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AIDS Testing Has Slow Start
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Five Hnm.swiek roiinty le.sidents
have been tested for a virus linked to
Acquired Immune Deficieru v S>n-
(Irome i AIDS) durmq the first month
of a county-sponsored M ieeniiu; pro
gram.
According to Public Health Nurs
ing Superv isor Ituth Harrington, free
testing for the HIV virus has been
underway in Mrun.swick C'ountv since
Sept. :i.
Testing is done on Thursdays from
2 p.in. until -1 p.m. at the Hrunswick
County Health Department m
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T©ri To Compot© For County
Teacher Of The Year Title
I'en nominees for Brunswick Countv Teacher of the
^ ear will be interviewed Oct. Hi in Southport.
Candidates, by school, are as follows; Hilda Smith
We.st Bninswick High; Kathy Hill. Shallotte Middle;
Brenda Tayloe. Bolivia Fleinentarv; Bonnie Adams
Union Primary; I.eVerne Hargrove. .South Brunswick
Middle; Marie Melville. I.eland .Middle; Vickie Hawley,
Alter native Kducation; Helen I.augish, South
Ibiinswick High; I-'aye I.loyd, Southport Klementary
School; and ( ol. Paul Kaire, North Brunswick High.
Two schools, Waccamaw Klementary and Lincoln
Prmiai y, did not submit candidates for consideration.
The candidates were selected by their respective
school staffs, according to .lean Parker, public informa
tion officer for the school system. They will be inter
viewed at the (.P&L Visitor’s Center by a conunittce
composed of last year's Teacher of the Year, .Meg Poe
of South Brunswick High .School, an outside erlucator. a
retired teacher, a senior student, and a community per
son chosen by the Brunswick Countv Botird of Rduca-
tion.
Said Parker, coordinator of the program.
Hegtirdless of who the eventual winner is, we feel that
all candidates arc winners and grow through their par
ticipation in this annual celebration that recognizes the
marry gotxl qualities that all godd teachers must have."
'The local winner will represent Brunswick County
in regional competition on Jan. 7.1988, wiUi one finalist
.selected to advance from regional to state competition.
The North Carolina Teacher of the Year takes a
leave of absence for the year and .serves as an am-
ba.s.sador for education.
North Carolina is one of two states to date to have
three national winners, including Donna Oliver, the 1987
National Teacher of the Year.
“We felt that it ' response i would
start out slow," .Ms. Harrington saiil.
adding that she does not feel the
response will greatly increase, since
Bninswick County is largely a rural
county and high-risk groups general
ly are concentrated in larger
metropolitan areas.
Persons most likely to test positive
for the HIV Virus include in
travenous drug u.sers who share
needles, honiose.xual and bisexual
men. and people who received bhxKl
transfusions between 1!»7H and l!)8.a.
she .said.
.Ms. Ihirrington said two confirmed
AID.S ca.ses have been reported m
Brunswick County—one in 198o. the
other in 1986.
"We're more of a rural area, so 1
feel our incidence lof AID.S ca.ses i is
going to be low ;it this point in time."
she said.
She declined to comment on
whether or not any of the five persons
who voluntarily subinitted to testing
la.st month tested positive for the HIV
virus.
"I would rather not i comment on
the tests), with .so few having been
te.sted at this point. " .she .said.
Ms. Harrington >aid the tesi ii.,t li
involves taking a lito.nl sample,
which IS then sent !o the N  Di\ i-
sion of Health .Services labor,iinr\ m
Baleigh for ;mal>sis.
I he local health depai iiiieiit is
notified of test results alter about in
days, she said,
.She emphasi/ed that persons who
receive testing rem.iin anonymous,
from the time they first walk through
the healtli department door until
after the> receive test rcsult-s.
I here are no n.imes
any where—we don't ask for naiiies,"
she .said, adding that subjects and
their tests .are identified only h> a
mitt'.her ■•sstgped u. ibem at the
health deiiartmeiit
■Ms. Harrington s.aul she feels the
iii.ain part" of the testing iirogram
IS coiin.seimg. which is done both
Udore the actual test and after
results are received.
Pre testing involves “history-
taking and education ... to give
them the information they need to
iic( ide whether or not they need to be
tested." she said.
Ms Harrington .said both pre- and
post-test coun.seling "strongly em-
pn.asize" the importance of "safe
sex. ' which promotes either
abstinence or the use of condoms,
sinc e AID.S is a sexually-transmitted
disease.
lu practicing safe sex. if they test
negative, it would keep them from
contracting the di.sease,” she said,
and if they test positive, it would
kec-j) them from spreading it.”
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