FACTS & MORE
FACTS & MORE: CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, BOSTON; AS WELL AS A PROCLAMATION FROM
HOUSTON
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FACTS:
5,126,344 Americans with HCV
40% Have no clue how they were infected HCV
Riverside County Ca.
133 people test positive each Month
Ca- African American women
222% higher infection rate than Nation
NY 20% Higher rate than Nation
Boston- HCV sores 300% in the last four years
HCV DNA found on toothbrushes
Most Americans with HCV
Are Veterans.
Most people do not think they
need to be tested.
20,000 people will
die IN 2003 because of HCV.
Most of them will be Veterans.
WHY 20,000 DEATHS
4,900 transplantable donor livers available.
18,500 patients on waiting lists.
100,000 adults with severe cirrhosis.
Medicines that do not work for most.
New transmission methods discovered yearly because
NO FUNDING.
PLEASE HELP US CHANGE THIS! If you don't come to DC nothing is going to
change.
Leave it up to the next guy, and we all suffer
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OUR FUTURE JUNE 23, 2002
We are the Hepatitis C's Movement for Awareness
Contact: Tricia HMAwareness@...
Phone: 540 248 4994
http://hcvets.com/forum_public/hma/disc.htm
Mayor Lee Brown's Agenda Director is making the resolution proclaiming the week
of June 23 as Houston Hepatitis C Awareness Week to coincide with the Natl. HCV
March on June 23, 2002 in Washington.
Thank you George Casey of the Philadelphia FireFighters Local 22!
Thank you VFW!
Thank you U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson
Lee of Texas, and Illinois State Representative Angelo "Skip" Saviano for
participating in and supporting the upcoming National HCV March on Washington on
June 23, 2002. We certainly will let your constituents and the rest of the
country and world know!
My name is Norm Seiff, normseiff@... my phone# is 708-453-2206. I am the
one that has sent the broadcast email to you as well as other Veterans &
HCV/LIVER Organizations, Associations/Unions and more. I am the Veterans Orgs.
Coordinator, HCV/LIVER Orgs. Coordinator, Associations/Unions Coordinator for
the march at http://hcvet.com/forum_public/hma/disc.htm ; As well as, Program
Director of the Disabled Veterans Association of Illinois, a member of the
Vietnam Veterans of America, the Italian American War Veterans, an active
member, HCV Support Group Coordinator (& until recently because of my illness &
other activity, Volunteer Celebrity & Sponsor Recruiter) for the Illinois
Chapter of the American Liver Foundation.
As I have stated in my broadcast email, I am aware of many of the efforts that
you and your organization, as well as the many others are taking for
Civililians, Firefighters/EMS, Veterans and others with HCV. THANK YOU & GOD
BLESS YOU from me and all other Millions Worldwide!
We are just asking you and the other Orgs. to join in with the rest of us in
Solidarity on a "Grass Roots" effort that was started by Vets & Civilians to aid
the many fine organizations that have worked very hard to do what the people
with this "Horrific Disease" would like and need! We do not have Chirtopher
Reeves for Spinal Cord Injuries, Michael J. Fox or Mohammed Ali for Parkinson,
Julia Roberts for that terrible disease that attacks little girls, Liz Taylor or
Elton John (or the host of other celebs) for HIV/AIDS, or the many others to
speak for us and go before Congress asking for more money! GOD BLESS them for
what they do!
We are tired of the MISINFORMATION, LACK OF AWARENESS and FUNDS put on this
disease, and POLITICS asssociated; as well as things like Social Security
lacking addressing the issues of Civilians! We are not a formal organization
with any personal agendas or schemes for profit in any way. We are just a LARGE
bunch of people slowly dying! We are doing and have been doing what we have for
the march for over a year now out of our own pockets! At the websites and from
many of us that have done extensive research(like our Natl. Coordinator who has
done 10 plus years), we will be happy to share with you or anybody else
documentation. Including figures from the VA and other Government agencies
showing the the disaportionate amount spent on HCV(now 4 to 5 times a greater
risk than HIV/AIDS) versus other diseases.
We are not asking any organization to sponsor anything
unless they want to(like the Porta Potty fund)! All I am asking; that the ones
inflicted the most, the high risk factor groups(Veterans, FireFighters, Medical
Health Care, and others) all stand together for once and forget the Politics &
Credit.........and save some lives!
You are cordially invited to Hepatitis's Movement for Awareness summer campaign,
the National March on DC June 23rd.
Your presence will help this nation realize just how fast HCV is spreading and
what we need to do to stop it.
Our march will be focused on awareness and the participants are people and
organizations that promote this reality.
Respectfully yours,
Patricia Lupole, Nat'l Coordinator
Hepatitis C's Movement for Awareness
HMAwareness@...
(540) 248-4994