HIV 'cure' at risk from budget cuts

CNN Money ^ | March 5, 2013 | Aaron Smith

[NJRighty]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The automatic cuts in federal spending known as sequestration could take a bite out of crucial medical research, such as the recently unveiled study in which a toddler was cured of HIV.

The National Institutes of Health, which co-funded the study, stands to lose $1.6 billion of its $31 billion budget through September as a result of the sequester, which went into effect on Friday. As the largest supporter of biomedical research in the United States, it could slash funding for hundreds of research programs, such as the HIV case.

The NIH, in conjunction with the Foundation for AIDS Research, also known as amfAR, paid for the research of the child who was infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Chris Collins, vice president of public policy for amfAR, said there was a "cruel irony" to the timing of the HIV cure discovery and sequestration.

"As we've heard this exciting news about cure research, the entire AIDS research field is experiencing a significant cutback," said Collins. "If we were in the business of ending AIDS, this would be the time to invest, not pull our resources out."

[NJRighty]

there was a "cruel irony" to the timing of the HIV cure discovery and sequestration.

Yes, what a coincidence. Now the MSM has something else they can blame on the sequester. Sequesters cause AIDS.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Like the Dems need to say any more to lock up the gay-before-anything-else vote.

[Chode]

why do we have to pay so filthy disease ridden queers can have filthy sex without consequence???

[VRWCmember]

The National Institutes of Health, which co-funded the study, stands to lose $1.6 billion of its $31 billion budget .... it could slash funding for hundreds of research programs, such as the HIV case.

OR it could leave the funding for research programs as is and find somewhere else in its $31B budget to allocate the $1.6 billion in "cuts".

[Cheapskate]

Those”compassionate?” bastards will use anything to jamtaxes down our collective throats!

[Gay State Conservative]

OK,fair enough.Why not redistribute the funds so that AIDS research gets “full” funding and research on “transgender” surgery is the victim of Osama Obama’s sequester legislation.

[goodnesswins]

Sequester?.... WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!

[skeeter]

FUCNN.

Sorry about being boorish, but these jerks have gone to this well once too often.

ABC News is running stories about schoolchildren hysterical because they can't tour the White House, and crying about congressional dysfunction.

The same ol' dishonest BS courtesy of our buttswab news media.

[dfwgator]

And so this is the end of our story
And everyone is dead from AIDS
It took from me my best friend
My only true pal
My only bright star (he died of AIDS)

Well I’m gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There’s a hero inside of all of us
I’ll make them see everyone has AIDS

My father (AIDS!)
My sister (AIDS!)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS AIDS AIDS!)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades

Everyone has AIDS!
My grandma and my dog ‘ol blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
C’mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
We gotta break down these baricades, everyone has
AIDS! x 20

[NoLibZone]

Obama would rather fund the Muslim Brother hood than HIV research.

No articles on cuts to aid Egypt or the PLO.

none.

[Doc Savage]

JC!! Get real. HIV NEVER did cause AIDs. I’m sick of explaining to you guys! There is NO cure for a supposed syndrome of 30+ diseases. If HIV was infectious I can assure you that the entire heterosexual world would be infected considering it was first noticed in 1978 in SF. Absolutely ridiculous. Thge homosexuals assholes have sucked the American treasury dry. Pathetic. The biggest HOAX of all time.

[Jim Noble]

I’ve had an HIV practice since 1982.

Curing an infant who got infected 6 hours ago has NOTHING to do with curing HIV in chronically infected adults.

End of story.

[petitfour]

Well, if there is no longer hope for a cure due to miniscule budget cuts, then we must quarantine all who have AIDS so as to stop the spread. That’ll cure it right there. Maybe we could outlaw the behaviors that cause the spread of AIDS. Maybe we could outlaw the behaviors in those who have AIDS. Maybe we could outlaw the behaviors in those who have participated in risky behaviors with others who have AIDS.

[tiki]

And you know there is no private money out there that would be will to invest, no, none at all.

[KarlInOhio]

As Dr. Sowell said in a recent article, if there was a government agency with two function: passing out medication for sick children and putting up statues of Benedict Arnold, they would cut the medication when forced to make a budget decision based on the sequester.

[traditional1]

Cut all AIDS funding, including to Foreign Countries.

It's a FACT that it is proliferated by faggots, and we are funding a lifestyle choice.

[nomad]

But then they wouldn`t be good drones, following their master, Obozo`s, edict to make the cuts as painful as possible. You did hear about the partially redacted email to the Agriculture Dept.to that effect?

[nomad]

What we need is a concerted effort to break thru the lame stream media blackout wall and get that Agriculture memo out to the sheeple! More effective, find and publish any other memos on that subject.