Do now: You are the parent of a middle school child and your child (can be male or female) earns a spot on the wrestling team. A new student enrolls at.

Do now:

• You are the parent of a middle school child and your child (can be male or female) earns a spot on the wrestling team. A new student enrolls at the school from Haiti and also earns a spot on the wrestling team. Your child overhears the wrestling coach having a conversation with the school nurse and the nurse hints that this new student may have HIV / AIDS. As a health care provider she cannot acknowledge whether anything about any student’s medical history, but it is clear from the conversation with the coach that something is of concern. Your child mentions this to you at dinner asking you whether he/she should remain on the team because of this student. What do you tell your child?

Required testing

• Do people that are considered “high risk” have to submit to testing?

• Should women be required to be tested if they are high risk either pregnant or not (as well as children) be tested

Testing

• The initial reading seemed to demand that all high risk for HIV women get tested if pregnant

• What are the problems?

Should women be required to be tested if they are high risk either pregnant or not (as well as children) be tested?

• Pro for testing• Get answers• Carriers identified• Help can be given

immediately once known

• Quarantine if necessary

• Against testing• Play into

stereotypes• Alienate specific

groups• Control of one’s

body

Recommendations

– Educate the public about HIV– Examine reproductive choices– Id women & infants who can benefit

from medical treatment– Allow proper obstetric treatments– Targeting specific groups – No according to the reading

Lifting the AIDS Entry ban

• President Obama has repealed a 16-year-old federal law he claims is “rooted in fear rather than fact” that bans immigration and travel to the U.S. by foreigners infected with AIDS. 

• This will allow, for the first time in nearly two decades, foreigners infected AIDS to freely enter the U.S.

Some are still banned

• Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Syphilis, Chancroid, Gonorrhea, Granuloma Inguinale, and Lymphogranuloma Venereum will stay on the concern list. That means five of the remaining seven are sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS.

• From: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/nov/obama-repeals-aids-immigration-ban

Impact of AIDS

• Since June 5, 1981, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has killed more than 25 million people, infected 40 million others and left a legacy of unspeakable loss, hardship, fear and despair.

More of the impact

• AIDS could kill 31 million people in India and 18 million in China by 2025, according to projections by U.N. population researchers. By then in Africa, where AIDS likely began and where the virus has wrought the most devastation, researchers said the toll could reach 100 million.

AIDS Legacy

• We will be grappling with AIDS for the next 10, 20, 30, 50 years,” said Mark Stirling, the director of East and Southern Africa for UNAIDS.

• In at least seven countries, the U.N. estimates that AIDS has reduced life expectancy to 40 years or less. In Botswana, which has the world’s highest infection rate, a child born today can expect to live less than 30 years.

• From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13072820/ns/health-aids/

Impact of AIDS

• Spread of AIDS and the ban

Lifting of the ban

Pro

• Assist those that need help the most

• Demonstrate compassion• Offer medicines not

available in the 3rd world• Demonstrate that life can

go on even with the disease

Con

• Allow new strains of HIV into the country

• Can cause further spreading

• Shift the cost on the US Taxpayer

• Strain our health care even further

Immigration Ban

• Early in the Obama Administration, the decision to lift the ban on denying those people immigrating to the United States. The immigration policy was designed to minimize the spread of AIDS especially from countries ravaged by AIDS.

Immigration Ban

• Step 1: Research the policy on banning immigration those infected with AIDS

• When did the ban come into effect

• Designed to stop or prevent?

• What immigrants were targeted (meaning was it from a particular country?)

• What is the actual language of the law now meaning with the change?

Essay - specifics

• This is to be a minimum (since you always ask) of 3 pages with proper citations and a proper bibliography. The citations must follow MLA format. Class notes count as sources.

Step 2

• Step 2: Other specifics –All sites must be legitimate sites. If you use Wikipedia or some other unreliable web site then your paper will be returned and marked late. Also, there will be a 3 strike rule as far as proper tense, and grammar. After 3 strikes your paper will be returned for revision. You MUST have a minimum of 3 sources (web sites, books, newspaper articles,…) These 3 sources are to be USED throughout your paper, you are not allowed to just use one and these sources must be cited throughout the paper.

Step 3

• Step 3: The due date is next Monday in class April 25th in class. There is a bonus / penalty system in play: 5 points for being early, and minus 30 for being late. Emailing after class is defined as late.

• Yes, HLS still due even if you are doing the Speed reading course.