Some "hot" disease stats

[Andy]

Googled yield NYTimes blog piece about cancer research per specific types/deaths.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/06...it-add-up/

Found a site that lists funding according to diseases. Looks like Breast cancer received the most funding in 99, followed by Cancer Prevention/Control and then AIDS research.

http://www3.cancer.gov/public/factbk97/varican.htm

This passage was taken from Aids.org and I can't verify the validity of the statement but it's part of a response to a Times Magazine article titled "The AIDS Political Machine" back in Jan 09 that made a similar claim that cancer received less money compared to AIDS.

The comparison of the money spent for AIDS and cancer is misleading. According to a fact sheet prepared by the Human Rights Campaign Fund in Washington, D. C., the $1.5 billion for cancer only includes the spending of the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (excluding spending for AIDS-related cancer research). But the $1.6 billion AIDS figure includes not only the entire National Institutes of Health but also the Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration If cancer spending in the National Cancer Institute alone is compared with AIDS spending in the entire National Institutes of Health then cancer receives twice as much money as AIDS, $1.5 billion vs. $750 million.