{"id":33781,"date":"2018-03-30T11:24:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T11:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=33781"},"modified":"2018-07-21T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T11:50:14","slug":"us-congress-rejects-trumps-proposed-cuts-to-research-budget-for-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/33781","title":{"rendered":"US Congress rejects Trump\u2019s proposed cuts to research budget for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As the largest single funder of HIV research, the proposed cuts to the US research budget threatened to undermine recent advances in global health, especially in relation to HIV\/AIDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is therefore reassuring that a recent press statement from the US-based Treatment Action Group (TAG) outlined that the US congress would continue to support the research agenda for the 2018 financial year.<\/p>\n<p>This was in contrast to an anti-science agenda with budget cuts that was threatened from the US president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Congress approved a budget that increased the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget by $3.0 billion, rejecting the proposed $5.8 billion cut for 2018 that would have halted many ongoing programmes. This included a $353 million increase the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) that leads the country&#8217;s largest HIV research programme.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Ryan White programme which affects treatment and care for more than half of all people living with HIV in the United States was flat-funded.<\/p>\n<p>Although the CDC hepatitis programme received a small additional $5 million, this increase is still far short of the $100 million in funding needed to expand viral hepatitis screening and surveillance efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The Division of TB Elimination at CDC (DTBE ) was also flat-funded at $142.2 million for yet another year. Despite its continued success, DTBE has not seen a significant increase since 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>TAG press release. TAG statement on final appropriations for fiscal year 2018. (23 March 2018)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treatmentactiongroup.org\/content\/tag-statement-final-appropriations-fiscal-year-2018\">http:\/\/www.treatmentactiongroup.org\/content\/tag-statement-final-appropriations-fiscal-year-2018<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base As the largest single funder of HIV research, the proposed cuts to the US research budget threatened to undermine recent advances in global health, especially in relation to HIV\/AIDS. It is therefore reassuring that a recent &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}