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ERIC Number: ED293070
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1988-Jun-18
Pages: 244
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AIDS and Teenagers: Emerging Issues. Hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session.
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families.
This document presents testimonies from the Congressional hearing examining the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) crisis and its impact on teenagers. Opening remarks from Representatives George Miller, Dan Coats, Ted Weiss, Ron Packard, and J. Roy Rowland stress the importance of determining how to protect adolescents from AIDS. C. Everett Koop, United States Surgeon General, highlights the AIDS risk to adolescents and advocates AIDS education. Mary-Ann Shafer, University of California School of Medicine, discusses the risk of sexually transmitted diseases among young people. Louis Aledort, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, focuses on the risk of AIDS to hemophiliac adolescents and their sexual partners. Vernon Mark, Harvard Medical School, stresses the need for compassion for AIDS victims and for population testing to determine the extent of the AIDS epidemic. Karen Hein, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, explains how adolescents differ from children and from adults in relation to the AIDS epidemic. Becky Adler, high school senior, discusses her experience working for a Teen AIDS Hotline. Jonathan Howe, president of the National School Boards Association, gives guidelines for local school districts to use in developing AIDS education programs. Johnnie Hamilton, Fairfax County (Virginia) public schools, explains how AIDS instruction is being implemented in the Fairfax schools. Richard Gordon, Sequoia Young Men's Christian Association, describes his organization's AIDS education curriculum. Wayne Lutton, Coalition for Public Health, calls for the Department of Education to prepare a what-works study on AIDS and sex education. Supplemental materials are included. (NB)
Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.
Publication Type: Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families.
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