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Adult immunizations
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When to immunize
The Advkory Committee on
Immunization Practices
(ACIP) recommends the fol
lowing Adxilt Immunization
Schedule:
• Tfetanus diphtheria - One
dose every 10 years after
receiving the primary series
of three doses.
• Influenza fl*l) One dose
during the fall of eadi year
for all healthy ^ults 50 years
of age and older. The vaccine
may be administered at an
earlier age for individuals
with certain medical condi
tions and occupations-
• Pneumococcal - One dose
at the age of 65. If given
before the age of 65, another
vaccination must be given in
5 years. The vaccme may be
administered at an earlier
age for individuals with cer
tain medical conditions.
• Hepatitis A - A series of
two shots giv^ 6-12 months
apart. The vaccme may be
required for individuals with
certain medical conditions
and occupations.
• Hepatitis B - Childhood
vaccination for this disease
had decreased the need for
this vaccination as an adult.
However, adults requiring
catch-up immunizations and
those with certain medical
eolations and occupations
are etocouraged to get this
vaccdnaticai.
• Measles, mumps, and
rubella - Adults bom before
1957 are considered to be
immune from measles and
mumps. However, rubella
immunity should be verified
through serum titers or vacci
nation, especially in women
considering pregnancy Two
doses of MMR are recom
mended for adults with recent
contact with the diseases as
weU as for those vaccinated
between 1963 and 1967.
• Varicella - Two doses
given 4 weeks apart are rec
ommended for adults with
unreliable clinical history of
Historically black
colleges face
declining enrollment
varicella.
• Meningococcal vaccine -
Recommended for adults
with certain medical, occupa-
ticaial, or lifestjde risk factors.
Talk with your doctor to
determine the need for this
vaccine.
Only your doctor can deter
mine which vaccines are
appropriate for you and when
you should receive them.
Therefore, it is important
that you visit your doctor reg
ularly to ensure that your
immiinizations are up-to-
date. Remember, knowledge
is power, but it is what you do
with it that makes aU tire dif-
f^ence!
Contribution b\ Rainon Velez.
M.D., Professor of Medicine.
Wake Forest University School of
Medicine, Primary Care and
Preventive Medicine Sennee Line
Coordinator, VISN 6; and Aisha
Bobcombe
For more information about the
Maya Angehu Research Center
on ■ Minority Health, visit
www.wfuhmc.edu/minorityheallh.
Or, for health information call
(336) 713.7578.
CHARLOTTE
LATIN
SCHOOL
Where Teaching is Valued and
Learning is Celebrated
You are invited to our Admissions Open
House
FK f'' KindcM-oarlen; OcloLer 5, 7:00 p.in.
1 K Kimlcr^arleii - Grade 12: October 19, 9:30 a.m.
THE ASSOCtATED PRESS
RICHMOND, Va.-When
pi*ospective college student
Jessica Page tiundled off to
Hampton University in
March, she’d considered the
visit a formality. She’d
already made up her mind to
attend the waterside school,
considered by many a jewel
among the nation’s historical
ly black institutions.
Then she saw the campus.
The dorms weren’t as sleek
as she’d pictured. Buildings
seemed antiquated. Was this
“The Real HU” she’d heard
about?
“I wasn’t impressed,” said
Page, who later enrolled at
the University of Viiwiia at
Charlottesville. “Hampton
was my number one choice—
until I visited.”
Page is part of a steady
trickle of talented black
youths shppmg away fixjm
the nation’s most prestigious
black schools.
Experts say aging campuses
are one reason. Dwindling
prestige, changes in what
black students value and
ina'easitig competition fixm
white educational powerhous
es provide other dues.
The resulting «*odus has
left some black schools strug
gling to market themselves to
youth who don’t feel as duty-
bound to the coU^ies as their
parents before them.
“The issue for black colleges
is not, in my view, that there
aie not enov^i students to go
around,” explained Michael
Lomax, president of the
United Negro College Fund.
“(But) those students have a
lot more choices and those
students are being careful
and more selective than ever
before.”
There are 103 historically
black colics and universi
ties—or HBCUs—across the
nation. Clustered mostly in
the South, they were largely
funded durii^ the
Reconstruction by wealthy
whites as an alternative to
universities that had shut out
blacks.
The institutions have cur
ried favor with black students
for generations, valued as
much for their unique campus
traditions and family-like
environment as for their skill
at grooming the nation’s black
intellectual elite.
But data suggest the attrac
tion is waning.
Tbtal college enrollment of
black men and women ages
Business
18 to 24 has increased fixim 15
percent in 1970 to roughly 25
percent in 2003. The number
of black students enrolling in
HBCUs has slowly increased,
too, finm 190,305 in 1976 to
more than 230,000 in 2001.
But the percentage of black
college students choosing an
HBCU has been drifting
downward, fixim 18.4 percent
in 1976 to 12.9 percent in
2001, according to tile US.
Department of Education’s
most recent figures available.
Twenty-six of 87 HBCUs
profiled by the department
recorded enrollment declines
between 1995 and 2004.
Alabama’s Talladega
College topped the list, losing
nearly 54 percent of its stu-
Please see BLACK/4B
Speak Up.
Have your say on how and where we drive, bike and walk. The North Carolina Department of Transportation has published the
Mecklenburg/Union portion of the draft 2007-2013 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). This document describes the transportation
projects to be implemented over the next seven years in Mecklenburg County and portions of Union County. These projects include new
roads as well as transit, pedestrian and bicycle facilities. The Mecklenburg-Union Metropolitan Planning Organization wants public
feedback on the draft plan and invites citizens to two comment meetings:
Tuesday, October 3, 3- 6 pm
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center (CMGC)
Uptown Conference Room, 6tti Floor
600 E. 4th Street
Charlotte, NO
Thursday, October S, 3 - 6 pm
City of Monroe
City Hall
300 W. Crowell Street
Monroe, NC
lUTAN PLAMHING QR(»NIZATION
Copies of the plan can be found at the CMGC, city and town halls throughout Mecklenburg and
Union Counties. The TIP also is available on the MUMPO website at www.mumpo.org.
Comments niay be emailed to the MUMPO secretary via the website. For more information call
the MUMPO staff at 704,336.8643 or visit www.mumpo.org.
The Program of Projects required by 49 USC 5307 is a subset of the Transportation Improvement
Program and the public review and comments solicited for this Transportation Improvement
Program are intended to include explicitly and satisfy the public review and comments required
under 49 USC 5307 (c) 1-7 for the Urbanized Area Formula Program.
MOJA
A Celebration of African-American and Caribbean Arts
•-■ns-''-;
An Evening of Jazz under the Stars with
Nnenna Freelon
Opening Act: SOULFOGD JAZZ
featuring Dwayne J.L Johnson, Jr. and Otis Wright
Saturday. September 30 • 8pm
The Cistern. College of Charletion
Admission: $20.00
THEATRE - “Lasgston Hughes's Little Ham”
Thursday, September 28 - Saturday. October 7
Book by Dan Owens. Music by Jude Walton. Lyrics by Richard Engquisl
From a concept by Eric Krebs • Directed by Art GiUiard
Dock Street Theatre. 135 Church Street. AdmissfoR: $28.01) general $15.0S students/seniors.
GOSPEL CONCERTS - The Meh of Gospel
Sunday. October 1 • 4pm
Featuring Anthony E. Burke, Mario Desaussure. Johnifer Q. Fashion and Rev. Randolph Milter.
St Matthews Lufteran Church. 405 King Sheet Admission: S7:50
Forces of Nature
Dance Theatre
I Co.
Friday. October 6
7:30pm
Charlesten Music Hall.
37 John Sheet
Admission; $15.D0
CLASSICAL ENCOUNTER I
D’Jaris Whipper-Lewis
Sunday, October 1 • 2-3pm
City Gallery at Watefront Park.
34 Prioleau Street
Emission: $7.80
CAPITAL Cmf EKTERTAWMEMT PRESENTS
Jeffrey Osborne
and KEM
. Sunday, October 7 • 8pm
FamRy Circle Tennis Canter. 161 Seven Faims Drive. Daniel Island ^
General AdmissiW: $25.00; $35.IU VIP
expo
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the Charlotte Merchandise
Mai-t in Pi-eedom Hall.
Tickets are $10. For more
information, call (704) 399-
To order tickets callTickebnasler at 1843) 554-6066 or Order On-Line at www.ticketmaster.CDm
MOJA Arts Festivai Box Office. Gaillard Municipal Auditorium. 77 Calhoun Street
For more information, call 1343) 724-7305 or visit www.mojafesbvaLcom
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