旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � AIDS Is Key Concern of Black State Legislators Page 84 � 쳐컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴캑 � � � DC, 1-11/US Newswire: The National Black Caucus of State � � Legislators regards the HIV/AIDS epidemic as an issue of primary � � importance which threatens not only the health of many of its � � constituents, but the very survival and existence of this nation's � � African American community, NBCSL President, Colorado State Sen. � � Regis F. Groff, said today. Further action came in May 1992 when � � Groff, NBCSL Health Committee Chair, Rep. Roscoe Dixon (D-Tenn.) � � and NBCSL Human Services Chair Rep. Margaret Carter (D-Ore.) led � � an NBCSL-sponsored conference with its sole topic as the HIV/AIDS � � crisis in the African American community, one of the first major � � African American organizations to do so, Groff said. At its 16th � � Annual Legislative Conference in December 1992, NBCSL passed three � � HIV/AIDS related resolutions, Groff said proudly. These call for � � the use of Needle Exchange and Distribution Programs to reduce the � � spread of the HIV virus; an increase in the number of HIV/AIDS � � Programs that are culturally sensitive to the African American � � community; and, the replication of the HIV/AIDS program model � � designed by the New York based Black Leadership Commission on � � AIDS. � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸