European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday december 5,1987 Dodds pushing aids education education writer the military s overseas school system is pushing ahead with plans to provide aids education despite a Lack of curriculum guidelines a school official said. Bill Houston the Germany Region s health coordinator said the film a let Ter from Brian will be shown to Alt Junior and senior High school students the 25-minute film which depicts a teen Ager s disclosure to his Girlfriend that he has contracted the dreaded Dis ease will be shown to Small groups of students with discussions to follow. Houston said the film is not yet Avail Able to schools in Germany but every student in grades seven through 12 would Sec it before the end of the school year. Houston was pan of a health task Force thai met with school system director John sir ample and other officials in Washington nov. 16-20 to Hammer out curriculum guidelines to Deal with the subject of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. He said thursday that the group Drew up preliminary guidelines hut was hampered by defense department regulations that make no specific reference to dependent students. That seems to be the problem he said. As a sub Agency of the defense department in can t come up with one just on our but he said Strum pc was determined to push ahead with aids education and supported distribution of the film and pamphlets such As what you should know about aids distributed by the centers for disease control and biological guide to the pamphlets Are available at some schools. School nurses who attended a Region wide conference about aids in septem Ber will offer aids instruction Houston said. We re not waiting for Washington he said. It s not like the information Iii l there. If people Are getting aids it s not because they did t know it was there. Materials Are out there. What we need is people to use Germany Region spokesman Noel Tillman said there have been no reports of Dodds students contracting aids. Tillman planned to meet with National Pat vice president Ann Lynch and local Pat leaders in Stuttgart saturday to discuss aids education in Dodds. Nationwide 17 states and the District of Columbia have mandated aids Edu cation in Public schools with curriculum overseas Pat group to launch plan to educate parents on aids epidemic writer Rhein main a. Germany a program aimed at educating parents of american school children in Europe about the aids epidemic was announced Friday by a National Pat offi Cial. Ann Lynch the organization s first vice president announced the program at Halvorsen elementary As part of her two Day visit to Europe. She planned to meet saturday in Stuttgart with leaders of the european Congress of american parents teachers and students to Dis cuss measures of the chapter s upcoming aids information program. Eca pts is a National Pat affiliate. Calling aids the most disastrous epidemic the world has seen in some time Lynch said parents need to be educated about the disease. I Don t think it s fair to talk about educating students about aids without is no lady l. Err in a Matt or Ann Lynch visits with Tond Gradert in us lunchroom. From left to right Tony Alvarez it Tiki town and Nat hut Jones who Art All 7 Yean old. Educating parents Lynch said. The Pat will provide Eca pts with materials about acquired immune deficiency syndrome for distribution in Europe. Experts predict aids will strike 270,000 americans by 1991. There is no known cure for the disease. The Pat joined 1j education health and Church organizations in writing teens &. Aids playing it Safe a full color pamphlet that describes in detail drug and sex practices that Lead to the spread of the disease. The National Pat received a 1109,361 Gram from the Federal centers for disease control in september to con duct a nationwide aids education project. Funds for the Europe education program Are provided through that Grant Lynch said. Eileen Sullivan an Eca pts spokeswoman said Friday that her organization will Start a monthlong aids information Campaign in february. Lynch defended the 6,1 million Mem Ber organization s platform of promoting integration of aids victims into the school system. Aids is not an easily shared Dis ease she said we would Hope that a school system would treat aids victims on a Case by Casc basis before determining that a child should no longer remain in school the department of defense dependents schools has no aids policy but a school spokesman said the Schoof system would abide by current military Regula he interpreted those to mean that ads infected students would be re turned to the United Stales. Lynch said she was not going to take Issue with Dodds concerning the aids Issue. I understand that Dodds has nine sets of regulations to Deal with. I la be meeting with school officials to discuss their program Bill Pat is not going to put Forth any Lynch said that the Pat backs the position that sex education is primarily the responsibility of parents. But if parents ail to do it then the school system must do Start ing As Early As the seventh Grade. Houston said preliminary plans Call for aids education to begin in Dodds schools in the fifth Grade. Senior High health classes will Deal with the subject in detail. We re going to to talking about be Havior he said. Some students arc Active we unlit so we re going to be talking about using condoms we re going 10 talk about the dangers of multiple sex Houston predicted that the school sys tem would need other than textbooks in dealing with aids Educa Tion. The current health Icet class does t Deal with the subject. And publishers Aren t going to Start including a lot of information about aids in the future. 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