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Friday, November 17, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
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Teleconference discusses AIDS at universities
By Melanie Matthes Kansan staff writer
Two hundred universities, including the University of Kansas, participated in a national teleconference yesterday to discuss AIDS in the college community.
One issue discussed by panel members, who answered questions from a national audience, was the installation of condom machines on campuses.
the realities of AIDS and AIDS transmission on college campuses need to be addressed by college administrators, health officials and students nationwide, the teleconference concluded.
a six-member panel of university and health experts presided over the teleconference, which was viewed at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union by about 85 KU administrators, health and housing officials and students.
representing health services at the University of Virginia, said that 120,000 AIDS cases had been reported in the country but that this number was expected to grow to 500,000 by 1993.
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is transmitted primarily among people between the ages of 16 and 28, he said, because they are more sexually active than other age groups.
Richard Keeling, a panel member
Surveys conducted by the American College Health Association indicate that most college students know about AIDS and the advised precautions, Keeling said.
Keeling recommended programs designed to dispel students' idea that they were invincible to AIDS. The incidence of date rape, the use of intravenous steroids among athletes
and the effects of alcohol on sexual behavior also were problems that Keeling needed to be addressed.
pouses.
David Kamens, a panel member who has AIDS, said that condom machines were only part of a much broader education program that was needed on college campuses.
needed.
Janine Demo, coordinator for health education at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that she thought the teleconference was very informative but that she was disappointed that more KU students and faculty didn't attend.
The teleconference cost $700 to be transmitted to KU.
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