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| 31 | Biggles, no doubt there are babies born with AIDS all the time but not to the degree in which you imply. (Except for maybe in the African nations) I saw a special on ABC (American TV) that told of the amounts of money raised for AIDS research and cancer research and there was no comparison. AIDS had ten times the funds raised. I am pretty sure this was just in America. They also stated the number of people inflicted with cancer compared to those inflicted with AIDS/HIV and again there was no comparison. Actually, it was more like 100:1. Maybe more. Another statistic was interesting. The vast majority of AIDS/HIV infected people lived in urban areas. The percentage of people that lived in urban areas having AIDS/HIV was ridulously more than the percentage of people that live in rural areas. The disease was almost nil in the rural areas. (in USA) Also, I hope you are not saying that more people are inflicted with AIDS/HIV genetically than cancer. That is a very, very, very ignorant statement. | This December do you plan to wear the World AIDS Day ribbon? |
| 32 | Oh yea, Biggles. What day is Cancer Day again? AIDS day is December 1st. | This December do you plan to wear the World AIDS Day ribbon? |
| 33 | "Surprisingly, while it is such a common disease among men in the USA, relatively less government funding is provided for prostate cancer research on a per-case basis than for many other areas in medicine. For instance, although in 1995 there were about twice as many new cases of prostate cancer diagnosed as there were new cases of HIV infection, government-funded support of prostate cancer research will be about $300 per new case compared with $23,000 per case for AIDS research." The above quote is from "Prostate cancer: where are we and where are we going?" by Drs. S.R. Denmeade and J.T. Isaacs from the Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "In 1997, prostate cancer research funding through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaled less than $500 per newly diagnosed case. This is compared with federal research allocations of more than $2,260 per newly diagnosed case of breast cancer and more than $66,000 per newly diagnosed AIDS case, although the incidence and mortality for prostate cancer and breast cancer are similar. More significantly, both the incidence and mortality of AIDS are dramatically less than the two cancers mentioned. This disparity may, in part, be due to the massive funding effort of AIDS research and the efficacy of recently approved therapies for the disease." Above taken from National Advocacy Initiative for Increased, Prostate Cancer Research Funding, http://www.pcaw.com/articles/Bruckman%20Fall%201998.htm FACT – In Wisconsin during 1997, your Federal and State taxes funded 8.3 million dollars directly for AIDS—the equivalent of more than $104,000 for each AIDS death, but only $35 for each death from heart disease and stroke (Federal only) and $568 per death for (certain) cancers. Yet heart disease and stroke in Wisconsin during 1997 accounted for 17,300 deaths, and cancer for 10,500, while AIDS accounted for only 80 as the underlying cause of death. Compared to heart disease and stroke AIDS funding per death should amount to .06 cents. Funding per AIDS death is almost 3,000 times more than that for heart disease and stroke, and 200 times more than for cancer. This figure does not include Medicaid expenses for AIDS totaling almost an additional $13,000,000. Wisconsin provides no funding for heart disease, prostate and colon cancer, as well as most other afflictions. (Wisconsin Dept of Health and Family Services/National Center for Health Statistics) FACT – During 1997, AIDS funding by the City of Madison and Dane County, from your tax dollars, to the Madison AIDS Network totaled $514,904. There is no city or county funding for any other disease. In Dane County during this same year, 566 people died as a result of cancer, 934 from circulatory disease, and only 6 from AIDS. Interestingly, over 55 percent of the 1.5 million dollars funded through various sources (1.2 million from your tax dollars) to the Madison AIDS Network each year goes to pay salaries and benefits! Of the total income in 1998 of $7,948,493 for the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, $4,421,230 was used for salaries and benefits. Above taken from: Wisconsin AIDS/HIV program / Madison AIDS Network budget sheet / Wisconsin Women Magazine article January 1999 / Madison Magazine February 1994 / AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin revenue for 1998) Istook reported that the National Institutes for Health (NIH), at the time of the article, funded research "at the rate of $1,129 per heart disease death, $723 per stroke death, $4,995 per diabetes death, $4,525 per cancer death, but $31,381 per HIV/AIDS death." Further, "NIH allocates $2,100 per year for each HIV/AIDS patient (600,000 to 700,000), $200 per breast cancer patient (2 million), $338 per overall cancer patient (8 million), $40 per heart disease patient (22 million), and $20 per diabetes patient (16 million)." So when you examine the evidence, it's hard not to conclude that AIDS is receiving way more than its "fair share" of funding -- not even considering the extent to which AIDS is a behaviorally acquired disease. But the simple fact is that other diseases don't have nearly as strong a lobby, nor as politically correct a cause. AIDS is a terrible disease, and we pray for its eradication, but the United States is not under-prioritizing it relative to other diseases. Those who say otherwise either have a political agenda to distort the data or lack the spine or integrity to tell the truth. Above taken from http://www.townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/dl20020727.shtml A great article that pretty much sums everything up is: http://www.fumento.com/amspec.html | This December do you plan to wear the World AIDS Day ribbon? |
| 34 | This shoots down your ill advised statement that infants born with AIDS is not rare but very common. "In 1997... child AIDS cases fell from 671 to 473, or about one live birth per 24,000. But since nobody seems to know this, the 1999 estimated NIH budget allocates $188 million for pediatric AIDS: over $380,000 a case. AIDS gets 10 percent of all NIH pediatric spending. Meanwhile, cancer is the leading cause of non-accidental death in children under the age of 15, with about 9,000 pediatric cases annually." Above taken from http://www.fumento.com/amspec.html | This December do you plan to wear the World AIDS Day ribbon? |
| 35 | I disagree. If you did not have HIV/AIDS as a child and stay away from sex and away from other transmitted ways of becoming infected... needles, open wombs, etc. then guess what? You will never ever ever ever get HIV or AIDS. Now, cancer you can get. You can live the cleanest, healthiest lifestyle. You can be a virgin your entire life. You can live your whole life in a cave and never meet another person. Guess what? You can still get cancer. You can get a whole list of cancers. Your entire body can get eaten up with it. I showed you articles about the discrepancies in funding four AIDS research versus cancer research. It doesn't matter. You are standing your ground. You will never admit the facts. Who does most of the funding to fight these types of diseases? UK? Italy? Spain? No, USA. Where does the money come from. USA taxpayers. I am a taxpayer. Therefore, I am helping pay for all the research to benefit a few people. The money could be stretched to help more people by allocating a majority of it to different cancer researches. | This December do you plan to wear the World AIDS Day ribbon? |
| 36 | I previously wrote, "If you did not have HIV/AIDS as a child and stay away from sex and away from other transmitted ways of becoming infected... needles, open wombs, etc. then guess what? You will never ever ever ever get HIV or AIDS. Now, cancer you can get. You can live the cleanest, healthiest lifestyle. You can be a virgin your entire life. You can live your whole life in a cave and never meet another person. Guess what? You can still get cancer. You can get a whole list of cancers. Your entire body can get eaten up with it." Biggles, my point was that cancer is more likely not to be behavior driven like AIDS is. I wasn't saying stay away from sex or go live in a cave. I was just trying to illustrate that you have to get AIDS from someone or something. Many cancers you just get. I lost a friend to leukemia about ten years ago. He didn't do anything to get it. There was nothing he could possibly do to not get it. Every single AIDS infections, except the cases where it is passes on to a baby (which is very very rare in the world except Africa), was caused by choice. Whether it be a choice to have unprotected sex or a choice to use a dirty needle for drugs. Now, I do know there are other instances of freak things happening but percentage wise, it is negligible. Fact is two-thirds of all HIV infected people live in Africa. In the US, a portion of one percent have HIV. I am sure it is similar in other richer countries. Cancer is more prevalent than that. USA contributes more money to the research of AIDS and cancer than the rest of the world combined. Knowing that, and the radically disproportionate funding numbers I have mentioned, you can conclude that the AIDS funding to cancer funding ratio holds true for entire world. All you have to do is do a little unbiased research to see. It doesn't take a super intellectual person to realize what I am saying. This isn't just some argument I have dreamed up of my own. It is a very common argument in the cancer research community. | This December do you plan to wear the World AIDS Day ribbon? |
| 37 | I doubt it. | If the Godfather, Vito Corleone, gave an offer that 'you could not refuse', would you refuse it? |
| 38 | Cat in the Hat | If you could meet any literary character, who would you choose? |
| 39 | Spring Break time in Daytona Beach, FL. I lived their from 1985 to 1988. | What has been the most euphoric moment in your life? |
| 40 | I think there should be some restrictions. We shouldn't have girls going to school with jeans barely on their hips and their thong exposed or having them wear halter tops with no bra. Boys shouldn't have their pants down to the thighs with their boxers showing. You know, stuff that used to be common sense | How do you feel about dress codes at school? |
