AIDS Emergency Legislation
Introduced

Senators Alan Cranston (D-CA),
Edward Kennedy (D-MA), and Orrin
Hatch (R-UT) have introduced the Com-
prehensive AIDS Resources Emergency
Act of 1990. The legislation consists of a
two—pronged approach: immediate finan-
cial assistance to communities hardest hit
by the epidemic and assistance to all states
and communities to develop comprehen-
sive care programs in order to avert disaster
down the road.

Under Title 1, $300 million would be
authorized to assist metropolitan areas that
have reported more than 200 cases of
AIDS. Under Title II, $300 million would
be authorized to assist states and localities
in establishing and operating consortia or
networks of services to care for people with
AIDS that focus on community-based care.

In this outline of the legislation, Sena-
tor Cranston stated that “As the number of
AIDS cases continues to grow...more and
more communities across the country will
have difficulties responding to the crisis.
San Francisco has been a pioneer in devel-
oping a new model of providing services in
the community to people with 1ife-threat-
ening disease...all at a lower cost per patient
than other cities. The increasing caseload is
making it difficult to continue providing
that level of service. We must begin now to
develop a system of care that is compas-
sionate and cost-effective.”

 

Both San Francisco and Los Angeles
have each seen more than 7500 cases of
AIDS. “We haven’t encountered an epi-
demic of this magnitude in decades,”
stated Cranston. “(It) requires an invest-
ment in activities to prevent the further
spread of the disease and to keep people
infected with the HIV productive and
healthy.”

HRCF Backs Health Bill for Women

HCRF will give women's cancer leg-
islation a high priority on its advocacy
agenda. Executive Director Tim McFeeley
armounced that Kathleen Stoll, Lesbian Is-
sues and Outreach Director for HRCF, will
spearhead the effort to increase govem-
ment funding for preventative health ser-
vices and education about breast, uterine,
and ovarian cancer.

Stoll explained why cancer is on the
lesbian issues agenda: “Women who have
never had children are at greater risk for
these forms of cancer. The tragedy of these
often preventable deaths in the lesbian
community is another example of the fail-
ure of our country’s health care system.”

The Breast and Cervical Cancer Mor-
tality Prevention Act of 1990 would estab-
lish a new Public Health Service grants
program to provide preventative health
screening and referral services for low-
income women. The grants to provide
these services would be awarded directly
to the states.

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