schools notified when students test positive for HIV

Gov. Mark Sanford says that schools should continue to be notified when students test positive for HIV.

Sanford said in a veto message late Wednesday that ending the notification to school superintendents and nurses is a step in the wrong direction.

Supporters of legislation that would have ended the notices say current law discourages students from being tested.

The governor says there should be more notification of what he called highly contagious diseases rather than less.

Sanford says he's a strong privacy rights advocate but that as a parent he'd want to know if child's classmate or teammate had Hepatitis C.