(Washington D.C.) – Citizens Against Government Waste, the nation's largest taxpayer group, will release its new report, "AIDS Programs: An Epidemic of Waste," Thursday, February 14, 2002.

Since the first federal resources were made available to state and local health agencies for AIDS prevention in 1985, federal funding has skyrocketed to $13 billion a year.  While the government spends nearly $1 billion a year on duplicative and outmoded social programs for AIDS patients, it spends $357 million on finding an AIDS vaccine, and has pledged a total of $500 million for international AIDS programs (where money is most needed). 

Citizens Against Government Waste's report uncovers scandalous examples of waste, duplication, mismanagement, and even fraud in federal AIDS programs.

Scheduled to join CAGW President Thomas A. Schatz are ACTUP DC! Chairperson Wayne Turner and several AIDS patients.  Credentialed press only please.

Citizens Against Government Waste is the nation's largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.