The State - News from March 13, 1988

A government program to give away an anti-AIDS drug to low-income patients is drawing so little response that officials say the state may have to return millions of dollars in federal funding. The state has loosened income requirements for the AZT drug program in an attempt to draw more people, but applications are still low, said Thelma Fraziear, chief of the state Office of AIDS. California has spent only $125,000 of its $7.6-million allotment from the federal government in the first four months of the one-year program, Fraziear said.