What....My Child Has HIV?!
Question: What!.!.!.!.My Child Has HIV!?
I live in Missouri and we have a high school called Normandy!. Well today it was announced on the news that the high school has been contaminated with HIV/AIDS!. There is going to be a town meeting and they are offering free testing to the whole school!. My question is how would it make you feel if your teenager was attending a school that has been openly contaminated with HIV/AIDS!? Even though I am not in that situation, I just don't know how easy I could handle it!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
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The first thing to do Sometimes people react before they know the whole story and end up either overreacting or doing the wrong thing!. Then I would ask what they planned on doing to fix the contamination problem!. Once you have all the information, including how the contamination happened and how the school plans on making sure they have a plan to prevent this problem ever happening again!. Then you can make the decision that's best for your child!. Hope I helped!. Www@Answer-Health@Com
contaminated with aids!? educate yourself!. you can only get aids by having unprotected sex with someone who has aids, or by having an open wound come into direct contact with the blood of someone who has aids!. if one person in the high school has aids, that does not mean they have contaminated the rest of the school!. you can be around, be friends with, touch, and even have safe sexual relations with someone with aids!. i can't believe they are providing free tests to anyone who has come into contact with this person!. they are acting as if this person is a leper!. haha!. the only people who need to be tested are the people who had unprotected sex with this individual!. that's all!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Parents of Normandy High School students gathered Wednesday night to get answers from county health officials about a student who may have exposed others to HIV!. The exposure was first discovered by the St!. Louis County Department of Health on October 7, and the school community learned of it on Monday!.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention HIV Section
Parents were told the case was unique, because it's centered at Normandy High, and health officials were learning more about the exposure, and trying to see if more students were involved!.
The health director, Dr!. Dolores Gunn, would not go into detail about the type of exposure, but said that most such exposure in the region comes from sexual contact, not the use of dirty hypodermic needles!.
"Often times we get information we have a case positive and once we get that information about a case positive, what we do as a health department is we look for sources and contacts and during the course of that investigation, it led us to Normandy Senior High School," Gunn said!.
At the school, Dr!. Gunn fielded questions about HIV, and how patients are tested!. It's a simple swab from inside the mouth, and the results would be confidential!. Gunn said the county would offer free, onsite testing starting at the end of this month!.
However, some parents, including Josie Fondren, whose son was a senior, wondered why wait so long!. She said if there's HIV, the testing should start right away!.
Dr!. Stanton Lawrence, the superintendent of schools, where 1,000 students attend the high school, said the health department should be credited for it's handling of the case, and added health officials were going the extra mile in tracking cases!.
The Normandy School District sent home a letter to parents!. According to the letter from Carl B!. Hudson Stanton E!. Lawrence, Ed!.D!. the High School Principal Superintendent of Schools, "!.!.!.the Department of Health learned of evidence that suggests HIV may have been transmitted among some Normandy Senior High School students!."
Free and confidential HIV testing will be made available on campus to students later this month and in January!.
The St!. Louis County Department of Health will provide information to parents and guardians about HIV testing!. The first meeting will be October 15th at 6 p!.m!. at Normandy Senior High School in Viking Hall at 6701 Saint Charles Rock Road, in St!. Louis!. The second one will be held at 6 p!.m!. on October 20, 2008 at the school in Viking Hall!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention HIV Section
Parents were told the case was unique, because it's centered at Normandy High, and health officials were learning more about the exposure, and trying to see if more students were involved!.
The health director, Dr!. Dolores Gunn, would not go into detail about the type of exposure, but said that most such exposure in the region comes from sexual contact, not the use of dirty hypodermic needles!.
"Often times we get information we have a case positive and once we get that information about a case positive, what we do as a health department is we look for sources and contacts and during the course of that investigation, it led us to Normandy Senior High School," Gunn said!.
At the school, Dr!. Gunn fielded questions about HIV, and how patients are tested!. It's a simple swab from inside the mouth, and the results would be confidential!. Gunn said the county would offer free, onsite testing starting at the end of this month!.
However, some parents, including Josie Fondren, whose son was a senior, wondered why wait so long!. She said if there's HIV, the testing should start right away!.
Dr!. Stanton Lawrence, the superintendent of schools, where 1,000 students attend the high school, said the health department should be credited for it's handling of the case, and added health officials were going the extra mile in tracking cases!.
The Normandy School District sent home a letter to parents!. According to the letter from Carl B!. Hudson Stanton E!. Lawrence, Ed!.D!. the High School Principal Superintendent of Schools, "!.!.!.the Department of Health learned of evidence that suggests HIV may have been transmitted among some Normandy Senior High School students!."
Free and confidential HIV testing will be made available on campus to students later this month and in January!.
The St!. Louis County Department of Health will provide information to parents and guardians about HIV testing!. The first meeting will be October 15th at 6 p!.m!. at Normandy Senior High School in Viking Hall at 6701 Saint Charles Rock Road, in St!. Louis!. The second one will be held at 6 p!.m!. on October 20, 2008 at the school in Viking Hall!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Id be ticked but id make sure i explained to my child about sex and safe sex and protecting their selfs and contracting stds!. if your open with your child they will feel that they can come to you when they need to ask questions about sexWww@Answer-Health@Com
You really need to grow up!.!.!. Www@Answer-Health@Com