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Checking Up on the NAACP's Free Health Fair
The National Prostate Cancer Coalition reports that African American me have the world's highest rate of prostate cancer. Nearly 13 percent of African Americans have diabetes - and a third of them aren't aware of it - according to the American Diabetes Assocation. These may seem like daunting satistics, but the NACCP's Health Division has been working on these issues since the early 1930s, addressing diisease prevention and treatment among African Americans. At this year's national NACCP convention, the Health Division continued that mission, sponsoring a health fair that provided free screenings for glucose, body fat, cholesterol and blood pressure, and prostate exams. There were also visual displays on HIV and the risks of alcohol abuse, smoking and obesity. For one health care worker on hand, the fair accomplished the crucial task of building awareness. "Even though it's just a quick screen, at least the person knows what they're working with," says Yvonne Olusi, a registered nurse who distributed pamphlets at the health fair. "Prevention is the key," agrees Lola Denise Jefferson, president of the Fort Bend County (Texas) Black Nurses Association, which provided 40 nurses for the fair. "If people are informed of how they can prevent getting diabetes, stroke, heart attacks, then the numbers of people in the hospitals go down, the health costs go down, the health costs go down, health insurase goes down; everybody wins." This year's fair also look active steps in the area of men's health. For the first time, the National Prostate Cancer Coalition provided a full-service van staffed by a phlebotomist and a urologist. According to Flo McAfee of the Caraway Group, an event planning firm that helped organize the health fair: "It's just a quick screen, [but] at least the person knows what the person knows what the're working with." Free screenings for glucose, body fat, cholesterol and blood pressure were offered. "The great thing about this covention is that only is it open to the community. We've seen men [who] have just read about it in the newspaper or seen it on TV and the radio that it's available....come and they have taken advantage." |
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