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Is it your assumption that more people have breast cancer than AIDS? Because that is wrong. In 2010, 1.5 million people were diagnosed with breast cancer worldwide. In 2009, there were 2.6 million new cases of AIDS and 1.8 million deaths from AIDS. (Compare to 0.5 million deaths from breast cancer) There are almost 17 million children orphaned by AIDS now.
Any way you look at it (infection rates, cure rates, death rates, age of people affected, children affected) AIDS is clearly the worse disease. It's not logical that you are outraged more money is going towards AIDS research.
Breast Cancer Statistics Worldwide | Worldwide Breast Cancer
Worldwide HIV & AIDS Statistics
WHO | Cancer
The American tax payer is not responsable for the world. Here is the stats for America.
•About 1 in 8 U.S. women (just under 12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.
•In 2011, an estimated 230,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 57,650 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer.
U.S. Breast Cancer Statistics
Now lets compare that to AIDS cases per year and as you see the amount of AIDS diagnosis per year is minuscule in comparison.
HIV incidence
Year
Estimated new HIV infections
2006
48,600
2007
56,000
2008
47,800
2009
48,100
The estimated amount of new infections each year, calculated with mathematical modelling.4
So the question is why does AIDS get over four times the research funding That breast cancer gets? Does anyone care to float a theory on that and attempt to justfy the disproportionate spending?
Like they say in the infomercials, " But WAIT, theres more".
The Domestic HIV/AIDS Budget
Care: The largest component of the federal AIDS budget is
health care services and treatment for people living with
HIV/AIDS in the U.S., which totals $15.6 billion in the FY 2013
So we the American taxpayer are on the hook for 3 billion a year for AIDS research and another 15.6 billion to support people with AIDS after the are diagnosed with the disease. If you add up all the spending on all the other diseases I doubt you would reach this number. Anyone get my point yet?
Here I will throw this in as a sample of spending on other diseases vs AIDS for your reading pleasure
2010 Spending
(in millions)
Cancer type
Lung
$247.6
$246.9
$281.9
Prostate
285.4
293.9
300.5
Breast
572.6
599.5
631.2
Colorectal
273.7
264.2
270.4
Bladder
24.1
25.9
22.6
Melanoma
110.8
103.7
102.3
Non-Hodgkin
Lymphoma
122.6
130.9
122.4
Kidney
43.4
45.2
44.6
Thyroid
14.6
14.7
15.6