The Czar Trip

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The Czar Trip

Advocate (12/12/95) No. 696, P. 22
Moss, J. Jennings

The Dec. 6 White House conference on AIDS will mark President Clinton's most public involvement with the disease since he took office. However, one difficulty that the president--and thus Patricia Fleming, the national AIDS policy director--may face is that his dealings with AIDS often produce two contradictory criticisms. Clinton has done more for the disease than his two predecessors, some say, yet he has not lived up to his campaign promises. "Some critics would say that this administration, like those before it, opted for the political equation rather than for the public-health equation," notes Kristine Gebbie, the Administration's first AIDS policy coordinator. Meanwhile, Fleming points out the current administration's successes in battling for more funds for AIDS programs, streamlining the regulations related to the disease, and enabling local governments and organizations to develop their own AIDS prevention programs. For her part, Fleming's greatest battle now is to keep Medicaid safe from congressional attempts to release it to the states. AIDS activists want her to ensure that Clinton will not make a deal with Republicans that will substantially change the program, but Fleming merely says, "I will do what I can."

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