COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND THE HIV VIRUS: MORAL IMPERATIVES
Titel:
COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND THE HIV VIRUS: MORAL IMPERATIVES
Auteur:
McLeod, Marshall Ziel, Joan
Verschenen in:
Community college journal of research and practice
Paginering:
Jaargang 13 (1989) nr. 1 pagina's 11-22
Jaar:
1989
Inhoud:
Community junior colleges tend to reflect the demographic composition, values, and general circumstances of the communities they serve. As health issues such as the current HIV (AIDS) epidemic effect the community, so will they effect the college. Each institution has a complex moral and legal obligation in such situations. This article examines both the ethical and the legal dimensions of this and other infectious disease situations. “...(W)e believe that by the end of 1991 the actual number of AIDS cases in America will exceed 500,000, with more than 300,000 deaths. Worldwide there will be at least two million cases of AIDS, with well over one million deaths. By the year 2000, unless astonishing progress is made in the development of a vaccine to prevent the infection, there will be a cumulative total of five million cases of AIDS in America alone. Worldwide there will be 25 million cases. The enormity of this threat - and the world's failure to respond swiftly enough with both funding for research and planning for this frightening future - should not be taken lightly.” — Masters, Johnson, Kolodny Crisis
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