U.S. Belt Tightening Could Hit AIDS Efforts -Official

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A tighter 2006 budget for the National Institutes of Health could force the world's No. 1 funder of medical research to pull the plug on some AIDS research and other projects that don't prove their value, a top official said on Monday.

The Bush administration's 2006 budget calls for a $163 million, or 0.5 percent, increase in the NIH's $28.8 billion budget, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID. That compares with a doubling of the overall budget between 1997 and 2003.

"Our belt is being tightened for us," Fauci told a news conference at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, saying that may hit AIDS vaccine research especially hard.
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Fauci said AIDS vaccine trials would have to meet certain intermediate goals, or "milestones," to get continued funding and may be stopped partway through to concentrate on more promising research.

http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=7691589

[Skittles]

1. gotta keep those tax breaks for the rich

ya know?

[ScrewyRabbit]

2. What a surprise

Bush goes back on another grand pledge. Oh jeez, guess that means we aren't going to Mars, either...

[kiraboo]

3. The whole damn world is gonna have to suffer

because the U.S. has decided to liberate the oil in the middle east. I'm so ashamed to be a citizen of this country.

[proudbluestater]

5. No kidding, Kiraboo.

I have three children. The two who are adults I encourage to MOVE THE HELL AWAY from this country before it's too late. I tell them quite honestly there is no future here anymore with questionable elections and endless wars of aggression.

[kiraboo]

6. Me too. Three kids and they all recently got passports.

We're prepared for the worst but still hoping fervently for something better. Can the nightmare last beyond the next four years?

[proudbluestater]

4. Always have plenty of money for the Pentagon, though.

When is OUR tea party? I am EXTREMELY tired of paying for illegal/immoral wars for the rich to open up new markets for them and corner all the oil that's left in the world so folks can drive their freaking Hummers.