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Students are protected  by IDEA and  Section 504, for Free and Appropriate Education.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 insure that all qualified persons have equal access to education regardless of the presence of any disability.
Students can have medical interventions, and educational accommodations if the disease has progressed, and affects activities for daily living.
Accommodations
/Modifications
Arrange the classroom to increase accessibility  ( making sure you understand the 504, if the student has one.  Advise with key professionals for practices and arrangements that need to be made.  Health care plan, classroom temperatures to accommodate physical and health needs.

Make sure your classroom promotes good health

Understand how students are to use their assistive technology devices

Know what to look for when students are taking medication

Understand the specific disability or health condition of your students

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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) gives federal civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities similar to those provided to individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, and religion. It guarantees equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in public accommodations, employment, transportation, State and local government services, and telecommunications.

A public school system may not prohibit a child with HIV or AIDS from attending elementary school.

Most students with HIV attend general education courses, unless they have a specific emotional, or intellectual disabilities.

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Students will only be identified, once a parent or guardian informs school officials and/or district.    The school will often treat the student's information with confidentiality, and sensitivity.

The Principal of the school is usually responsible for placement of the student.

The school nurse will evaluate if the student is susceptible to significant medical risk infections, and will make proper determinations regarding student's health and the public school environment.

If it's determined that there's a significant risk of infection within the school setting, then the student's will be evaluated to incorporate an IEP.

If the student with HIV qualifies for services as a child with disabilities under state and federal law, those procedures will be used to make a placement decision in lieu of the procedure described above. In the development of an individualized educational program (IEP), school personnel should consider expanding the staffing committee to include the student's physician and a public health official to serve in an advisory capacity.

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IDU- Injecting Drug User ( new term in place of intravenous drug user).

Kaposi's Sarcoma-a rare form of skin cancer which is common to persons with AIDS.

Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia - a severe lung infection commonly seen in AIDS patients.

Retroviral Drug- Drug such as AZT used to slow the growth of HIV.

Safer Sex- Sex using a latex Condom.

Sexually Transmitted Disease- are caused by infections that are passed from one person to another during sexual contact.

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You can get or transmit HIV only through specific activities. Most commonly, people get or transmit HIV through sexual behaviors and needle or syringe use.

HIV is not spread easily. Only certain body fluids from a person who has HIV can transmit HIV:

Blood

Semen (cum)

Pre-seminal fluid (pre-cum)

Rectal fluids

Vaginal fluids

Breast milk

These body fluids must come into contact with a mucous membrane or damaged tissue or be directly injected into your bloodstream (by a needle or syringe) for transmission to occur. Mucous membranes are found inside the rectum, vagina, penis, and mouth.

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AIDS- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, the series of illnesses that infect a person whose immune system has been damaged by HIV.

AZT-Drug often used to slow the effects of HIV.

Abstinence- refraining from all types of sexual intercourse, (anal, oral, and vaginal).

Antibodies- substances in the blood that helps the immune system fight infections.

Bisexual- A person who  prefers sexual intercourse with  both men and women.

Communicable Disease- a disease that can be passed from person to person, caused by bacteria, viruses, and other organisms.

Condom- Covering for the penis, which should be made of latex to protect against HIV
Hemophilia- a heredity clotting disorder characterized by excessive, sometimes spontaneous bleeding.

Opportunistic Infections-
Cancers and infections that invade a person whose immune system is weakened.

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The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program was named for a courageous young man named Ryan White who was diagnosed with AIDS following a blood transfusion in December 1984. Ryan White was diagnosed at age 13 while living in Kokomo, Indiana and was given six months to live. When Ryan White tried to return to school, he fought AIDS-related discrimination in his Indiana community. Along with his mother Jeanne White Ginder, Ryan White rallied for his right to attend school - gaining national attention - and became the face of public education about his disease. Surprising his doctors, Ryan White lived five years longer than predicted. He died in April 1990, one month before his high school graduation and only months before Congress passed the legislation bearing his name in August 1990 - the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act.

Listen to Jeanne White Ginder recount those early years of struggle, pain, and triumph. Scroll down to listen to all five dialogs:

Ryan was one of the first children with hemophilia to be diagnosed with AIDS.

Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS on December 17, 1984. He was one of the first children, one of the first hemophiliacs to come down with AIDS, and it was definitely a time where there was no education and there was hardly any information on AIDS at the time. So I was living in Kokomo, Indiana, and Ryan was attending Western Middle School, and it was something that I really didn't even believe he had. I felt like, "How could he have AIDS?" He was a hemophiliac since birth, and I just felt like "How could he be one of the first ones?" I felt like somehow, in some way, it was going to be something else. I really never really believed he had AIDS for quite a while. At that time, of course, he had no precautions, or anything. There were no precautions at the hospital. And all of a sudden the CDC shows up and the CDC started putting in all kind of precautions, you know: the gloves, the gowns, the masks and so forth, and started talking to the nurses and so forth. It became apparent just like overnight that all of a sudden things were different.

Ryan really became famous because of his fight to go to school.

When Ryan was diagnosed, they only gave him 3-6 months to live. So at that time, I thought every cough, every fever, I worried that it was going to be his last. And I really never thought he'd be healthy enough to go to school. But as he started getting healthy, as he started gaining weight, he started to ask, "Mom," he said, "I want to go to school, I want to go visit my friends. I want to see my friends." So I really kind of put him off for awhile and finally he just said, "Mom, I want to go to school, I want to go visit." So It was a long process, we had to go through almost a year and a half, he didn't go to school for about a year and a half. He was worried about taking the 7th grade over again, and he didn't want people to think he was dumb, because he was a very smart and intelligent kid. So it was a long process. Through court hearings, we thought it would take one court hearing, and we'd have all these medical experts in so to speak, and then everybody would be educated, but it didn't happen that way.

It was really bad. People were really cruel, people said that he had to be gay, that he had to have done something bad or wrong, or he wouldn't have had it. It was God's punishment, we heard the God's punishment a lot. That somehow, some way he had done something he shouldn't have done or he wouldn't have gotten AIDS.

Mrs. White Ginder recounts Ryan's excitement over getting a summer job.

Then we moved to Cicero, Indiana, and there, the community welcomed us. And it was all because a young girl, named Jill Stuart, who was president of the student body, who decided to bring in the medical experts and talk to the kids, and then the kids went home then and educated their parents. So Ryan was welcome, he got to go to school, he got to go proms and dances. He even got a job. It was kind of funny, he came home once after he turned 16 and told me he had a job for the summer. I thought, "Oh my gosh. Who is going to hire you, knowing who you are?" I said, "What are you going be doing," and he said, "I'm working at Maui's Skateboard shop." I said, "Really? What are you going to be doing?" and he said, "I'm going to be putting together skateboards." And I said, "How much are they going to pay you?" and he said "$3.50 an hour." I said, "Ryan, that won't even buy your gas to Indianapolis and back." He said, "Mom, you don't get it. I got a job just like everyone else does." So it was really important to Ryan, to just be one of the kids, and to just fit in. He never bragged or anything about who he was, or what he got to do, he just wanted to be around his friends.
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Well a lot of people will say, "Your son was such a hero" and all that, but to me, he was my son. And you know, sometimes it's so confusing, because he was my little boy, and to share him with everybody, because he wasn't perfect, but at the same time, he was my son.

People are receiving better quality HIV care and living longer HIV.

At the time when Ryan was diagnosed with AIDS, I mean, we heard of so many drugs coming out, and none of them was worth nothing. By the time you heard of one, there would be another one out, and you would never get the research for one. And none of them worked. And so even in the early 90s, when I was hearing there was hope, I kind of thought, "You know, we had that hope, too, but they didn't pan out." But they did pan out! The biggest contribution I think that Ryan made is, and I didn't know it at that time, that his legacy would be that people are getting their drugs and their treatment and that people are living with AIDS.

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The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program was named for a courageous young man named Ryan White who was diagnosed with AIDS following a blood transfusion in December 1984. Ryan White was diagnosed at age 13 while living in Kokomo, Indiana and was given six months to live.

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I have attached a more recent glossary of many terms that are associated with HIV.  However; for the sake of my presentation, here's some more familiar terms we have heard regarding HIV.

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HIV is a very special topic to me because my dear brother was diagnosed with it over 30 years ago. Medication, and with the sovereignty of God, my brother has managed to live a healthy, and vibrant life!
I also chose this topic to emphasize the importance of safe sex practices, and to dispel stereotypes.

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Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV is a
virus weakens the immune system, and makes the body unable to fight off infections.
A person with HIV disease can be asymptomatic during the early stage of the disease and appear healthy while living with HIV. The disease progresses in stages. As the HIV virus slowly weakens the body’s immune system, a variety of symptoms and limitations can develop. Depending on the stage and treatment of the disease, a person with HIV may experience flu-like symptoms; skin rashes; fatigue; mild to severe weight loss; ulcers; fevers; diarrhea; and opportunistic infections that can cause pneumonia, damage to the nervous system, vision loss, depression, and AIDS-defining cancers (AIDS.gov, 2015).