HIV/AIDS

Pelosi Applauds House Passage of Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act

Published in AIDS Weekly and Law, November 5th, 2009

Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement in support of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act, which passed the House of Representatives today by a vote of 408 to 9. The Senate passed the bill earlier this week so the bill now goes to President Obama for his signature into law.

"As everyone knows, San Francisco was hit early and hard by the devastation of AIDS. But San Franciscans responded to the needs of our neighbors by developing a system of community-based care that became the model for the Ryan White CARE Act when it was first enacted in 1990.

"Today, Ryan White-funded initiatives are a fundamental component of the systems...

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