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Politician Nixes HIV/AIDS Studies

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posted: 29 July 2009 08:46 am ET

Representative Darrell Issa (R–CA) insisted three federal grants for studies designed to better understand the spread of HIV/AIDS by studying sex workers and drug abusers were money wasted. The grants, administered by the National Institutes of Health, have been nixed from a bill, ScienceNow reports.

The grants had all been approved by a scientific peer review process.

Patrick White of the Association of American Universities in Washington, D.C. called the micromanaging and second-guessing of NIH funding by politicians "a terrible precedent."

Read full story at ScienceNow

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