Bay Area Children's Hospital Biased against Blacks?

I feel it is an affront and insult to the black community to not offer us easy web access to counseling and informative services for HIV and sickle Cell. Being a proud member of my local Baptist congregation I intend on bring this up in our local groups to see if this is a wider spread problem.

Why do you not have Sickle Cell counseling information on the web like everyone else. Is it because this is an African American disease. I see from you web-pages on Diabetes, Rett's and 'Sleeping', that you offer counseling or referral services, why not for Sickle Cell?

Other Hospitals like Children's St. Louis have a very informative web site and easy access to counselors (see: http://www.stlouischildrens.org/default.aspx?tabid=89&acn=view&aid=149 )
Is it because that community is not a federal research center and has a real health care company behind them? Is it the case that since we live in a poorer area we get worse medical information?

The fact that your hospital receives federal money and is lacking good support for the black community (that is your primary demographic) is a disgrace and speaks to a larger issue of keeping us down... For a disease you know is killing us.

The media needs to hear about this as well. I intend on sharing this with Seven on Your Side, to show the lack of help for a primarily African American disease and lack of attention given by Children's Hospital.

This makes one wounder is Children's "The Constant Gardener", working for the man to keep the community down? This country's overall support for African American's is showing. I thought that by moving to the Bay Area I would NOT see medical or disease discrimination like I did in Louisiana and Mississippi. It appears the only thing going on in the Bay Area is Big Pharma Money, using the black people as ginny pigs, and not worrying if the black people have a BPM in the end. This hospital does not even try to offer easy web access to educational material or make it easy to find a person to talk to.

Is all this HIV, Sickle Cell and other primarily black diseases really just another form of biological testing going on in the Bay Area like in the 1950's? I bet this hospital is primarily funded by Big Pharma and Federal money. In fact I bet when push comes to shove you have mainly white doctors working with our disease. It is clear to see in the name of your hospital that you run a "Research Center", but for who's benefit remains.