Health care advocates blasted Mayor Giuliani's proposed budget cuts on Friday, saying the city's poorest communities will suffer the most. Among Giuliani's slated health care cuts: $2.2 million for an education program to reduce infant mortality, and $2.6 million in funding to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS among African-Americans and Hispanics. "These cuts would be penny wise and pound foolish," Rhon Reynolds of the New York AIDS Coalition said at a news conference outside City Hall. Ronald Johnson, associate director of Gay Men's Health Crisis, said, "The mayor feels that building baseball stadiums is of more importance than fighting HIV infection." There was no immediate response from Giuliani, who has weathered similar assaults during his eight years in office.

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