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S eptember 13, 1995 • T he P ortland O bserver
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African American To Participate Race For The Cure
ricer survivo
survivor r Sharon
Breast cancer
Payton w ill take part in the Fourth
Annual Susan G. Komen Breast Can
cer Foundation Race fo r the Cure on
Sunday, September 24, 1995 at Tom
M cC a ll W aterfront Park in Portland
A one-m ile fa m ily run w alk begins at
8:30 a m ., and a 5K run/w alk for
a
onnsod w
th h
r » » a c t r»cir»z'a>i-
i n 1991.
I GO I
agnosed
w i ith
breast
cancer in
" I believe I was spared m y life to help
w ith awareness and to help spread
the word that you can survive,” she
says. Payton has been participating
in the Race fo r the last three years
and w ill be speaking at this year’ s
Luncheon on September
Red Lio n , L lo y d Center.
chance o f helping some
su rvive !” she adds.
T L i.
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This, Race — organizers
expect . . total
more A frica n Am erican women in
the Race. Breast cancer is the leading
cause o f death in A frica n Am erican
Payton’ s advice to other women
is simple: “ Get educated about this
disease, take control o f yo u r body
F or inform ation on Race fo r the
Cure events, o r to volunteer, call the
women. These deaths are m ostly due
to the cancer being found after it has
already spread to other parts o f the
body. E arly detection o f breast can
th ro u g h
Race H o tlin e at (503) 242-1874.
and
cer w ill give women more treatment
options and the chance to recover
Identified by h ot-pink visors,
nearly 700 breast cancer Survivors
participated in the Race last year.
S u rvivo r Sharon Payton was d i
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Payton is w illin g to speak out on
her own experience w ith breast can
S u rv iv o r’ s
16th at the
“ I have the
one else to
s e lf-e x a m in a tio n
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attendance to reach 15,000. Thisyear,
Payton’ s daughter and second-grade
son w ill be an enthusiastic addition
to that number.
women and g irls kicks o f f at 9 a m.
This year, the Susan G. Komen
Foundation w ould like to involve
mammograms. M o s to fa ll, d o n ’t fo r
get to see you health care profession
al.”
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cer and the importance o f self-exam
ination and regular mammograms.
Contract O ’ N e il/B e ria u lt Public Re
lations at (503) 2 2 0 -0 9 0 1 to arrange
interviews.
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Over 700 breast cancer
survivors participated in
the 1994 Race for the Cure
(identified by hot pink visors) at
Waterfront Park.
AIDS Fight Not Working For Women
W omen at the w o rld ’ s largest
grassroots forum last week urged
development o f new protection meth
ods to replace condoms and reliance
on male cooperation in the fig h t
against A ID S .
infected w ith the H IV virus that can
lead to A ID S , M ishairabwi said. “ The
situation is catastrophic. It is a life
and death issue. A frica n women want
to try m icrobicides.”
W om en
can
in s e rt
th e
m icrobicides into th e ir vaginas ju s t
like spermicides and these w ould be
able to k ill the H IV virus carried in
the sperm o f their male partner.
“ The strategy o f the W o rld
Health Organization against A ID S is
not w o rkin g and is irrelevant to the
w o m e n o f A f r ic a , ” P r is c illa
M is ih a ira b w i, c o o rd in a to r o f the
ties prom ote condoms as the safest
way to combat A ID S (A cq u ire d Im
mune D e ficie n cy Syndrdtne), but
W H O ’ s o th e r s tra te g ie s — a s in
g le p a rtn e r and m e d ic a l tre a tm e n t
— w ere n o t p ra c tic a l.
The vast m a jo rity o f A frica n
women had a single partner but their
husbands had many, wh i le poor w om
en had no access to medical care, she
said.
L o ri Heise, o f W H A M , W om
en’ s
H e a lth
A d v o c a te s
on
M icrobicides, to ld the seminar that
10 diffe re n t m icrobicides were in the
developm ent stage but it w ould be
“ We cannot w ait fo r five years.
M a n y w om en have unsafe sex,”
M isih a ira b w i said.
another five years before they were
com m ercially available.
w o m e n w o u ld be in fe c te d w ith
the H IV v iru s , d o u b le the c u rre n t
T h e ir great advantages w ould
be ease o f use, they w ould not neces
n u m b e r, and fo u r m illio n w o m e n
w o u ld have d ie d fro m A ID S , the
W o m e n and A ID S g ro u p to ld the
s e m in a r.
Women and A ID S support netw ork
o f Harare, Zim babwe, told a seminar
at the N on-G overnm ental O rganiza
tions Forum on Women.
W H O and other health au th o ri
m en, as h usbands o r cu sto m e rs
o f p ro s titu te s , and c o u ld n o t in
s is t th a t he use a co n d o m . The
B y the y e a r 2 0 0 0 , 13 m illio n
women to ld special workshops on a
sarily be contraceptive and most im
designated A ID S day at the forum
portantly, w ould give control o f use
that this did not w ork. b f | , , | n , „ n i
H y i^ s a id .
,
, , , , , p v t n t ^ Q r . p l^ m j^ u t jc a ^ q t n -
One in four sexually active w om
M is ih a ir a b w i said m a n y A f ,, panie^ were .not interested in devel
en in Zim babw e, fo r example, was
ric a n w om en w ere d e p e n d e n t on
oping these m icrobicides because
Research Center Sponsors
Minority Student Interns
experience in health care research,
says M ary L. Durham, Phd, director o f
the CHR. “ Compared to better-known
professions, such as medicine, law
and engineering, health care research
is not very w ell known. Attracting
bright, talented people to this field has
always been a challenge. Attracting
bright, talented m inority candidates
has been an even bigger challenge.
The best thing we can do to change
this situation is to open our doors to
m inority students, provide them expe
rience and training in what we do, and
show them that health care research
can be an exciting, rewarding career
choice.”
Seven student were hired as in
terns this summer, an increase o f two
from 1994. Students, teachers o r par
they did not believe they were com
m ercial products and feared litig a
tion i f the products did not have the
prom ised results, Heise said.
O ther health care workers de
scribed how poverty, recession and
This summer, seven Portland res
idents have been participating in a
three-month intern program for m i
n o rity college students at Kaiser
performed included computer entry
and verification o f research data, f il
ing o f research charts and pap smears,
as well as clin ic and phone contact
with participants in research studies.
The program also involved biweekly
luncheon meetings w ith CHR scien
tists and managers to discuss issues in
health research.
Permanente’s Center for Health Re
search (C HR )
The C H R ’ s student jn te rn pro
gram is headed by Sara Lamb, manag
er o f research operations. Interested
en into selling their bodies fo r mon
ey, placing them in the high-risk cat
egory.
are occurring in women whose o nly risk behavior is sexual intercourse w ith
their sole male partners who in turn have had or have continued to have
T h i Hoa, o f Vietnam , said girls
as young as 15 offered sex fo r as little
as 50 cents, w ith many men saying
they d isliked using condoms and the
girls reluctant to refuse unprotected
sex.
The N G O forum runs parallel to
a U .N . w o m e n ’ s co n fe re n ce in
B e ijin g and hopes to influence the
conference’ s Platform fo r A ctio n that
Mjill detail how to w in greater equal
ity on issues ranging ft „11, reproduc
tive rights to A ID S ,
students submit resumes and are inter
“ The C H R ’ s internship program
offers a good snapshot o f health and
viewed by Lamb, who matches them
to specific research projects. The stu
The experts updating the D i
etary G uidelines fo r Americans, the
governm ent’ s seven tips fo r health
fu l eating, want to add this advice:
get some exercise.
“ M a n y A m e rica n s are o ve r
weight and gain w eight as they grow
old e r," the nine-member panel says
in its proposed revisions to the guide
lines. It says exercise “ is an im por
tant way to use up food energy.”
“ T ry to do 30 minutes or more o f
moderate physical a ctivity on most -
preferably all - days o f the week.”
The new edition o f the guide
lines w ill be published late this year.
The current version, issued in 1990,
recommended Americans lim it fat to
p ro vid in g 30 percent o r less o f their
d a ily calories - the first tim e the
government suggested specific lim
its.
h e a lth se rv ic e s re s e a rc h ,” says
dents work between 20 and 40 hours a
week on the projects during their 90-
day internship
Rukaiyah Adams, who graduated in
June from Carleton College in M inne
This year’ s students worked on
sota w ith a degree in political science.
“ As interns, w e’ ve gotten exposed to a
such projects as cancer research, diet
and hypertension, a clinical tria l on
greater variety o f networking and ca
reer options.”
women’ s health issues, and a program
for providing long-term community-
The m ajor purpose o f the intern
based care for the elderly. Tasks they
T h is Y e a r's S tudents
Charm ika Schuster
Angela Jackson
Rukaiyah Adams
Lajena W illia m s
Tana Herndon
J e ff McGee
Henry Newson
program is to provide m inority college
students with exposure to and work
unprotected sex w ith other partners, W H O said.
“ The number o f infected women w ith H IV is increasing more rapidly
than men in A fric a , in southern A sia ,” H iroshi N akajim a, W H O ’ s director-
general, told a news conference.
"1 he bleak reality is that the sexual and economic subordination o f
women fuels the H IV /A ID S pandemic,” W H O said in its position paper at
the Fourth U nited Nations W orld Conference on Women in B eijing.
'W om en’ s vu ln e ra b ility ... is linked to th e ir lo w status in society, and
their economic, cultural and social dependence on their male partners,” it
said.
Some one m illio n women are infected each year, m ainly through
unprotected sexual intercourse, it said. Every minute, tw o women are
infected w ith H IV . it said. And every tw o minutes, a woman dies o f A ID S :
L ike the 1990 version, the up
dated guidelines w ould recommend
Am ericans lim it their fat intake, eat
plenty o f grains, fru its and vegeta
bles, and choose a diet moderate in
salt and sugar.
They also w ould repeat the cur
rent advice: “ I f you d rin k alcoholic
beverages, do so in m oderation.”
The advisory panel’ s suggested
revisions must be accepted by the
A g ricu ltu re and Health depart
dietary components under the pan
e l’ s revisions but the most notable
change w o u ld be the advice on
weight.
“ Balance the food you eat w ith
physical activity. M aintain or im
prove your w eight,” the panel rec
ommends because o f concern about
rising rates o f obesity. Research says
about 30 percent o f Americans are
overweight.
ments. Copies o f the revisions, com
A t present, the guidelines say
“ M aintain healthy w eight.”
pleted in mid-June, were made avail
able last week.
Dr. W illia m D ietz o f New En
gland M edical Center Hospitals in
The report recommends devel
opment o f diet guidelines fo r c h il
dren. The current versions are aimed
at adults and not intended fo r c h il
dren under two.
Boston was the leading proponent o f
the new wording, which he said would
G rains, fru its and vegetables
result in a guideline w ith helpful,
“ how to do it” advice.
“ As far as I cou Id tel 1,99 percent
ofth e pressure was to make the guide-
w ould be given more prom inence as
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Studies in some countries show that up to 30 percent o f H I V infections
New D ietary G uidelines
M ore than a m illio n A m e ri
can infants have not received all o f
th e ir recommended vaccinations
one in fo u r children aged 19 to 35
months had not received the rec
Women were almost absent from the pandemic in 1980 o f the H IV
virus that can cause A cquired Immune D eficiency Syndrome (A ID S ), but
now total as many as eight m illio n .
One In Four
Children Not
Vaccinated
The U.S. Centers fo r Disease
C ontrol and Prevention (C D C ) said
Women face the bleak reality o f being infected by the deadly H IV virus
more q u ic k ly than men, due in part to their economic dependence on men
the W orld Health Organization said last week.
structural adjustment programs were
drivingan increasing number o fw o m -
ents interested in next year’ s intern
ship fo r m inorities contact Terry
F itzpatrick at (503) 335-6602.
Catlin Gabel is spending the summer learning about health
research as an intern at Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health
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