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Direct linkSamuels, Christina A. – Education Week, 2007
Vaccines are one of the triumphs of modern medicine, relegating many once-fearsome diseases to the history books. Denying access to school has long been the best way to ensure that children get vaccinated, but carrying out any change in immunization policy means a lot of work for school officials. This article discusses the unity of several…
Descriptors: Microbiology, Disease Control, Public Schools, Immunization Programs
Samuels, Christina A. – Education Week, 2009
At the beginning of each school year, the school-nurse coordinator for the 3,000-student Ashland, Oregon, district plans a "parent's night" around the topic of vaccinations for the safety and health of children. That is only the beginning of the school-nurse coordinator's contact with parents who are skeptical about the necessity of…
Descriptors: International Schools, Disease Incidence, School Nurses, Immunization Programs
Sack, Joetta L. – Education Week, 2004
This article explores the issue on student HIV testing in Wisconsin. Wisconsin has enacted what appears to be the nation's first law requiring students to be tested for HIV, if teachers or other school employees can prove they were significantly exposed to the students' blood while on the job. The law, which critics view as an unwarranted…
Descriptors: Employees, Testing, Private Schools, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Jacobson, Linda; Bowman, Darcia Harris – Education Week, 2004
A flu outbreak at Madison Junior High School in Ohio prompted school officials to close the building for two days. At Webber Junior High School in Fort Collins, Colorado, where absenteeism recently hit 20 percent for two bad weeks, educators were forced to slow the pace of schoolwork so sick students did not fall behind. This article reports on…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Attendance, Crisis Management, Child Health
Keller, Bess – Education Week, 2005
The AIDS pandemic raging across sub-Saharan Africa does not stop with personal carnage. It also threatens whole systems, including what is arguably the most critical for the region's future--education. Where rates of HIV infection are high, as they are in much of southern and eastern Africa, experts warn, the effects on social stability and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Communicable Diseases, Social Influences
Keller, Bess – Education Week, 2005
In Kenya alone, where the infection rate is estimated to have reached 13 percent of the population, 27,000 teachers will die and more than 2 million children will lose one or both parents to AIDS in the next five years. The Kenyan project uses "study circles," in which teachers learn together about HIV, script new sexual behaviors for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexuality, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Death
