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! Portland Observer Africans develop health program One hundred forty million African! are exported to receive better health care during the next decade under a new program funded by the Agency for International Development in assoria tion with the World Health Organization and other agenriea. According to Stanely 8. Scott. A ID Assistant Administrator for Africa, the seven year program Strengthening Health Delivery Systems will involve the active participation of twenty Cen tral and West African countries. It will concentrate on improving management, and planning, easing the severe short age of properly trained health person nel, expanding rural health services and nutrition and immunization programs, and providing maternal and child care. "Thia innovative program." said Scott, "ia a part of our Congressional mandate to provide low cost health delivery services to the rural poor in Africa." The long term goals is to bring basic health care to villagers who now receive little or po health service. A ID will provide about $10 million to finance the program over seven years, with W HO and other donors assisting the countries with other aspects of the program. The countries are: Benin (formerly Dahomey), Cameroon, Central African Itcpublic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Gui nea. Gabon. Ghana. Guinea. Ivory Coast, Liberia. Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Sene gal, Nigeria, Sierra Ijeonp, Togo and Upper Volta. The A ID funded program will be co ord in ated by health care specialists from Boston University and will involve the W orld H ealth O rg an iza tio n , the United Nations Development Program, U N IC E F . France's Fonds ¿’ Aide el de Cooperation, and o th e r donors and health organizations w o rkin g in the participating countries. The program director is Dr. David M. French, who. prior to his present ap poiutment, was director of community health affairs for Boston University M e dical Center. He left Boston for Africa and will have headquarters in Abijan, Ivory ( ’oast. Dr. French received his M .I). degree from Howard University and a Master's Degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. He is a Diplomat on the American Board of Surgery, Fellow of the American College of Sur geons, and a Fellow of the American Keep A Leader From North Portland In Our legislature College of Preventive Medicine. His subapecialty is pediatric surgery. Dr. French ia a founder and a mem ber of the executive committee of the National Association of Neighborhood Health Centers and also a founder of the Massachusetts leag u e of Neighbor hood Health Centers. He is a member of the Health Advisory Committee of the National Board of the National Urban League. Throughout the program, A ID , WHO, and the other countries and organiza lions will work closely with health mini stries of the twenty African countries to improve the health delivery systems. In addition, the A ID program calls for wide use of consulting services from U.S. institutions, organizations and ex perts. Special efforts are being made to involve women and Black institutions such as M eha-ry Medical College, Ho ward University, Drew Medical School and Tuskegee Institute. The program also will call on African Institutions, organizations and African experts. A ID and other groups in 1966 launch ed a program in the twenty countries to eradicate smallpox and control measles. A ID grants enabled the African coun tries to continue vaccination programs through 1973. According to M r. Scott, the new program will build on the experiences and success of the smallpox eradica tion/measles control project. Such pub lie health activities generate interna tional cooperation and good will, he said. The initial aim of the program is to develop senior and mid level staff for ministries of health, and the health institutions particularly through the use of African Regional Health Training Centers such as existing facilities at Ixime in Togo and Ijigos in Nigeria. Miss Bette Hodges, the librarian at Albina Branch Library, visited Boise's journalism class to talk about the li brary levy, which is coming up on May 25th. Miss Hodges explained that if the vote doesn't pass for the libraries to stay open the branch libraries will be closed on June 1st and no books will be available to anybody. The branch li braries will be boarded up so no one could get books. The libraries are run by Multnomah County, which also runs the police de partmenl, the welfare, and the court department, which cannot be cut on the money they get because of a law. Mult A new School of Urban Affairs at Portland State University has gained final approval and will begin operating no later than July 1st. The State Board of Higher Education, m eeting a t P S U last Thu rsday, en dorsed President Joseph Blumel's plan "to accent that part of our curriculum which no other institution in the state system can lay claim to or hope to match." The School of Urban Affairs idea, first proposed by Blumel in a "State of the University" address shortly after he took office, unifies six curricular or research programs now under jurisdic tion of the dean of Graduate Studies »AA! District 14 DR. D M. F R EN C H IxM-al African Governments, regional organizations, and international agency personnel have been actively involved in structuring the programs and establish ing and operating strategy and a re gional coordinating committee. In addi tion. various health ministries are al ready planning to provide more services to rural areas with increased emphasis on preventive medicine. To help the new project run smooth ly, the A ID Washington Office is pro viding technical coordinating assistance under the leadership of D r. Edward B. Cross, Principal Health Officer, and Mr. Herman O. Marshall. Public Health Ad visor, both of AID'S Bureau of Africa. nomah County does not have enough money to run these things, and they are eight million dollars short. If they do close down the branch libraries about 120 people will be out of work. They will be the ones who have been in the libraries less than seven years. I f the majority of the votes are for closing the branch libraries, the only libraries that will be open are the one on Foster Road and the one downtown. That will make it hard for these two because lots of people will be coming in from in and out of the city, because these libraries are open to people from the whole county. I t would be hard for school students to get their work done that have to get their work done in a library. Birth coatrol drugs effect woatea’s autritioaal aeeds Women taking birth control pills need to be especially careful to fill their n u tritio n a l re q u ire m e n ts , w arn tw o Oregon State University nutritionists. Ixirraine M iller and James I^klem have conducted research on the effects of oral contraceptives on the nutritional needs of women - specifically on vita min B6. * Lifelong Democrat * .11) Year Resident of N. Portland * Exlterieneed. Effective legislator While a majority of the more than ten million American women taking birth control pills will not have any adverse reactions resulting from the contracep tives. all women should be more aware that their nutritional needs are altered by taking the pill, they said. The vitamins most likely to be affect ed by oral contraceptives are vitamins B2 (riboflavin), B6 (pyridoxine), B12 and C (ascorbic acid). Other nutrients af fected by the pill are folic acid and zinc. T h e tw o A g ric u ltu ra l E x p e rim e n t Station researchers said groups of con traceptive users who need to be the most careful about maintaining good nutrition are teenage girls, users who smoke or take drugs, women older than thirty yers of age and women content plating going off the pills to have a child. "Teenage girls taking oral contracep tives run a great risk of developing n u t r it io n a l d e fic ie n c ie s because their bodies already have high nutrient requirements for growth." Leklem said. “Cigarettes and drugs add yet ano ther insult to the body and increase n u trie n t re q u ire m en ts. Sm oking in particular increases the body's need for vitamin C." M iller said women older than thirty must be careful of their vitamin intake levels because the levels of vitamins in the blood go down after that age and more vitamins may be needed to main tain health. But the O regon S ta te U n iv e rs ity scientists warned that women who want to stop taking oral contraceptives to have a child run the greatest nutritional risk of all. “Pregnancy increases nutritional re quiremenls. If a woman with nutri tion al deficiencies becomes preg n an t SOM after going off the pill, other deficiencies may result which could be harmful to the fetus as well as to the woman," lx*klem said. The problems of nutrition and birth control are complicated further because of the variety of pills on the market. and Research and the dean of the College of Social Science, The programs are Administration of Justice, Institute on Aging, Black Stu dies Certificate Program, Urban Studies C e rtific a te Pro g ram , U rban Studies Center and Urban Studies Graduate Programs. Blumel emphasized that no new cur ricula are involved and there will be no added administrative costs growing out of creation of the new school. State Board action represents the last step along the road to final approval for the new school. In 1974, a ten member committee of faculty, staff, students and local g o v e rn m e n t r e p r e s e n t a t iv e s recommended establishing the school. Purposes ot the move were to im prove a d m in is tra tiv e coordination, stren gth en in te rac tio n s betw een the University and the broader community, and highlight the urban mission of the University. Early in 1975, another committee, which had been appointed to study the structure of the proposed school, re commended including the six units un der a dean who would report to Leon Richelle. vice president for academic affairs. Finally, in November 1975, the PSU Faculty Senate endorsed the urban af fairs school by a 44 to 3 vote. CATALOG OVERSTOCK Wards Bargain Centers FOR Stati ’ Representa ti ve Page 3 PSU gains School of Urban Affairs B IG C L E A R A N C E ! 2 4 % - 7 8 % o ff G ift ideas th a t are sure to p lease M om ! DISCOUNT FASHIONS VAUGHN ST., 2nd FLR. More than th irty types of birth control pills are available and doctors prescribe one they feel is right after looking over a woman's medical history, her physical condition and her family medical his tory. "Physicians need to become much more aware of nutrition and its in fluence on good health,” Leklem said. “Very few medical schools offer courses on nutrition although it would be to their advantage to teach it. Nutrition in the medical w orld now is confined mainly to dietitians who work in hospi tals where it is too late to do much preventative nutritional planning or in clinics where they are assigned primari ly to planning weight reduction diets." The two Oregon State University scientists said more communication is needed between nutritionists and physi cians to insure better health, but added the doctor is still the most valuable source of information for women who want to take birth control pills. Women should talk to their physicians about the pill's influence on nutrition and be prepared to plan their diets more wisely. Then together, the wo man and her doctor can w rite a pre scription for good health as well as one of the pill. “Some non-prescription supplemental vitamin pills designed specifically for oral contraceptive users are available, but they should not be necessary if the woman eats a proper diet," M iller said. The B vitamins are needed for main tenance of a healthy nervous system and for normal cell metabolism. Ribo flavin. or B2, is found in milk, cheese, liver, split peas, spinach, enriched bread and cereals. Pyridoxine, or vitamin B6, ran be found in tuna, soybeans, nuts, bananas, spinach, whole grain and en rirhed bread, cereals and raisins. Foods rich in vitamin B12 are liver, fish, meat and eggs. Vitamin C is needed for tissue struc ture and repair. Citrus fruits, tomatoes, cabbage, spinach, broccoli and potatoes contain vitamin C. Folic acid’s function in the body is to help maintain cell division, protein me tabolism and red blood cell maturation. Foods high in folic acid are liver, nuts, asparagus, spinach and legumes such as soybeans, kidney beans and lima beans. Zinc is found in whole grain breads and cereals, fish, eggs and nuts. It is needed for utilization of food and for carbohydrate metabolism. 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