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FAIRMONT - It has been over 13 years since Dr. Joycelyn Elders resigned under pressure from Surgeon General of their views, children must be about sex and educational level of the birth, but the doctor of the child and health official is not assured loin of current events on the topic.

“It was a report, which was released last week that 33 percent of our young people cited had a sexually transmitted disease,” said one of the old volume will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Monongahela Valley Health Association of Centers Inc , on Saturday, setting up Locust Avenue clinic.

“These are things like HPV - Human Papillomavirus - for those we have a vaccine. People say, “I do not want my daughter to receive the vaccine because if the vaccine, it would say yes, Que him and the authorization to go to sexuality.”

“Now, everyone who was driving a car today car insurance. Each house has an insurance on their homes. Well, you want to insure your home, your car and insured. Why not make sure Your child? ”

The vaccine, Gardacil, protect girls from four types of HPV, which leads to 70% of cervical cancer, but health workers recommend vaccinating children from the age of 11, some parents angry.

No Past, was known for his short but colourful mandate in the Clinton administration for entry into condoms for young people rather than abstinence, safeguarding their views with the quote: “The vows of abstinence break more easily as a latex condom.

Or, as I said, she is delighted that people laughed and klatschten Elders’ remarks: “We learned from our children is not” on sex, because people think, “if you talk about it, they are going to do, and it. I say: ‘If we look to, they already do. ”

But the question of sex and education was not the only former treaties. The native of Arkansas, for the first time identified hitherto-Gov. Bill Clinton, during the year 1987 as head of the Arkansas Department of Health, is very well versed in many medical issues, including those relating to the poor countries of the population.

The right fit during a celebration for a clinic, was founded in 1958 to care for members of the United Mine Workers of America as part of a Pre-Paid medical plan.

“The UMW helped at the clinic for the treatment of minors,” said CEO Nancy Vandergrift clinic. “You pay in advance and, above all, patients are treated.”

However, the clinic is open to all, in the community and services can be offered on the relay method, the cost of restoration.

In his opening remarks, Vandergrift, we were reminded that they are proud of coal mine workers daughter and granddaughter, a topic that seems consistent with the Ancients, the daughter of the farm tenants who are in the medical school of the IC after the bill seeks At the U.S. Army.

“Given that you are talking about a minor daughter and granddaughter, I have to say that I am a farm girl, and granddaughter of a farmer, and I can say that it is a real pleasure to see you are one of the nine hospitals Bergmann-state … Of-the-art care. ”

But they also said that the United States, one of the richest countries in the world, it better be done in the area of health care.

“We have a long way to go in medicine in the United States, but we still have a long way to go. We have health insurance the most expensive care system. We have a sick care system. Us have nearly 300 million people, and we spend 16% of our gross domestic product - $ 2.1 billion - for health care. us, in Arkansas and West Virginia do not know, c That is how, “she says, that the public laughed.

However, as far as the country goes, she said, the United States compared with 57 other countries in the “overall good health.

“We spend more of our gross domestic product of all the other - 16%. The next great country is Canada, with 10 (percent). And we do not have the best health care. ”

Former touched also on access to physicians in rural areas - and urban development.

“We have to ensure that the transportation of people,” she said. “I live in Arkansas, and sometimes even the doctor right away - they have insurance, you can know that you are sick, but you are not the way forward. I said, the highest incidence of avoidable blindness is within a one-mile radius of the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore). You have the greatest eye institute in the world. That’s because the man is not reached. ”

In addition to people’s awareness about themselves in mind, for the elimination of disparities in the health of the former.

“We want 100 percent and the gap to zero percent,” she said. “If any of you feel that we have achieved this objective, I have a farm in Arkansas.”

Former Fairmont traveled in spite of tornadoes in Arkansas, preventing it from reaching its aircraft, Pittsburgh at 4 o’clock, “said the Rev. Richard Bowyer, the president of the MVA board, which said:” It was clear eyes , and are ready to go, if I used them increased by 10 pm ”

In an interview before his explanation, the eldest has a diplomatic approach to the management of the race for a Democratic challenger for the presidency between their former colleague and friend, Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama.

“I am a Democrat and I am always looking for candidates,” she said. “I think we have to be the best candidates for this country.”

Elders, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas, noted that it remains the Clinton “occasionally, when they come to Arkansas, but they are not much in Arkansas, because that she’sa senator from New York. ”

You can admit that the female African-American or the President presented his intrigues.

“It was really hard for me,” she says. “It’s not a Flip-answer, and I listen carefully both. I think they are both wonderful. I am not a matter of taking charge of one of them.