January 21, 2016
Organizations from across the US—nearly 140 of them—penned a letter to President Obama urging that the NIH budget (responsible for 68 percent of the global public sector HIV prevention research budget) include the US $100 million increase for HIV/AIDS research for FY2016 promised by the President in March of 2015. Noting that now is a time to prioritize, not cut HIV/AIDS research, the letter highlights the potential for research advances to help “end the scourge of HIV/AIDS”, a priority the President himself called out in his recent State of the Union speech.
This letter and a companion letter, signed by over 500 researchers supporting HIV research funding, are available to download here.