The South Carolina house of representatives has eliminated a state requirement that school nurses and school district superintendents be notified when a student tests positive for HIV, South Carolina’s The State reports (thestatecom.typepad.com, 5/28).
The state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) will still be notified of all positive test results, however.
According to the article, school nurses and superintendents can be told that a student is living with HIV, hepatitis, or other blood-borne infection only if the school reports to the DHEC that the student has come into contact with another person’s blood through, for example, a fight or sporting event.
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Raphael, New York, 2008-10-15 06:41:22
Policing the rights of HIV+ individuals by giving one institution/individual the right to make "personalized" decisions that affect any one person's 'right to' would be unacceptable power mediocrity at the helm.
Beth Benne, RN, is HIV negative, but
the virus has impacted her life. She currently supervises a biannual HIV/AIDS awareness week as
the director of the student health center at Pierce College, a
community commuter school in Woodland Hills, California.
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