The AmFAR Report

DR. KRIM: AN AGENDA ON AIDS

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research activities, identify gaps in
knowledge, duplication of efforts,
needs for resources or collaborative
arrangements and promising leads.
Strategic decisions, such as those
regarding the balance between
biomedical and behavioral research
will also be made by the OAR.,
(v) The Director of the OAR
will immediately have, in addition
to its own budget, certain financial
resources to be used at his/her
discretion. We recommend that
these resources should be approxi-,
mately $150 million per year.
(vi) Areas of research needing
emphasis will be the object of
special Requests For Proposals.
Projects will undergo peer review
and be funded through grants. Only
when opportunities develop for the
application of existing knowledge
and technologies will funding be
done through contracts.
(vii) Within the first 100 days"
of the next administration, the OAR
Director will develop a supplemental HIV/AIDS research budget for
F.Y.1993. Soon thereafter, he/she
will develop a revised F.Y. 1994
budget to be submitted to the
President, for submission to Congress. Once approved by the,
Director of the National AIDS
Program, the federal HIV/AIDS
research budget will not be subject
to cuts by either HHS or OMB.
Support for HIV/AIDS research

would, however, in future years,
occur within the context of the
growth of the NIH budget as a
whole.
(viii) We recommend that the
Director of the OAR propose and
the President immediately approve
restoring $450 million cut from
"professional judgment" budgets
submitted by various NIH institutes
for F.Y. 1993, plus approximately
$150 million in discretionary funds
for the OAR, as proposed under (v)
above.
(ix) We strongly recommend
that a better coordinated and better
funded research program on HIV/
AIDS not in any way damage or
hamper the funding and orderly
growth of other ongoing research
efforts in other diseases.
(x) Last but by no means
least, we strongly recommend that
the federal HIV/AIDS research
program be fueled by, and based
on, scientific evidence and ethical
principles, and not political or even
economic concerns. Indeed, there
will be no greater cost to this nation
than that of not being successful as
soon as possible in controlling
HIV/AIDS.
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