Mandatory HIV testing proposed for all IL school children

Should every child be tested for HIV with their routine school physicals?

State Rep. Mary Flowers thinks so. 

If the legislation passes, every child in Illinois will be given a test before entering school.  The files would be kept confidential.

According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, 262 children under age 12 and 552 between the ages of 13 and 19 are HIV victims. 

Link: Across The Nation | Illinois State Rep. Introduces Bill That Would Include HIV Testing in Routine Physicals for Students - Kaisernetwork.org.

Illinois Rep. Mary Flowers (D) has introduced a bill (HB 0193) that would include HIV testing in routine physical examinations that Illinois students take before entering school, the Chicago Tribune reports. Under the bill, students would be tested for HIV during school physical exams when they typically receive tuberculosis tests and vaccinations.

Comments

[GeraldPechenuk]

This is standard public health and makes absolute sense. Lyndon LaRouche and LaRouche Democrats proposed this as far back as 1986 and were subject to propaganda attacks by extremist political forces.
Tied to this should be a Manhattan or Apollo style crash program of research in basic optical bio-physics and related areas to understand the actual causalities of AIDS, and related diseases. This is something that has got to have a Federal as well as state and private components and partnerships.

Its good to see Rep. Flowers and other Democrats taking this approach and I would hope that our good Republican legislators would have the wisdom to join in on this to make it a bi-partisan push for the common good. Gerald Pechenuk LaRouche PAC Chicago Co-ordinator cities12345@yahoo.com