Retrovir (AZT) block grants
Executive Summary
The Health Resources and Services Adminstration sends letter to states announcing the availability of $15 mil. to provide AZT for indigent patients. New York is eligible for top amount, $3.9 mil. Each state is eligible for for at least $15,000, and 22 states are eligible for more than $100,000. The funds, $5 mil. of which is being provided by Burroughs Wellcome are intended to extend the fiscal 1988 AZT block grant through the first half of 1989. The letter emphasizes that funding priority is to be given to patients who received AZT under the Treatment IND program....