Advocacy Results from Capitol Hill
Last year alone, MS Activists drove change in the following ways:
- A $1 million increase for the MS Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), for a total of $6 million;
- A $2 billion increase for the National institutes of Health (NIH), for a total of $32.1 billion; and
- House passage of the Advancing Research for Neurological Diseases Act as part of its 21st Century Cures initiative.