European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 12. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 aids Roundup plea by inmate with arc rejected by mass judge new Bedford mass. The Federal govern ment and the National association of broadcast ers said thursday they will collaborate on National distribution of a package of radio spot on the deadly disease aids. The announcement was made jointly in Washington and Anaheim calif., where the Nab it holding in radio convention. The in one and two minute segments Are to be distributed to Nab t 5,000 member stations in mid october As part of the Public health service s aids prevention month. They will feature health and human services Secretary Otis r. Bowen. Assistant Secretary for health Robert e. Windom and surgeon general c. Everett Koop among others. Some Haemophiliacs giving partners aids study says Atlanta a More than 10 percent of the sex partners of Haemophiliacs infected with aids virus Are themselves infected according to a Federal study unveiled thursday which also found thai Many had not even been tested. The National centers for disease control re ported that a Survey of spouses or sex partners of ads infected male Haemophiliacs found that 77 of 772 had tested positive for antibodies Indi Cating that they too were infected. Researchers who prepared thursday s report expressed dismay however that Only 772 spouses and my partners in the study group had been tested. The surveillance project checked 2,276 peo ple All at risk for infection with the aids virus. Researchers expressed dismay that so few peo ple in such a High risk category had sought out the aids lest. We were very surprised at the Large number not tested said or. Janine Jason a cd epidemiologist. The worrisome thing is they re not being tested despite recommendations Strong ones that they need  aids costs reportedly paid by 3% of . Hospitals Chicago a the Cost of Hospital care for aids patients is being borne increasingly by major Public and private teaching hospitals threatening their ability to deliver adequate health care of any kind medical researchers say. This is particularly True in Southern Stales which commonly have More strict eligibility rules for medicaid said Dennis p. Andrulus a Public health researcher at the National association of Public hospitals in Washington. Andrulis headed a Hospital costs Survey of the largest number of aids patients to Date and reported his findings in Aridj journal of the american medic Date an Friday s Issue of the medical association. Medicaid and private insurance cover most of the Cost of inpatient treatment but the remain ing costs Are paid by a relatively Small number of hospitals nationally most of which Are Public institutions the study found. The 169 hospitals participating in the Survey representing 3 percent of the nation s hospitals treated about 30 percent of the  aids patients in 198j, when the data was collected. Parents across . Protest pupils exposed to aids virus by the associated press the parents of a 12-year-old aids exposed boy in Tennessee decided thursday to withdraw him from school because of threats an official said. Meanwhile pupils with the virus attended classes in Arizona and Pennsylvania despite Boycotts. Superintendent Terry Webber made the announce ment at a packed meeting of the Anderson county school Board in Eastern Tennessee. It was attended by 250 parents who loudly cheered he decision. James Mowery whose son Dwayne was the subject of the meeting said threats against his son family and the Community had forced him to withdraw the boy from school according to Webber. The boy will be taught at Home with a county provided teacher Webber said. Earlier More than 40 percent of the children attend ing Lake City Middle school did not attend school As parents and pupils taunted Dwayne. A Haemophilia a who has tested positive for the virus but does not have symptom of the deadly disease. Aids in kids out read one picket sign outside the school. An adolescent girl clutched another that said blood spills aids  acquired immune deficiency syndrome damages the body s immune system leaving victims susceptible to infections and cancer. It is spread through sexual Contact Needles or syringes shared by drug abusers infected blood or blood products and from pregnant women to their offspring but doctors say it is not spread through casual Contact. Attendance at the Middle school which has an enrolment of 365, dropped by 87 wednesday. On thurs Day 157 children stayed Home or wandered the school grounds with parents and picket signs. Some 2,235 people live in Lake City. In Glendale ariz., angry parents accused education officials of using their children As Guinea pigs by letting the county s first aids infect cd child attend Glenn f. Burton elementary school. The youngster a Haemophilia a whose name and age Haven t been released does not have aids but carries the virus officials said. An estimated 400 people attended a wednesday meeting in the school. The meeting punctuated by shouting matches and exploding tempers followed two Days of relative Calm since parents Learned the aids exposed child was attending classes. Many parents threatened to pull their children from school if the aids infected child continued to attend. And in Kunkletown pa., 6-Ycar-old Craig sting to who has tested positive for the aids virus was joined aids victims by race in the . In percent of All aids cases note total . Population is 85% White and 12% Black Chicago Tribune graphic. Source centers for disease control again thursday by Only three of the children who were scheduled to be in his class. A fourth child who was supposed to attend school thursday did not show up and school officials did not know Why. Craig a first grader at Eldred township elementary school got the virus from his Mother in a blood to blood Transfer said Pamela Higgins the stingers at Torney. Craig s Mother contracted the disease after receiving a blood transfusion following an Accident. Students had been picked by lottery to be in Craig s class but parents of 10 decided to teach them at Home while three other first graders were transferred to private schools. Among other safety measures the northeastern Penn Sylvania school District has equipped All classrooms Wilh rubber gloves and disinfectant to clean up spilled bodily fluids and hired additional health care workers. Family urges Congress to pass Bill to Stop aids persecution Washington a a Florida family driven from their Community after their three Haemophilia a sons tested positive for the aids virus asked Congress Friday to help others avoid the rejection and persecution they have experienced. I know there Are Many families suffering the same sort of discrimination we have Louise Ray of arca Dia fla., said in testimony submitted for a Senate hearing on aids testing confidentiality and discrimination Bill. We Hope you will help families like ours she said. Ray recounted for the Senate labor and human resources committee a Story of threats and harassment that began when Young Ricky Randy and Robert tested positive for the aids virus. The boys Are believed to have been infected through blood trans fusions none have symptoms of acquired immune deficiency syndrome or aids related Complex. Nevertheless the boys longtime Barber refused to Cut their hair the family pastor advised them to Stop coming to Church and school officials told the boys to stay Home an absence that lasted a year. A Federal judge ordered the school system to allow the boys Back into classes and they did return for a week last month. But during that week Ray said a Boycott was organized there were two bomb threats and the family received threatening phone Calls. Despite the problems the said at the end of the week the boys decided they wanted to slay in school. Cliff her husband and i were Happy. Thai same nigh while we were out our House in Arcadia burned Down she said in her testimony. We lost everything we  the Nightmare did t even Slop there. Ray said the family moved to a Motel after the fire but were asked to leave because of the boys. We have decided not to go Back to Arcadia we Are looking for some other Community in Florida where our boys can return to a Normal existence she said. If anything Good can come out of what our family went through i Hope it is that other families whose children lest positive can get some help against Dis  Commilles chairman Edward m. Kennedy d mass., said the Ray family Saga confirms everything we know about the need to fight hysteria and fear Wilh education. It demonstrates the destructive forces that can be readily unleashed when people react 10 fear with haired and  Kennedy in his prepared opening statement also said the tale demons Yalcs the need for maintaining some Standard of confidentiality in aids cases and protecting aids victims and earners against Bias Kennedy and others have introduced a Bill authorising 1400 million for each of the next three Yean to expand voluntary testing and counselling programs for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The Bill sets criminal and civil penalties for Violat ing confidentiality although notification would be per mailed to blood and Organ Banks spouses or other sexual contacts some health care workers and slate officials where required by stale Law. The Bill also would bar discrimination on the basis of antibody status or diagnosis in employment hous ing Public accommodations and government services. Exceptions would be allowed in cases in which there is a possibility of aids transmission or the disease has made i person unqualified