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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1988)
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M l Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 8 am-5 pm VISA J Qridex caries removal system 122(H)N. fantzen Ave., Suite480 The comfortable technique that removes decay while minimizing drilling and reducing the need for the needle HAPPY HARVEST programs, counseling programs and case management are all important. That we must all work together to see that the needs of this com munity are met reflecting available resources.” The agreement worked out during the four sessions is tentative only because the CAP Board of Directors must consider minor changes tentative agreement between members in their bylaws. This process takes 30 days. of the Brinker Trust Board of Directors mediation team and the Cascade AIDS Project Because the Brinker mediation team consisted of a quorum of their board, their agreement on mediation team was reported June 23. At issue the settlement is binding. was funding for direct emergency needs of The settlement covers three areas: people with HIV disease. The controversy had 1) A Brinker trustee will be made CAP board generated concern that services to people in member. need might be negatively impacted. 2) A Brinker trustee will be appointed After four mediation sessions, facilitated by the Neighborhood Mediation Council, Tom Assistant Treasurer. (This requires aCAP bylaw change.) Koberstein, director of the Cascade AIDS Project and a mediation team member, said, 3) CAP and Brinker agree to a 30-day prior “ The CAP/Brinker mediation has ended. It notification of action when removal of a ends with a great success. Members of both the member from either board is sought. (This Brinker Trust Board and mediation team mem requires a CAP bylaw change.) bers from Cascade AIDS Project have agreed to The mediation teams agreed to establish a work together focusing on the work. We agree task force to look at issues and needs of that the work of the Brinker Trust is very im common interest and concern. portant. And that the PAL program, education Harold Moore A Outside-In begins needle exchange users in Portland have contracted HIV. In other cities, HIV infection among IV drug users has rug addicts will soon be able to trade dirty climbed rapidly. In New York, for example, a needles for clean ones at Outside-In, a study of blood samples showed no HIV infec social service agency, as part of an AIDS pre tion among IV drug users through 1977; the rate vention project that includes the first needle- has jumped to about 60 percent today. exchange program in the country. Outside-In, which has served indigent clients Outside-In, a nonprofit agency that provides since 1968. will offer free condoms, information medical. mental health and street youth services, on AIDS transmission and prevention and refer drew national attention last month when it rals to drug treatment, as well as sterile needles. announced the needle-exchange project, funded Through interviews with participants in the by the American Foundation for AIDS Research. program, researchers will examine whether the Kathy Oliver, director of Outside-In, said the needle exchange slows the spread of AIDS and project seemed a logical move to slow the spread whether it leads to decreased needle sharing and of AIDS among high-risk intravenous drug users. IV drug use. Three clients of Outside-In — two of whom Announcement of the project drew a were young, pregnant women — tested sero qualified nod from Mayor Bud Clark, who positive for HIV over a year ago. Oliver said. worried that it would affect the city’s image. All three were IV drug users. However, most response has been positive, The agency developed the $67,000 project Oliver said. “ because our clients are at risk of dying from ‘4 By far the majority of people are supportive AIDS and because the seroprevalence rate in or at least neutral. The feeling is that prevention Oregon is really low, so we have an opportunity is all we have. There are not that many preven to do prevention.“ tive measures, and we can’t completely ignore State Health Division officials estimate that one of them,” she said. at present fewer than five percent of IV drug D — 2 N e ig h b o r h o o d G r o c e r ie s A N D LUNCH BAR OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 235-5358 CORNER O r S E 2 4 TH AP1D ANKENY (form erly King Harvest) Hip Foods For H ealth y P eople ju st out » 6 * July IVXX Harold Moore — fo r A GENTLE APPROACH TO DENTISTRY Phone: 289-1215 — Cascade AIDS Project/Brinker Trust controversy settled yo u lo v e a Teddy B ear to hug^ 2 andy Sullivan has been elected by the state Democratic Party as an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Conven tion in Atlanta. Sullivan, an insurance market ing representative, has been involved in grass roots Democratic Party work for several years and is a 1st Congressional District supporter of Jesse Jackson. At the statewide convention where the dele gate selection took place, Sullivan said that Jackson “ has embraced the gay and lesbian community as an integral part of the Rainbow Coalition. Our community has responded in kind by voting overwhelmingly for Jesse Jack- son, not only in Oregon but across the nation. ‘ ‘The Oregon Democratic Party has never elected an openly gay man or woman as a member of a delegation to our national conven tion. The Jackson caucus represents our best hope of Finally being included,” Sullivan said. ‘ ‘Jesse [Jackson] runs on the issue of gay and lesbian rights. This constituency is part of the Rainbow and needs to be represented,” com mented Jackson campaign spokesperson Ron Herndon. Speaking for the Right to Privacy PAC, Keeston Lowery stated, “ Randy’s election is a good first step of integrating the gay and lesbian community into the party process in Oregon. 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