Local News in Brief : AIDS Education Plan OKd
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved an AIDS education plan for the city’s 33,000 employees and the public on how to avoid contracting the disease.
The plan calls for seminars by medical, public health and legal experts for elected officials and department heads and managers and the distribution to city workers of an information packet on preventing the transmission of the acquired immune deficiency virus.
The program also calls for educating city officials on the protection of the civil rights of those carrying the virus, but who do not show symptoms of the disease, and those who actually have AIDS.
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