AIDS council gets a reprieve.When President Bush took office, the fate of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. and AIDS became cloudy. Activists wondered aloud whether Bush would want to reauthorize an advisory body that had been created in 1995 by his Democratic predecessor, President Clinton, when its federal charter expired in July. So Greg Smiley, the designated federal official for the council, was pleasantly surprised when Health and Human Services Noun 1. Health and Human Services - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 Department of Health and Human Services, HHS secretary Tommy Thompson announced July 20 that he had decided to reauthorize the council, which has a capacity of 35 members. Because as many as 26 vacancies expected on the council, Thompson said he would reappoint Re`ap`point´ v. t. 1. To appoint again. reappoint vt → volver a nombrar reappoint vt (to job) → some members who were interested in remaining and name some new faces. "The gravity of HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome as a public health issue supersedes it as a political issue," Smiley told The Advocate. "The Administration's decision to continue a Clinton advisory body is a significant one that certainly should be applauded." |
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