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Should College Students Be Tested for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome?
Should College Students Be Tested For Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome?

Today, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is a horrifying epidemic that is grasping our younger adults. If more college students knew more about the exact effect of AIDS, then it wouldn 't be a huge epidemic as is now. College students need to be tested for AIDS so that they can inform other people of the opposite sex of the sexual background so that they don 't pass the deadly disease to them. Today with many of the college students being sexually active with people that they barely know, it is encouraged that students get tested for AIDS at least every 3 months for virus. Catching AIDS is not a joke and no one wants to be the unlucky soul to have it. Once acquiring AIDS, there is no turning back because Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is non-curable. I believe that a lack of knowledge of their mates background is the reason why students contract AIDS.

If a person is HIV positive, I believe that it is everyone 's right to know so that they can be safe from cold-hearted people who don 't want to reveal having it. Luckily a female student at Si Tanka-Huron University in Huron, South Dakota didn 't contract the disease, from her boyfriend who did not inform her that he was HIV positive, before the two of them proceeded in unprotected sexual intercourse. His name is Nikko Briteramos and he was sentenced for having sex with his girlfriend without revealing that he had HIV. Their was justice this time with the girl being HIV negative but the next time someone unprotected sex with someone that they do not fully understand their sexual background might not be so fortunate (Anonymous 39). It is instances like this one why I believe that there should be some type of tattoo or something to let people know that someone is HIV positive so that there will not be any suspicions of a mate lying about not having HIV. The tattoo can be permanent or temporary(for those diseases


Cited: Charchian, Arthur S., Valerie Josephson, Stephen Radecki, and Johanna Shapiro. "Sexual behavior and aids-related knowledge among community college students in Orange County, California." Journal of Community Health; Feb 1999; 24, 1; Research Library GALILEO Edition: pg. 29-44, 15 pgs. "HIV positive college student sentenced for having unrotected sex with his girlfriend." Jet . Chicago:23 September 2002.Vol.102, Iss. 14: pg. 39, 1 pgs. Pushkar, Katherine. "Sex and death after age 18: City colleges eschew AIDS education" The Village Voice. New York: 18 April 1995: C10
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