The proposal is part of a request to Congress to transfer $334 million already appropriated for this fiscal year. The present budget of $6.18 billion would drop by a corresponding amount, and the budget for next year would remain nearly constant, at $5.87 billion. The number of new and competing grants would drop from 6,354 to 5,654, and the total number of grants, including renewals, would fall from 19,811 to 19,111.
At the same time, the budget proposes $534 million for basic research, clinical and laboratory work and public education on AIDS. A 28 percent increase from the $416 million allocated this year, the funds would be divided chiefly among NIH ($334 million), the Centers for Disease Control ($112 million), the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration ($54 million), the Food and Drug Administration ($16 million), and the Health Resources and Services Administration ($6.6 million).
The proposal results in ...
