REALLY GOOD IDEA TO HELP STOP AiDS!!!?

WELL I WAS THINKING AND I THINK KIDS IN HIGHSCHOOL SHOULD GET TESTED EVERY YEAR FOR AIDS BECAUSE ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS IT IS SPREADING IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DONT KNOW THEY HAVE IT SO IF EVERYONE GOT TESTED WHEN THEY WERE YOUNGER THEY COULD GET TREATMENT SOONER SO THEY COULD LIVE LONGER AND THEY WOULDNT SPREAD IT.. WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK???

That would be a huge help if people in countries where AIDS is flourishing actually went to high school. But, in Africa and Indonesia, many young people don't.

Though you are right, with regard to America, at least. State governments could perhaps require AIDS tests with regular college student vaccinations. That's a great idea.

is this a trick question?

i agree

ABSTINENCE, AND WAIT UNTIL YOUR MARRIED. THAT SIMPLE


GOD BLESS

Testing for everyone should be mandatory, but will never happen and there is no way to enforce it.

Good idea, though.

HIGHSCHOOL what thats late, was in the paper that the 7th graders went to washington dc and got sent home for having orgys. I know girls that lost their stuff in 6th grade. AIDS will be here forever and will teach the public on sleeping around and being a whore.

Abstinence has never failed.

I think you should take your CAPS LOCK off (please)....and I think that since the disease is more prevalent in adults, that testing kids yearly probably wouldn't have much effect.

People should take more steps to protect themselves though, and get tested regularly if they are sexually active and not in a monogamous relationship with someone they know to be disease free.

I think that is an ok and realistic idea.

But I think even better would be to set the example and give the education and advice to avoid AIDS by only having sex with one person--one's spouse.

what will you do about the drug users who contract the disease from sharing dirty needles? I mean, now that you have the high school kids covered.

Dr. Robert Janssen, director of HIV-AIDS prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the CDC will re-evaluate its guidelines over the next two years, and will consider the study's findings as well as the availability of new, rapid HIV tests that produce results in a half-hour instead of the usual week or two.

Who would bear the cost of expanded testing 鈥?and the cost of the treatment, which runs to at least $15,000 a year 鈥?remains a sticky question amid government cutbacks in health-care funding. However, Janssen said the studies' findings could lead to some private insurers to encourage more HIV testing.

One of the studies, by researchers at Duke and Stanford universities and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, estimated that routine one-time testing of everyone would cut new infections each year by just over 20 percent, and that every HIV-infected patient identified would gain an average of 11/2 years of life.

We think that kids should stop *******. And that they can learn this behaviour, abstinance, from YOU, thier stupid parnets. No? For Chrissake, who did'nt tell them that it WAS NOT alright to screw before marriage??? Doesn no one understand? God, what a bunch of idiots.

if you are saying that testing should be mandatory for all high schoolers, no, i wouldn't agree with that. yes, there are people that are spreading it around because they do not know that they are infected. however, even if they did know, do you really think that would stop them from having unprotected sex? no. the solution is for people to always have protected sex. that's it. not only that, but high school aged people are not really a huge high risk category.

That is an interesting view. Not one youngster are likely to endorse though. I really think the problem that exist now, being that kids thing it can't happen to them would get in the road. To bad because if kids were to take this possibility seriously then the problem could be controlled & fewer kids would have to ever get the disease.

How do you plan on paying for all this testing? Granted, it's not a bad idea, but where's the $$$ going to come from?

Next, you're speaking of possible Invasion of Privacy. As a parent, I do not want the whole school, town, city, nation, world ... knowing that my child (or me if I were younger) has (or does not have) the desease! This is our business and no one elses!

As a parent, perhaps it would be a good thing for parents of 'active' children to look into! However, making it a law or an accepted practice could be very wrong!

If testing were free and there was privacy ... maybe!

Work on this some more!

IMHO,

The Ol' Sasquatch 脺

I think you should turn off your caps lock key ;-)

Many people would consider it an invasion of privacy.
Would it be mandatory testing?
Who would enforce it?
How?
What would the punishment be for refusal to submit to testing?
Who would pay for it?