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Document 13 of 54.
Copyright 2000 The San Diego Union-Tribune
The San Diego Union-Tribune
October
6, 2000, Friday
SECTION:
NEWS;Pg. A-10
LENGTH:
148 words
HEADLINE:
AIDS funding bill extended to HIV
BYLINE:
Associated Press
BODY:
WASHINGTON -- Congress agreed yesterday to provide more than $
1 billion a year for AIDS prevention and treatment in a bill that for the first time factors in HIV infection as well as AIDS cases in determining how federal money will be distributed.
The legislation reauthorizes for five years the
Ryan White CARE Act,
which expired when the new fiscal year began Oct. 1. The House approved the measure by a 411-0 vote and the Senate by unanimous consent. It now goes to the president for his signature.
The sponsor, Rep. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said the emphasis on AIDS victims rather than those infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has been "devastating." "While our attention was placed on AIDS the virus silently spread through communities of color and more and more women became unknowingly infected." Every year some 40,000 Americans become infected with HIV.
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