CDC still looks like it plans to eliminate the $5.4 million annual budget for CFS

[Dolphin]

This PDF came up in a Google scholar subscription I have for "chronic fatigue syndrome". I'm not 100% sure when the file was created but the updates I get are daily.

From:

DEPARTMENT of HEALTH and HUMAN SERVICES
Fiscal Year 2018
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Justification of Estimates for Appropriation Committees

Emerging and Zoonotic Infections (-$64.9 million)
The FY 2018 budget request reduces funding for Emerging and Zoonotic Infections by $64.9 million. At this level, CDC will eliminate Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Prion Disease activities, and funding to support the on-going Antibiotic Resistance (AR) initiative is reduced.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (-$5.4 million)
The FY 2018 budget request eliminates funding for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) activities. CFS affects between one and four million people in the United States. CDC’s CFS program works with states and experienced clinicians to develop tools to gather and analyze surveillance data and to educate clinicians and the public on the results of evidence-based studies. NIH has been funded to conduct biomedical research on CFS. In FY 2018, CFS activities are proposed for elimination, prioritizing funding to programs that support a broad range of diseases to maximize effectiveness in this limited-resource environment.

Eliminations
The FY 2018 budget request eliminates funding for CDC’s Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Prion Disease programs.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
CFS affects between one and four million people in the United States. CDC’s CFS program works with states and experienced clinicians to develop tools to gather and analyze surveillance data and to educate clinicians and the public on the results of evidence-based studies. NIH has been funded to conduct biomedical research on CFS. In FY 2018, CFS activities are proposed for elimination, prioritizing funding to programs that support a broad range of diseases to maximize effectiveness in this limited-resource environment.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (-$5.4 million)
The FY 2018 budget request eliminates funding for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) activities. CFS affects between one and four million people in the United States. CDC’s CFS program works with states and experienced clinicians to develop tools to gather and analyze surveillance data and to educate clinicians and the public on the results of evidence-based studies. NIH has been funded to conduct biomedical research on CFS. In FY 2018, CFS activities are proposed for elimination, prioritizing funding to programs that support a broad range of diseases to maximize effectiveness in this limited-resource environment.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:
The Committee applauds the CDC’s efforts to collaborate with disease experts in its multi-site study. The Committee is pleased that the National Academy of Medicine [NAM] has clarified the disease definition and that the NAM and the CFS Advisory Committee have made recommendations to educate the medical community. The Committee encourages CDC to leverage those recommendations to provide new clinical guidelines and to execute a broad-based medical education campaign. To address the critical lack of access to clinical care, the Committee encourages CDC to work with the NIH and other agencies within the Department to find creative ways to support a clinical care component to regional Centers of Excellence. (Page 66)

CDC Response: Please see CDC’s FY 2018 budget narrative for response to this Significant Item.

 

[viggster]

The document you posted is from May, when the president released his budget wish list.
https://www.cdc.gov/budget/fy2018/congressional-justification.html

The cuts were reinstated by the Senate committee that handles CDC. http://solvecfs.org/updates-from-the-mecfs-fight-in-washington-dc/

The govt is operating on a continuing resolution, which means everyone gets the same money as last year. When Congress does pass a spending bill for the fiscal year that just started, it should include the $5.4 million for CDC because it's in the spending bill as of now.

 

[TiredSam]

The FY 2018 budget request reduces funding for Emerging and Zoonotic Infections by $64.9 million. At this level, CDC will eliminate Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Prion Disease activities, and funding to support the on-going Antibiotic Resistance (AR) initiative is reduced.

I read this as "The F*** YOU 2018 budget request ..."

It's that time between getting up and eating something ...

 

[AndyPR]

@Dolphin , just an FYI, assuming you are using Adobe Reader to view that, or any other, PDF, if you go File>Properties, then you will be able to see when the document was created (19/05/2017) and last modified (25/05/2017).