AIDS Funding Hike Asked by Governors
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The nation’s governors, concluding their national conference here Tuesday, unanimously adopted a broad AIDS policy that calls for increased federal funding for education and research, more federal health care assistance and AIDS education in public schools.
The policy calls also for AIDS education in drug treatment and prevention programs and urges changes in Medicaid provisions to allow states more flexibility in the use of those funds to care for AIDS patients.
Included in the policy was a request for a federal clearinghouse on AIDS to notify states and organizations about AIDS care and for establishment of a federal commission on the disease.
On another issue, Gov. John Sununu of New Hampshire, the new chairman of the governor’s association, named a task force of governors to study ways to reverse “a constant erosion” of powers he said properly belong to the states.
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