Not-so-free speech – AIDS Funding – Department of Health and Human Services auditing AIDS organizations that protested Tommy Thompson’s speech – Brief Article
Any AIDS organization that receives money from the government had better mind its manners or find itself in a heap of red tape. That’s the message from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is auditing more than a dozen federally funded groups whose representatives loudly protested HHS director Tommy Thompson’s speech at the 14th International AIDS Conference in Barcelona on July 9.
Deputy HHS secretary Claude Allen said the audits are routine but told The Washington Post that protesters should “think twice before preventing a cabinet-level official from bringing a message of hope to an international forum.”
Groups under investigation include Gay Men’s Health Crisis and AIDS Project Los Angeles.
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