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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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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