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FAIR NEWSLETTER
Striking 2004 end-of-year stats:
deaths in California's
newly infected AIDS patients have plummeted 98%
 The
startling success in the AIDS community is evident in
California's newly infected patients. As reported in their
Office of AIDS, HIV/AIDS Case Registry, deaths have
plummeted 98% from the high in 1992. What is the actual
number?
Answer
NIH Whistleblower says U.S.
bungled AIDS study
 National
Institute of Health (NIH) officials involved in a U.S.-funded
study in Uganda endangered the lives of large numbers of
patients testing an AIDS drug, nevirapine, because of careless
and negligent research practices, a government whistleblower ,
Dr. Jonathan Fishbein, said recently. Read MSNBC stories on
this developing story
here.
FAIR's Board Opts to address NIH policy
rather than individuals
 The
FAIR Foundation's
Board
of Directors has opted to have FAIR communicate with the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) in support of their
Director's ban on government research scientists accepting
outside income from drug companies. The Board's decision
replaces the previously considered effort by FAIR's CEO to
communicate with President Bush and call for removal of
researchers involved in such
conflict-of-interest payments.
FAIR Members' Soapbox Alerts
to
CVD Patients, diabetics and others
 FAIR
Foundation members are now utilizing a very inexpensive and
unique internet service to not only contact our country's
President and Vice President for fair allocations in research,
but at the same time they are collectively alerting thousands
of citizens on the need for change. See a recent "Soapbox
Alert" to citizens with cardiovascular disease (CVD)
here
and send one today!
Quiz
Which disease kills more women: AIDS, lung
cancer, heart attack or breast cancer?
Answer
79 New HIV/AIDS Medicines in Development
82 already approved
 According to the
President and CEO of The Pharmaceutical Research
and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).......,
there are 79 new
HIV AIDS drugs in development, which is in addition to the
82 medicines already approved. Compare to the number of
medicines you have for your illness. For example, there are
5 drugs for hepatitis C.
Donate to FAIR with a Click:
The FAIR Foundation President and CEO, Dr. Darling, is
traveling throughout the USA educating Americans on the need for
change at the NIH. FAIR is also planning TV public service
messages featuring members like you describing the unfairness
of present NIH policies. These efforts are expensive and we
need your help! Please click
here
and help us change the NIH to insure proper research
allocations for your disease of interest. Your donation will
be greatly appreciated by all.
Focus Disease:
Cardiovascular Disease
(CVD = Heart Disease and Stroke)
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Cardiovascular Disease is fatal: About
950,000 Americans die of heart disease and stroke each year, which
amounts to one death every 33 seconds. That is 57 times the
number reported for HIV/AIDS
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Cardiovascular Disease is
serious: Heart disease and stroke account for 40% of all
deaths in the USA and are the leading cause of deaths for both men
and women
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Cardiovascular Disease's Cost to Society: The
cost of heart disease and stroke in the United States is projected
to be $351 billion in 2003, including health care expenditures and
lost productivity from death and disability.
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Cardiovascular Disease is Prevalent: the
CDC estimates that there are 61 million Americans living
with heart disease and stroke as compared to 950,000 with
HIV/AIDS.
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Cardiovascular Disease and race:
Afro-Americans are 10% (males) to 16% (females) more likely to
have heart disease and stroke than Caucasians or Mexican-Americans
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Fairness? The NIH is spending only
$40 on each patient with
Cardiovascular Disease in research in 2003 versus
$3,084 on each patient who has
been identified as having AIDS
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Cardiovascular Disease and all other diseases
except HIV/AIDS would receive larger research allocations under
the FAIR Foundation's policy.
Cardiovascular Disease statistics from
the CDC here:
View
CDC
and from
the American Heart Association here:
View AHA
The FAIR Foundation is growing fast, but we need more
members to change Congress and the NIH.
Please help us by posting this in chat rooms, internet
support groups, and by forwarding it to your associates,
friends and relatives with your recommendation that they join
HERE
(free).
With strength in numbers, we WILL achieve fair and equitable NIH
distributions for CVD as well as ALL
other diseases.
The FAIR Foundation
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Palm Desert, CA 92211
E-mail:
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FAIR Mission Statement:
The FAIR Foundation is
dedicated to fair and equitable distribution of
research funds by the NIH for all diseases, including the 16
that kill a million more Americans than AIDS. A disease’s mortality rate
shall be given emphasis in determining allocations and other
secondary factors shall be utilized to insure diseases
that cause great suffering but have low mortality rates will
also receive significantly increased funding.
FAIR is an acronym for Fair Allocations In
Research. FAIR is fair.
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