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The New York Times - May 29, 1983
Margot Slade and Wayne Biddle
Dr. Edward N. Brandt Jr., Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, announced six new research grants and the approval of a heat treatment for blood products which may transmit the disease. The Government will spend $14.5 million on AIDS work this year, he said. He rejected charges that the Health Service had neglected AIDS because it occurs mostly among homosexuals. But Virginia M. Apuzzo of the National Gay Rights Task Force said "The agency is conducting business as usual insofar as this particular health crisis is concerned."
On Wednesday, the House approved an amendment to the fiscal 1983 supplemental appropriations bill offered by Representative William H. Natcher, Democrat of Kentucky, that would increase Federal spending on AIDS by $12 million. Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a Connecticut Republican, reported he would sponsor similar legislation.
So far as is known, AIDS - acquired immune deficiency syndrome - is a mostly American affliction. This month France became the first country to ban importation of blood from America. The World Health Organization plans a conference in Geneva in November to coordinate a global research program on the disease, which was first identified about two years ago in New York and California.
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