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Elijah Cummings: with $87 billion, we could spend 27 times more on AIDS research than the Federal Government spent in fiscal year 2000.…

On the recordOctober 2, 2003
with $87 billion, we could spend 27 times more on AIDS research than the Federal Government spent in fiscal year 2000. We could spend $226,000 on each individual AIDS patient in the United States, and we could fulfill the President's promise of $3 billion for funding for AIDS in Africa this year and have enough left over to make a similar commitment for 28 more years.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Discussing the potential impact of $87 billion in funding related to AIDS research and support.

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