Amount of Federal Money Spent Annually on AIDS Research Compared to Other Leading Causes of Death

Disease

Research Funding

Annual Deaths

Funds per Death

AIDS

$1,950,000,000

45,000

$43,333

Cancer

$1,810,000,000

518,000

$3,494

Heart Disease

$708,000,000

760,000

$932

Diabetes

$295,000,000

36,000

$8,194

Alzheimer's

$243,000,000

100,000

$2,430

(Figures taken from the Congressional Research Service, The Library of Congress)

Larry L. Page, Executive Director
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