Startling New Statistics!!

The latest full year death statistics for AIDS shows a dramatic decline once again. In 2001 8,963 Americans are reported to have died of AIDS, which is a 38% drop in one year and places it lower than 17th on the mortality list. (note: only 29 states report AIDS death statistics) In fact the flu, influenza, now kills over 2 times more Americans than AIDS. In 2002, AIDS deaths in California totaled the dramatically low number of one hundred sixty-four.

The NIH released its year 2003 budget and the disproportionate increases in funding for AIDS research continue while most other diseases receive pennies comparatively. The amount of the increase for AIDS to 2.8 Billion is five times that for Alzheimer's Disease, 3.5 times that for breast cancer, 7 times that for lung cancer, 5 times that for prostate cancer, 4 times that for diabetes, 3 times that for heart disease, 35 times that for hepatitis C. All of these diseases, except hepatitis C, kill more Americans than AIDS.

Recently, KNX radio news in Los Angeles broadcast an editorial and stated that the NIH expected 80,000 new cases of AIDS in California. There has never been 80,000 new cases of AIDS in one year in the entire country. Listen to Dr. Darling's on air rebuttal here

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Newsletter Focus Disease: Diabetes

• Diabetes is deadly; it kills more Americans than AIDS and breast cancer combined!

• Diabetes is serious; the number one cause of blindness, kidney disease and stroke

• Diabetes is costly; its cost to the nation is more than 100 Billion each year

• Diabetes is growing; it increased 50% from 1990 to 2000. The CDC labels it an epidemic

• More than one million are diagnosed with diabetes each year

• Hispanics are twice as likely to have diabetes as non-Hispanics and nearly 25% of all Hispanics, age 45-74, have it

• Afro-Americans are almost twice as likely to have diabetes as the general population and 13% of all have it

• Diabetes is the 5th largest killer of Americans (AIDS = 17th), yet the NIH is spending only $75 on each diabetic in research in 2003 compared to $6,000 on each AIDS patient

• Diabetes would receive dramatically larger research allocations under ProrateNIH's policy of proration of NIH monies based on a disease's mortality rate
  
  The FAIR Foundation
  Dr. Richard Darling, DDS, Founder
  P.O. Box 11991
  Palm Desert, CA 92211
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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 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.