Query from: Jon Cohen, Science

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DIRECTORATE FOR I)EFENSE INFORMATION

DATE: March 29, 1993

TIME: 11:50 a.m.

QUERY FROM:
PHONV1:
QUESIION:
AS1WER.:

Jon Cohen, Science
202-326-6595
Why is the Department of Defense not responding to the Congress regar i ng the SN0
m illion appropriation for HISV-;esearch--in opposition to the FA and the NTHE?
The FY 93 DoD Appiopr 1ati a is Act stipulates obligation of the $20) mi11liontf
GP-16() investigaio n, unless within six mnouths after enactment of the AV*,L
Secretary of Defense, the Director (4 the National Institutes of Health iia
Comnmissioner o' the Foo and Drug Administration submit to C'ongress written
certific~ition that the large-scale- Phase H clinical inv estiation should NO!i proceed.
The Department of Defense is no alware of any submission to Congress from either
NI or the FDA that sutch a trial should n~t proceed-L ikewise, the Department of
Defense does not pan to subrrit such a statement,

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