Clinton Extends AIDS Support Services Law
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WASHINGTON — Before a roomful of AIDS activists Monday, President Clinton signed a five-year extension of the Ryan White Care Act.
The law helps pay for home care, transportation, counseling, hospice care and other support for people with AIDS or the human immunodeficiency virus.
The law devotes $738 million toward AIDS support services for fiscal 1996, up from $632 million last year. Clinton awarded $350 million Monday; the remainder already has been allocated.
“Let us all pray that no president will ever have to sign another bill because, by then, we will have found a cure for AIDS and a vaccine,” Clinton said.
The president also announced that states would receive $52 million for providing new AIDS drugs and therapies to patients who cannot afford them.
White was an Indiana teenager who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion. He died in 1990 at age 19, a few months before Congress passed the law that bears his name.
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