AEGiS-GMHC: Treatment Briefs: No Boost for AIDS Research Budget

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Treatment Briefs: No Boost for AIDS Research Budget

Gay Men's Health Crisis "Treatment Issues"; Vol. 8, No. 7 - August 1994
David Gold

A Senate appropriations subcommittee failed to increase the NIH's AIDS research budget. [See Treatment Issues, July 1994.] The subcommittee left research funding at the same level as the House ($38.5 million below President Clinton's request). It also reduced the House's appropriation for AIDS prevention by $37.7 million and increased care money under the Ryan White Act by $8 million. Richard Ford, of Senator Patrick A. Moynihan's (D-NY) staff, contacted Treatment Issues proudly reporting that Senator Moynihan had written to Senator Harkin, (chair of the appropriations subcommittee) requesting that Ryan White funds not be reduced in the 1995 budget. Ford, who is Senator Moynihan's chief staffperson on AIDS, expressed both surprise and skepticism when it was pointed out to him that the AIDS research budget was part of the NIH authorization and not part of Ryan White funding for AIDS care.

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