I'VE GOT GOOD NEW AND BAD NEWS
FIRST THE GOOD NEWS!
HOUSTON, WE MAY HAVE SOLVED A PROBLEM! A VERY BIG PROBLEM--AIDS!
CHECK THIS OUT FROM TRUTHOUT.ORG:
Houston Doctors Say They May Have Found a Way to Destroy HIV
Wednesday 30 July 2008 by: Lee McGuire, KVUE News Houston
Houston - There is real hope that what's happening in a Houston lab might lead to a cure for HIV.
"We have found an innovative way to kill the virus by finding this small region of HIV that is unchangeable," Dr. Sudhir Paul of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston said.
Dr. Paul and Dr. Miguel Escobar aren't talking about just suppressing HIV - they're talking about destroying it permanently by arming the immune system with a new weapon lab tests have shown to be effective.
WHOLE ARTICLE: TRUTHOUT.ORG
Here is the saddest part of the article:
The theory has held up in lab and animal testing. The next step is human trials.
Meanwhile, every day in Houston, three people are diagnosed with HIV.
The doctors still need funding to launch human trials. In the world of HIV research, that's often where things fall apart.
"Clinical trials are very expensive," Paul said.
OH, I GET IT! We can spend billions killing in Iraq, bankrupting the country by murdering people in a faraway land who it turns out, never even had one of the weapons of mass destruction Bush thought made them so dangerous, but we can't fund research in OUR OWN GODDAM COUNTRY TO HEAL AND PREVENT FATAL ILLNESSES! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! If only people with AIDS could find a way to squirt oil out of their bodies, we'd be researching them quite thoroughly, trust!
So you can either gripe about the screwed up government, or get involved in making sure that whoever you vote for is committed to allocating funds towards disease prevention and cure and not senseless murder of Iraqi's and our own soldiers. MAKE THIS AN ISSUE! JUMP UP AND DOWN AND SCREAM. SIGN PETITIONS! EMAIL OR CALLED YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. HELL, CONTRIBUTE TO THE LAB IN HOUSTON THAT'S COOKING UP A POSSIBLE CURE! Or just sit back and say "That's not right."
AND HERE'S THE BAD NEWS:
NOT ONLY WILL OUR GOVERNMENT NOT PROPERLY FUND AIDS RESEARCH, THEY ARE LOWBALLING THE NEW INFECTION RATES?!?
Now why on earth would the administration possibly want to underestimate new HIV infections? You think about it. Could it possibly have anything to do that if the numbers of new infections are down, then AIDS doesn't seem as serious? And if it's not so serious, then we can put more funding (ie OUR TAX DOLLARS) into the Iraq war, which 80% of the country does not support and less $ on finding a cure for a disease which is the #1 killer of young black women and of gay men? Maybe you'll come to a different conclusion. I'd love to know what it is.
I'm not in the US at the moment so I can't watch the news, but I wonder if you'lll see this story on your favorite channel. The story, which quotes Julie Scofeld from National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors as saying "This is the biggest news for public health and HIV/AIDS that we've had in a while." See if it is reported elsewhere. I hope it is. But I bet you anything that you're a lot more likely to here about summer movie grosses that this vital info.
FROM HUFFINGTONPOST.COM:
Number Of New HIV Infections In US Much Higher Than Government Reported, Study Finds
MIKE STOBBE | August 2, 2008
ATLANTA — The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.
The country had roughly 56,300 new HIV infections in 2006 _ about a 40 percent increase from the 40,000 annual estimate used for the past dozen years. The new figure is due to a better blood test and new statistical methods, and not a worsening of the epidemic, officials said.
But it likely will refocus U.S. attention from the effect of AIDS overseas to what the disease is doing to this country, said public health researchers and officials.
"This is the biggest news for public health and HIV/AIDS that we've had in a while," said Julie Scofield, executive director of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors.
Experts in the field, advocates and a former surgeon general called for more aggressive testing and other prevention efforts, noting that spending on preventing HIV has been flat for seven years.
READ MORE: HUFFPO
And here's what a twisted friend emailed me in response to this:
cure AIDS? What a nightmarish thought.
What are we going to do of the undesirables if they dont all perish
from AIDS?
ANd how will our hard working pharmaceutickles make money?
I am writing a letter to my congressman asking him to try to stop
this horrible research.
"SPREAD AIDS, DONT CURE IT" is my motto
Thank you Bunny for drawing attention to this scenario.
HOUSTON, WE MAY HAVE SOLVED A PROBLEM! A VERY BIG PROBLEM--AIDS!
CHECK THIS OUT FROM TRUTHOUT.ORG:
Houston Doctors Say They May Have Found a Way to Destroy HIV
Wednesday 30 July 2008 by: Lee McGuire, KVUE News Houston
Houston - There is real hope that what's happening in a Houston lab might lead to a cure for HIV.
"We have found an innovative way to kill the virus by finding this small region of HIV that is unchangeable," Dr. Sudhir Paul of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston said.
Dr. Paul and Dr. Miguel Escobar aren't talking about just suppressing HIV - they're talking about destroying it permanently by arming the immune system with a new weapon lab tests have shown to be effective.
WHOLE ARTICLE: TRUTHOUT.ORG
Here is the saddest part of the article:
The theory has held up in lab and animal testing. The next step is human trials.
Meanwhile, every day in Houston, three people are diagnosed with HIV.
The doctors still need funding to launch human trials. In the world of HIV research, that's often where things fall apart.
"Clinical trials are very expensive," Paul said.
OH, I GET IT! We can spend billions killing in Iraq, bankrupting the country by murdering people in a faraway land who it turns out, never even had one of the weapons of mass destruction Bush thought made them so dangerous, but we can't fund research in OUR OWN GODDAM COUNTRY TO HEAL AND PREVENT FATAL ILLNESSES! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! If only people with AIDS could find a way to squirt oil out of their bodies, we'd be researching them quite thoroughly, trust!
So you can either gripe about the screwed up government, or get involved in making sure that whoever you vote for is committed to allocating funds towards disease prevention and cure and not senseless murder of Iraqi's and our own soldiers. MAKE THIS AN ISSUE! JUMP UP AND DOWN AND SCREAM. SIGN PETITIONS! EMAIL OR CALLED YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. HELL, CONTRIBUTE TO THE LAB IN HOUSTON THAT'S COOKING UP A POSSIBLE CURE! Or just sit back and say "That's not right."
AND HERE'S THE BAD NEWS:
NOT ONLY WILL OUR GOVERNMENT NOT PROPERLY FUND AIDS RESEARCH, THEY ARE LOWBALLING THE NEW INFECTION RATES?!?
Now why on earth would the administration possibly want to underestimate new HIV infections? You think about it. Could it possibly have anything to do that if the numbers of new infections are down, then AIDS doesn't seem as serious? And if it's not so serious, then we can put more funding (ie OUR TAX DOLLARS) into the Iraq war, which 80% of the country does not support and less $ on finding a cure for a disease which is the #1 killer of young black women and of gay men? Maybe you'll come to a different conclusion. I'd love to know what it is.
I'm not in the US at the moment so I can't watch the news, but I wonder if you'lll see this story on your favorite channel. The story, which quotes Julie Scofeld from National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors as saying "This is the biggest news for public health and HIV/AIDS that we've had in a while." See if it is reported elsewhere. I hope it is. But I bet you anything that you're a lot more likely to here about summer movie grosses that this vital info.
FROM HUFFINGTONPOST.COM:
Number Of New HIV Infections In US Much Higher Than Government Reported, Study Finds
MIKE STOBBE | August 2, 2008
ATLANTA — The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.
The country had roughly 56,300 new HIV infections in 2006 _ about a 40 percent increase from the 40,000 annual estimate used for the past dozen years. The new figure is due to a better blood test and new statistical methods, and not a worsening of the epidemic, officials said.
But it likely will refocus U.S. attention from the effect of AIDS overseas to what the disease is doing to this country, said public health researchers and officials.
"This is the biggest news for public health and HIV/AIDS that we've had in a while," said Julie Scofield, executive director of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors.
Experts in the field, advocates and a former surgeon general called for more aggressive testing and other prevention efforts, noting that spending on preventing HIV has been flat for seven years.
READ MORE: HUFFPO
And here's what a twisted friend emailed me in response to this:
cure AIDS? What a nightmarish thought.
What are we going to do of the undesirables if they dont all perish
from AIDS?
ANd how will our hard working pharmaceutickles make money?
I am writing a letter to my congressman asking him to try to stop
this horrible research.
"SPREAD AIDS, DONT CURE IT" is my motto
Thank you Bunny for drawing attention to this scenario.
posted by Lady Bunny at Sunday, August 03, 2008
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