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Fridav. November 30, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Program to fight AIDS spread
Rv Courtnev Eblen
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence area health officials hope a new peer-education program will prevent AIDS from proliferating at KU.
According to a report released Wednesday by the national Centers for Disease Control, one out of every 500 college students will contract the human immunodeficiency virus, which leads to AIDS infection.
The University of Kansas was one of 19 schools participating in the center's study, which determined that 25,000 to 35,000 college students in the United States were infected with HIV.
Tim Brownlee, who works in Watkins Memorial Health Center's health education department, said that for the most part, AIDS-education seminars at KU had focused on organized living groups, such as
residence and scholarship halls an sororities and fraternities.
But a new seminar, offered tomorrow in correspondence with World AIDS Day, which is tomorrow, will train representatives of student organizations on campus, Brownlee said.
Brownlee said the seminar, which will be conducted at Watkins and is being sponsored by the KU HIV/STD Education Committee, will train students to teach their peers about AIDS prevention.
"There hasn't been a comprehensive University plan to disseminate AIDS education," Brownlee said. "We are looking at this as a begin-
Brownlee said one to four representatives from more than 30 student groups were slated to attend the event, which will be held in public. Among the groups attending
will be Student Senate, Black Student Union and Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
"What we want are representatives of a lot of these groups," Brownlee said. "These representatives will be trained to go back and forth with people, who wanted to do something that, in the long term, would reach everyone."
Janine Demo, coordinator of health education at Watkins, will lead the seminar, which will feature speakers from several KU and Douglas County health departments.
Ann Ailor, a registered nurse with the Douglas County Health Department, will speak about the HIV response at the department, 338 Missouri St.
It is the only place in Douglas County where people can get their blood tested for HIV.
Phil Huntsinger, professor of health education, will discuss the history of the AIDS epidemic. Donna Flory, a social worker with the KU Psychology Clinic and client-services coordinator for the Douglas County AIDS Project, will outline some of the services offered by both groups
To remind students that other sexually transmitted diseases besides AIDS still plague college campuses, Henry Buck, chief gynecologist at Watkins, will focus on some STDs as chlamydia, which affects one in 10 women on the KU campus, he said.
Buck said he also would discuss preventive measures students should take to avoid AIDS and other sexually transmitted viruses such as chlamydia and genital warts.
"The prevention message will apply to all of these diseases," Buck said.
Task force discusses new AIDS education
Kansan staff report
The Student Senate AIDS task force met yesterday at the Kansas Union to discuss its strategy to increase student awareness of AIDS.
The task force discussed several different ways it could conduct a survey. One tentative proposal was to distribute an AIDS survey to students by including it with their enrollment cards.
Julianne Peter, AIDS task force chairperson, said a survey could be used to determine what students already knew about the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS, and what the best approach was to further educate them.
"The purpose of the Student Senate AIDS task force is to reach students from a student level," she said.
She said the task force next semester also was going to begin an on-campus AIDS campaign and distribute educational material to dispel myths and rumors about HIV.
The task force has received the residence halls' permission to place an informational book, "A Guide to Safe Sex," in the halls, she said.
In a study released Wednesday, the national Centers for Disease Control estimated that between 25,000 and 35,000 college students are infected with HIV. That is about one in 500 U.S. students. The study included statistics from KU.
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