Clinton to Seek $91 Million More for AIDS Care
The Clinton Administration, despite tight budget constraints, will seek $91 million more next year to care for people with AIDS, officials said Tuesday.
President Clinton, who has already boosted spending on the programs by 82%, will seek an increase to $724 million for fiscal 1996, Administration officials said.
In addition, lobbying by AIDS groups, Housing Secretary Henry G. Cisneros and AIDS policy director Patricia (Patsy) Fleming persuaded Clinton’s budget office to back off a proposal to stop funding a $186-million housing assistance program for homeless and indigent AIDS patients.
Clinton promised during his 1992 campaign to fully fund the Ryan White Act, which provides direct medical and social services to people living with HIV, or with full-blown AIDS. It is named for a hemophiliac Indiana teen-ager who died of AIDS in 1990.
The government spends nearly $3 billion a year on AIDS research, prevention and treatment programs.
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