University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. April 9, 1991
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Forum emphasizes awareness and prevention of AIDS virus
By Amy Francis
Kansan staff writer
Straight talk about AIDS, ways to prevent the disease and answers to students' questions made up the format of a forum last night at the Kansas Union.
The forum, "AIDS and the College Student," was sponsored by Student Senate's minority affairs committee. Mary Lona, executive director of the Richmond Caleb Clinic, and her brother Joe Gamez, HI-VIAIDS educator at the Guadalupe Center Inc., were the speakers. Both the clinic and the center are in Kansas City, Mo.
"College students need to be aware that it's a affecting our age," said Liz Mendez, chairperson of the committee.
Lona said, "The message we want to give is that AIDS can kill you. It's not time to be prim and proper. It's time to get down and tell what can cause it.
"I think it's our responsibility to tell it straight to you. It's bad, really bad. We know for a fact that a lot of you aren't going to be reached until someone you know or someone in your family dies."
Gamez said that 10,000 people had tested HIV positive in the Kansas City area. In the country, the largest growing group of people infected with AIDS is the 20- to 39-year-old areal group. The second largest group is the 25- to 29-year-old areal group.
Lona told the students about AIDS victims she had seen.
"It's like nothing I've ever seen before," she said. Most of the people Ive seen look like Nazi concentration camps. "They're all so scary."
Mary Lona, executive director of the Richard Cabot Clinic in Kansas City, Mo., explains the correct way to use a condom.
Trying to keep more people from becoming victims was a major theme of the forum.
If people choose to have sex, they should be careful who they have sex with. Lona said.
"AIDS is out there You can be infected by the most gorgeous hunk or the most beautiful woman," she said. "They won't have 'AIDS' stamped across their foreheads.
The forum was part of AIDS Awareness Week, which is sponsored by the Douglas County AIDS Project. Events to heighten awareness of AIDS and to raise money will be conducted until Sunday.
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