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...than 36,000 cases of AIDS in the U.S., and as many as 1.5 million people, or about one in every 30 men between the ages of 20 and 50, may already carry the virus. "The President's statement was something I could agree with," said Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who opposes mandatory testing because it might scare away those in high-risk groups who need both screening and counseling. Under the President's plan, Koop stressed, "individuals have a right...
Harvard has not escaped the burgeoning interest in AIDS. The University last fall started a committee on AIDS and this year two undergraduate groups distributed free condoms on campus and sex therapist Ruth Westheimer and Surgeon General C. Everett Koop delivered speeches about AIDS. A student AIDS benefit committee sponsored several fundraising events this year. University Health Services (UHS) officials released the information that six Harvard affiliates have died of AIDS, none of whom were undergraduates...
Harvard affiliates occupy important positions in the legislature as several serve as the chairs of state committees. In addition the current speaker of the House is George Keverian '53 (D-Everett). Clearly there is an impressive Crimson coterie on Beacon Hill, but the University's lobbyists say they do not need to exploit any influence they might have with these politicians...
...arguing that testing is the only way to track and ultimately contain the spread of the fatal virus, which has been detected in nearly 36,000 Americans but may already have infected as many as 1.5 million. Opposing him have been medical professionals led by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who contends that mandatory testing would have the undesirable effect of causing many possible carriers of the virus to hide their condition for fear of being stigmatized...
After a career of nearly 30 years as one of the nation's leading pediatric surgeons, Dr. C. Everett Koop was nearing retirement age in the mid-1970s when he decided that the fight against abortion was as important as the effort to save lives on the operating table. A devout evangelical Christian, Koop poured out his prolife passions in two books, five educational films and a nationwide lecture tour. His style of argument was anything but dispassionate: in one film segment, Koop looked over a sea of naked dolls symbolizing aborted fetuses, and proclaimed, "I am standing...