#958
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:29:06 -0400
From: Brooke Haynes <haynesb@CO.BUNCOMBE.NC.US>
Subject: Re: Ergonomics Training
** Visit the American Association for Health Education
** at www.aahperd.org/aahe
**
** The Official Call for Abstracts...
** HEDIR Technolgy Seminar
** http://www.hedir.org/aahe
**
Does anyone have any information on where I can find some continuing =
education in ergonomics? Thanks for your help.
-Brooke
Brooke Haynes, CHES
Community and Worksite Health Promotion Coordinator
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#959
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:35:22 -0500
From: Mark Allen Temple <matempl@ILSTU.EDU>
Subject: AFA attack on CDC Director
** Visit the American Association for Health Education
** at www.aahperd.org/aahe
**
** The Official Call for Abstracts...
** HEDIR Technolgy Seminar
** http://www.hedir.org/aahe
**
The American Family Association (http://www.afa.net) has launched an attack
against Dr. Koplan and the CDC.
Please consider writing in support to counter this extremist effort.
>CDC DIRECTOR DR. JEFFREY KOPLAN SHOULD BE REPLACED
>
>[ Online Format: http://www.afa.net/activism/aa073001.asp ]
>AOL: <a href=http://www.afa.net/activism/aa073001.asp>CLICK HERE</a>
>
>American Family Association joins Focus on the Family and groups
>representing 10,000 physicians in charging the federal Centers for Disease
>Control and Prevention (CDC) with covering up vital information on the
>ineffectiveness of condoms and calling for the resignation and replacement
>of Jeffrey Koplan, the CDC Director.
>
>A news conference was held last week in Washington, D.C., at which Rep.
>Dave Weldon, R-Fla., former Rep. Tom Coburn and representatives from the
>Physicians Consortium and the Catholic Medical Society discussed a
>recently released Health and Human Services Department report from a task
>force that examined condom efficacy.
>
>Family News In Focus gave the following report of the news conference:
>"The report we're gathered today to discuss, I believe, is a
>(condemnation) of the safe-sex message," Rep. Weldon said at the time.
>"There is no such thing as 'safe sex.'"
>
>Dr. Tom Coburn, a recently retired congressman and physician from
>Oklahoma, also spoke out: "It's time to be truthful with the American
>public."
>
>Coburn said the Centers for Disease Control had withheld vital information
>about condom effectiveness, causing a generation of young people to engage
>in risky behavior.
>
>"This is not about whether or not people should use condoms," he said.
>"This is about whether or not people ought to be told the truth about how
>effective they are and how well they work."
>
>According to Dr. Elida Eck, a physician who spoke out at the news
>conference, the truth about condoms is simple.
>
>"Condoms don't work against chlamydia," Eck said flatly. "They don't work
>against HPV or genital herpes."
>
>Said Dr. John Diggs, a member of the Physicians Consortium from Boston: "I
>am appalled and extremely disappointed to find that the CDC has opted not
>to inform the American public of facts and data that they have known for a
>long time."
>
>The CDC has not responded directly to the charges, saying only in a
>statement that more study is needed.
>
>Planned Parenthood, meantime, continues to promote the use of condoms as
>"one of the best methods we have to prevent infection." The statement is
>followed by an acknowledgement that abstinence remains the most effective
>method.
>
>FOR MORE INFORMATION:
>
>The Truth About Condoms
>Two Congressmen and two medical associations take the CDC to task for
>misinformation about condoms and STDs.
>http://www.family.org/cforum/hotissues/A0016989.html
>
>Scientific Review Panel Confirms Condoms Are Effective Against HIV/AIDS,
>But Epidemiological Studies Are Insufficient for Other STDs
>Read the original HHS press release.
>http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2001pres/20010720.html
>
>The Physicians Consortium Response
>To read the Physicians Consortium news release from Tuesday's news
>conference: http://www.family.org/cforum/hotissues/A0016992.html
>
>An Open Letter to Tommy Thompson
>Read a response from physician and former Congressman Tom Coburn.
>http://www.family.org/cforum/hotissues/A0016991.html
>
>Abstinence-Only Philosophy Finds Friend in White House
>Read the AgapePress story
>http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/7/afa/302001a.asp
>
>NIH casts doubt on condom effectiveness
> From the Christian Medical and Dental Society
>http://www.cmdahome.org/?&CONTEXT=cat&cat=208#nih
>
>ACTION NEEDED
>
>Please contact HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson and politely ask that he
>demand the resignation of CDC Director Dr. Jeffrey Koplan.
>
>Secretary Tommy Thompson
>Phone: (202) 690-7000
>Fax: (202) 690-7203
>E-mail hhs@os.dhhs.gov
>mailto:hhs@os.dhhs.gov
>
>---
Mark A. Temple, PhD
matempl@ilstu.edu
(309) 438-2324 Work
(309) 661-1066 Home
http://www.cast.ilstu.edu/newtemple/menu.htm
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#960
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 14:20:00 -0500
From: Mark Allen Temple <matempl@ILSTU.EDU>
Subject: Sec. Thompson's contact info.
** Visit the American Association for Health Education
** at www.aahperd.org/aahe
**
** The Official Call for Abstracts...
** HEDIR Technolgy Seminar
** http://www.hedir.org/aahe
**
I have received several messages asking how to counter the American Family
Association's attack on Dr. Koplan.
Contact HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson and politely state your support of CDC
Director Dr. Jeffrey Koplan.
The attack has focused on "misinformation" regarding the efficacy of
condoms. You might also comment that you support the work of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
Secretary Tommy Thompson
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
Phone: (202) 690-7000
Fax: (202) 690-7203
E-mail hhs@os.dhhs.gov
mailto:hhs@os.dhhs.gov
Mark A. Temple, PhD
matempl@ilstu.edu
(309) 438-2324 Work
(309) 661-1066 Home
http://www.cast.ilstu.edu/newtemple/menu.htm
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