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AIDS Action Welcomes President’s Budget Increases Yet Expresses Distress with Failure to End Federal Ban on Syringe Exchange Funding

 
In his Fiscal Year 2010 (FY 10) budget request, President Barack Obama increased funding for HIV prevention and treatment and care by $107 million. In doing so, President Obama has put funding behind the vision set forth in his FY 10 budget outline of increasing “resources to detect, prevent, and treat HIV/AIDS domestically, especially in underserved populations.”  
 
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WASHINGTON, February 26, 2009

AIDS Action congratulates Jeffrey Crowley, an openly gay man with significant knowledge and experience in health care and HIV/AIDS for his appointment as Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP). He joins a well respected and dedicated team in the Executive Office of the President's Domestic Policy Council (DPC) and reports to Director Melody Barnes who has a long standing commitment to HIV/AIDS. 

 
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WASHINGTON, March 18th, 2009

The AIDS Institute and AIDS Action today released a new policy paper, The AIDS Drug Assistance Program: Securing HIV/AIDS Drugs for the Nations Poor and Uninsured. - The paper recommends 25 policy options to help ADAP and HIV/AIDS service programs to better meet the growing need for medications as decision makers draft budgets, work on health care reform and the development of a National AIDS Strategy.

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Principles of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care, Treatment and Research Must Inform Implementation of a National AIDS Strategy and Health Care Reform - AIDS Action's latest policy paper calling for incorporating the knowledge gained from nearly 30 years of experience with HIV/AIDS into upcoming health care reform efforts and the development of a National AIDS strategy..

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