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Policy
3301
AIDS
POLICY
I. PURPOSE
The purpose of this policy is to establish an ongoing
commitment to provide education and guidance to campus constituencies on
HIV/AIDS.
II. DEFINITION
The dominant definition currently is that developed by the Centers for Disease
Control in the United States. It offers the following summary definition at:
AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. An HIV-infected person receives a diagnosis of AIDS after developing one of the CDC-defined AIDS indicator illnesses. An HIV-positive person who has not had any serious illnesses also can receive an AIDS diagnosis on the basis of certain blood tests (CD4+counts).
A positive HIV test result does not
mean that a person has AIDS. A diagnosis of AIDS is made by a physician using
certain clinical criteria (e.g., AIDS indicator illnesses).
This summary definition is an attempt to make the technical definition
comprehensible. See the full technical definition presented at http://cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/casedef/aids97.htm,
effective January 1, 1993.
III. POLICY
Longwood shall conduct an ongoing educational campaign designed to teach
students, faculty, and staff basic information about HIV/AIDS.
IV. PROCEDURE
Persons infected with HIV shall not be excluded from enrollment or employment or restricted in their access to Longwood facilities or services unless a medically based judgment in each individual case establishes that exclusion or restriction is necessary to the welfare of infected individual or the welfare of other members of the Longwood community. This is a legal matter as well and requires approval of the Assistant Attorney General.
Persons who know, or have reasonable basis for believing, that
they are infected with HIV are expected to seek expert advice about their health
circumstances and are obligated, ethically and legally, to conduct themselves
responsibly in accordance with such knowledge for the protection of other
members of the Longwood community. The institution shall widely publicize and
carefully observe the safety guidelines established by the U.S. Public Health
Service for the handling of blood and other body fluids and secretions, both in
all health care facilities maintained on the campus and in other institutional
contexts in which such fluids or secretions may be encountered (e.g., teaching
and experimental laboratories).
Revised and approved by the Board of Visitors, September 7, 2002.