Wonderful Activism on Your Behalf by !

[Guest guest]

I must tell all of you about a wonderful example of activism on

behalf of all AIH patients by of your members. In fact, all

autoimmune diseases will benefit from her actions. A few months ago

the San Bernardino Sun (Southern California) did a front page story

on The FAIR Foundation. The reporter interviewed Dr.

Hillebrand (Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at Loma

University Medical Center) on disproportionate AIDS funding that

negatively impacts all other diseases like AIH. Dr. Hillebrand is on

our Board of Directors. After the interview, the reporter wrote the

article and called AIDS an " autoimmune disease. " I was dismayed to

see it incorrectly labeled because of the inappropriate reflection on

AIH, PBC, PSC and other autoimmune diseases, however, it was in the

newspaper and there was nothing I could do about it. AIDS clearly is

not an autoimmune disease although HIV does attack the immune system.

Sometime subsequent to the story running, our webmaster put the story

in our " In The News " link

http://www.fairfoundation.org/media/news_results.htm. I had forgotten

about the story long before. Skowron (name used with permission)

joined many of you and became a member of The FAIR Foundation from

this AIH group. While investigating our site, she noticed the error!!

and kindly asked me if there was anything we could do to correct that

mistake by the reporter because some people incorrectly think

autoimmune diseases are caused by behavior. It's not uncommon for

twenty people to join The FAIR Foundation in a day and she is the

first person to point out that error by the reporter! How sharp of

her and what a wonderful example of activism—standing up for one's

disease and speaking out. I had it changed immediately. Three cheers

for !

Darling, DDS

President & CEO

The FAIR Foundation

www.fairfoundation.org