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Compassionate conservatism: federal funding for the Ryan White CARE Act during the Bush administration.

Buchanan RJ, Hatcher W

Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA. rjb161@ps.msstate.edu

President George W. Bush has proposed modest increases, when he has proposed any at all, in funding for the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act during his administration, and Congress has appropriated little funding increase since fiscal year 2004. Growing numbers of Americans living with HIV or AIDS, 40 000 people newly infected with HIV each year, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-recommended efforts to identify people with undiagnosed HIV infection indicate an increasing need for services funded by CARE Act programs. Inadequate CARE Act funding harms the most vulnerable people with HIV.

Published 24 October 2007 in Am J Public Health, 97(11): 2013-6.
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