"Cuomo Sets AIDS Plan, Admitting it Falls Short"

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"Cuomo Sets AIDS Plan, Admitting it Falls Short"

New York Times (12/16/89), P. B1
Lambert, Bruce

Abstract: New York Gov. Mario Cuomo announced a five-year plan to fight AIDS yesterday. At the same time, however, he said the money is not available to fully fund the fight against the epidemic in the state. Cuomo said, "I want to say as clearly as I can, I am not putting into this plan this year nearly enough money to meet these goals realistically--not at all." AIDS activists praised elements of the plan, but criticized the lack of funding, which Richard N. Gottfried, chairman of the State Assembly's Health Committee, called "a blueprint for disaster." Cuomo said he deleted the plan's cost estimates because they were guesses, but said the cost of AIDS eventually "could be in the dozens of billions of dollars." Cuomo said the state's solvency must be preserved to allow the fight to continue next year. He said activists should "goad us, plague us, march, hold up your signs and call us names, which will happen." Cuomo's plan, much of which the state released in December, deleted Health Department recommendations that the governor issue an executive order overriding local opposition to AIDS residences and drug treatment centers and that the state distribute condoms to prisoners. The governor's recommendation calls for $193 million in AIDS spending next up, up $33 million.

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