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poor or of minority race, elsewhere in the nation fail to protect people with AIDS — not just because the laws are inadequate, but also because they are seldom applied and rarely enforced. This discrimination was described in the recent report of the Presidential Commission on the Epidemic of HIV Infection.
Virginians must end this discrimination. We can start by agreeing that essential medical care must be consistently accessible and available to AIDS patients. One way to do that is to eliminate ignorance of the disease on the part of health care workers.
Florida and Washington have state laws requiring AIDS education for all health workers; we need similar legislation in Virginia.
Dr. Keeling is Chairman of the Council for an AIDS Response in Virginia (CARE Virginia) He also serves on the board of the National AIDS Network and with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. There he is researching the rate of infection of the AIDS virus in young people.
The Virginia Forum, a nonprofit, non-partisan organization, provides opinion columns containing the views of state experts on subjects of public concern in order to stimulate informed discussion. Responses to the views presented in these columns is encouraged.
Financial aid
class at LFCC
Lord Fairfax Community College has scheduled two financial aid workshops designed to provide information on the various types of aid programs available to prospective college students and to offer assistance in completing the necessary applications for the 1989-90 academic year. ,
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