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2B LIFE/ V|t ClarUttt 9a«t Thursday, December 1, 20G5 J -1 :i World AIDS Day finds black Americans still in trouble Continued from page 1B good decision making, leav ing people more prone to engage in HIV risk behaviors, including risky sexual behav ior and ncme adherence to HIV treatment Second, drug abuse adversely affects health and may exacerbate disease progression. Third, and most important, because of these linkages, we must recognize that drug abuse treatment U HIV preven- tiOTi.” Qndy Miner, deputy direc- tea* of the office of science pol icy at NIDA, stresses that the report is not just about nee dles “We’re talking about all drugs. Not just intravenous, but the use of alcohol and the use of other drugs that will cause kids to do things that they otherwise wouldn’t do,” she says. “They can truly make poor decisions that lead to risky behaviors such as unprotected sex or probably do something or engage in these behaviors with some body that they mi^t other wise wouldn’t. We need a lot of dialc^ centered around this problem, an area that has really been ignored. Intravenous drug users alongside male hcnnosexuals have been among the highest risk categories for HIV/AIDS, but expanding the drug con nection to risky behavior is relatively new. Miner points out. “I think the people are talk ing about drugs. But, they’re not talking about the conse quences of drugs and certain ly one of the consequences is HTV and other sexually transmitted diseases.” Tlie NIDA report, released at a Washington, D.C. press conference, comes on the heals of a recent announce ment by the CDC that the number of newly-diagnosed HIV infections among African-Americans has declined an average of 5 per cent a year for the past three years, althou^ blacks are still 40 percent of AIDS cases diagnosed while only 12.3 percent of the U. S. popula tion. Tlie disproportionate num ber of black teenagers and young adults with HIV is not new. Acccttding to CDC data reported throu^ December 2001, African-Americans were the largest group of youth affected by HIV They accounted for 56 percent of all HTV infections ever reported among those aged 13-24. But, it hasn’t been reported enough, the NTD says. The public service announcement, featuring two teenage actresses, Mahbi and Rebecca Hollingsworth, also a Duke Ellington student, will also be publicly aired on videos in some chain stores such as Circuit City, Best Buy, Cosco, and Sears in observance of World AIDS Day World AIDS Day Observers will wear red rib bons to call attention to the pandemic of HIV/AIDS around the world. Mahbi, 16. describes the PSA as an accurate depiction of real life and says she hopes teenagers will get the bottom line about HIV and apply it to themselves: It’s not slowing down. It’s not stopping any where.” Cfjarlottc Stay-home dads overcome stigma Continued from page 1B woridng wives who occasion ally command higher pay than their husbands, prompt ed families such as the Kellermans, Schifferlis and former Prescott residents Karl and Mary Magel to reverse traditional parenting roles. The three fathers—all col lege graduates who have woiked full-time in the past- said that they talked with their wives about child rear ing before they became par ents. home of 10 years in Prescott in September because Mary accepted a promotion as gen- ered manager of Costco in Chandler. Both Mary Magel and Mardi Kellerman have worked in their fields fca* more than 20 years, their husbands said. Mardi stayed home with Hannah for the first six months of the gjrl’s life, and for a time both parents worked, Edd said. However, Mardi constantly worried about Hannah, Edd recalled. Edd agreed to stay home with the girl because Mardi had stable employment with good benefits at a job where she could not break away easily for potential emergencies involving Hannah. Kellerman, Magel and Schifferli acknowledged that they face a social stigma while their wives work. They have endured ofihand rmiarks and teasing. Magel and Schifferli, both 41, said other men mistakenly believe that the stay-at-home dads lead easy lives. “Our decision was somebody was going to quit (work) to stay home with the kids,” said Magel, a father of four rang ing in age fix>m 1 to 7. When the Magels became parents, Mary was not the breadwinner in the family, said Karl, who worked in irri gation supply for 15 years before he became a full-time “house dad,” They left their Black Holiday Barbie Continued from page 1B two Holiday dolls is that the jewelry on the burgundy version features green faux gem accents, while the doll wearing green includes magenta-hued faux gems. A Mattel spokeswoman said “CoUectea' Edition Barbie dolls are designed for collecting and displaying. Most dolls come in show case packaging that includes a doll stand and a Certificate of Authenticity Both little giris and adults love the doll.” Expecting benefits from medicine helps with the healing process Continued from page 1B nerve cells—and the men felt better. Tb return to pre-place- bo pain levels, scientists had to increase the salt-water pressure. “Our lH*ain really is on drugs when we get a placebo,” says co-researcher Christian Sh^er, now at the University of Maryland. More remark able, some especially strong placebo responders suggest “many brains can actually stimulate that (pain-relief) system more.” _Italy^8 Benedetti gave Parkinson’s patients a placebo and measured the electrical activity of individual nerve cells in a movement-control- ling part of the brain. Those neurons quieted down, a decrease in firing of about 40 percent that correlated with a reduction in p>atlents’ muscle rigidit -they moved more eas- iiy _Tb fluther prove the power of belief, Benedetti hooked pain patients to a computer ized morptoie iiyection sys tem. Sometimes the computer administered a dose without them knowing it; sometimes a nurse pretended to give it. The morphine was up to 50 percent more effective when patients knew it was coming. Likewise, Parkinson’s patients moved much better when they were told that doc- tHS had turned on a pace- maker-like implant in their brains, which blocks tremors, than when it was turned on covertly But in a similar experiment with Alzheimer’s patients suf fering pain, Benedetti found no diflference between cov^ or expected dosing. The results are preliminary, he cautioned a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience last month. But it appears that because Alzheimer’s robs patients of the cognitive abili ty to expect a benefit, they need higher doses of painkillers to get as much relief as non-demented patients. Placdbos aren’t a substitute for real medicine. But the research su^ests maybe doc tors should try to manipulate jjatients’ treatment expecta tions, for at least some hard- to-treat conditions. “TTie bigger question is how do we capitalize on the place bo effect,” said Dr. Helen Mayberg of Emory University, whose studies suggest some antidepressants have a “placebo-plus” activity in the brain. “Tliere may be a phenomenon we all have access to.” AmeriCare^^Health AmeriCare Health “Sugar Creek” Medical center 721 W. 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