A Guide to Fiscal Year 1991 Federal Funding for HIV Disease: How Dollars are Spent How to Access Them

ATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) mission is to improve the health of the American people by:
conducting and supporting biomedical research focused on the causes, prevention, and cure of diseases;
supporting research training and research resource development; and using modem methods to communicate
biomedical information. Figure 1.3 explains NIH's composition of 14 Institutes, Divisions and specialized
units.
Total NIH AIDS/HIV funding for FY 1991 is $804,567,000, accounting for 42.7% of the PHS spending
on HIV. NIH has received consistent increases for HIV research since 1982, as shown in Table 3.E. FY
1991 monies are divided among its institutes, divisions and units as shown in Table 3.F.
NIH FY '91 HIV Funding

1. Basic Science Research................ $

660,535,000

Biomedical Research:
HIV and HIV genome............................. $
Immunology...................................
Blood/Blood products............................
Diagnostic methods/reagents development.................
Animal models and related studies.....................
Neuroscience and Neuropsychiatric Research................ $
Behavioral Research:
Mechanisms of behavior and behavior change.............
Prevention of high-risk behavior.........................
Therapeutic Agents:
Development...................................
Clinical Trials....................................
Vaccines:
Development....................................
Clinical Trials..................................
Research Enhancements:
Training.......................................
Construction (Extramural).........................
2. Risk Assessment and Prevention..........................
Surveillance:
Diseases Associated with HIV........................
Population-Based Research: Natural History,
Transmission, Risk Factors:
Transmission:
Sexual..........................................
Intravenous drug abusers.........................
Hemophilia populations..........................
Blood recipient/donor studies..........................
Perinatal infection..............................
Occupationally related.............................
Other/miscellaneous.............................
Natural History and Cofactors......................
Information and Education/Preventive Services:
High risk or infected persons:
Health education/risk education........................
Counseling, testing, partner
notification.....................................

78,938,000
70,821,000
9,542,000
15,879,000
32,016,000
22,947,000
1,780,000
884,000
144,084,000
196,149,000
56,629,000
19,247,000
11,418,000
201,000.......... $

133,519,000

3,845,000
31,364,000
4,064,000
4,756,000
8,442,000
31,396,000
101,000
4,216,000
36,234,000
3,355,000
623,000

~1991 ASAP

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