[Letter to President Clinton from Argeo Paul Cellucci]

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TH COMMOQN rALTI OF M~ASSACHUSETTS~
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LUAM F. WLtD
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Octobe 19, 1994
The IOknorabIls William Jefferson Cl~intoni
preys dent of the United 5t~tseor Amer'ica
The Its Koms
1600o $nnaylvania Avenue
Washi. 'gton, D. C. 2Q500
Dax e t~ident 4Clinton,!LC! f55ao1Qstt5 Departaent of Pubicia ealth hbas be
test Lr g potential iu' ne therap 145 to ombat EIV/AtD$ through a
small fund appropriated by the etate for that.purpocse.
Mass, c uetts, which crrenitly orts over 90000 Cuulative
cases of AIDS, i.s the only ate in the count~ry to opwnBor an
A!ZDS &caoins trial.
tIo complmmnt simf ler trials initiated by the federal
quverxtit, the stats'sa &IDS vatscin e trial uses CAP-. b but
couple~ it "ttRu the use of q mainterfront to maaximize the
vacoi ~'as effotivsnss. This Cobi ition is specifically
4digm$ to help boost the is wne xeepon of a parson~ with AIDS*
Ws are p2leased to announce that the state's vacs ne trial has
alead~ served 139 volunteers for this trial Aund the initial
resltprove quite pwoising.
H "axez the possibility of excpaningr this trial program to
tourther assist thene inrdividuals, as well as other* affected by

I iuas then informed that the national effort had changed
again a;zd that funds that were originally seant for larqe-scale
dozesti, efficacy trials will now be spent on such smaller tests.
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