                     AIDS Daily Summary 
                      August 11, 1995

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"Mother's Boyfriend Charged in Beating of Child with AIDS"
"School AIDS Tests"
"Reveal Donors Who Had HIV, Judge Orders"
"Gulf Grinding Co. Settles Lawsuit from Worker with AIDS"
"British Lose Virginity at 17--Survey"
"Glyko Biomedical Reports Financial Results"
"UNAIDS Sets Preliminary Budget"
"Suits by Patients Surge in Misdiagnosed AIDS Cases"
"Hospice: A Place for Healing and Dying Well"
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"Mother's Boyfriend Charged in Beating of Child with AIDS"
Washington Times (08/11/95) P. C11;  Gotsch, Ted
     On Thursday, the boyfriend of a Washington, D.C., woman whose son
was hospitalized with apparent burns to his body was arrested for
beating the two-year-old.  The child, who has AIDS, was brought 
to the hospital two days ago with what first appeared to be burns
on his face, legs, and buttocks.  Police sources now say that the
child's wounds are the result of a beating from his mother's 
boyfriend, Harold J. Kirkland Sr.  "The child has AIDS.  The 
bruises did not heal, and they began to deteriorate," said one 
source.  Kirkland was charged with cruelty to children, and if 
found guilty, could be imprisoned for up to 15 years.
      
"School AIDS Tests"
Washington Times (08/11/95) P. A2
     A school district in Florida has eliminated its voluntary HIV 
testing of high school students following complaints that the 
program was inappropriate for the setting.  The program, which 
began three years ago, offered HIV tests in five of Lee County's 
eight high schools.  But at a meeting this week of parents, 
health professionals, and a few students, the school board was 
asked to drop the program--which was described as the first time 
a public agency tested students for HIV.  "You have stepped over 
the line of being educators and moved into the role of a parent,"
said one mother.  Under the program, parents were required to 
sign permission slips for the tests, but the schoolchildren were 
not obligated to reveal the results.
      
"Reveal Donors Who Had HIV, Judge Orders"
Toronto Globe and Mail (08/10/95) P. A9;  Claridge, Thomas;  
Coutts, Jane
     In a ruling released on Wednesday, a judge with Ontario Court's 
General Division rejected the Canadian AIDS Society's request for
an order prohibiting the release of 13 HIV-infected blood donors'
identities.  The society claimed that because the men who donated
blood for a study of hepatitis B between Dec. 1, 1984 and Oct. 
31, 1985 had not consented to HIV testing, the disclosure of 
their names would be an invasion of privacy.  However, Madam 
Justice Janet Wilson held that Ontario's Health Protection and 
Promotion Act requires the Canadian Red Cross to report the 
positive HIV tests that it received last year from a government 
laboratory.  Wilson acknowledged that the disclosure will violate
the donors' privacy rights, but noted that it may also save 
lives.  The ruling does not mean an end to Ontario's anonymous 
HIV testing programs, said the Ministry of Health's Barbara 
Selkirk.  "The issue is the donors' right to know," she 
explained.  "The recipients [of contaminated blood] have been 
notified.  Shouldn't the donors be told too?"
      
"Gulf Grinding Co. Settles Lawsuit from Worker with AIDS"
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News (08/10/95)
     Gulf Grinding Co. has agreed to pay $65,000 to settle a lawsuit 
brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on 
behalf of a worker who was fired because he has AIDS.  In 
addition, the company agreed to have the EEOC train its 
upper-level employees about employment discrimination laws, 
including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  Gulf 
Grinding admitted no wrongdoing in regards to the ADA.  The 
company's lawyer said that the case was settled to avoid an 
expensive trial.  "John Doe" was a grinder at the company until 
he informed his supervisor that he had AIDS.  Doe was fired after
his boss held an employee vote to determine whether he should 
continue working.
      
"British Lose Virginity at 17--Survey"
Reuters (08/10/95);  Majendie, Paul
     A new study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) 
reveals that the British lose their virginity at an average age 
of 17, three years earlier than in the 1950s.  In this age of 
AIDS, however, the safe sex message appears to be getting through
with 60 percent of the 19,000 young people surveyed using 
condoms--two times the previous figure.  When presenting the 
findings, health lecturer Jane Wadsworth also said, "Two-thirds 
of young people said they would like to have known more through 
sex education before they had sex."  Sex education is an emotive 
issue in Britain, where teenage pregnancies are increasing and 
approximately 40,000 teenagers have abortions each year.  In 
addition, the BMJ reported the findings of a team developing a 
school sex education program that consists of physicians, 
teachers, and 16- and 17-year-olds instructing younger students.
      
"Glyko Biomedical Reports Financial Results"
Business Wire (08/10/95)
     Glyko Biomedical Ltd., a developer and manufacturer of 
instruments and reagents for scientific research and medical 
diagnosis, reported $391,000 in revenues for the second quarter 
of 1995, up from $242,000 one year ago.  The total was primarily 
the result of sales of analytical systems, sales of kits and 
reagents, and custom analytical service revenues.  The company 
recently received $60,000 from the Pediatric AIDS Foundation to 
research a new test for AZT resistance in people with AIDS.
      
"UNAIDS Sets Preliminary Budget"
Lancet (07/22/95) Vol. 346, No. 8969, P. 239;  McGregor, Alan
     During its first meeting, the governing body of the new Joint 
United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) approved an 
"indicative budget" of between $120 million and $140 million for 
1996-1997.  In addition, U.S. Ambassador Sally Shelton was 
elected chairman, and South African Minister of Health Dr. N.C. 
Dlamini Zuma was elected vice-chairman.  At the next meeting, 
which is scheduled for mid-November, members of UNAIDS will 
review the definitive budget.  UNAIDS replaced the World Health 
Operation's Global Programme on AIDS and became operative on Jan.
1.
      
"Suits by Patients Surge in Misdiagnosed AIDS Cases"
National Law Journal (08/07/95) Vol. 17, No. 49, P. A12;  
Weidlich, Thom
     Machesney v. Bruni is the latest in a series of "AIDS 
misdiagnosis" cases, of which lawyers say there are many 
currently active in the United States.  Former Catholic priest 
Raymond Machesney was twice diagnosed as HIV-positive, and lived 
for nearly seven years under the mistaken belief that he was 
infected with the virus that causes AIDS.  Recently, however, a 
jury awarded Machesney $4.1 million, despite his doctor's claims 
that at the time of the original testing, retesting was not 
required because HIV was believed to be incurable.  Although 
doctors, clinics, and hospitals have problems with being sued by 
someone who does not have a disease, plaintiffs' lawyers claim 
that the patients often must withstand years of treatment and its
side effects, as well as the AIDS-related stigma.  In general, 
the suits are standard medical malpractice proceedings, with 
claims of negligence and emotional distress.  However, states 
like California--which limit pain and suffering awards--and those
which follow the "impact rule" for emotional distress claims 
impede these cases' progress.  The HIV test is "not like a 
pregnancy test where pink is positive and blue is negative," 
observes Miami attorney Steven J. Mitchel.
      
"Hospice: A Place for Healing and Dying Well"
Focus (07/95) Vol. 10, No. 8, P. 1;  Hines, Barbara E.;  Peura, 
Stephan M.
     People who care for advanced AIDS patients must deal with the 
difficult challenges of working with the young, disabled, and 
dying as they try to help these individuals during their final 
days.  Hospice counselors assist dying patients in moving toward 
"inner peace" and "self-possession," the true objectives of 
"dying well."  At Pittsburgh's Corpus Christi Residence, for 
example, AIDS patients who can no longer be cared for at home are
provided with medical, nutritional, social, and spiritual 
services.  Residents also have the opportunity to forego 
aggressive medical treatments, and remain under hospice care 
until death.  Hospices, therefore, are places that offer comfort 
and support in a community setting to  people in the end-stages 
of diseases.  The first responsibility of hospice staff should be
to provide information about HIV, the hospice community, and 
issues related to the end of life.  Next, the staff should offer 
residents the emotional support to cope with HIV infection and 
death.  The is especially important because the decline and death
of other patients could affect HIV-infected patients' protective 
denial.  Finally, caregivers of people with AIDS should provide 
their patients with appropriate activities until the end, because
productivity can offer meaning.
      
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