HIV and Other Tests Will Be Offered at Free Health Clinic for Uninsured Gulf Coast Residents

NOLA's AIDS Rate Is Almost Twice National Rate

New Orleans, Aug. 26 ...PRNewswire -- Free HIV/AIDS tests, other significant tests and medical exams (including physicals) will be available to uninsured residents of the area when the National Association of Free Clinics holds a massive free clinic in New Orleans on Aug. 31 and Sept 1.  Patients should call 1-877-236-7617 to make appointments.

"Louisiana has a much higher rate of AIDS cases than the rest of the nation, so we are pleased to be able to provide tests for this and other conditions to local residents at no cost to themselves," NAFC Executive Director Nicole Lamoureux said.  The rate of AIDS cases per capita in Louisiana was 24.0 cases per 100,000 people, according to Kaiser Family Foundation data from 2008. That is almost twice the national rate of 12.3 AIDS cases per 100,000.

Other services at the free clinic on from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Aug. 31 and from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Sept. 1 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center will include: medical exams (including physicals), EKGs, cholesterol blood tests, glucose tests for diabetes, blood pressure tests, muscular skeletal exams, urinalysis, pregnancy tests, hemoglobin tests and strep tests.

In addition, the free clinic will provide mental health services and pharmacy counseling. Providers will write prescriptions that conform to the generic programs offered by many drug stores.

"Patients at the free clinic will be referred to resources in the community for ongoing care," Lamoureux said. "The goal is to connect uninsured patients to safety-net providers, such as free clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and hospitals."

Along with the toll-free number for appointments, 1-877-236-7617, information about the Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 free clinic for both patients and volunteers is available at: www.freeclinics.us.

If you find you have a few nickels and dimes to spare, please write a check or call in a donation for this very worthy cause. 
 

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Oligarchy?

There are a few realizations that we Americans must face as our country limps along on a badly compromised democracy.

The Supreme Court has consisted of a majority of extreme Republicans for several generations in recent history.

When someone had the bright idea of letting the Court select the President in the 2000 election, of course a Republican was chosen despite the fact that the Democrat clearly had a significant majority of the popular vote.

That decision only emboldened the Court in its pursuit of future decisions that would gradually move the Country away from Democracy and toward Oligarchy.

The recent decision to lift limitations on campaign financing has dramatically eroded any sense of the Democracy as we knew it.

The Republican Party represents wealthy Americans much the way the Whigs did in England and the Tories there represented the people.

In the United States the Republican Party is the Party of wealth, while the Democratic Party is the Party of the people.

While we’re on this subject the Republican Party has attempted to rename the Democratic Party as the Democrat Party. Worse is the fact that some Democrats are actually saying the Democrat Party. If that is the case, then what do they call the folks who are in that Party? Hmm, thought so...you Pubs don’t have an answer to that, do you? It is the Democratic Party. The people who support the Democratic Party are Democrats!

Because of the Court’s recent ruling, it only stands to reason that the Country will eventually be ruled by its Captains and its Kings. With the middle class successfully eliminated, there will be the wealthy class, the professional class and, of course, the poor.

Once the middle class has been methodically eliminated, those pesky Unions will disappear as well.

In the 1992 election candidate Ross Perot prophetically stated that the sucking sound we were hearing was that of our union jobs going overseas. We didn’t get it then; we do now.