Apr 22 2008
HIV Bill to be Debated in May
The House will take up a bill May 7 that would eliminate the requirement that school superintendents and nurses be notified if a student has HIV/AIDS. Tuesday, the House adjourned debate until May.
Advocates of the bill say the disclosure is stigmatizing and violates privacy rights. Others argue disclosing who is HIV-positive is needed to protect students from being infected.
Schools need to have this information. Students play sport, they get into fights, they engage in contact where they can get cut and possibly bleed on someone else. I’m a big advocate of everyone having their privacy, but this is too serious a situation. AIDS kills people.
