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Discounts for Students Please call to reserve for Hatha Yoga classes <S lunch as 3pace is limited. Alt other lectures & meditation are open to alt Eugene Yoga Center - 345-8766,1244 Lawrence to 60%»<r Come in early for best selection... limited to stock on hand. Year-End ~ Sale at the Wedding Gallerie Gifts Flowers Housewares Clothing Registry Bridal Tuxedos Garden 160 Oakway Road • 484-1244 • www.reedcross.com • MorvSat 9-6, Sun 11-6 y/eVp&ffz* y/e*/ fu*. y/e«/ tx'f'ejripuce* Don't miss out. Work for your college paper. For more information on how to freelance for the Oregon Daily Emerald, call 346-5511. HIV agencies focus on youth ■ New drugs may be reducing AIDS deaths in America, but prevention is still key By Sue Ryan Oregon Daily Emerald The rising rate of AIDS among younger people has health educator Leslie Habetler worried. “Our concern is 60 percent of people in new cases are 18 to 24 (years old),” she said. Habetler works for HIV Alliance, a not-for-profit agency in Eugene. She thinks part of the reason younger adults are more likely to acquire the disease is because they have a complacent attitude. “It’s kind of like they think ‘Well, if I get HIV, I can just pop some pills,’” Habetler said. “Young peo ple don’t understand how you can get it or that you can die from it.” “Youth and AIDS in the 21st Century” is the theme for this Sat urday’s World AIDS Day. Habetler said because of the de velopment of new drugs in the mid-’90s, the number of AIDS related deaths has declined in America. The story is not the same for other countries, according to Greg Eicher, who works in the Lane County HIV Testing/Coun seling program. “Outside the U.S.A., people don’t have access to those drugs,” he said. “The number of people dy ing — in Africa, Central Asia and Russia — is tremendous.” Eicher said it’s more important than ever that people in high-risk categories get tested for HIV. “Within any age group, if people have sexually transmitted infec tions, then they are putting them selves at risk,” Eicher said. “Those STIs compromise the body’s im mune system and offer portals for the transmission of (HIV).” People can go to either the Lane County Public Health Department or HIV Alliance in Eugene for HIV testing. Because of a law in place since October, health services in Oregon have been tracking not only the number of people with AIDS but also the names of those who test positive for HIV. Eicher said that should not deter people from getting tested. “There has been a lot of concern over the last year about changing to the names reporting,” he said. “But the state requires every county to offer anonymous and confidential testing.” The Department of Human Ser vices requested the change to have a better sense of the rise and fall of infection in Oregon. “AIDS cases don’t give us a good idea of what’s happening,” said Dr. Mark Loveless, the medical direc tor of the HIV program for the Ore gon health services program. He said the program needs to have data about HIV before the on set of AIDS. “We need to know what is hap pening on the front edge,” he said. “AIDS is the last stage of the dis ease.” Lane County reported eight cases of AIDS in 2000. Emerald community reporter Sue Ryan can be reached at sueryan@dailyemerald.com. AIDS continued from page 1A aid Fleischli, director of the Uni versity Health Center, students like Haase-Reed and Stutzman seem to typify HIV/AIDS atti tudes among college students. “One of the very sad things in past studies,” Fleischli said, “is that it usually wouldn’t be until people knew someone personal ly that they would be con cerned.” Fleischli said that recent studies indicate about 3 in every 1,000 people are infected with HIV — but less than half of them are aware of it. He added that the Health Center usually conducts 600-700 HIV tests per year, but it has been several years since there was a positive test. Fleischli said he believes that’s because people who are at high risk for contracting the disease aren’t being tested, at least not at the Health Center. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that be tween 650,000 and 900,000 peo ple are currently infected with HIV in the United States. Since 1994, AIDS has been one of the leading causes of death for Amer icans 25-44 years old, and the in cidence of AIDS among 13- to 25 year-olds rose 20 percent between 1990 and 1995. But Fleischli said the increased availability of viable treatment options for people with HIV, such as the so-called “triple-cocktail” prescription drug treatment, along with more effective treat ments for AIDS, may have led people to believe that HIV and AIDS are chronic diseases rather than lethal ones. In order to combat that percep tion on campus, the University Peer Health Educators, an outreach group associated with the Health Center’s Health Education divi sion, has posted signs with HIV and AIDS statistics on East 13th Avenue in honor of World AIDS day. The group is also holding a ceremony to rededicate the World AIDS Day Tree in front of the Health Center today at noon. According to Health Educator Ani Dochnahl, the tree was plant ed in honor of World AIDS Day in 1998. Dochnahl said she hopes the event, which will feature a per formance by the University music school’s Saxophone Quartet and a poetry reading, will help to remind students — many of whom didn’t witness the diseases’ first lethal outbreaks in the late 1970s and early 1980s — that HIV and AIDS are still a problem. “The goal,” she said, “is to not let safer-sex fatigue set into our younger generation.” Emerald higher education reporter Leon Tovey can be reached at leontovey@dailyemerald.com. J©in us and celebrate the seas©n with friends and community I Oregon Hillel invites you to e Wow Hall i you might even find the gift of your dreams at the auction!