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draft 12/1/95
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON HIV AND AIDS
THE WHITE HOUSE
DECEMBER 6, 1995
[Acknowledgements: Patsy Fleming, Secretary Shalala [other
Cabinet members?], Scott Hitt, distinguished guests.]
Let me first welcome each of you to this historic White House
Conference on HIV and AIDS. You are the frontline faces and
voices of our national commitment to conquer the devastating
disease known as AIDS. I welcome you and I thank you, not only
for your participation here today but for the work you do every
day to improve the lives of the people of our nation and around
the world.
I'd also like to thank Dr. Hitt and the members of the
President's Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS for their work on
this critical issue and for suggesting that we convene this
meeting.
And I want to express my appreciation to the two extraordinary
Americans who have just shared the stories of their lives with
all of us. It is the passion, the commitment, and, yes, the
anger of people like Sean Sasser and Eileen Mitzman that remind
us all of the extraordinary courage it takes to hold on to hope
as we continue to even the odds in this struggle.
Each generation of Americans has faced an important challenge
that has, in many ways, defined their time here on earth. For my
parents' generation, World War Two was that defining moment,
unifying a nation against a common foe. For my own generation,
the civil rights movement provided the focus and the drive of our
lives. But for the generation of my own child and all of those
in her age group, the epidemic of HIV and AIDS may well be that
defining challenge.
My daughter and her friends are growing up in the shadow of
something we could never have imagined. They are coming of age
in world in which AIDS is a very sobering reality.
That reality has already changed the lives of all of us in this
room. It has taken from us too many friends and too many loved
ones much too soon. It has shaken our faith in the future. But
it has also brought us together and inspired a community spirit
that strengthens our values as a nation.
It is our collective responsibility to rise to this challenge and
change the future for our ourselves, for our children, and for
their children. We can do this. In fact, we must do this.
I want to share with you the story of just one of the people who
is here today. Just one of the human faces and human voices of
AIDS.
It's the story of a young man who grew up in a typical American
suburb as part of a typical American family. He attended college
and became politically active. His quick mind and active spirit
marked him as a "comer," and after graduating he joined the
Corporation for National Service to help start AmeriCorps. It
was while he was working for AmeriCorps that he found out he was
HIV-positive. He was 23 years old.
Demetri Moshoyannis took that news as a challenge. A challenge
to use his communication skills, his organizational skills, and
his leadership skills to educate and support his peers and help
them escape the fate that had been visited upon him.
It's that combination of heartbreak and hope that makes this
epidemic so unique. And it is what challenges all of us to
channel our energy and our talent into the fight to make AIDS a
thing of the past.
Ten days ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
reported that our nation has reached another sad milestone in the
AIDS epidemic. Half a million Americans have now been diagnosed
with AIDS and more than 300,000 men, women, and children have
already died of AIDS.
As we meet, on this day, 120 more Americans will lose their lives
to AIDS, another 220 people will be diagnosed with the disease
and nearly 140 people in this country will become infected with
HIV. And that will happen again tomorrow and the day after that
and the day after that. It will continue to happen until we
succeed in our efforts to defeat this epidemic.
That is why this meeting is so important. It is an opportunity
for us to refocus and reenergize our national commitment to
ending this epidemic. It is a time to rally our troops for the
fight ahead and arm them with the weapons they need to win this
battle. You and I have some important work to do.
We have a common goal -- a cure for all those who are living with
HIV and a vaccine to protect all of us from this deadly virus.
Let's be very clear on that. A cure and a vaccine are our number
one priority.
In my own lifetime, we have eliminated smallpox from our planet.
We have eliminated polio from our hemisphere. And we are within
striking distance of controlling measles. We must -- we must --
find a way to rid our planet of the threat of HIV.
2
I am proud of the work we have done in these last three years to
infuse new resources, new focus, and new leadership into our AIDS
research effort. We have increased funding for AIDS research by
more than 25 percent. We have dramatically strengthened the
Office of AIDS Research and we have focused our work on basic
science and applied research so that we can concurrently unlock
the mysteries of HIV while we pursue treatment opportunities that
extend and improve the quality of the lives of people living with
HIV.
This investment in science has already paid tremendous dividends.
Today, people with HIV live twice as long as they did just ten
years ago. AIDS-related conditions that often meant a quick and
many times painful death for people living with HIV can now be
treated and even prevented.
And we have reason to believe that there will more progress in
the near future. New classes of AIDS drugs are being approved
for use by the FDA that will help to restore the damaged immune
systems of people with HIV. Combination drug therapies are
showing great promise as a means for controlling the virus in the
human body.
And just last year we were able to show that the use of drug
therapy could actually block HIV transmission from mother to
child. Our scientists tell me that it is within our grasp to
virtually eliminate pediatric AIDS by the end of this decade.
This is neither science fiction nor a distant dream. It can be
accomplished by offering all pregnant women HIV counseling and
testing and guaranteeing that they have access to the treatment
they need to protect their unborn children. If we do this, we
can have a generation of Americans born without HIV. We can do
this -- and we will.
These advances have resulted in longer and fuller lives for
people living with HIV, but are they enough? Absolutely not! We
must do more.
I am taking three steps today that I believe will move us forward
at a faster pace.
First, I am asking the Vice President to convene a meeting of
scientists and leaders of the pharmaceutical industry to identify
ways to accelerate the development of vaccines, therapeutics, and
microbicides that can protect people from HIV and the infections
it causes. There are no guarantees in science, but the
collective will of government and industry can overcome even the
biggest obstacles.
Second, I am asking Patsy Fleming to convene an interdepartmental
task force working group to develop a coordinated plan for AIDS
3
research, including a coordinated research budget. I will expect
their report within 90 days.
Third, I want to make clear my personal commitment to make every
feasible effort to find a cure and an effective vaccine or
vaccines. To that end, I am intensifying my relationship with
the Office of National AIDS Policy. We can't afford to miss any
new opportunities. We can't afford any unnecessary delays.
That's why I am asking Patsy Fleming to provide me even more
regular updates on the emerging opportunities and obstacles in
this struggle. No President can promise success in such an
effort but I need to know what needs to be done to move this
along.
of course our work does not end in the laboratories of our great
research institutions. It continues in the clinics and the
hospitals and the doctors' offices around the country where
people with HIV and AIDS go for the care they need to survive, to
maintain their health, and to preserve their dignity. When we
make advances in science we must match those strides with
improvements in our delivery of health care.
For people with AIDS, the current discussions over a balanced
federal budget are not some distant political firefight. Let me
talk for a few minutes about a subject that is very important to
me -- the future of Medicaid.
For people with AIDS, Medicaid is a lifeline of support.
Medicaid provides health care for nearly half of the 200,000
Americans who are living with AIDS including 90 percent of the
children. It provides access to doctors, hospitals, prescription
drugs, and home care that allows people with HIV and AIDS to live
their lives more fully. Medicaid pays for the drugs that keep
HIV under control for longer and longer periods of time and it
pays for the drugs that prevent the infections that often end the
lives of those with AIDS. Medicaid pays for the care that allows
families to stay together.
Yet today, Medicaid is under attack by the Republican leaders in
Congress who want to slash its spending and eliminate the thirty-
year common ground commitment we have made to the poor, the
elderly, and those with disabilities. We cannot, we must not,
and I will not allow us to destroy this vital lifeline.
Medicaid cannot do the job alone. That's why we created the Ryan
White CARE Act to plug the holes in our health care system that
left many people with HIV and AIDS out in the cold. Last year,
more than 360,000 Americans received care under the Ryan White
Act.
When I ran for President, I promised to fully fund the CARE Act
and we have. Funding has increased by 108 percent, more than
4
doubling the number of cities receiving funds and enabling every
state in the country to receive some level of assistance.
The CARE Act must be extended for another five years. Both
houses of Congress have approved legislation to accomplish this
but final legislation remains stalled. That's why on last
Friday, World AIDS Day, I sent a letter to the Speaker of the
House and the Senate Majority Leader, asking them to make every
effort to get me a final bill by the end of this month so that I
can sign it and we can get on with the work ahead.
I am also fighting for the funding increases that I have
requested for the CARE Act as well as housing programs for people
with AIDS and our AIDS prevention programs at CDC.
I am concerned by the continued rate of new infections in this
country. In the 1980s, we made important progress in reducing
the number of new infections by nearly 50 percent. But for the
last five years, the estimated number of infections has hovered
between 40,000 and 60,000 per year. We also know that as many as
half of those infections occur among people under the age of 25
and half are among teenagers. Any new infection is an
unnecessary infection. I am setting a goal, today, of reducing
the number of new infections in the United States by half in the
next five years and to zero within the next decade.
Until we have a cure and a vaccine, education and prevention are
our best hope. For prevention to work it must be targeted and it
must be sustained. We saw that at work in the gay community in
the 1980s, when activists overcame the inertia of their
government to protect their lives.
We must pay particular attention to two populations who are at
the center of this epidemic -- young people and those who abuse
drugs. I was pleased to see the new public service announcements
released last week by Secretary Shalala. They point young people
toward the tools they need to protect themselves.
We also need to recognize that substance abuse treatment is a
form of HIV prevention. We must ensure that those who are
receiving drug treatment also receive AIDS prevention services at
the same time. We have increased the number of drug treatment
slots available in this country and I am working to convince the
Congress to approve our requests for money to bring that number
even higher.
I have also asked the CDC to convene a meeting of state and local
health officials and their counterparts on substance abuse to
develop an action plan to assure the integration of HIV
prevention and substance abuse prevention.
5
We cannot afford to freeze prevention funding -- as the
Republicans in Congress have proposed -- because the epidemic
cannot be frozen. It will just grow and grow and grow.
We also cannot forget the basic human rights of people living
with HIV and AIDS. The stories of AIDS related discrimination
break the hearts of all Americans of conscience.
Five years ago, our nation took a huge step forward toward a more
just society when we enacted the Americans with Disabilities Act.
It offers more than 40 million Americans who are living with
physical or mental disabilities -- including those who are living
with HIV and AIDS -- protection against discrimination.
The Justice Department, the Equal Employment Opportunities
Commission, and the Department of Health and Human Services have
been vigorously enforcing the A.D.A. And we are about to launch
a new effort to ensure that health care facilities -- nursing
homes in particular -- are providing equal access to people with
HIV or AIDS.
Still, all of us can do more. We can start by cleaning our own
house. I am asking Patsy Fleming to conduct an immediate 60-day
review of all government programs that require HIV testing as a
condition of participation in government service and government
programs. Those that do not have a strong public health
rational, must be amended or they must be ended.
We must continue to examine our societal attitudes toward racial
and ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, and others for whom
fear of AIDS becomes a convenient excuse for discrimination. We
cannot let our fear outweigh our common sense or our compassion.
If we do, all of us will lose.
As I have said before, the thing we have to remember is that
people with AIDS and those who are living with HIV are part of
our American family. Whether they are gay or straight, black,
white, Native American, Latino or Asian American, they are our
sons and daughters; our brothers and sisters; our aunts and
uncles; our mothers and fathers; our grandmothers and
grandfathers. They are Americans one and all. They need our
compassion. They deserve our respect.
Finally, let me say that the fight against AIDS is international
in scope. HIV knows no geographic boundaries. It is found on
every continent and virtually every country. The World Health
Organization estimates that more than 18 million men, women, and
children are living with HIV around the world. The United States
is and will remain a full partner in the international effort to
fight the pandemic.
6
As a world leader, we have a moral and a national responsibility
to help developing nations with prevention programs, medical
care, and other vital services. We also have much to learn from
them. And when we do find the cure and the vaccine that we seek,
it will not only be a victory for America, it will be a victory
for the world.
When this country was in the throes of another sickness that
threatened to tear us apart -- the sickness of slavery --
Frederick Douglas, the great American abolitionist, wrote:
"It is not light that is needed, but fire. It is not
the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the
whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the
nation must be quickened. The conscience of the nation
must be roused. The propriety of the nation must be
startled."
Each of you have been the thunder and the lightening. Each of you
is helping to awaken the conscience of our nation. Our challenge
is to draw more of our citizens into our circle of hope.
Together, I am certain, we can change our future for the better.
Thank you and God bless you all.
7
draft 12/1/95
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON HIV AND AIDS
THE WHITE HOUSE
DECEMBER 6, 1995
[Acknowledgements: Patsy Fleming, Secretary Shalala [other
Cabinet members?], Scott Hitt, distinguished guests.]
Let me first welcome each of you to this historic White House
Conference on HIV and AIDS. You are the frontline faces and
voices of our national commitment to conquer the devastating
disease known as AIDS. I welcome you and I thank you, not only
for your participation here today but for the work you do every
day to improve the lives of the people of our nation and around
the world.
I'd also like to thank Dr. Hitt and the members of the
President's Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS for their work on
this critical issue and for suggesting that we convene this
meeting.
And I want to express my appreciation to the two extraordinary
Americans who have just shared the stories of their lives with
all of us. It is the passion, the commitment, and, yes, the
anger of people like Sean Sasser and Eileen Mitzman that remind
us all of the extraordinary courage it takes to hold on to hope
as we continue to even the odds in this struggle.
Each generation of Americans has faced an important challenge
that has, in many ways, defined their time here on earth. For my
parents' generation, World War Two was that defining moment,
unifying a nation against a common foe. For my own generation,
the civil rights movement provided the focus and the drive of our
lives. But for the generation of my own child and all of those
in her age group, the epidemic of HIV and AIDS may well be that
defining challenge.
My daughter and her friends are growing up in the shadow of
something we could never have imagined. They are coming of age
in world in which AIDS is a very sobering reality.
That reality has already changed the lives of all of us in this
room. It has taken from us too many friends and too many loved
ones much too soon. It has shaken our faith in the future. But
it has also brought us together and inspired a community spirit
that strengthens our values as a nation.
It is our collective responsibility to rise to this challenge and
change the future for our ourselves, for our children, and for
their children. We can do this. In fact, we must do this.
i want to share with you the story of just one of the people who
is here today. Just one of the human faces and human voices of
AIDS.
It's the story of a young man who grew up in a typical American
suburb as part of a typical American family. He attended college
and became politically active. His quick mind and active spirit
marked him as a "comer," and after graduating he joined the
Corporation for National Service to help start AmeriCorps. It
was while he was working for AmeriCorps that he found out he was
HIV-positive. He was 23 years old.
Demetri Moshoyannis took that news as a challenge. A challenge
to use his communication skills, his organizational skills, and
his leadership skills to educate and support his peers and help
them escape the fate that had been visited upon him.
It's that combination of heartbreak and hope that makes this
epidemic so unique. And it is what challenges all of us to
channel our energy and our talent into the fight to make AIDS a
thing of the past.
Ten days ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
reported that our nation has reached another sad milestone in the
AIDS epidemic. Half a million Americans have now been diagnosed
with AIDS and more than 300,000 men, women, and children have
already died of AIDS.
As we meet, on this day, 120 more Americans will lose their lives
to AIDS, another 220 people will be diagnosed with the disease
and nearly 140 people in this country will become infected with
HIV. And that will happen again tomorrow and the day after that
and the day after that. It will continue to happen until we
succeed in our efforts to defeat this epidemic.
That is why this meeting is so important. It is an opportunity
for us to refocus and reenergize our national commitment to
ending this epidemic. It is a time to rally our troops for the
fight ahead and arm them with the weapons they need to win this
battle. You and I have some important work to do.
We have a common goal -- a cure for all those who are living with
HIV and a vaccine to protect all of us from this deadly virus.
Let's be very clear on that. A cure and a vaccine are our number
one priority.
In my own lifetime, we have eliminated smallpox from our planet.
We have eliminated polio from our hemisphere. And we are within
striking distance of controlling measles. We must -- we must --
find a way to rid our planet of the threat of HIV.
2
I am proud of the work we have done in these last three years to
infuse new resources, new focus, and new leadership into our AIDS
research effort. We have increased funding for AIDS research by
more than 25 percent. We have dramatically strengthened the
Office of AIDS Research and we have focused our work on basic
science and applied research so that we can concurrently unlock
the mysteries of HIV while we pursue treatment opportunities that
extend and improve the quality of the lives of people living with
HIV.
This investment in science has already paid tremendous dividends.
Today, people with HIV live twice as long as they did just ten
years ago. AIDS-related conditions that often meant a quick and
many times painful death for people living with HIV can now be
treated and even prevented.
And we have reason to believe that there will more progress in
the near future. New classes of AIDS drugs are being approved
for use by the FDA that will help to restore the damaged immune
systems of people with HIV. Combination drug therapies are
showing great promise as a means for controlling the virus in the
human body.
And just last year we were able to show that the use of drug
therapy could actually block HIV transmission from mother to
child. Our scientists tell me that it is within our grasp to
virtually eliminate pediatric AIDS by the end of this decade.
This is neither science fiction nor a distant dream. It can be
accomplished by offering all pregnant women HIV counseling and
testing and guaranteeing that they have access to the treatment
they need to protect their unborn children. If we do this, we
can have a generation of Americans born without HIV. We can do
this -- and we will.
These advances have resulted in longer and fuller lives for
people living with HIV, but are they enough? Absolutely not! We
must do more.
I am taking three steps today that I believe will move us forward
at a faster pace.
First, I am asking the Vice President to convene a meeting of
scientists and leaders of the pharmaceutical industry to identify
ways to accelerate the development of vaccines, therapeutics, and
microbicides that can protect people from HIV and the infections
it causes. There are no guarantees in science, but the
collective will of government and industry can overcome even the
biggest obstacles.
Second, I am asking Patsy Fleming to convene an interdepartmental
task force working group to develop a coordinated plan for AIDS
3
research, including a coordinated research budget. I will expect
their report within 90 days.
Third, I want to make clear my personal commitment to make every
feasible effort to find a cure and an effective vaccine or
vaccines. To that end, I am intensifying my relationship with
the Office of National AIDS Policy. We can't afford to miss any
new opportunities. We can't afford any unnecessary delays.
That's why I am asking Patsy Fleming to provide me even more
regular updates on the emerging opportunities and obstacles in
this struggle. No President can promise success in such an
effort but I need to know what needs to be done to move this
along.
Of course our work does not end in the laboratories of our great
research institutions. It continues in the clinics and the
hospitals and the doctors' offices around the country where
people with HIV and AIDS go for the care they need to survive, to
maintain their health, and to preserve their dignity. When we
make advances in science we must match those strides with
improvements in our delivery of health care.
For people with AIDS, the current discussions over a balanced
federal budget are not some distant political firefight. Let me
talk for a few minutes about a subject that is very important to
me -- the future of Medicaid.
For people with AIDS, Medicaid is a lifeline of support.
Medicaid provides health care for nearly half of the 200,000
Americans who are living with AIDS including 90 percent of the
children. It provides access to doctors, hospitals, prescription
drugs, and home care that allows people with HIV and AIDS to live
their lives more fully. Medicaid pays for the drugs that keep
HIV under control for longer and longer periods of time and it
pays for the drugs that prevent the infections that often end the
lives of those with AIDS. Medicaid pays for the care that allows
families to stay together.
Yet today, Medicaid is under attack by the Republican leaders in
Congress who want to slash its spending and eliminate the thirty-
year common ground commitment we have made to the poor, the
elderly, and those with disabilities. We cannot, we must not,
and I will not allow us to destroy this vital lifeline.
Medicaid cannot do the job alone. That's why we created the Ryan
White CARE Act to plug the holes in our health care system that
left many people with HIV and AIDS out in the cold. Last year,
more than 360,000 Americans received care under the Ryan White
Act.
When I ran for President, I promised to fully fund the CARE Act
and we have. Funding has increased by 108 percent, more than
4
doubling the number of cities receiving funds and enabling every
state in the country to receive some level of assistance.
The CARE Act must be extended for another five years. Both
houses of Congress have approved legislation to accomplish this
but final legislation remains stalled. That's why on last
Friday, World AIDS Day, I sent a letter to the Speaker of the
House and the Senate Majority Leader, asking them to make every
effort to get me a final bill by the end of this month so that I
can sign it and we can get on with the work ahead.
I am also fighting for the funding increases that I have
requested for the CARE Act as well as housing programs for people
with AIDS and our AIDS prevention programs at CDC.
I am concerned by the continued rate of new infections in this
country. In the 1980s, we made important progress in reducing
the number of new infections by nearly 50 percent. But for the
last five years, the estimated number of infections has hovered
between 40,000 and 60,000 per year. We also know that as many as
half of those infections occur among people under the age of 25
and half are among teenagers. Any new infection is an
unnecessary infection. I am setting a goal, today, of reducing
the number of new infections in the United States by half in the
next five years and to zero within the next decade.
Until we have a cure and a vaccine, education and prevention are
our best hope. For prevention to work it must be targeted and it
must be sustained. We saw that at work in the gay community in
the 1980s, when activists overcame the inertia of their
government to protect their lives.
We must pay particular attention to two populations who are at
the center of this epidemic -- young people and those who abuse
drugs. I was pleased to see the new public service announcements
released last week by Secretary Shalala. They point young people
toward the tools they need to protect themselves.
We also need to recognize that substance abuse treatment is a
form of HIV prevention. We must ensure that those who are
receiving drug treatment also receive AIDS prevention services at
the same time. We have increased the number of drug treatment
slots available in this country and I am working to convince the
Congress to approve our requests for money to bring that number
even higher.
I have also asked the CDC to convene a meeting of state and local
health officials and their counterparts on substance abuse to
develop an action plan to assure the integration of HIV
prevention and substance abuse prevention.
5
We cannot afford to freeze prevention funding -- as the
Republicans in Congress have proposed -- because the epidemic
cannot be frozen. It will just grow and grow and grow.
We also cannot forget the basic human rights of people living
with HIV and AIDS. The stories of AIDS related discrimination
break the hearts of all Americans of conscience.
Five years ago, our nation took a huge step forward toward a more
just society when we enacted the Americans with Disabilities Act.
It offers more than 40 million Americans who are living with
physical or mental disabilities -- including those who are living
with HIV and AIDS -- protection against discrimination.
The Justice Department, the Equal Employment Opportunities
Commission, and the Department of Health and Human Services have
been vigorously enforcing the A.D.A. And we are about to launch
a new effort to ensure that health care facilities -- nursing
homes in particular -- are providing equal access to people with
HIV or AIDS.
Still, all of us can do more. We can start by cleaning our own
house. I am asking Patsy Fleming to conduct an immediate 60-day
review of all government programs that require HIV testing as a
condition of participation in government service and government
programs. Those that do not have a strong public health
rational, must be amended or they must be ended.
We must continue to examine our societal attitudes toward racial
and ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, and others for whom
fear of AIDS becomes a convenient excuse for discrimination. We
cannot let our fear outweigh our common sense or our compassion.
If we do, all of us will lose.
As I have said before, the thing we have to remember is that
people with AIDS and those who are living with HIV are part of
our American family. Whether they are gay or straight, black,
white, Native American, Latino or Asian American, they are our
sons and daughters; our brothers and sisters; our aunts and
uncles; our mothers and fathers; our grandmothers and
grandfathers. They are Americans one and all. They need our
compassion. They deserve our respect.
Finally, let me say that the fight against AIDS is international
in scope. HIV knows no geographic boundaries. It is found on
every continent and virtually every country. The World Health
Organization estimates that more than 18 million men, women, and
children are living with HIV around the world. The United States
is and will remain a full partner in the international effort to
fight the pandemic.
6
As a world leader, we have a moral and a national responsibility
to help developing nations with prevention programs, medical
care, and other vital services. We also have much to learn from
them. And when we do find the cure and the vaccine that we seek,
it will not only be a victory for America, it will be a victory
for the world.
When this country was in the throes of another sickness that
threatened to tear us apart -- the sickness of slavery --
Frederick Douglas, the great American abolitionist, wrote:
"It is not light that is needed, but fire. It is not
the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the
whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the
nation must be quickened. The conscience of the nation
must be roused. The propriety of the nation must be
startled."
Each of you have been the thunder and the lightening. Each of you
is helping to awaken the conscience of our nation. Our challenge
is to draw more of our citizens into our circle of hope.
Together, I am certain, we can change our future for the better.
Thank you and God bless you all.
7
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Comments from OMB.
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nb she chance to
Health Division inveriew You
Office of Management and Budget dhatt
Executive Office of the President
Washington, DC 20503
Namcy A
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Rx
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Please sign
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Per your request
Please comment
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For your information
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With informational copies for:
Subject:
Suggestions on the Draft Presidential Speech
HD Chron, HPS Chron HPS,mm,mm
on AIDS
From:
Greg White GW and Gordon Agress ga
Phone:
202/395-4926
Fax:
202/395-3910
Room:
#7026
We have reviewed the attached draft of the President's speech for the White House Conference
on AIDS, comparing the figures in it with those available to us in journal articles and CDC
surveillance materials. We have made several edits in the speech to improve its accuracy. We
consulted with HFB staff on the Medicaid references in the speech.
On page 5, the speech commits the President to the goal of reducing new HIV infections to zero
within a decade. While this goal addresses the right problem, meeting it is probably impossible,
and advancing it would require substantial improvements in HIV data and prevention programs.
We suggest a more feasible goal would be to reduce new HIV infections in each successive year
until the number of new infections is zero. This would focus government programs on the right
problem, motivate them, and could feasibly be met.
On page 6, the speech says "We cannot afford to freeze prevention funding..." we note the
RMO recommendation for FY 1997 currently straightlines prevention funding from the Likely
FY 1996 Level.
Attachment
ID:
DEC 01'95 17:24 No.001 P.01
12/1/95
12:30 pm
Here 18 a draft of the President's remarks to the White House
Conference on HIV and AIDS. Please rcview and send comments to
Terry Edmonds by 2:00 Monday.
CC: Marsha SCOET
Michael Waldman
Nancy Min
Jeremy Bcn-Ami
DC/ RT -
This look, OK to
me. would you pls
read through it 1
let #5 me know it any
Sum off to yes? ?
The
NC
ID:
DEC
01'95
17:24 No. 001 P.02
draft 12/1/95
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON HIV AND AIDS
THE WHITE HOUSE
DECEMBER 6, 1995
(Acknowledgements: Palsy Fleming, Secretary Shalala [other
Cabinet members?], Scott Hitt, distinguished guests.)
Let me first welcome each of you to this historic While House
Conference on HIV and AIDS. You are the frontline faces and
voices of our national commitment to conquer the devastating
disease known as AIDS. I welcome you and I thank you, not only
for your participation here today but for the work you do every
day to improve the lives of the people of our nation and around
the world.
I'd also like to thank Dr. llitt and the membors of the
President's Advisory council on HIV and ATDS for their work on
this critical issue and for suggesting that we convene this
meeting.
And 1 want to express my appreciation to the two extraordinary
Americans who have just shared the stories of their lives with
all of US. Tt is the passion, the commitment, and, yes, the
anger of people like Sean Sasser and Eileen Mitzman that remind
us all of the extraordinary courage it takes to hold on to hope
as we continue to even the odds in this struggle.
Each generation of Americans has faced an important challenge
that has, in many ways, defined their time here on earth. For my
parents' generation, World War Two was that defining moment,
unifying a nation against a common foe. For my own generation,
B
the civil rights movement provided the focus and the drive of our
lives. But for the generation of my own child and all of those
in her age group, the epidemic of HIV and AIDS may well be that
defining challenge.
My daughter and her friends are growing up in the shadow of
something we could never have imagined. They are coming of age
in a world in which AIDS is M very sobering reality.
That reality has already changed the lives of all of us in thic
room. It has taken from uc too many friends and too many loved
ones much Loo soon. It has shaken our faith in the future. But
it has also brought us together and inspired a community spirit
that strengthens our values as a nation.
It is our collective responsibility to rise to this challenge and
ohange the future for our ourselves, for our children, and for
their children. We can do this. In fact, we must do this.
ID:
DEC 01'95 17:25 No 001 P.03
I want to share with you the story of just one of the people who
is here today. Just one of the human faces and human voices of
AIDS.
It's the story of a young man who grew up in a typical American
suburb as part of a typical American family. He attended college
and became politically active. His quick mind and active spirit
marked him as a "comer," and after graduating he joined the
corporation for National Service to help start Americorps. It
was while he wac working for AmeriCorps that he found out he WAR
HIV-positive. He was 23 years old.
Demetri Moshoyannis took that nows ac a challenge. A challenge
to use his communication skills, his organizational skills, and
his leadership skills to educate and support his peers and help
them escape the fate that had been visited upon him.
It's that combination of heartbreak and hope that makec thic
cpidemic so unique. And it is what challenges all of us Lo
channel our energy and our talent into the fight to make AIDS a
thing of the past.
Ten days ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
reported that our nation has reached another sad milestone in the
AIDS epidemic. Half a million Americans have now been diagnosed
with AIDS and more than 300, men, women, and children have
already died of AIDS.
160
As we meet, on this day, 120 more Americans will lose their lives
to AIDS, another 220 people will be diagnosed with the disease
and nearly 140 people in this country will become infected with
HIV. And that will happen again tomorrow and the day after that
and the day after that. It will continue to happon until we
succeed in our efforts to defeat this epidemic.
That is why this meeting is so important. It is an opportunity
for us to refocus and reenorgize our national commitment to
ending this epidemic. It is a time to rally our troops for the
fight ahead and arm them with the weapons they need to win this
battle. You and I have some important work to do.
We have a common goal -- a cure for all those who are living with
HIV and a vaccine to protect all of us from thic dcadly virus.
Let's be very clear on that. A cure and a vaccine are our number
one priority.
In my own lifetime, we have eliminated cmallpox from our planet.
We have climinated polio from our hemisphere. And we are within
striking distance of controlling meacles. We must -- we must --
find a way to rid our planet of the threat of HIV.
2
ID:
DEC 01'95
17:25 No 001 P..04
1 am proud of the work we have done in these last three years to
infusc now resources, new focus, and new leadership into our AIDS
research effort. We have increased funding for AIDS research by
20%
more than 25 percent. We have dramatically strengthened the
Office of AIDS Research and we have focused our work on basic
science and applied research so that we can concurrently unlock
the mysteries of HIV while we pursue treatment opportunities that
extend and improve the quality of the lives of people living with
IIIV.
This investment in science has already paid tremendous dividends.
Today, people with HIV live twice as long as they did just ten
years ago. AIDS-related conditions that often meant a quick and
many times painful death for people living with HIV can now be
treated and even prevented.
And we have reason to believe that there will more progress in
the near future. New classes of AIDS drugs are being approved
for URA by the FDA that will help to restorc the damaged immune
systeme of people with HIV. Combination drug therapies are
showing great promise as a means for controlling the virus in the
human body.
And just last year we were able to show that the use of drug
therapy could actually block H1V transmission from mother to
child. Our scientists tell me that it is within our grasp to
virtually climinate pediatric AIDS by the end of this decade.
This is neither science fiction nor a distant dream. It can be
accomplished by offering all pregnant women HIV counseling and
testing and guaranteeing that they have access to the treatment
they need to protect their unborn children. If we do this, we
can have a generation of Amoricans born without HIV. We can do
this -- and we will.
These advances have resulted in longer and fuller lives for
people living with HIV, but are they enough? Absolutely not! We
must do more.
I am taking three steps today that I believe will move us forward
at a faster pace.
First, I am asking the vice President to convene a meeting of
scientists and leaders of the pharmaceutical industry to identify
ways to accelerate the development of vaccines, therapeutics, and
microbicides that can protect people from HIV and the infections
it causes. There are no guarantees in science, but the
collcotive will of government and industry can overcome even the
biggest obstacles.
Second, I am asking Patcy Fleming to convene an interdepartmental
task force working group to develop a coordinated plan for AIDS
3
ID:
DEC 01'95 17:26 No. 001 P.05
research, including a coordinated research budget. I will expect
their report within 90 days.
Third, I want to make clear my personal commitment to make every
feasible effort to find a cure and an effective vaccine or
vaccines. To that and, I am intensifying my relationship with
the office of National AIDS Policy. We can't afford to micc any
now opportunities. We can't afford any unnecessary delays.
That's why I am asking Patsy Fleming to provide me even more
regular updates on the emerging opportunities and obstacles in
this struggle. No Precident can promise success in such an
effort but I need to know what needs to be done to move this
along.
Of course our work does not end in the laboratories of our great
research institutions. It continues in the clinics and the
hospitalc and the doctors' offices around the country where
people with HIV and AIDS go for the care they need to survive, to
maintain their health, and to preserve their dignity. When we
make advances in science we must match those strides with
improvements in our delivery of health care.
For people with AIDS, the current discussions over a balanced
federal budget are not some distant political firefight. Let me
talk for a few minutes about a subject that ic very important to
mc the future of Medicaid.
For people with AIDS, Medicaid is a lifeline of support.
Medicaid provides health care for nearly half of the 200,000
Americans who are living with AIDS including 90 percent of the
190,000
children. It provides access to doctors, hospitals, prescription
drugs, and home care that allows people with HIV and AIDS to live
their lives more fully. Medicaid pays for the drugs that keep
HTV under control for longer and longer periods of time and it
pays for the drugs that prevent. the infections that often end the
lives of those with AIDS. Medicaid pays for the care that allows
families to stay together.
Yet today, Medicald is under attack by the Republican lcaders in
Congress who want to clach its spending and eliminate the thirty-
year common ground commitment we have made to the poor, the
elderly, and those with disabilities. We cannot, we must not,
and I will not allow us to destroy thio vital lifeline.
Medicaid cannot do the job alone. That's why we created the kyan
White CARE Act to plug the holes in our health care system that
left many people with HIV and AIDS out in the cold. Last year,
more than 360,000 Americans eceived care under the Ryan White
A
Act. Pu the 3 budgeto Thane have
Not clear
1
When I ran for President, + promised to fully fund the CARE Act
and WE have. Funding has increased by 108 percent, more than
how
fully
fund"
forthecare het
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is d efined;
can cause
contention, some argue
that because some of
the Ni-ens of the
Act have never been
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Ends been requisted), D we
on not Fully Finded Ru an which
ID:
DEC 01'95 17:26 No 001 P.06
doubling the number of cities receiving funds and enabling every
state in the country to receive some level of assistance.
The CARE not muet be extended for another five years. Both
houses of Congress have approved legislation to accomplich this
but final legislation remains stalled. That's why on last
Friday, World AIDS Day, I sent a letter to the Speaker of the
House and the Senate Majority Leader, asking them to make every
effort to get me a final bill by the end of this month so that I
can sign it and we can get on with the work ahead.
96
I am also fighting for the (unding increases that I have
requested for the CARE Act as well as housing programs for people
with AIDS and our AIDS prevention programs at CDC.
I am concerned by the continued rate of new infections in this
country. In the 1980s, we made Important progress in reducing
the number of now infections by nearly 50 percent. But for the
last five years, the estimated number of infections has hovered
hall of those infections occur among people under the age of 26 22
between 40,000 and 60,000 per year. We also know that as many as ONe quarter
and half are among teenagers. Any new infection is an
unnecessary infection. I am setting a goal, today, of reducing
EVERY
YEAR
the number of new infections in the United States by half in the IN
next five years and to zero within the next decade.
UNTIL THERE ARE
No NEW INFECTIONS
Until we have a cure and a vaccine, education and prevention are
our best hope. For prevention to work it must be targeted and it
must be sustained. We saw that at work in the gay community in
the 19805, when activists overcame the inertia of their
government to protect their lives.
We must pay particular attention to two populations who are at
the center of this epidemic -- young people and those who abuse
drugs. I was pleased to see the new public service announcemento
released last week by Scoretary Shalala. They point young people
toward the tools they need to protect themselves.
We also need to recognize that substance abuse treatment is a
form of HIV prevention. We must ensure that those who are
OF
receiving drug treatment also receive AIDS prevention services at
SAMOUNT
the same time. We have increased the number of drug treatment
slots available] in this country and I am working to convince the
FEDERAL
congress to approve (IIIT requests for money to bring that number
RESOURCES
even higher.
DEDICATED Ts
I have alco acked the CDC to convene a meeting of state and local DRUG
TREATMENT
health officials and their counterparts on substance abuse to
develop an action plan to assure the integration of HIV
prevention and substance abuse prevention.
5
ID:
DEC 01'95
17:27 No 001 P.07
wouldnot
say this. On 1st
broject FY94 -di
We cannot afford to freeze prevention funding -- as the
Republicans in Congress have proposed -- because the epidemic
not person
cannot be frozen. It will just grow and grow and grow
fundiy we wer
criticized
We also cannot forget the basic human rights of people living
with HIV and ATDS. The stories of AIDS related discrimination
break the hearts of all Americans of conscience.
This
Five years ago, our nation took a huge step forward toward a more
just society when we enacted the Americans with Dicabilities Act.
CONSESTENT WISH THE
It offers more than 40 million Americans who are living with
physical 02 mental disabilities -- including those who are living
with HIV and AIDS -- protection against discrimination.
The Justice Department, the Equal Employment Opportunities
REDUCING INFENTICK 60HL prem NEW
Commission, and the Department of Health and Human Services have
been vigorously enforcing the A.D.A. And we are about to launch
a now effort to ensure that health care facilities -- nursing
homes in particular -- are providing equal access to people with
HIV or AIDS.
still, all of us can do more. We can start by cleaning our own
Illooks
house. I am acking Patsy Fleming to conduct an immediate 60-day
review of all government programs that require HIV testing ac a
though our
condition of participation in government service and government
programs. Those that do not have a strong public health
rational, must be amended or they must be ended.
We must continue to examine our societal attitudes toward racial
LOL FX97- man
next baulget
and ethnic minoritics, gays and lesbians, and others for whom
fear of AIDS becomes a convenient excuse for discrimination. We
either
cannot let our fcar outweigh our common sense or our compassion.
If we do, all of us will lose.
AH T have said before, the thing WO have to remember is that
people with ALUS and those who are living with HIV are part of
our American family. Whether they are gay or straight, black,
white, Native American, Latino or Asian American, they are our
sons and daughters, our brothers and sisters; our aunts and
uncles; our mothers and fathers; our grandmothers and
grandfathers. They are Americans one and all. They need our
compassion. They deserve our respect.
Finally, let me say that the fight against AIDS is international
in scope. HIV knows no geographic boundaries. It is found on
every continent and virtually every country. The World Health
Organization estimates that more than 18 million men, women, and
children are living with HIV around the world. The United States
is and will remain a full partner in the international effort to
fight the pandemic.
6
ID:
DEC 01'95
17:27 No 001 P.08
As a world leader, we have a moral and a national responsibility
to help developing nations with prevention programs, medical
care, and other vital services. WH Also have much to learn from
them. And when WC do find the cure and the vaccine that we seek,
it will not only be is victory for America, it will be a victory
for the world.
When this country was in the throes of another sickness that
threatened to tear us apart -- the sickness of slavery --
Frederick Douglas, the great American abolitionist, wrote:
"It 16 not light that is needed, but fire. It is not
the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the
whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the
nation must be quickened. The conscience of the nation
must be roused. The propriety of the nation must be
startled."
Each of you have been the thunder and the lightening. Each of you
is helping to awaken the conscience of our nation. Our challenge
is to draw more of our citizens into our circle of hope.
Together, I am certain, WC can change our future for the better.
Thank you and God blocc you all.
7
To Tam Edmonds-
Comments from OMB.
Thanks December for 1, 81995 mg 1995
Vb she chance to
Health Division intreview You
Office of Management and Budget dhatt
Executive Office of the President
Washington, DC 20503
Namey A
Please route to:
Richard Turman
Rose
Decision needed
-
Please sign
Barry Clendenin
Per your request
-
Please comment
Nancy-Ann Min
-
For your information
-
With informational copies for:
Subject:
Suggestions on the Draft Presidential Speech
HD Chron, HPS Chron HPS,mm,mm
on AIDS
From:
Greg White GW and Gordon Agress JA
Phone:
202/395-4926
Fax:
202/395-3910
Room:
#7026
We have reviewed the attached draft of the President's speech for the White House Conference
on AIDS, comparing the figures in it with those available to us in journal articles and CDC
surveillance materials. We have made several edits in the speech to improve its accuracy. We
consulted with HFB staff on the Medicaid references in the speech.
On page 5, the speech commits the President to the goal of reducing new HIV infections to zero
within a decade. While this goal addresses the right problem, meeting it is probably impossible,
and advancing it would require substantial improvements in HIV data and prevention programs.
We suggest a more feasible goal would be to reduce new HIV infections in each successive year
until the number of new infections is zero. This would focus government programs on the right
problem, motivate them, and could feasibly be met.
On page 6, the speech says "We cannot afford to freeze prevention funding..." we note the
RMO recommendation for FY 1997 currently straightlines prevention funding from the Likely
FY 1996 Level.
Attachment
ID:
DEC 01'95 17:24 No.001 P.01
12/1/95
12:30 pm
Here is a draft of the President's remarks to the White House
Conference on HIV and AIDS. Please rcview and send comments to
Terry Edmonds by 2:00 Monday.
CC: Marsha SCOOT
Michael Waldman
Nancy Min
Jeremy Bcn-Ami
DC/ RT -
This look, OK to
me. would you pls
read through it 1-
let #5 me know if any
Sum off to yes?
The
NC
ID:
DEC 01'95 17:24 No 001 P.02
draft 12/1/95
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON HIV AND AIDS
THE WHITE HOUSE
DECEMBER 6, 1995
(Acknowledgements: Palsy Fleming, Secretary Shalala [other
Cabinet members?], Scott Hitt, distinguished guests.]
Let me first welcome each of you to this historic While House
Conference on HIV and AIDS. You are the frontline faces and
voices of our national commitment to conquer the devastating
disease known as AIDS. I walcome you and I thank you, not only
for your participation here today but for the work you do every
day to improve the lives of the people of our nation and around
the world.
I'd also like to thank Dr. llitt and the memboro of the
President's Advisory council on HIV and ATDS for their work on
this critical issue and for suggesting that we convene this
meeting.
And 1 want to express my appreciation to the two extraordinary
Americans who have juct shared the stories of their lives with
-Natjust
all of UR. Tt is the passion, the commitment, and, yes, the
anger of people like Sean Sasser and Eileen Mitzman that remind
us all of the extraordinary courage it takes to hold on to hope
as WC continue to even the odds in this struggle.
Each generation of Americans has faced an important challenge
that has, in many ways, defined their time here on earth. For my
parents' generation, World War Two was that defining moment,
unifying a nation against a common foe. For my own generation,
the civil sights movement provided the focus and the drive of our
lives. But for the generation of my own child and all of those
in her age group, the epidemic of HIV and AIDS may well be that
defining challenge.
My daughter and her friends are growing up in the shadow of
something we could never have imagined. They are coming of age
in world in which AIDS jr n very sobering reality.
That reality has already changed the lives of all of us in thic
room. It has taken from us too many friends and too many loved
ones much too soon. It has shaken our faith in the future. But
it has also brought us together and inspired a community spirit
that strengthens our values as a nation.
It is our collective responsibility to rise to this challenge and
change the future for our ourselves, for our children, and for
their children. We can do this. In fact, we must do this.
ID:
DEC 01'95 17:25 No 001 P.03
I want to share with you the story of just one of the people who
is here today. Just one of the human faces and human voioco of
AIDS.
It's the story of a young man who grew up in a typical American
suburb as part of a typical American family. He attended college
and became politically active. His quick mind and active spirit
marked him as a "comer," and after graduating he joined the
corporation for National Service to help start Americorps. It
was while he wac working for AmeriCorps that he found out he WAR
HIV-positive. He was 23 years old.
Demetri Moshoyannis took that nows ac a challenge. A challenge
to use his communication skills, his organizational skills, and
his leadership skillc to educate and support his peers and help
them escape the fate that had been visited upon him.
It's that combination of heartbreak and hope that makec thic
cpidemic SO unique. And it is what challenges all of us Lu
channel our energy and our talent into the fight to make AIDS a
thing of the past.
Ten days ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
reported that our nation hac reached another sad milestone in the
AIDS epidemic. Half a million Americans have now been diagnosed
with AIDS and more than 300, men, women, and children have
already died of AIDS.
160
As we meet, on this day, 120 more Americans will lose their lives
to AIDS, another 220 people will be diagnosed with the disease
and nearly 140 people in thic country will become infected with
HIV. And that will happen again tomorrow and the day after that
and the day after that. It will continue to happen until we
succeed in our efforts to defeat this epidemic.
That is why this meeting is so important. It is an opportunity
for us to refocus and reenorgize our national commitment to
ending this epidemic. It is a time to rally our troops for the
fight ahead and arm them with the weapons they need to win this
battle. You and I have some important work to do.
We have a common goal -- a cure for all those who are living with
HIV and a vaccine to protect all of us from thic deadly virus.
Let's be very clcar on that. A cure and a vaccine are our number
one priority.
In my own lifetime, we have eliminated smallpox from our planet.
We have climinated polio from our hemisphere. And we are within
striking distance of controlling meacles. We must -- we must --
find a way to rid our planet of the threat of HIV.
2
ID:
DEC
01'95
17:25 No.001 P..04
1 am proud of the work WE have done in these last three years to
infuse now resources, new focus, and new leadership into our AIDS
research affort. We have increased funding for AIDS research by
20%:
more than 25 percent. We have dramatically strengthened the
Office of AIDS Research and we have focused our work on basic
science and applied research so that we can concurrently unlock
the mysteries of HIV while we pursue treatment opportunities that
extend and improve the quality of the lives of people living with
IIIV.
This investment in science has already paid tremendous dividends.
Today, people with HIV live twice as long as they did just ten
years ago. AIDS-related conditions that often meant a quick and
many times painful death for people living with HIV can now be
treated and even prevented.
And we have reason to believe that there will more progress in
the near future. New classes of AIDS drugs are being approved
for URe by the FDA that will help to restorc the damaged immune
systems of people with HIV. Combination drug therapies are
showing great promise as a means for controlling the virus in the
human body.
And just last year we were able to show that the use of drug
therapy could actually block H1V transmission from mother to
child. our scientists tell me that it is within our grasp to
virtually climinate pediatric AIDS by the end of this decade.
This is neither science fiction nor a distant dream. it can be
accomplished by offering all pregnant women HIV counseling and
testing and guaranteeing that they have access to the treatment
they need to protect their unborn children. If we do this, we
can have a generation of Americans born without HIV. We can do
this -- and we will.
These advances have resulted in longer and fuller lives for
people living with HIV, but are they enough? Absolutely not! We
must do more.
I am taking three steps today that I believe will move us forward
at a faster pace.
First, I am asking the vice President to convene a meeting of
scientists and leaders of the pharmaceutical industry to identify
ways to accelerate the development of vaccines, therapeutics, and
microbicides that can protect people from HIV. and the infections
it causes. There are no guarantees in science, but the
collcotive will of government and industry can overcome even the
biggest obstacles.
Second, I am asking Patcy Fleming to convene an interdepartmental
task force working group to develop a coordinated plan for AIDS
3
ID:
DEC 01'95 17:26 No 001 P.05
research, including a coordinated research budget. I will expect
their report within 90 days.
Third, I want to make clear my personal commitment to make every
feasible effort to find a cure and an effective vaccine or
vaccines. To that and, I am intensitying my relationship with
the office of National AIDS Policy. We can't afford to micc any
now opportunities. We can't afford any unnecessary delays.
That's why I am asking Patsy Fleming to provide me even more
regular updates on the emerging opportunities and obstacles in
this struggle. No Precident can promise success in such an
effort but I need to know what needs to be done to move this
along.
Of course our work does not end in the laboratories of our great
research institutions. It continues in the clinics and the
hospitalc and the doctors' offices around the country where
people with HIV and AIDS go for the care they need to survive, to
maintain their health, and to preserve their dignity. When we
make advances in science we must match those strides with
improvements in our delivery of health care.
For people with AIDS, the current discussions over a balanced
federal budget are not some distant political firefight. Let me
talk for a few minutes about a subject that ic very important to
mc the future of Medicaid.
For people with AIDS, Medicaid is a lifeline of support.
Medicaid provides health care for nearly half of the
Americans who are living with AIDS including 90 percent of the
190,000
children. It provides access to doctors, hospitals, prescription
drugs, and home care that allows people with HIV and AIDS to live
their lives more fully. Medicaid pays for the drugs that keep
HTV under control for longer and longer periods of time and it
pays for the drugs that prevent. the infections that often end the
lives of those with AIDS. Medicaid pays for the care that allows
families to stay together.
Yet today, Medicaid is under attack by the Republican lcaders in
Congress who want to clach its spending and eliminate the thirty-
year common ground commitment we have made to the poor, the
elderly, and those with disabilities. We cannot, we must not,
and I will not allow us to destroy this vital lifeline.
Medicaid cannot do the job alone. That's why we created the Ryan
White CARE Act to plug the holes in our health care system that
left many people with HIV and AIDS out in the cold. Last year,
more than 360,000 Americans aceived care under the Ryan White
Act. Pu the 3 budgeto Thane submittedto Congress have
Not clear
1.
When I ran for President, + promised to fully fund the CARE Act
and WE have. Funding has increased by 108 percent, more than
how
fully
fund"
forthecare Act
Nearly
is defined;
can cause
contention, Some argue
that because some of
the Ri-ens of the
Act have never been
Funded by Congren (nor have
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doubling the number of cities receiving funds and enabling every
state in the country to receive some level of assistance.
The CARE Aot muet be extended for another five years. Both
houses of Congress have approved legislation to accomplich this
but final legislation remains stalled. That's why on last
Friday, World AIDS Day, I sent a letter to the Speaker of the
House and the Senate Majority Leader, asking them to make every
effort to get me a final bill by the end of this month so that I
can sign it and we can get on with the work ahead.
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I am also righting for the (unding increases that I have
requested for the CARE Act as well as housing programs for people
with AIDS and our AIDS prevention programs at CDC.
I am concerned by the continued rate of new infections in this
country. In the 1980s, we made Important progress in reducing
the number of now infections by nearly 50 percent. But for the
last five years, the estimated number of infections has hovered
between 40,000 and 60,000 per year. We also know that as many as ONe quarter
hell of those infections occur among people under the age of 26 22
and half are among teenagers. Any new infection is an
unnecessary infection. I am setting a goal, today, of reducing
the number of new infections in the United States by half in the IN EVERY
YEAR
next five years and to zero within the next decade
UNTIL THERE ARE
ND NEW INFECTIONS
Until we have a cure and a vaccine, education and prevention are
our best hope. For prevention to work it must be targeted and it
must be sustained. We saw that at work in the gay community in
the 1980s, when activists overcame the inertia of their
government to protect their lives.
We must pay particular attention to two populations who are at
the center of this epidemic -- young people and those who abuse
drugs. I was pleased to see the new public service announocmento
released last week by Scoretary Shalala. They point young people
toward the tools they need to protect themselves.
We also need to recognize that substance abuse treatment is a
form of HIV prevention. We must ensure that those who are
OF
receiving drug treatment also rcocive AIDS prevention services at
SAMOUNT
the same time. We have increased the number of drug treatment
slots available in thic country and I am working to convince the
FEDERAL
congress to approve requests for money to bring that number
RESOURCES
even higher.
PEDICATED To
I have alco acked the CDC to convene a meeting of state and local
DRUG TREATMENT
health officials and their counterparts on substanoc abuse to
develop an action plan to assure the integration of HIV
prevention and substance abuse prevention.
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We cannot afford to freeze prevention funding -- as the
Republicans in Congress have proposed -- because the epidemic
not T
cannot be frozen. It will just grow and grow and grow
Funding we wer
criticized
We also cannot forget the bacio human rights of people living
with HIV and ATDS. The stories of AIDS related discrimination
break the hearts of all Americans of conscience.
This
is
Five years ago, our nation took a huge step forward toward a more
CONSESTENT
just society when we enacted the Americans with Dicabilities Act.
WITH THE
It offers more than 40 million Americans who are living with
physical 02 mental disabilities -- including those who are living
with HIV and AIDS -- protection against discrimination.
The Justice Department, the Equal Employment Opportunities
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Commission, and the Department of Health and Human Services have
been vigorously enforcing the A.D.A. And we are about to launch
a now effort to ensure that health care facilities -- nursing
homes in particular are providing equal access to people with
HIV or AIDS.
still, all of us can do more. We can start by cleaning our own
It look, as
house. I am acking Patsy Fleming to conduct an immediate 60-day
review of all government programs that require HIV testing ac a
though our
condition of participation in government service and government
programs. Those that do not have a strong public health
rational, must be amended or they must be ended.
Fx97 next baulget
we must continue to examine our societal attitudes toward racial
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and ethnic minoritics, gays and lesbians, and others for whom
y
fear of AIDS becomes a convenient excuse for discrimination. We.
either
cannot let our fcar outweigh our common sense or our compassion.
If we do, all of us will lose.
AH T have said before, the thing We have to remember is that
people with ALDS and those who are living with HIV are part of
our American family. Whether they are gay or straight, black,
white, Native American, Latino OF Asian American, they are our
sons and daughters, our brothers and sisters; our aunts and
uncles; our mothers and fathers; our grandmothers and
grandfathers. They are Americans one and all. They need our
compassion. They deserve our respect.
Finally, let me say that the fight against AIDS is international
in scope. HIV knows no geographic boundaries. It is found on
every continent and virtually every country. The World Health
Organization estimates that more than 18 million men, women, and
children are living with HIV around the world. The United States
is and will remain a full partner in the international effort to
fight the pandemic.
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As a world leader, we have a moral and a national responsibility
to help developing nations with prevention programs, medical
care, and other vital services. WH Also have much to learn from
them. And when WC do find the cure and the vaccine that we seek,
it will not only be M victory for America, it will be a victory
for the world.
When this country was in the throes of another sickness that
threatened to tear us apart -- the sickness of slavery --
Frederick Douglas, the great American abolitionist, wrote:
"It 16 not light that is needed, but fire. It is not
the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the
whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the
nation must be quickened. The conscience of the nation
must be roused. The propriety of the nation must be
startled."
Each of you have been the thunder and the lightening. Each of you
is helping to awaken the conscience of our nation. Our challenge
is to draw more of our citizens into our circle of hope.
Together, I am certain, WC can change our future for the better.
Thank you and God blocc you all.
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"Let Us Rise to the Challenge"
Governor Bill Clinton
Palace Theater, May 18, 1992
Thank you very
Chank you. Thank you very much my longtime friend David
he's
speeches in his mind for thirty years, he's about to get good
at it for that wondern.
Thank you Roberta Achtenberg for your statement and
for your friendship.
Scott and Diane and Roberta and Bob, all the rest of you
who were co-chairs
this event.
And / want to say " 4"
of thanks to ANGLE for their work on my behalf over the
last several months
thank John Garamendi, my state chair, for being here and
"Tonight, / warn
all the others who
support of this event.
talk to you about how
Y ou know. I have
times that a campaign for president has two purposes. Onc
we can be one per
is for the country
know the candidate, and the other is for the candidate to
again -- without reg
get to know the CODE
candidate does not grow and deepen in understanding
to race or gender
and compassion and
the race itself is already half lost.
sexual orientation
There are people in
today to whom I owe a great debt of gratitude, for you
age or region or
have helped me to
my country better than I did when I began.
income, how we City
We just finished the
riots in our history in Los Angeles. And as the people
be one again."
here begin to pick or
I think it might be well for us to note where WC are at
this moment in our
nation. Not just here in Los Angeles, and not just in the
citics of our great law
:11 of us, all across America.
We should be dancine
streets with joy today because the Cold War is over. If three
years ago anyone had
of you that within three years the Berlin Wall would fall,
all of the governments
Europe would fade away, the Soviet Union itself would
collapse and cut its
budget by 50% in a year, and the threat of nuclear
annihilation would In
into the distance of history, no one would have believed
it.
If anybody had told
would happen and we would still be deeply divided and
anxiety-ridden at elec:
it would be difficult to believe. But we are. And we are
because as we celebra
triumph of our values around the world, we see them lying
in tatters here at hom-
emery defeated in so many ways economically a country in
Date: 12/01/95 Time: 08:53
SJournal of Woman with AIDS Portrays Quiet Victims
YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) Janice Burns says she and her husband,
William, were a nauseatingly cute' couple who loved vacations
and shopping for home furnishings.
We love to eat out, go to Broadway shows, and shock people by
revealing our liberal outlooks that hide under our conservative
exteriors, Mrs. Burns wrote in 1987, when she was a 24-year-old
university researcher married to a rising star in the financial
community.
Then comes the kicker: We spend $1,200 each month on
prescription drugs, and we will never have children.
We are
HIV-positive.
Thus begins Sarah's Song, Mrs. Burns' journal covering the
years from 1987, when she and her husband were diagnosed with HIV,
to 1994, when her husband died of AIDS at age 29.
The Warner Books publication named for the daughter Mrs. Burns
desperately wanted is a painfully poignant rendering of death
foretold, of a woman whose world turned into a numbers game: How
many pills, how many T cells, how many hospitalizations, years,
months, days, hours until the counting stops?
There are still a lot of people who stereotype people with
AIDS, said Mrs. Burns, now 32 with full-blown AIDS. She is
partially deaf and blind in one eye, takes 40 pills a day and has
been hospitalized four times since June.
There are those who don't want someone like me to have AIDS
because it means they or someone they love can be at risk, she
said in an interview Wednesday, two days before today's
commemoration of World AIDS Day.
More than 501,000 U.S. AIDS cases were diagnosed from 1981
through October 1995, according to the federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. More than 311,000 of those people, or 62
percent, have died.
Most interesting to Mrs. Burns is that the number of cases
attributed to heterosexual transmission increased from 3 percent
during 1981-87 to 10 percent from 1993 to October 1995. Female
cases increased from 4,035, or 8 percent of the total between
1981-87, to almost 18 percent 43,383 from 1993-October 1995.
I see more and more women who look like myself in support
groups, said Mrs. Burns, a middle-class Catholic from the New
York City borough of the Bronx.
Her neat Yonkers apartment is filled with books, including a
huge Bible on a stand in the living room, and is dominated by a
nearly finished wooden Victorian dollhouse.
She started the dollhouse in 1992, before her husband died, and
still plans to complete it. ``I'll get to it one day, she said,
the only time she speaks of the future during a 90-minute
interview.
Mrs. Burns believes her husband was infected with the virus that
causes AIDS during a brief homosexual affair when he was 18. She
married him a few years later and they were diagnosed as
HIV-positive shortly after their first wedding anniversary, in
February 1987.
The couple became activists, founding advocacy groups and
speaking on television shows and before high school groups, trying
to tell the world that AIDS can strike anyone.
Mrs. Burns maintains that even if she had known William Burns
was HIV-positive, she still would have married him.
I had a love, despite AIDS, " she wrote at the end of her
book. `I could live off this love for the rest of my life. I think
I will. "
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STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS
MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON MONEY LAUNDERING
DECEMBER 2, 1995
Today, Treasury Secretary Rubin, representatives of the
Department of Justice and the Department of State, joined the
other nations of this hemisphere in signing a historic anti-money
laundering communique. This accord will make it more difficult
for international organized crime, including drug traffickers to
profit from their criminal activities. As I stated in my address
to the United Nations General Assembly in October, we must send a
clear and unambiguous message to the cartels that profit from
drug trafficking and other serious crimes: your dirty laundry is
no longer welcome. You will no longer be able to wash the blood
off profits from the sale of drugs from terror or from organized
crimes. I have urged the nations of the world, and especially
those in this hemisphere, to bring their banks and financial
systems into conformity with international anti-money laundering
standards. This communique is an important step in that
direction.
The communique affirms the commitment made during the December,
1994 Summit of Americas Ministerial in Miami, Florida. During
that conference, with U.S. leadership, a Declaration of
Principles, including a strategy for combatting the problem of
organized crime and money laundering, was adopted by the member
nations. The communique specifically directs the member nations
to enact laws that make the laundering of proceeds from drugs and
other serious crimes unlawful. It permits the seizure of
proceeds and the equitable sharing of those assets by the
investigating nations. In addition, it allows for cooperative
methods for reporting suspicious bank transactions, including
special efforts to prevent and detect financial crimes.
As I have said many times, America will fight the war on drugs
and crime on all fronts, both at home and abroad. Today, with
our neighbors in the region, we are taking an important step by
targeting the cartels and criminals who, until now, have moved
vast sums of ill-gotten gains through the international financial
system with absolute impunity. Finally, the nations of this
hemisphere are standing as one to say, "No more."
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TO:
James T. Edmonds
FROM:
Marsha Scott
Office of Political Affairs
SUBJECT: AIDS Remarks
Three people that could be very helpful on this speech are:
Michael Itzkowitz Sen. Kennedy - 224-6572
David Mixner - FOB 310-289-1181
Dr. Scott Hitt ( Chair of WH AIDS Council) -310-278-1668
310-652-8729 ext
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I know these three very well. They have all spent most of their
adult lives working on this problem. All three are very
articulate and extremely knowlegable. Even if you don't use
anything they say, politically it would be a good thing to do.
Date: 11/22/95 Time: 13:50
Growing AIDS Cases Overburden New York City
NEW YORK (Nov. 22) XINHUA - Rapid growth of AIDS cases is so overburdening
the New York City administration that it has decided to partially shift the
service work for AIDS patients to community organizations.
New York City established the Division of AIDS Service in 1987 to provide
extensive services to people with AIDS, including providing case-workers to
help obtain government assistance. At present, there are 18,000 people on the
division's caseload with a diagnosis of AIDS or advanced HIV, with an
additional 7,000 expected to seek help in the next three years.
The division has budgeted 28.5 million U.S. dollars this year for the work.
Although the New York State and the Federal Government have also made
contributions to it, the city authorities have found it difficult to manage
the matter alone and announced a plan Tuesday to turn a large scope of
services to community organizations.
According to the plan, the division will continue to provide a high level of
AIDS services, but once a person's condition has stabilized, the case will be
transferred to a community organization, which will follow up on the client's
needs.
However, the plan has aroused criticism from a number of groups. Assemblyman
Richard Gottfried, chairman of the Health Committee, said the city
administration was simply turning its back on the city's AIDS cases.
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REMARKS BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON HIV AND AIDS
THE WHITE HOUSE
DECEMBER 6, 1995
[Acknowledgements: Patsy Fleming, Secretary Shalala [other
Cabinet members?], Scott Hitt, distinguished guests.]
Let me first welcome each of you to this historic White House
Conference on HIV and AIDS. You are the frontline faces and
voices of our national commitment to conquer the devastating
disease known as AIDS. I welcome you and I thank you, not only
for your participation here today but for the work you do every
day to improve the lives of the people of our nation and around
the world.
I'd also like to thank Dr. Hitt and the members of the
President's Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS for their work on
this critical issue and for suggesting that we convene this
meeting.
And I want to express my appreciation to the two extraordinary
Americans who have just shared the stories of their lives with
all of us. It is the passion, the commitment, and, yes, the
anger of people like Sean Sasser and Eileen Mitzman that remind
us all of the extraordinary courage it takes to hold on to hope
as we continue to even the odds in this struggle.
Each generation of Americans has faced an important challenge
that has, in many ways, defined their time here on earth. For my
parents' generation, World War Two was that defining moment,
unifying a nation against a common foe. For my own generation,
the civil rights movement provided the focus and the drive of our
lives. But for the generation of my own child and all of those
in her age group, the epidemic of HIV and AIDS may well be that
defining challenge.
My daughter and her friends are growing up in the shadow of
something we could never have imagined. They are coming of age
in world in which AIDS is a very sobering reality.
That reality has already changed the lives of all of us in this
room. It has taken from us too many friends and too many loved
ones much too soon. It has shaken our faith in the future. But
it has also brought us together and inspired a community spirit
that strengthens our values as a nation.
It is our collective responsibility to rise to this challenge and
change the future for our ourselves, for our children, and for
their children. We can do this. In fact, we must do this.
I want to share with you the story of just one of the people who
is here today. Just one of the human faces and human voices of
AIDS.
It's the story of a young man who grew up in a typical American
suburb as part of a typical American family. He attended college
and became politically active. His quick mind and active spirit
marked him as a "comer," and after graduating he joined the
Corporation for National Service to help start AmeriCorps. It
was while he was working for AmeriCorps that he found out he was
HIV-positive. He was 23 years old.
Demetri Moshoyannis took that news as a challenge. A challenge
to use his communication skills, his organizational skills, and
his leadership skills to educate and support his peers and help
them escape the fate that had been visited upon him.
It's that combination of heartbreak and hope that makes this
epidemic so unique. And it is what challenges all of us to
channel our energy and our talent into the fight to make AIDS a
thing of the past.
Ten days ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
reported that our nation has reached another sad milestone in the
AIDS epidemic. Half a million Americans have now been diagnosed
with AIDS and more than 300,000 men, women, and children have
already died of AIDS.
As we meet, on this day, 120 more Americans will lose their lives
to AIDS, another 220 people will be diagnosed with the disease
and nearly 140 people in this country will become infected with
HIV. And that will happen again tomorrow and the day after that
and the day after that. It will continue to happen until we
succeed in our efforts to defeat this epidemic.
That is why this meeting is so important. It is an opportunity
for us to refocus and reenergize our national commitment to
ending this epidemic. It is a time to rally our troops for the
fight ahead and arm them with the weapons they need to win this
battle. You and I have some important work to do.
We have a common goal -- a cure for all those who are living with
HIV and a vaccine to protect all of us from this deadly virus.
Let's be very clear on that. A cure and a vaccine are our number
one priority.
In my own lifetime, we have eliminated smallpox from our planet.
We have eliminated polio from our hemisphere. And we are within
striking distance of controlling measles. We must -- we must --
find a way to rid our planet of the threat of HIV.
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I am proud of the work we have done in these last three years to
infuse new resources, new focus, and new leadership into our AIDS
research effort. We have increased funding for AIDS research by
more than 25 percent. We have dramatically strengthened the
Office of AIDS Research and we have focused our work on basic
science and applied research so that we can concurrently unlock
the mysteries of HIV while we pursue treatment opportunities that
extend and improve the quality of the lives of people living with
HIV.
This investment in science has already paid tremendous dividends.
Today, people with HIV live twice as long as they did just ten
years ago. AIDS-related conditions that often meant a quick and
many times painful death for people living with HIV can now be
treated and even prevented.
And we have reason to believe that there will more progress in
the near future. New classes of AIDS drugs are being approved
for use by the FDA that will help to restore the damaged immune
systems of people with HIV. Combination drug therapies are
showing great promise as a means for controlling the virus in the
human body.
And just last year we were able to show that the use of drug
therapy could actually block HIV transmission from mother to
child. Our scientists tell me that it is within our grasp to
virtually eliminate pediatric AIDS by the end of this decade.
This is neither science fiction nor a distant dream. It can be
accomplished by offering all pregnant women HIV counseling and
testing and guaranteeing that they have access to the treatment
they need to protect their unborn children. If we do this, we
can have a generation of Americans born without HIV. We can do
this -- and we will.
These advances have resulted in longer and fuller lives for
people living with HIV, but are they enough? Absolutely not! We
must do more.
I am taking three steps today that I believe will move us forward
at a faster pace.
First, I am asking the Vice President to convene a meeting of
scientists and leaders of the pharmaceutical industry to identify
ways to accelerate the development of vaccines, therapeutics, and
microbicides that can protect people from HIV and the infections
it causes. There are no guarantees in science, but the
collective will of government and industry can overcome even the
biggest obstacles.
Second, I am asking Patsy Fleming to convene an interdepartmental
task force working group to develop a coordinated plan for AIDS
3
research, including a coordinated research budget. I will expect
their report within 90 days.
Third, I want to make clear my personal commitment to make every
feasible effort to find a cure and an effective vaccine or
vaccines. To that end, I am intensifying my relationship with
the Office of National AIDS Policy. We can't afford to miss any
new opportunities. We can't afford any unnecessary delays.
That's why I am asking Patsy Fleming to provide me even more
regular updates on the emerging opportunities and obstacles in
this struggle. No President can promise success in such an
effort but I need to know what needs to be done to move this
along.
of course our work does not end in the laboratories of our great
research institutions. It continues in the clinics and the
hospitals and the doctors' offices around the country where
people with HIV and AIDS go for the care they need to survive, to
maintain their health, and to preserve their dignity. When we
make advances in science we must match those strides with
improvements in our delivery of health care.
For people with AIDS, the current discussions over a balanced
federal budget are not some distant political firefight. Let me
talk for a few minutes about a subject that is very important to
me -- the future of Medicaid.
For people with AIDS, Medicaid is a lifeline of support.
Medicaid provides health care for nearly half of the 200,000
Americans who are living with AIDS including 90 percent of the
children. It provides access to doctors, hospitals, prescription
drugs, and home care that allows people with HIV and AIDS to live
their lives more fully. Medicaid pays for the drugs that keep
HIV under control for longer and longer periods of time and it
pays for the drugs that prevent the infections that often end the
lives of those with AIDS. Medicaid pays for the care that allows
families to stay together.
Yet today, Medicaid is under attack by the Republican leaders in
Congress who want to slash its spending and eliminate the thirty-
year common ground commitment we have made to the poor, the
elderly, and those with disabilities. We cannot, we must not,
and I will not allow us to destroy this vital lifeline.
Medicaid cannot do the job alone. That's why we created the Ryan
White CARE Act to plug the holes in our health care system that
left many people with HIV and AIDS out in the cold. Last year,
more than 360,000 Americans received care under the Ryan White
Act.
When I ran for President, I promised to fully fund the CARE Act
and we have. Funding has increased by 108 percent, more than
4
doubling the number of cities receiving funds and enabling every
state in the country to receive some level of assistance.
The CARE Act must be extended for another five years. Both
houses of Congress have approved legislation to accomplish this
but final legislation remains stalled. That's why on last
Friday, World AIDS Day, I sent a letter to the Speaker of the
House and the Senate Majority Leader, asking them to make every
effort to get me a final bill by the end of this month so that I
can sign it and we can get on with the work ahead.
I am also fighting for the funding increases that I have
requested for the CARE Act as well as housing programs for people
with AIDS and our AIDS prevention programs at CDC.
I am concerned by the continued rate of new infections in this
country. In the 1980s, we made important progress in reducing
the number of new infections by nearly 50 percent. But for the
last five years, the estimated number of infections has hovered
between 40,000 and 60,000 per year. We also know that as many as
half of those infections occur among people under the age of 25
and half are among teenagers. Any new infection is an
unnecessary infection. I am setting a goal, today, of reducing
the number of new infections in the United States by half in the
next five years and to zero within the next decade.
Until we have a cure and a vaccine, education and prevention are
our best hope. For prevention to work it must be targeted and it
must be sustained. We saw that at work in the gay community in
the 1980s, when activists overcame the inertia of their
government to protect their lives.
We must pay particular attention to two populations who are at
the center of this epidemic -- young people and those who abuse
drugs. I was pleased to see the new public service announcements
released last week by Secretary Shalala. They point young people
toward the tools they need to protect themselves.
We also need to recognize that substance abuse treatment is a
form of HIV prevention. We must ensure that those who are
receiving drug treatment also receive AIDS prevention services at
the same time. We have increased the number of drug treatment
slots available in this country and I am working to convince the
Congress to approve our requests for money to bring that number
even higher.
I have also asked the CDC to convene a meeting of state and local
health officials and their counterparts on substance abuse to
develop an action plan to assure the integration of HIV
prevention and substance abuse prevention.
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We cannot afford to freeze prevention funding -- as the
Republicans in Congress have proposed -- because the epidemic
cannot be frozen. It will just grow and grow and grow.
We also cannot forget the basic human rights of people living
with HIV and AIDS. The stories of AIDS related discrimination
break the hearts of all Americans of conscience.
Five years ago, our nation took a huge step forward toward a more
just society when we enacted the Americans with Disabilities Act.
It offers more than 40 million Americans who are living with
physical or mental disabilities -- including those who are living
with HIV and AIDS -- protection against discrimination.
The Justice Department, the Equal Employment Opportunities
Commission, and the Department of Health and Human Services have
been vigorously enforcing the A.D.A. And we are about to launch
a new effort to ensure that health care facilities -- nursing
homes in particular -- are providing equal access to people with
HIV or AIDS.
still, all of us can do more. We can start by cleaning our own
house. I am asking Patsy Fleming to conduct an immediate 60-day
review of all government programs that require HIV testing as a
condition of participation in government service and government
programs. Those that do not have a strong public health
rational, must be amended or they must be ended.
We must continue to examine our societal attitudes toward racial
and ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, and others for whom
fear of AIDS becomes a convenient excuse for discrimination. We
cannot let our fear outweigh our common sense or our compassion.
If we do, all of us will lose.
As I have said before, the thing we have to remember is that
people with AIDS and those who are living with HIV are part of
our American family. Whether they are gay or straight, black,
white, Native American, Latino or Asian American, they are our
sons and daughters; our brothers and sisters; our aunts and
uncles; our mothers and fathers; our grandmothers and
grandfathers. They are Americans one and all. They need our
compassion. They deserve our respect.
Finally, let me say that the fight against AIDS is international
in scope. HIV knows no geographic boundaries. It is found on
every continent and virtually every country. The World Health
Organization estimates that more than 18 million men, women, and
children are living with HIV around the world. The United States
is and will remain a full partner in the international effort to
fight the pandemic.
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As a world leader, we have a moral and a national responsibility
to help developing nations with prevention programs, medical
care, and other vital services. We also have much to learn from
them. And when we do find the cure and the vaccine that we seek,
it will not only be a victory for America, it will be a victory
for the world.
When this country was in the throes of another sickness that
threatened to tear us apart -- the sickness of slavery --
Frederick Douglas, the great American abolitionist, wrote:
"It is not light that is needed, but fire. It is not
the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the
whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the
nation must be quickened. The conscience of the nation
must be roused. The propriety of the nation must be
startled."
Each of you have been the thunder and the lightening. Each of you
is helping to awaken the conscience of our nation. Our challenge
is to draw more of our citizens into our circle of hope.
Together, I am certain, we can change our future for the better.
Thank you and God bless you all.
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REMARKS BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON HIV AND AIDS
THE WHITE HOUSE
DECEMBER 6, 1995
[Acknowledgements: Patsy Fleming, Secretary Shalala [other
Cabinet members?], Scott Hitt, distinguished guests.]
Let me first welcome each of you to this historic White House
Conference on HIV and AIDS. You are the frontline faces and
voices of our national commitment to conquer the devastating
disease known as AIDS. I welcome you and I thank you, not only
for your participation here today but for the work you do every
day to improve the lives of the people of our nation and around
the world.
I'd also like to thank Dr. Hitt and the members of the
President's Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS for their work on
this critical issue and for suggesting that we convene this
meeting.
And I want to express my appreciation to the two extraordinary
Americans who have just shared the stories of their lives with
all of us. It is the passion, the commitment, and, yes, the
anger of people like Sean Sasser and Eileen Mitzman that remind
us all of the extraordinary courage it takes to hold on to hope
as we continue to even the odds in this struggle.
Each generation of Americans has faced an important challenge
that has, in many ways, defined their time here on earth. For my
parents' generation, World War Two was that defining moment,
unifying a nation against a common foe. For my own generation,
the civil rights movement provided the focus and the drive of our
lives. But for the generation of my own child and all of those
in her age group, the epidemic of HIV and AIDS may well be that
defining challenge.
My daughter and her friends are growing up in the shadow of
something we could never have imagined. They are coming of age
in world in which AIDS is a very sobering reality.
That reality has already changed the lives of all of us in this
room. It has taken from us too many friends and too many loved
ones much too soon. It has shaken our faith in the future. But
it has also brought us together and inspired a community spirit
that strengthens our values as a nation.
It is our collective responsibility to rise to this challenge and
change the future for our ourselves, for our children, and for
their children. We can do this. In fact, we must do this.
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I want to share with you the story of just one of the people who
is here today. Just one of the human faces and human voices of
AIDS.
It's the story of a young man who grew up in a typical American
suburb as part of a typical American family. He attended college
and became politically active. His quick mind and active spirit
marked him as a "comer," and after graduating he joined the
Corporation for National Service to help start AmeriCorps. It
was while he was working for AmeriCorps that he found out he was
HIV-positive. He was 23 years old.
Demetri Moshoyannis took that news as a challenge. A challenge
to use his communication skills, his organizational skills, and
his leadership skills to educate and support his peers and help
them escape the fate that had been visited upon him.
It's that combination of heartbreak and hope that makes this
epidemic so unique. And it is what challenges all of us to
channel our energy and our talent into the fight to make AIDS a
thing of the past.
Ten days ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
reported that our nation has reached another sad milestone in the
AIDS epidemic. Half a million Americans have now been diagnosed
with AIDS and more than 300,000 men, women, and children have
already died of AIDS.
As we meet, on this day, 120 more Americans will lose their lives
to AIDS, another 220 people will be diagnosed with the disease
and nearly 140 people in this country will become infected with
HIV. And that will happen again tomorrow and the day after that
and the day after that. It will continue to happen until we
succeed in our efforts to defeat this epidemic.
That is why this meeting is so important. It is an opportunity
for us to refocus and reenergize our national commitment to
ending this epidemic. It is a time to rally our troops for the
fight ahead and arm them with the weapons they need to win this
battle. You and I have some important work to do.
We have a common goal -- a cure for all those who are living with
HIV and a vaccine to protect all of us from this deadly virus.
Let's be very clear on that. A cure and a vaccine are our number
one priority.
In my own lifetime, we have eliminated smallpox from our planet.
We have eliminated polio from our hemisphere. And we are within
striking distance of controlling measles. We must -- we
must
:
find a way to rid our planet of the threat of HIV.
2
I am proud of the work we have done in these last three years to
infuse new resources, new focus, and new leadership into our AIDS
research effort. We have increased funding for AIDS research by
more than 25 percent. We have dramatically strengthened the
Office of AIDS Research and we have focused our work on basic
science and applied research so that we can concurrently unlock
the mysteries of HIV while we pursue treatment opportunities that
extend and improve the quality of the lives of people living with
HIV.
This investment in science has already paid tremendous dividends.
Today, people with HIV live twice as long as they did just ten
years ago. AIDS-related conditions that often meant a quick and
many times painful death for people living with HIV can now be
treated and even prevented.
And we have reason to believe that there will more progress in
the near future. New classes of AIDS drugs are being approved
for use by the FDA that will help to restore the damaged immune
systems of people with HIV. Combination drug therapies are
showing great promise as a means for controlling the virus in the
human body.
And just last year we were able to show that the use of drug
therapy could actually block HIV transmission from mother to
child. Our scientists tell me that it is within our grasp to
virtually eliminate pediatric AIDS by the end of this decade.
This is neither science fiction nor a distant dream. It can be
accomplished by offering all pregnant women HIV counseling and
testing and guaranteeing that they have access to the treatment
they need to protect their unborn children. If we do this, we
can have a generation of Americans born without HIV. We can do
this -- and we will.
These advances have resulted in longer and fuller lives for
people living with HIV, but are they enough? Absolutely not! We
must do more.
I am taking three steps today that I believe will move us forward
at a faster pace.
First, I am asking the Vice President to convene a meeting of
scientists and leaders of the pharmaceutical industry to identify
ways to accelerate the development of vaccines, therapeutics, and
microbicides that can protect people from HIV and the infections
it causes. There are no guarantees in science, but the
collective will of government and industry can overcome even the
biggest obstacles.
Patsy Fleming
Second, I am asking Dr. William Paul', director of the Office of
AIDS Research at NIH, to convene a permanent working group of
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scientists from all parts of government to assure a coordinated
plan for AIDS research, including a coordinated research budget.
committing every feasible effitts find a cure and 1 want
Third, I am asking AIDS Director Patsy Fleming to provide me with
quarterly reports on our progress on our search for a cure and an
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Of course our work does not end in the laboratories of our great make us
research institutions. It continues in the clinics and the
hospitals and the doctors' offices around the country where
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people with HIV and AIDS go for the care they need to survive, to
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maintain their health, and to preserve their dignity. When we
make
make advances in science we must match those strides with
peasile
improvements in our delivery of health care.
effort
For people with AIDS, the current discussions over a balanced
federal budget are not some distant political firefight. Let me
talk for a few minutes about a subject that is very important to
me the future of Medicaid.
For people with AIDS, Medicaid is a lifeline of support.
Medicaid provides health care for nearly half of the 200,000
Americans who are living with AIDS including 90 percent of the
children. It provides access to doctors, hospitals, prescription
drugs, and home care that allows people with HIV and AIDS to live
their lives more fully. Medicaid pays for the drugs that keep
HIV under control for longer and longer periods of time and it
pays for the drugs that prevent the infections that often end the
lives of those with AIDS. Medicaid pays for the care that allows
families to stay together.
Yet today, Medicaid is under attack by the Republican leaders in
Congress who want to slash its spending and eliminate the thirty-
year common ground commitment we have made to the poor, the
elderly, and those with disabilities. We cannot, we must not,
and I will not allow us to destroy this vital lifeline.
Medicaid cannot do the job alone. That's why we created the Ryan
White CARE Act to plug the holes in our health care system that
left many people with HIV and AIDS out in the cold. Last year,
more than 360,000 Americans received care under the Ryan White
Act.
When I ran for President, I promised to fully fund the CARE Act
and we have. Funding has increased by 108 percent, more than
doubling the number of cities receiving funds and enabling every
state in the country to receive some level of assistance.
The CARE Act must be extended for another five years. Both
houses of Congress have approved legislation to accomplish this
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ashed
leaf
but final legislation remains stalled. I am asking the Speaker
of the House and the Senate Majority Leader to make every effort
to get me a final bill by the end of this month so that I can
sign it and we can get on with the work ahead.
I am also fighting for the funding increases that I have
requested for the CARE Act as well as housing programs for people
with AIDS and our AIDS prevention programs at CDC.
I am concerned by the continued rate of new infections in this
country. In the 1980s, we made important progress in reducing
the number of new infections by nearly 50 percent. But for the
last five years, the estimated number of infections has hovered
between 40,000 and 60,000 per year. We also know that as many as
half of those infections occur among people under the age of 25
and half are among teenagers. Any new infection is an
unnecessary infection. I am setting a goal, today, of reducing
the number of new infections in the United States by half in the
next five years and to zero within the next decade.
Until we have a cure and a vaccine, education and prevention are
our best hope. For prevention to work it must be targeted and it
must be sustained. We saw that at work in the gay community in
the 1980s, when activists overcame the inertia of their
government to protect their lives.
We must pay particular attention to two populations who are at
the center of this epidemic -- young people and those who abuse
drugs. I was pleased to see the new public service announcements
released last week by Secretary Shalala. They point young people
toward the tools they need to protect themselves.
We also need to recognize that substance abuse treatment is a
form of HIV prevention. We must ensure that those who are
receiving drug treatment also receive AIDS prevention services at
the same time. We have increased the number of drug treatment
slots available in this country and I am working to convince the
Congress to approve our requests for money to bring that number
even higher.
I have also asked the CDC to convene a meeting of state and local
health officials and their counterparts on substance abuse to
develop an action plan to assure the integration of HIV
prevention and substance abuse prevention.
We cannot afford to freeze prevention funding -- as the
Republicans in Congress have proposed -- because the epidemic
cannot be frozen. It will just grow and grow and grow.
We also cannot forget the basic human rights of people living
with HIV and AIDS. The stories of AIDS related discrimination
break the hearts of all Americans of conscience.
5
BUDGET PLANNING
NOVEMBER 30, 1995
ISSUES FOR THIS WEEK AND NEXT
OVERALL:
1.
Veto of GOP Budget
2.
Release of Impact Statement Thursday morning
3.
Direct Lending Event Thursday 1:15 p.m.
-
Tyson involvement?
4.
Identify Real People and Specific Incidents -- (Sub-group/Silverman)
5.
Cabinet/Local Government Calls [Wednesday/Thursday]
HEALTH CARE:
1.
Shalala Speech Friday
2.
Elderly Women Report (Mrs. Clinton Speech)
3.
Provider Meeting with Panetta (Congressional Leaders)
-
Stakeout for validation of taking too much out
4.
Democratic Governors Meeting with POTUS on Medicaid
5.
Medicare/Medicaid State-by-State
6.
Medicare/Medicaid Walkthrough
7.
Nursing Home vs. Homes and Family Farms
8.
Disability Roundtable
9.
Tyson/Stiglitz on Block Grants and Economic Downturns
10.
Low-Income Medicare Recipients
ENVIRONMENTAL:
1.
Op-Eds
-Browner regional Op-Eds on 25th Anniversary of EPA
-Response Op-Ed to attacks on President's credibility
2.
Browner National Press Club Speech
TAX:
1.
Release of State-by-State and District-by-District Analysis
1.
EITC vs. Capital Gain/Estate Tax
2.
Exploding Tax Cut
EDUCATION:
1.
Direct Lending briefing and paper
2.
Riley education speech TBD
3.
Improving America's School Act Conference next Monday-Wednesday Hosted by
DoEd, attended by 3000 educators w/Sec Riley.
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30 November 1995
THURS
11/30
BUDGET EVENTS OF THE DAY:
Direct Lending/Education Kunin and groups
VPOTUS meeting with Congressional Members and press conference
POTUS
-
London
VPOTUS
-
Meeting with Congressional Democrats and statement
CABINET/IGA
-
Cabinet conference calls with mayors
-
Cisneros National League of Cities
-
Bump up CBPP Study in press conference with Mayors
GROUPS
-
Panetta meeting with AHA at White House
HILL DEMOCRATS
-
Press Briefing-"Republican Agenda for Medicare" w/Sens
Graham,Kennedy,Rockefeller
-
Floor Sp/ Satellite/ Radio: 'Republican proposals are reckless & extreme, an
assault on working families"
-
Press Conf-Effect of Republican Budget on States w/DemGovs (t)
-
Event-Mtg w/Natl Leadership Group on Sr Issues
FRI
12/1
BUDGET EVENT OF THE DAY:
Shalala Medicare/Medicaid Speech
POTUS
-
Travel to Ireland (through Dec.3)
GROUPS
-
Meeting with Disability groups [Room 180, 2:30 p.m.]
HILL DEMOCRATS
-
Floor Sp/ Satellite/ Radio: "Republican proposals are reckless &
extreme, an assault on working families"
-
Press Briefing-"Nursing Home Stds Lost in Republican Budget" w/Sen
Pryor et al
-
Press Conf-"Republican Agenda for Rural America"
2
30 November 1995
SAT
12/2
POTUS
-
Ireland
MILESTONES
-
25th Anniversary of the EPA
SUN
12/3
POTUS:
-
Travel to Madrid; EU/US Summit, Madrid
-
Return to US
MON
12/4
BUDGET EVENT OF THE DAY:
POTUS Veto?
[If no veto today] Taxes event with Hill
POTUS
-
DC
VPOTUS
-
Travel to South Africa (through Dec.8)
TUE
12/5
BUDGET EVENT OF THE DAY:
POTUS
-
Congressional Ball;
-
Nickelodeon taping (t)
VPOTUS
-
South Africa
A
MILESTONES
-
40th year of AFL-CIO
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30 November 1995
WED
12/6
BUDGET EVENT OF THE DAY:
Medicare State-by-State
POTUS:
-
WH Conference on AIDS;
-
Pageant of Peace
VPOTUS
-
South Africa
THURS
12/7
BUDGET EVENT OF THE DAY:
.
Browner Environment speech at National Press Club
POTUS
-
Budget meeting (daily through 22nd)
-
Interview with People magazine
VPOTUS
-
South Africa
FRI
12/8
BUDGET EVENT OF THE DAY:
POTUS:
-
Budget meeting (daily through 22nd)
-
President Dos Santos of Angola;
-
Oregon reception
VPOTUS
-
Return from South Africa
SAT
12/9
POTUS
-
Arkansas
SUN
12/10
POTUS
-
Arkansas (a.m.)
-
Christmas in Washington (p.m.)
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30 November 1995
MON
12/11
BUDGET EVENT OF THE DAY:
POTUS
-
Budget meeting; Holiday Reception
-
Mtg w/PM Peres of Israel
VPOTUS
-
Budget meeting
TUE
12/12
BUDGET EVENT OF THE DAY:
POTUS
-
Budget meeting;
-
Holiday Reception
-
Briefing & Interview
VPOTUS
-
Budget meeting
WED
12/13
BUDGET EVENT OF THE DAY:
POTUS
-
Holiday Reception
-
Budget meeting
-
Briefing & Interview
VPOTUS
-
Budget meeting
-
Prayer breakfast
THURS
12/14
BUDGET EVENT OF THE DAY:
POTUS
-
Budget meeting
VPOTUS
-
Budget meeting
-
Enviro breakfast
5
30 November 1995
FRI
12/15
DEADLINE FOR BUDGET AGREEMENT/CR
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30 November 1995