Dinkins Administration Failed to Spend $11 Million in Federal AIDS Funds

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Dinkins Administration Failed to Spend $11 Million in Federal AIDS Funds

United Press International (10/29/93) (Byron, Peg)

New York--The Dinkins administration reported recent calculations indicating that New York City will fail to spend about $11 million of an allocated $44 million from the Ryan White Care Act before the year ending in April 1994. AIDS Policy Coordinator Ronald Johnson said he hoped the money would be used more quickly in the future, but admitted obstacles of New York contradicting rules and problems starting programs for infected homeless people and drug addicts. This year's unspent money will be used for primary care and housing for New Yorkers ill with tuberculosis or HIV, as well as for projects in a newly released AIDS plan by the Dinkins administration. The new plan will expand services and focus special attention on women and AIDS orphans. New York City is responsible for the nation's largest concentration of women with AIDS, and claims that half of all mothers who die leave their children without parents. The Ryan White Care Act has been increased by 40 percent for next year, and the city could receive as much as $90 million, said Barry Gordon, AIDS coordinator for the Public Health Service's local office. Said Mayor David Dinkins, "We very desperately need to spend not only that money, but we need more."

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