The United States will cancel 10% of the ad hoc funding for AIDS Research

December 11 announced that it would no longer set aside 10% of the budget (this year $ 3 billion) to support AIDS research, AIDS academia this is a "big earthquake." The agency also plans to restructure $ 65 million, to focus more on the end of the study of this disease.

The policy change is because increasing pressure from Congress, and there are some initiatives in accordance with public health organizations want the burden of a disease caused by the redistribution of total funding. In recent years, due to the decline in AIDS mortality, and treatment has improved the situation, the social burden caused by the disease has been shrinking.

This change led to the AIDS community and the scientists mixed reactions. Appropriation Although some scientists are now facing danger, "but the use of previous funding, can monitor more centralized, evaluate and focus on this disease is most urgent areas of research." Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist, chairman of the International AIDS Society, said Chris Beyrer. His team and other scientists are more worried about is that AIDS research may increase the uncertainty in the future.

From the beginning of the 1990s, AIDS research has been occupying 10% NIH's overall budget, an informal consensus was reached that the Congress and the NIH AIDS funding will grow as the overall NIH funding increases. Each NIH Institute but needs to spend its annual AIDS research funding, which makes some of the definitions of AIDS Research Institute continue to extend, while others relaxed quality standards. In addition, some groups and members of Congress also asked why the patient has a higher mortality rate and some other diseases such as heart disease and Alzheimer's disease as compared to AIDS will receive more funding.

Last year, Congress ignored the other comments, still allow the continuation of the NIH AIDS research funding to retain 10%. Francis Collins NIH Director acknowledged: NIH Director in the Advisory Committee (ACD) meeting, held on the same day, he emphasized that there is no other kind of diseases are also accepted reservations NIH funding, and believe that AIDS is still to be set to retain funds perspective "stations do not live foot. "

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