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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="05bfd523.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Cape Fear Regional Bureau For Community Action, Inc.</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cape Fear Regional Bureau For Community "><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cape Fear Regional Bureau For Community "><U><B><IMG SRC="04e0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>    </B><A HREF="id73.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Educational Articles"><U><B><IMG SRC="04d0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id85.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Emergency Bullentins"><U><B><IMG SRC="04f0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.capefearregionalbureauforcommunityactioninc.org/mf.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.capefearregionalbureauforcomm"><U><B>Click Here For Site Map</B></U></A></div> <div> <B> <embed src="HTMLobj-343/News.wav" autostart="true" hidden="true">  </B></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="23fd2993.jpg"> <div> <B>The Cape Fear Regional Bureau For Community Action, Inc. is the news.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="170b6780.jpg" border=0 width="182" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="172b6790.jpg" border=0 width="182" height="121" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="174b67a0.jpg" border=0 width="182" height="122" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="176b67a0.jpg" border=0 width="182" height="122" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>Bureau In The News</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <A NAME="pre_world_aids_day_testing_street"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>P<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Brochure" >RE-WORLD AIDS DAY TESTING STREET CORNER OUTREACH EVENT</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Fayetteville Press News -- December 2002</B></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="477" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#FFFFCC" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 71 WIDTH="223"><div> <B>Fayetteville,</B></div> <div> <B>North Carolina --</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> The Cape Fear Regional Bureau For Community Action, Inc., CitGo – Gillespie Street, Miracle–Barber Shop – Donaldson Street and Fayetteville Press sponsored a Pre–World AIDS Day  HIV/AIDS and Syphilis Counseling, Testing and Referral Street Corner Outreach Event. This event was held Wednesday and Friday, November 27 and 29, 2002 in the CitGo parking lot on Gillespie Street.</div> <bR> <div> Seventy-eight individuals were HIV Antibody Tested and seventy–nine  were tested for syphilis by blood work.  One on one street outreach was conducted to over five hundred persons on windy and chilly weathered days.  Testing was conducted by Bureau Staff, assisted by Volunteers.  During this one on one street outreach, condoms and literature were distributed to various individuals.  The need for abstaining from unsafe sex and substance abuse was discussed with contacts, while conducting street outreach by Staff and Volunteers.  Many sexually active persons received condoms for safer sex. Injectable Drug Users were educated about cleansing their drug paraphernalia.</div> <bR> <div> Persons with substance abuse problems were referred to Cumberland County Mental Health Department and others were referred to E. Newton Smith Public Health Center for other STD (sexually transmitted diseases) screening.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Mr. Ashley Rozier, II, Chief Executive Officer for the Cape Fear Regional Bureau For Community Action, Inc., stated: “It is vitally important that we become even more aggressive in the state during nontraditional hours and weekends to reach the various targeted populations that might be at risk for syphilis and HIV/AIDS.  We must now through a more culturally sensitive and nonjudgmental approach be on the agenda for our fellow mankind.  Although a great number of individuals tested were homeless, substance abusers and commercial sex workers, others were poor and hard-working  individuals who normally would not have the opportunity to visit the local health department for STD screening, due to the fact they are at work during the operational hours of the health department.”</div> <bR> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 WIDTH="237"><div> Finally, Mr. Rozier stated: “This event would not have been possible without the constant support of  E. Newton  Smith  Public  Health Center, the North Carolina HIV/STD </div> <div> Prevention and Care Branch, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Region V DIS Office, North Carolina Office of Minority Health and Other Health Disparities and various faith institutions, entrepreneurships; such as Omni National Bank, and a dynamic Bureau Board of Directors.  A special thanks goes to the Bureau’s Staff and Volunteers; Ms. Myra Allen, Mr. Pete Moore, Mrs. Marti Eisenberg–Nicolayson, Mr. Richard. B. Hedenquist, Jr. all of the North Carolina HIV/STD Prevention and Care Branch in Raleigh, NC; Mrs. Connie Jones, Mr. Wayne Williams, Mr. Dwight McDowell, Mr. Antonio Jones all of North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Region V Office in Fayetteville, NC; Mrs. Janet Daly, Director of E. Newton Smith Public Health Center, Mr. Eugene Hines, Mrs. Shirley Mozingo and Mrs. Pat Whitfield of E. Newton Smith Public Health Center, Fayetteville, North Carolina who networks and collaborates with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and Cape Fear Regional Bureau For Community Action, Inc. to assure programs in the Bureau such as these, are implemented and successful during nontraditional hours and weekends, when the local health department is not operating.”</div> <bR> <div> The North Carolina HIV/STD Prevention and Care Branch, Raleigh, North Carolina has reported that there were 600 HIV cases and 485 AIDS cases as of September 30, 2002 in Cumberland County, not including military installations.  The national syphilis rate in 2001 was 2.1 cases per one hundred thousand persons while North Carolina’s rate was 5.7 cases per one hundred thousand persons as reported by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.  Mrs. Evelyn Foust, Branch Head, North Carolina HIV/STD Prevention and Care Branch, Raleigh, North Carolina stated: “Syphilis remains a problem among the American Indians and Black populations.”</div> <bR> <div> In closing, Mr. Rozier, II stated: “The citizens of North Carolina need to give a special thanks to Dr. Donald Jones and Staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia for their present efforts in working with the North Carolina Department for Health and Human Services and community–based organizations in the prevention of HIV/AIDS  and Syphilis.”</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>