Sign the Hepatitis C Petitions to Capitol Hill

• Hepatitis C Funding As American Citizens, that are Hepatitis-C Patients, including  Families and Friends, who do not have well known Celebrities championing our cause or lobbying Congress and the Private Sector for more funding for research and awareness; plead that our Government allocate more funding for this epidemic. The current legislation before congress proposes a mere fraction of what's needed to stop the spread of this virus.
   
• Petition to the FDA by Health Research Group and Service Employees International Union requesting the removal of unsafe intravenous injection equipment from the market. (HRG Publication #1548)
   
• Help Save Dr Cecil's Clinic VA clinics like Dr. Cecil's are held to strict guidelines and accountable if they overspend. In Dr. Cecil's case, politically  punished. The VA wants money for HCV veterans but does not want to spend the money to treat them. 
   
• Presumed Service Connection For Military Veterans Veterans from every branch of service were exposed to the Hepatitis C virus by many methods of transmission specific to military service. The lack of universal precautions and jet gun injections are responsible for this epidemic.
   
• Petition- Centers for Disease Control Investigation We, the undersigned, support Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, request of the General Accounting Office, (GAO), examination of CDC's contracting procedures.
   
• The Petition in Support of the "VERPA Act" Veterans Equal Rights Protection Advocacy, Inc. I, the Undersigned American Citizen hereby call upon my Representatives in the United States House and Senate to abolish the “Feres Doctrine” without further delay. I reasonably believe, the Feres Doctrine is a dangerous threat to the national security of the United States and the preservation of our Citizens human and constitutional rights serving in the United States Armed Forces for the following reasons;
  
   
• Reform the Veterans Administration System! "The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional as to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation." --George Washington
   
• Stop Cuts To VA Hospitals PURPOSE: The purpose of this petition is to stop the removal or transfer of beds from VA hospitals in Canandaigua, NY and throughout our Nation.
   

Letters to Capitol Hill

• Letter from O&I to the CDC regarding reorganization & management of resources.

  • As part of its public health oversight responsibilities, the Committee on Energy and Commerce monitors the management of HHS agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Committee’s oversight interest is to ensure that the CDC effectively manages its financial resources and its reorganization....we request that the CDC provide the following by November 6, 2006
     

  Activists Respond to O&I's CDC Request
  Recommendations for Committee
  November 6, 2006

  • We ask for the opportunity to respond with considerations and recommendations pertinent to this investigation. The purpose for this request is to advise the committee that CDC "Reorganization" has really meant privatizing an agency established to protect public's interest. Reorganization delegate entrusted responsibilities to the private sector, through non-profits, shifting away from serving the public good, to serving special interests. Privatization lacks accountability, transparency, oversight, and compromises the public’s safety through weakened agency enforcement.

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  Fall of the Golden Empire  The Centers for Disease Control's (CDC)  finance office is under investigation for inefficiency and ineffective leadership. Activists respond.........

   

• Hepatitis C Presumed Consent & Donation Benefits Although each organ donor can save eight lives with organs alone (two kidneys, two lungs, liver can be split, heart and pancreas or intestine) and over 2 million people die every year in the USA, there were only 6,455 cadaveric donors last year. In addition, one patient dies each ninety minutes while waiting. Of course, not all who died did so under circumstances that would allow them to be donors, but it still can be said that 6,455 is a tragically low number, especially when over 50,000 Americans with diabetes and other renal diseases need new kidneys to survive.