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...June E. Osborn, chair of the National Commission on AIDS expressed support for the bill in a press conference at Radcliffe Friday, saying it will create a newly centralized and organized command center to "direct and steer research in many institutions...
...Osborn said the bill will enable researchers to respond quickly to new research findings because emergency funds will be able to support work that would otherwise need to wait for the next year's federal budget...
...have to change and begin using what we know," Osborn said...
...Osborn's commission, which is an arm of Congress, advocates abstinence as the best way to prevent AIDS. She said government figures show 45,000 new people are infected with the HIV-virus every year, and the some of the greatest increases of AIDS cases are among young people...
...Osborn, who is also dean of the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, said unsatisfactory health care, overcrowded prisons and the widespread use of drugs have made AIDS a plague that affects everyone...