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Since In the early 190s, Congress and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) agreed to devote approximately 10% of the NIH budget to the fight against HIV / AIDS. Now, however, this special arrangement is under fire. experts in health policy, legislators, and even the leaders of NIH asked why, two years after the AIDS mortality rate began to fall dramatically in the United States, the disease still gets the lion's share NIH resources, or $ 3 billion this year. As questions were raised about how research funds on HIV / AIDS are spent, the NIH has also decided to focus money on AIDS by the end of the epidemic. Some voices a broader criticism: that spending on NIH disease often does not correspond to how much suffering it causes. They noted that the disease imposes a relatively low burden on society of the United States, such as AIDS, can get a greater share of NIH funding than those that cause more harm, such as heart disease. Recently, while answering pointed questions from a member of Congress on the issue, the NIH Director Francis Collins said the agency is ready to abandon the 10% set-aside. And representatives of next month should release a strategic organization-wide plan they say will address how the burden should influence the allocation of research funds.
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