California AIDS Death rate Plummets 98 Percent
The California Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS, has released stunning success numbers in the battle against HIV/AIDS. This new revelation continues to reinforce The FAIR Foundation's mission in seeking a reallocation of funding that would redistribute a portion of the government's exorbitant HIV/AIDS research budget to non-AIDS diseases that do not have effective drugs like those that have been developed for HIV disease. "We continue to exhort Congress and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to recognize this success and cease the exorbitant favoritism in funding for HIV/AIDS that has existed for two decades," added Dr. Darling. "Diabetes kills more Americans than AIDS and breast cancer combined including 7,414 in California compared to 642 for HIV/AIDS -- yet $39 is being spent on each diabetic in research versus $2,774 on each HIV/AIDS patient." Diabetes affects 24 million Americans compared to one million with HIV/AIDS. 2009-04-30 |