NATION : U.S. Spends $5.5 Billion on AIDS
Federal spending on AIDS has totaled $5.5 billion since 1982, researchers said today in a study termed the first overall accounting of federal efforts to combat the deadly acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Federal AIDS expenditures will be about $2.2 billion for 1989, tripling state expenditures on the disease, and are expected to reach $4.3 billion in 1992, the researchers said.
“Although sizable, this will be just 1.8% of all 1992 health dollars,” said the researchers, whose study appears in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The total spending figure of $5.5 billion includes the $2.2-billion expenditure expected in the current fiscal year.
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