Fwd: [MS_Community] Fw: Encourage senators to vote for critical health funding

December 6, 2003

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Subject: Encourage senators to vote for critical health funding

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<td><b><font size=3 color=#FF0033><B>Ask your senators to vote in favor of

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<td>NIH / CDC funding need your support</td>

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The Senate will have the opportunity to vote on the conference report

accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Bill (H.R. 2673) in the near

future. Failure of the Senate to pass the bill will disrupt programs across the

U.S. Without this bill, the government will operate under a continuing

resolution. This means that health and medical research programs will operate

at last year's (2003) budget levels.

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<br />What is at risk includes:

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<br />ï¿½ $1 billion in new research funds would be lost to the National

Institutes of Health

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<br />ï¿½ CDC would be deprived of $261 million, most of which is devoted to

containing emerging infectious diseases

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<br />ï¿½ AIDS funding for both making drugs available domestically ($38

million) and $160 million to help in the global fight against AIDS.

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<br />ï¿½ $122 million to help strengthen and expand community health centers

that provide critical health care services to underserved and uninsured

populations throughout the U.S.

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<br />Urge your senators to vote for passage of H.R. 2673 to sustain our

nation's commitment to the health and well-being of all its citizens.

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