Nation IN BRIEF : NATIONWIDE : AIDS Receives 10% of Health Funding
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The National Institutes of Health currently spends about a tenth of its budget on AIDS and should not spend substantially more, the head of the government’s AIDS research effort said. Spending more could encroach on other programs, such as cancer research, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci said. In fiscal 1988, the government spent about $1.3 billion on AIDS; about 34,000 Americans died of it. About $1.45 billion was devoted to cancer, which killed about 500,000 Americans.
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