Today is the last day of National Condom Week, and event organizers at Campus Health say they are pleased with the results.

"The purpose of the week is to try to get people to use what they know," said Lee Ann Hamilton, health educator at Student Health Services. "Students seem to have a higher level of knowledge about condoms. We hope to make a crossover for people to use condoms consistently and correctly."

To mark the beginning of the 19th annual Condom Week, the Campus Health Center set up a booth on Valentine's Day to pass out free condoms and sell condom valentine gifts.

Close to 500 people came to the booth in a four-hour period, Hamilton said.

In its 1995 wellness survey, the Campus Health Center surveyed 680 unmarried undergraduates about condom use. Of those, 41 percent said they had used a condom during their last sexual intercourse, 40 percent had not used a condom, and the remaining 19 percent answered "not applicable."

Also during the week, free HIV testing was administered at the Arizona/Sonora Residence Hall.

"It was an opportunity to provide education about the transmission and risk of HIV," Residence Hall Association President Steve Parker said.

The Pima County Health Department helped administer anonymous testing to 92 students.

RHA has sponsored free HIV testing for the last two years, Parker said.

"I wanted to make sure that students got what they were asking for. In dorms, it's important because a lot of students won't get tested until it's brought to them. They don't realize the importance of getting tested. There's still the thought of 'it's not going to happen to me.'"

The Pima County Health Department is the only place administering anonymous testing in the county. When results are reported to the State Health Department, only the assigned numbers are reported. If a person tests positive, after anonymous testing, the health department reports just the age and sex of the person tested, not the name, said Susan Eisen, program coordinator for HIV counseling and testing.

Places that administer confidential testing, like the Campus Health Center, are required by state law to report the name and address of anyone who tests positive.

In Pima County, there have been 972 reported cases of AIDS since 1983. Of the number of reported AIDS cases, 170 are people ages 20 to 29.

"They could have been infected as teens, and are now testing positive," Eisen said.

Hamilton said it is always safest to assume that potential mates are HIV positive. "Students need to protect themselves, because you can't tell that someone is HIV positive by looking at them."