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Friday, Sept. 27, 1985
AIDS research funds requested
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WASHINGTON — The government agency responsible for financing AIDS research has made a last-minute request to Congress for an additional $70 million in fiscal year 1986 to investigate the deadly disease, a top health official said yesterday.
James Mason, acting assistant Health Secretary, told a Senate appropriations subcommittee, "We believe there is a need to expand beyond our current request in order to evaluate new drugs and therapies
and to gain a better understanding of the prevalence of AIDS."
According to Anthony Fauci, an AIDS authority at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the request is being made because "things are going so rapidly" in AIDS research.
A House Appropriations subcommittee has already approved spending $70 million more for a total of $1.3 billion to combat the disease next year.
About $50 million of the money would be earmarked for the National Institutes of Health, one of the
institutions leading the research attack on AIDS, while the rest would go to other agencies, Fauci said. Mason declined to elaborate.
At least six drugs have been approved for testing in humans or are being tested as possible AIDS treatments, he said. All appear to prevent the virus from reproducing. Researchers are also testing ways to restore AIDS victims' ravaged immune systems and seeking a vaccine.
Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn.,
However, the request is still being reviewed by the Office of Manage-
chairman of the subcommittee, said it was unlikely OMB would approve the request by Tuesday.
The committee is working to pass an appropriation for the Department of Health and Human Services by Oct.1, the first day of the new fiscal year.
William Haseltine, a leading AIDS researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, told the committee "we need a lot more funding, in my opinion, both for vaccine development and clinical trials nationwide."
Poll says AIDS kids should be barred
NEW YORK — A poll released yesterday found most New Yorkers want AIDS-streicken children kept out of school, but the city went b k to court defending its decision to let a second-grader with the disease remain in class.
Forty-eight percent of the 505 New Yorkers surveyed in the Daily News-WABC TV Eyewitness News poll said they would keep their own children home if a youngster afflicted with AIDS were allowed in school.
Forty-six percent of those polled said they would allow their child to go to school with an AIDS-sufferer.
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A 55 percent majority said a child with the disease should be barred from classes and 42 percent said people with AIDS should be quarantined.
Nationally, the fear of the killer virus was not as acute. An ABC-Washington Post poll found that while 79 percent thought AIDS was a threat to the general public, 62 percent said children with the disease should be allowed in school.
Sixty percent of those surveyed for the national poll said they would let their children to go to class with a child afflicted with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
New York City accounts for 4,300, or nearly one-third, of the 13,402 AIDS cases nationwide. More than 6,800 people across the country have already died from the disease.
The poll was the latest development in a citywide controversy brewing since a city Board of Education panel ruled that a 7-year-old girl with the disease could attend classes.
Foundations merge to find AIDS remedy
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LOS ANGELES — Ailing actor Rock Hudson has donated $290,000 and first lady Nancy Reagan has added her support to a new national research foundation that will seek a cure for AIDS, Elizabeth Taylor announced yesterday.
She also announced that oil magnate John Paul Getty Jr. had donated $100,000 to the American Foundation for AIDS research.
Taylor said Mrs. Reagan had sent her a personal message of support, saying she was confident the foundation would "prove to be a very important step in solving" the deadly disease.
"We plan to muster the talent and energy of America's brightest scientific and medical researchers in order to stop AIDS," the actress told reporters.
The new organization, based in Los Angeles, Calif., will be formed from a merger of two groups already working on the crisis - the National AIDS Research
Foundation in Los Angele
chaired by Dr. Michael Gottlieb,
a UCLA researcher; and the AIDS
Medical Foundation in New York,
N.Y., chaired by Dr. Mathilde
Krim.
"The foundation will provide research grants to support the types of research most likely to lead to rapid understanding and control of the disease," Gottlieb said. "The research program will be balanced between laboratory and patient-related anopcodes.
"This organization will be different in that it will focus on research and will seek national solutions to the problem of AIDS and not focus primarily on individual communities or regions of the country that may be more or less affected by the disease."
Krim said the foundation had set no specific fundraising goal.
William Misenhier, who is resigning as executive director of AIDS Project L.A. to take the same position with the new formation, said it would seek money only from the private sector.
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