"AIDS Prevention"

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"AIDS Prevention"

Associated Press (12/30/92)
Dixon, Jennifer

Abstract: Washington--Despite the spread of the AIDS epidemic, local and state health departments nationwide may have to cut back their AIDS prevention and education programs. Last month, state officials were told to expect cuts in the amount of federal funds available to finance state and local health department programs for AIDS prevention, education, counseling, and testing. Kent Taylor, spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control, said that every dollar spent on AIDS prevention equals $30 saved in health care costs. He said the agency will actually grant the same amount of money to states for prevention programs in fiscal 1993 as in 1992--$143.7 million. However, states will have less money left over from 1992 to use this fiscal year than they had left from 1991. He said the amount of so-called carryover money has dropped from $20.8 million in 1991 to $15.8 million in 1992 to about $9.7 million in 1993. Taylor said states have less money to carry over because they are using their grants more effectively. Congress established overall funding for AIDS prevention and surveillance in fiscal 1993 at $498 million, an increase from $477 million in fiscal 1992. But Congress also designated $27.7 million of the 1993 total to be used for community-based minority programs, for people with hemophilia, for HIV and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis prevention, and for programs addressing HIV among women. This forced the CDC to take $7 million out of other AIDS programs to make up the difference, said Taylor.

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