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Office of Healthy Schools
Making the Connection:
Health and Student Achievement
HIV Basics
Mississippi Department of Education
HIV/AIDS Program
Office of Healthy Schools
359 North West Street, Suite 230
Jackson, MS 39205
MSDE HIV/AIDS Program
Purpose
To ensure that the 152 school
districts provide current and
updated information about
HIV/AIDS to staff and
students.
Link to other programs
• Wellness Policy – commitment to Comprehensive Health
Education
• Title IV – support programs in schools that support programs that
prevent illegal use of alcohol and drug use
• Character Education
• 2006 MS Comprehensive Health Framework – Disease Prevention
Strand (ensures that all students receive necessary health
information to make age appropriate decisions
• EPSDT / School Nurse Program – school nurse practices
• Preventing epidemics and spread of communicable disease
• Provide Health Education
• Distribute age appropriate health information
Funding Opportunities
• $5,000 grant awarded to 5 school districts in high risk
areas as determined by Mississippi Department of
Health
• Actively collaborating with other state agencies
• Seeking addition funds from outside sources
Key Points
• HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.
AIDS is the result of HIV infection.
• HIV infection can be prevented.
• HIV is not spread through everyday casual
contact.
• People cannot get HIV when they give blood.
Source: American Red Cross HIV/AIDS Program: HIV Education and Prevention
MSDE HIV/AIDS Program
HIV Infection
• People infected with HIV--• May look and feel health for a long time.
• Can infect others even if they don’t look or fell sick.
• May have symptoms that are like those of many other illnesses.
• When people develop AIDS, they may get illnesses that healthy
people usually don’t get.
• Only a test can show if someone is infected with HIV.
• Only a doctor can diagnose AIDS.
Source: American Red Cross HIV/AIDS Program: HIV Education and Prevention
MSDE HIV/AIDS Program
How HIV is Not Spread
HIV is not spread through everyday casual contact.
Source: American Red Cross HIV/AIDS Program: HIV Education and Prevention
MDE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM
How HIV is Spread
HIV is spread--• By having vaginal, anal, or oral sex with an infected person.
• By sharing needles or syringes with and infected person.
• During pregnancy, birth or breast feeding from an infected
mother to her baby.
• Body fluids of an infected person that spread HIV:
Semen
Blood
Vaginal fluid
Breast milk
Source: American Red Cross HIV/AIDS Program: HIV Education and Prevention
MDE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM
HIV Testing
People who think they are at risk of HIV infection are
encouraged to seek counseling and testing.
Do not donate blood to get tested for HIV.
Source: American Red Cross HIV/AIDS Program: HIV Education and Prevention
MDE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM
Blood Supply
•The risk of getting HIV from a
blood transfusion in the U.S. is
extremely low.
• All blood donors are screened
for their risk of HIV.
• All donated blood is tested.
• All blood that tests positive for
signs of HIV is destroyed.
Source: American Red Cross HIV/AIDS Program: HIV Education and Prevention
MDE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM
Universal Precautions
What are
Universal
precautions?
MDE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM
Universal Precautions
Universal precautions are work practices that help
prevent contact with blood and certain other body
fluids. Universal precautions are:
• Your best protection against HIV (the virus that
causes AIDS), hepatitis B and some other infectious
diseases.
• Required in certain jobs.
• Can help prevent illness and save lives—including
your own!
MDE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM
How Universal Precautions
Work
Certain infectious diseases are caused by viruses.
For example:
• AIDS is caused by HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).
HIV attacks the body’s natural defense against disease.
• Hepatitis B is caused by HBV (hepatitis B virus). Hepatitis
C is caused by HCV (hepatitis C virus). HBV and HCV
attack the liver and can result in severe illness—even death.
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How Universal Precautions
Work cont.
HIV, HBV and some other viruses are spread through certain
body fluids, including:
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blood (or any fluid containing visible blood)
semen
vaginal secretions
fluids surrounding the heart, lungs, brain, stomach,
joints, and tendons; fluids in the womb of a pregnant
woman.
MDE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM
Preventing Infection
Universal precautions help prevent infection through the
use of:
• protective barriers, such as gloves, gowns, masks and
goggles
• safe work practices, such as proper disposal of sharps
and proper hand washing.
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MDE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM
Statewide Available Resources
HIV/AIDS Service Organizations:
• Building Bridges, Inc. – Jackson, MS
• South MS AIDS Task Force – Biloxi, MS
601-922-0100
228-385-1214
Medications:
• Ryan White Program
601-576-7723
Financial Assistance:
• Episcopal AIDS Commission
• Social Security Administration
• Medicaid
601-366-5485
800-772-1213
800-421-2408
Housing Assistance:
• HOPWA
• Grace House
601-362-4879
601-353-1038
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Available Resources cont.
Hotlines:
• MS HIV/AIDS Information Hotline
• Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention National AIDS Hotline
1-800-826-2961
1-800-342-2437
Capacity Building Assistance Services and Training:
• MS State Department of Education Office of Health Schools
601-359-2359
• Jackson State University MS Urban Research Center
601-979-4100
• My Brother’s Keeper Community REACH Project
601-898-0955
MDE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM
Office of Healthy Schools
Charles R. Orr, Sr., HIV/AIDS Program
Coordinator
Shane McNeill, Director, Office of Coordinated
School Health
Regina Ginn, Director, Office of Healthy
Schools
Phone: 601-359-1737
Fax: 601-576-1417
www.healthyschoolsms.org