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

inghouse which provides current, comprehensive information about medical facts, policy, and statistics
for professionals in the criminal justice community,
and; publication of AIDS Bulletin, reports and studies
related to AIDS/HIV and the criminal justice system.
According to available information the only extramural HIV funding by the DOJ in FY '91 involved a contract for operation of the NIJ AIDS
Clearinghouse.

For more information about DOJ HIV-related
publications contact:
NIJ AIDS Clearinghouse
301/251-5500

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The Department of State (DOS) has a FY '91 appropriated HIV budget of $2,000,000. This
money is used intramurally to conduct routine HIVantibody testing and education of Foreign Service

Officers, some refugees, and other staff serving
overseas. According to available information, the
DOS did issue a $300,000 contract for development
of a global model of the HIV epidemic.

EP-4RTamENT OF LAB(IR

The Department of Labor (DOL) is conducting two
HIV-related programs under its FY '91 HIV appropriated budget of $660,000.
The first program focuses on Job Corps and
accounts for $635,000 of the DOL's FY '91 HIV
budget. HIV-related Job Corp activities involve: HIVantibody screening of all applicants ($220,000);
medical and psychological assessment of seropositive
enrollees ($360,000); and drug treatment for enrollees

not able to receive treatment through another means
($55,000).
In addition, DOL estimates spending $25,000 in FY
'91 for the completion of the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA) "Bloodborne
Pathogen Standards" project for hepatitis and HIV
begun in 1987.
No DOL appropriated HIV money is spent
extramurally.

EAR' 'MENT ED CA'LON

The Department of Education (DOE) has no FY
'91 appropriated budget for HIV. However, some
discretionary money is available under the auspices
of the Assistant Secretary for Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services for HIV-related grants. In FY
'91, $621,116 was available for five three-year grant
projects for direct assistance to organizations providing HIV-positive individuals education, counsel
ing and assistance in dealing with job-related problems due to their illness. All FY '91 discretionary
grants have been awarded, and no decision has been
made related to additional discretionary programs
during FY '92. Should a similar program be available
in FY '92, announcements will appear in the Federal
Register later in the 1991 calendar year.

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