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 Mr. Bush appears to have shut down the National AIDS Policy office in the White House |
Washington, D.C.—Sixty-one days ago the Bush administration, in the wake of
reports that it intended to close its White House Office of National AIDS policy,
seemed to deny any such an intention. Mr. George W. Bush told inquiring reporters:
"We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House…Make no mistake about it." |
In the two months since, however, The Washington Post, having kept a close watch on Bush's dubious claims to concern, reports that the only thing left of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy is a Web site that directs callers to an empty office with a telephone that no one answers.
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The Post also finds that the 35-member Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS is in limbo. Letters seeking clarification from its chairman, Ronald Dellums, and to Mr. Bush and his Health and Human Services secretary, Tommy Thompson, have remained unanswered.
The interdepartmental task force on AIDS has not yet met.
"At a time when statistics show AIDS is ravishing the African-American community, the Bush administration needs to show this issue is a priority," said Winnie Stachelberg of the Human Rights Campaign.
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The Post reports that AIDS activists, members of Congress and foreign governments have expressed an increasing alarm because of the White House's official disengagement from AIDS policy issues.
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