Free HIV screening

Students can participate an optional test next Monday, but they won't need to be studying to prepare for it. Students can come to the Kansas Union on Monday to receive one of 1,000 free HIV tests.

The free tests are part of a World AIDS Day project to get one-million people tested around the world.

"A quarter of the infected people don't event know they're infected. So our message is to scale up our prevention efforts," said Elena Ivanov, Executive Director of the Douglas County AIDS Project.

On top of that, Ivanov also reported that half the people diagnosed with HIV don't have health care.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that women who have developed AIDS by the age 30 most likely were infected with HIV during their teenage years or early twenties.

Students can get tested on Monday from 10:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.

For more information on HIV, visit the student health services Web site.