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Welcome to
Hepatitis C
Movement for Awareness
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Activism in Action
Protecting HCV Patients Rights
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Silence is Deadly
AIDS Activists Scramble To Replace
Funding
AIDS NUMBERS SLASHED 40% world-wide as
advocates scramble to takeover Hep C Funding
AP Says 50% SLASHED
AIDS Cases Drop,
but Bad Data to Blame- The Associated Press Monday,
November 19, 2007-
WHO and UNAIDS experts reported 2.5 million newly infected
people in 2007...that figure was about 5 million...AIDS
outbreaks are mostly concentrated in gay men, intravenous
drug users, and sex workers.
http://forums.prospero.com/march_on_dc/messages?msg=4874.2
"Officials said those numbers were flawed, and are
now incorporating more data like National Household Surveys"...
BUT...On June 28, 2007, CDC published online a
revised 2005 AIDS report to correct an
error in the calculation...resulted
in an overestimate...for the period 2001--2005...8.3%
Don't let
AIDS Activists Make 4.8 Million Patient's Prevention Funding ONLY For Homosexual/Sex/Drug Addicts!
ACT NOW!
If we fail, all HCV prevention funding will go to "High Risk"
behaviors ONLY
Call For A General Awareness Campaign Today!
KILL
THE BILL
Let Your DC Representatives Know
VOTE NO!!!
S1445- Senators Edward Kennedy and Kay
Bailey Hutchison
HR 2552- Mr. Edolphus Towns and Mrs. Heather Wilson
This legislation will amend the Public Health Service Act
and direct the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to establish,
promote, and support a comprehensive
prevention, research, and treatment referral
programs for hepatitis C virus infection.
What is the Plan for the Public Health Service Act
?
CDC Goals For HCV-
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hepatitis/c/plan/Prev_Control.htm
The goals of hepatitis C prevention and control efforts are:
1) to reduce the incidence of new infections by reducing HCV
transmission; .....
HOW?
STD prevention begins with changing the sexual behaviors that
place persons at risk for infection.
Quote from MMWR May 10, 2002 / 51(RR06);1-80
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.html
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines --- 2002
Hepatitis C Strategy plan calls for the merge of Hepatitis C into
sexual transmitted diseases (STDs) for primary prevention services.
Most At Risk
230,000 total HCV/HIV patients
177,660 gay HIV patients have HCV RNA positive semen
No evidence of a hepatitis C epidemic in HIV negative gay men
The study found that the likelihood of being newly diagnosed
with hepatitis C was not significantly greater in gay men than it
was in heterosexual men, and hepatitis C infection was much more
strongly associated with having HIV than it was with sexual
orientation.
Here's the TRACK RECORD
Washington State HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report - 05/31/2007
2007 YTD
21 %
had No known risk factor identified
5% identified as IDU
62% identified Male/male sex
http://march-on-dc.com/CDC/Consequences/HIVWAState.htm
Who's really at risk
FDA fines Red Cross another $4.6
million
The Food and Drug Administration has fined the Red Cross an
additional $4.6 million for the distribution of "unsuitable blood
products," bringing penalties against the organization to more than
$19 million in recent years.
Latest Research
The Truth about the Hepatitis C
epidemic from the scientists.
Sexual Transmission of HCV Is Uncommon Among Heterosexual
Injection Drug Users "Our results are consistent with prior
research indicating that sexual contact plays little role in HCV
transmission.
http://www.march-on-dc.com/CDC/Crimes/SexUncommon.htm
Read more-
HCV by Sex- debate continues
http://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/display.asp?webtag=march_on_dc&msg=1930.1
The Truth about the Hepatitis C epidemic from the US
Congress.
1998 HEPATITIS C: SILENT EPIDEMIC, MUTE PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE
Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of
Health, Liver and Biliary Diseases Strategic Plan,'' March 1998 (in
subcommittee files). It is noteworthy that the National Institute on
Drug Abuse [NIDA] spent the most NIH resources and continues to
spend the most resources on HCV research, which may reflect an
institutional bias within HHS that HCV is a disease of injection
drug users. This bias may have worked against early recognition
of HCV as a broader public health problem.
http://www.march-on-dc.com/CDC/GAO/GAO1998.htm
Make Public Health "DO ITS JOB" as two Surgeon
Generals have asked!
Address the general public through unbiased
"General Awareness
Campaigns"
Help us really stop the spread
of Hepatitis C by stopping the corporate takeover of hepatitis C
funding
Then we can get REAL legislation with Hep C Patients interest at
heart.
Read more:
Stop the Hepatitis C Epidemic Act
http://march-on-dc.com/Petiton/2007Legislation/StopHr2552.htm
Millions of lives are at stake!!
Read how HIV government funding
is spent on behalf of AIDS
June 2007
The Coburn Report-
Congress Responds
CDC Targets Diseases
(page 23-80)
http://www.march-on-dc.com/CDC/Response/index.pdf
Click to enlarge table
• CDC’s prevention funding for
HIV/AIDS: $5 billion over seven years
• Of CDC’s $2.6 billion in HIV/AIDS grants, some have no objectives
and are “abysmal,” yet funded anyway
• CDC’s domestic HIV/AIDS program: results not demonstrated
• CDC-funded events featuring porn stars, transgender beauty
pageants, and flirting classes
• CDC’s $45 million for conferences featuring prostitutes, protests,
and beach parties
• CDC announces plan to eliminate syphilis: five years later rates
up overall and 68 percent among men
Read More.....
http://march-on-dc.com/CDC/index.html
The Acts before congress, HR 2552
and S 1445 (senate version) focus only on perceived “high risk” populations; IV
drug abusers, MSM, and the sex trades. These are the same
populations currently served through the HIV/AIDS programs.
If HIV programs are not effective in slowing all bloodborne
infections through their message, than the problem lies in the lack
of accountability and oversight. Adding another disease emphasis
and funding will not solve this problem. Instead it creates a
de-emphasis on a declared epidemic, Hepatitis C; spreading 10 times
faster than HIV/AIDS and infecting 5 times more Americans.
The very essence of a free government consists in
considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for
the good of the country and not for the benefit of an
individual.
(John C. Calhoun)
This is a Public Service Announcement.
For more information contact:
Hepatitis C Movement for Awareness -
110 Glover Cir - Staunton VA 24401-
540 248 7324 -
HMAwareness@aol.com
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