FAIR's April Newsletter

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Welcome to FAIR’s April Newsletter, http://fairfoundation.org/news_letter/2006/02april/newsletter.htm which includes complete information on the following topics:

-- View the most controversial and insensitive advertising campaign in the HIV/AIDS advocacy movement’s history.

-- Hollywood actress, Sharon Stone, as Chairman of amfAR’s Campaign for AIDS Research, has beseeched every American for years on almost-daily radio ads to send more money to amfAR. Has she been successful? While listening to her radio ad in this section, you’ll find many revealing answers, including the exorbitant CEO’s compensation.

-- In her continuing effort to promote amfAR and their research funding budget, Stone is interviewed in PEOPLE magazine. Are her comments factual or an exaggeration to further amfAR’s cause?

-- This Associated Press story places AIDS in proper world-wide perspective.

-- Learn the latest facts released by the CDC on the continuing and significant decline in HIV/AIDS deaths.

-- How many HIV/AIDS deaths are there in your state and does the CDC estimate equal the total provided by all fifty states?

-- New 2007 NIH Research funding allocations released and most diseases are receiving less; check your disease of interest.

-- And how is the San Francisco AIDS Foundation faring? Their IRS Form 990 shows many interesting items, including their Executive Directors compensation.

-- In our continuing “Traveling with FAIR” section, use the links to join, for free, our CEO and 5,000 attendees at Diabetes Expos in Phoenix and Seattle. Also view pictures and meet a few of the new physicians who joined FAIR throughout the country.

-- View FAIR’s new banner, which states the issue of disproportionate research funding with emphasis.

-- The New York Times asks, “New [world-wide] infections down for good?”

-- HIV infections in San Francisco down again. Full story…

-- A new television show on MSNBC, The Ethical Edge, Everyday Ethics: FAIR’s letter to their Anchor Jansing.

-- FAIR endorses the Ad Hoc Committee for Medical Research Funding. Full story…

-- Your donation to FAIR counts! Help us balance the scales of justice with a "Memorial," "In Memory of," or a general donation and remember that no donation is too small!

-- The HIV/AIDS clinical trials parade continues. Compare the HIV/AIDS grand total, which rises inexorably, to the number of clinical trials for your disease of interest…

-- See a recent "Soapbox Alert" for citizens suffering from Parkinson’s disease, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Send an alert to President Bush, VP Cheney, your Senators and/or your Representatives today!

-- Our Focus Disease of the Month: Parkinson’s disease: We regularly profile heroic patients and for the first time FAIR is not only profiling a patient, Milly Kondracke, but also her wonderful care-giving husband and the book he wrote as a tribute to her.

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