Teens and AIDS: Playing It Safe

Abstract:
[Archived] A brochure concerning acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS was prepared for teenagers by the American Council of Life Insurance. It provides answers to the following questions: (1) What is AIDS? (2) How is the AIDS virus spread? (3) Who can get AIDS? (4) Who has AIDS right now? and (5) Will all the people infected with the virus get AIDS? Readers are told that the AIDS virus is almost always spread either by sexual intercourse or through sharing needles used for drugs, and that they can protect themselves by not taking drugs and not having sex or avoiding dangerous sex. Portions of the text are written as conversational dialog among teenagers discussing various aspects of AIDS. Toll-free national AIDS hotlines are described, and other sources of AIDS information or AIDS testing are noted.


Date Published: 1/1/1987

Pages: 10

Location Code: 4020