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From:
The FAIR Foundation [mailto:fair@dc.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 8:02 PM
To: Letters to the Editor, MORE Magazine 'more@meredith.com'
Subject: Mary Fisher article & false impression
Letter to the Editor, (note underlined blue text contains footnotes to
the corroborating facts)
Your article on Mary Fisher gave the false impression that all women
share equally in the possibility of contracting HIV/AIDS. Nothing could
be further from the truth. As the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) reports (see picture file below), in the
4,128 women with AIDS 27 percent contracted HIV from injection drug
use, 71 percent from high-risk heterosexual behavior while 2 percent was
unknown. “High-risk heterosexual contact is
defined by the CDC as "contact with a person known to have, or to be
at high risk for, HIV infection.” The millions of women not injecting
drugs or engaging in sex with high-risk partners have zero risk from
HIV/AIDS.
Thank you for your consideration of publishing this letter.
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Richard Darling, DDS:
National Public Citizen of the Year (NASW-'03)
President and CEO:
The FAIR Foundation, a national effort to reverse inequities
in research funding by our government and to institute new organ-donor
policies to reverse America’s organ-donor crisis
Founder:
The Coachella Valley Hepatitis C, Liver Disease & Transplant Support
Group
Board of Directors: United Organ Transplant Association
Author:
Coma Life, an autobiographical memoir of life "within" coma
and survival over hepatitis C induced
liver cancer, 3 liver transplants, heart attack, diabetes & Muscular
Dystrophy (Myasthenia Gravis)
Address: 78629 Bougainvillea Drive, Palm Desert, CA 92211 Ph:
760-200-2766
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Disease |
2007 NIH
Research $ |
Deaths
Per Disease |
$ Per Patient
Death |
$ Per Patient |
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HIV/AIDS |
2.9 Billion |
16,316 |
$ 178,046 |
$
3,052 |
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Cardiovascular
Dis. |
2.3 Billion |
871,500
|
$ 2,639 |
$ 29 |
|
Diabetes |
1 Billion |
73,965
|
$ 14,236 |
$ 50 |
|
Alzheimer’s Dis. |
642 Million |
63,343
|
$ 10,182 |
$ 143 |
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Prostate Cancer |
373 Million |
27,350
|
$ 13,638 |
$ 192 |
|
Parkinson’s Dis. |
205 Million |
17,898
|
$ 12,403 |
$ 148
|
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Hepatitis C |
121 Million |
12,000
|
$ 10,166 |
$ 25 |
|
Hepatitis B |
36 Million |
5,000
|
$ 6,600 |
$ 32 |
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COPD** |
66 Million |
126,128 |
$ 500 |
$ 5
|
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Breast Cancer |
716 Million |
40,910 |
$ 17,501 |
$ 3,967
|
|
All Cancers |
5.5 Billion |
559,650 |
$ 9,888 |
$ 3,830
|
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West Nile Virus |
63 Million |
161 |
$ 390,304 |
$ 14,932 |
**
COPD = Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Statistics derived from the CDC & NIH facts.
See:
http://www.fairfoundation.org/update.htm
Fourteen million
Americans have impaired
vision.
702 million is spent on "eye disease" research, which is only
$50 per patient.
Join the FAIR Foundation today:
http://www.fairfoundation.org/join.htm (free)
NIH Orphan Drug Allocation of $1.2 Billion
for 6000 diseases
equals only $200,000, on average, for research on each disease
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