The purse strings are tightening in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which already seen the budget decreased in recent years. discretionary budget request for the agency in 2012 will dip to $ 5.89 billion, down from $ 6.47 billion in 2010. As other agencies, CDC plans to shave costs while trying to avoid duplications and more efficient operation. For example, several centers for various chronic diseases will be drawn under a common umbrella called the comprehensive chronic disease prevention program. At a press conference this afternoon, CDC Director Thomas Frieden's said the agency would also save $ 100 million in administrative costs, in part by reducing travel and promoting more videoconferencing.
But CDC aims to offset part of the loss of more support from a trust fund called the Prevention Fund established by the draft law on the care of health recently adopted (now a subject of fierce dispute). This fund could provide CDC with $ 753 million, some of which would go to research and other discretionary activities. The fund is "not a substitute for a" what loses CDC, Frieden said, but it should certainly help. CDC is to spend more money on polio eradication, which was awfully close for some time, as well as the prevention and control of infectious diseases, HIV / AIDS and chronic diseases.
much of the money prevention Fund will go to state and local governments, Frieden said, and it was agreed that the budget of the CDC this year, like many other organizations, "complex", with increases and significant decreases.
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