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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.
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