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wcc
volume 4 no. 2
Wayne Community College, Goldsboro, NC 27533-8002
AIDS victim Garland Lancaster responds to questions from
members o-f the audience at the AIDS Awareness Seminar.
Photo; Michelle Albrecht
AIDS victim visits
By; Mi chel1e A1brecht
On March 27, 1990, in
the North Campus Lecture
Hall an AIDS Awareness
Seminar was sponsored by
Home Health and Hospice
Care, the Goldsboro
Jaycees, and the Human
Services Department of
Wayne Corrimunity College.
Peter Barcus, Hospice
Director o-f Home Health and
Hospice Care, moderated the
semi nar.
Also participating on
the panel were Dr. James
Atkins, a Goldsboro physi
cian; Dr
Chai rman
Serv ices
Dr. O.A
D i rec tor
County Health
and Garland
y i c t im.
Edmond Hogan,
o-f the Human
Department, WCC;
Mays, Medical
o-f the Wayne
Depar tmen t;
Lancaster, AIDS
Atkins astounded the
audience with devastating
death toll -figures.
He said there have been
over one million deaths
since the epidemic was
■first made common knowledge
in 1976.
Atkins stated, "In 1991
we expect to lose to AIDS
as many people worldwide as
we did in Vietnam.”
The AIDS virus takes
-five to seven years to
sur-face a-fter one has been
i n-fected.
One out o-f every three
college students tested -for
May*16,1990
AIDS reveal an HIV positive
-factor.
Hogan made it clear
that everyone should be
educated about the
transmission o-f AIDS.
According to Hogan, most
people do not get tested
•for the AIDS virus because
o-f -fear.
Hogan stated, "I-f a
person tests HIV positive,
the -first reaction is
denial; then the patient
gets angry. Next the
patient begins to bargain
with his sickness, but in
the end depression sets in.
The age group which AIDS
usually strikes is twenty
to -forty year olds.
Mays has helped to
organize the AIDS testing
and counseling services at
the Wayne County Health
Depar tmen t.
The tests are per-formed
dai1y at no cost.
Mays stated that in
Wayne County alone there
have been thirty people
diagnosed HIV positive
since 1984.
O-f those thirty people
there have been seventeen
deaths.
When Lancaster stood
be-fore the overflow crowd
o-f predominantly young
people, he expressed how
important it is to respect
a person's right to privacy
when he or she has been
diagnosed HIV positive.
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