Senator Seeks Cuts To HIV/AIDS Research Funding, Points To Bigger Funding Problem

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (LA) recently suggested cuts to HIV/AIDS research in the 2016 HHS spending bill in order to better fund research for the diseases which are currently killing the most Americans. Research organizations, however, see this as yet another example of the funding constraints facing the NIH. At the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on June 25, Cassidy proposed an amendment to reduce funding for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to about $4.5 billion, a...