
Nov. 29-30 Texas-Arlington
Dec.3 Wichita State
Dec.6-7 Jayhawk Dial Classic
Dec.14 Emporia State
Dec.21 Drake
Dec.30 Minnesota
Jan. 2-4 Florida Intl. Tournamer
Jan. 9 Creighton
Jan. 15 Missouri
Jan. 18 Colorado
Jan. 22 Iowa State
Jan. 25 Nebraska
Jan. 29 Oklahoma State
Feb. 2 Kansas State
Feb. 5 Oklahoma
Feb. 8 Oklahoma State
Feb. 12 Colorado
Feb. 16 Iowa State
Feb. 19 Nebraska
Feb. 23 Kansas State
Feb. 26 Oklahoma
Feb. 29 Missouri
Mar. 7-9 Big Eight Tournament
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