
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, May 8, 1993                   TAG: 9305080165
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AIDS ADVOCATE TO SPEAK AT COLLEGE

Dr. Patricia Wetzel will be the guest speaker at a Living With HIV/AIDS forum on Monday from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at Roanoke College's C. Homer Bast Gymnasium in Salem.

In 1991, Wetzel became the director of the HIV/AIDS unit at a Fort Worth, Texas, hospital. Six months later she learned she was HIV infected from a needle she accidentally stuck herself while taking a patient's blood sample.

An advocate for greater education on HIV, Wetzel urges health care professionals to treat HIV patients with respect and compassion. She is a medical consultant to Caremark International, which provides alternate-site health care for HIV/AIDS patients.

The forum is free. For more information, call 362-5411.

by CNB