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AIDS Healthcare Foundation
AHF Applauds Senator Harkin for Championing HIV Testing in Stimulus Bill
February 13th, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the nation’s largest AIDS organization, today lauded Senator Tom Harkin (D, IA) for championing the funding of HIV testing in the current Senate stimulus bill. The Senate bill allocates $400 million of the over $800 billion stimulus package for HIV and STD testing and prevention, money which could go to hiring nurses to work in emergency units and community clinics to do HIV and STD testing as well as fund the purchase of American-made HIV test kits. “The funding of HIV and STD testing and prevention in the stimulus bill is actually a very prudent use of US taxpayer dollars, and we applaud Senator Harkin for his leadership on the...
Source: Health Business Week (2009-02-13)
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