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United Press International - Thursday February 16, 1989
Cuomo proposes to spend $195.5 million in state funds the first year, which Cuomo described as "the most aggressive response to a public health epidemic ever developed by this or any other state."
But gay rights supporters said the deadly disease does not wait.
"We need this money now, not in the next fiscal year," said Brent Nicholson Earle of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, ACT UP.
Cuomo defended his plan. "We are doing this in the face of a possible $2.6 billion state deficit this year, but no need is greater than AIDS," Cuomo said.
The plan's major components will be an expansion of health-care resources and drug treatment programs, creation of housing arrangements for homeless AIDS victims and improvement of medical care for state prisoners with AIDS.
There also will be development of special services for women, babies and adolescents infected with the HIV virus and strengthening of human rights protections for people with AIDS.
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