Tuesday, July 27, 2004
THE BATTAL
Fear of AIDS virus lower
according to poll results
By Will Lester
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - Fewer people
believe the overall threat of AIDS is
very serious these days, but a majori
ty of Americans say they worry about
the impact of the sexually transmitted
disease on the nation’s children, an
Associated Press poll found.
That decline in fears about AIDS
comes at a time the disease is show
ing signs of making a comeback in
the United States.
About six in 10, 61 percent, said
they feel AIDS is a “very serious”
problem, according to the poll con
ducted for the AP by Ipsos-Public
Affairs. When people were asked
in 1987 how serious AIDS was as a
national health problem, almost nine
in 10 said it was “very serious.”
Revolutionary new drugs allow
people to live longer with AIDS, and
young gay men have no memories of the
devastating early days of the sexually
transmitted disease two decades ago.
Health officials fear complacency could
contribute to a comeback of the disease.
Their fears were confirmed a year
ago when AIDS diagnoses increased
for the first time in a decade.
Only two in 10 polled said they were
concerned they would personally be
infected with HIV, but more than half,
51 percent, said they were worried that
a son or daughter could be infected.
“The way I look at it, kids are going
to be kids,” said Mike Savicz, a 45-year-
old father from Albuquerque, N.M., “like
what we did when we were teenagers.”
More than six in 10 of those with
children said they were concerned that
a child might be affected. Even four in
10 of those with no children acknowl
edged fears about the possibility of a
child being infected, if they had one.
Teaching safe sex should be a high
priority to curb AIDS, Savicz said, not
ing that promoting abstinence is likely
to get a cynical reaction from teenagers:
“Yeah, yeah, like I’m going to do that.”
A majority in the poll, 55 percent, said
teaching safe sex should be the focus of
efforts to prevent AIDS, rather than pro
moting abstinence, backed by 40 percent.
The United States provides financial
help to developing countries that support
President Bush’s insistence that absti
nence - rather than condoms - should be
the main way to prevent the disease.
Americans say they support the $15
billion the United States has pledged to
fight AIDS in developing countries over
seas. But when asked whether the money
should go abroad or be used to fight the
epidemic at home, they choose keeping
the money here by a 2-1 margin.
The recent increase in diagnosed
cases of AIDS is likely a sign of things
to come, said Dr. Jim Curran, dean of
the Rollins School of Public Health
at Emory University and a longtime
veteran of AIDS prevention efforts.
“There are a number of factors that
would suggest that AIDS and HIV
infections will continue to be on the
rise in the United States,” Curran said.
“There are more people infected than
ever, there’s a lower death rate, a rise in
infection rates among young gay men.”
For 23-year-old Heather Sweeney
of Philadelphia, AIDS remains a “very
serious” problem. Losing a young friend
to the disease reinforced that view.
“People are a lot more careless
about protection,” she said. “A lot
more people are having sex younger
and they’re not as aware of it.”
The AP-Ipsos poll of 1,002 adults
was taken July 19-21 and has a mar
gin of sampling error of plus or
minus 3.5 percentage points.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Thousands search for missing pregnant
woman as hope of finding her alive dwindles
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Churches canceled meetings and ser
vices to allow hundreds of congregants to flood neighborhoods
and go door-to-door in search of a missing pregnant woman whose
disappearance has baffled friends and neighbors.
More than 3,000 people turned out Sunday to distribute fliers
and join the search for Lori Hacking. The turnout was the largest
since she vanished last Monday.
Later Sunday, about 200 people attended a candlelightvij
a park where the woman's car was found and where it
presumed that she disappeared while jogging.
The family has been holding as many as two news confererlie Tex;
a day since the 27-year-old was reported missing. Buttheyli snts
been more reluctant to face reporters since questions aroseai osal Fr
the credibility of Hacking's husband, Mark.
“We are all exhausted and we feel we need to concentrate
efforts and our energies on finding Lori," said Thelma Soa; ^ey ac
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