Federal spending on AIDS just surpassed that spent on cancer research.?

Question

I just read on Aids.org that "The Federal AIDS budget of $1.6 billion is greater than that for cancer ($1.5 billion), although cancer killed 12 times as many people last year."

Does anyone else have a problem with that kind of research disparity?

Answer 1

NO, there are many auto-immune diseases besides AIDS. Progress and treatments are being made in both areas. Throwing more money at one does not guarantee more success.

Answer 2

No, aids research has a lot of catching up to do.

Answer 3

I don't understand the government spending more on a preventable disease that on the one that is killing people

of all ages . I have lost my grandmother to cancer she was 59

this was in 1967 then I lost a brother to cancer in 2002 he was

54 I lost a cousin to brain cancer he was 12 . My mother  has

lost her mother a brother 2 sisters . No one in my family on either side has ever been infected with HIV.