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United Press International - Tuesday, May 15, 1990
"I've never heard once somebody in this chamber say to the homosexuals, 'Stop what you are doing,' " Helms said. "If they stopped, there would not be one additional case of AIDS."
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, replying to Helms, said, "I don't agree with him that if all homosexuals stopped having contact . . . we wouldn't have another cases of AIDS. You would have to have a cessation of all sexual activity -- and of blood transfusions."
"I don't care what it was that caused the disease. . . . I just want to help them," Hatch said.
The exchange came as the Senate debated a bill that would give cities with more than 2,000 AIDS cases federal grants for hospitals and other health care facilities that serve high numbers of poor people.
The bill, named for Ryan White, the 18-year-old activist who died of AIDS last month, also would provide grants to states to help people with the HIV virus through medicine and community health and support services.
The legislation authorizes $600 million in the 1991 budget and again in fiscal 1992 and whatever sums are necessary in the following three years. The estimated five-year cost is $2.9 billion.
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